Ludovico Bianchi

Building software & data tools for science at @BerkeleyLab • Will never not be annoyed by computers • he/him

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

Today's my #FirstDay! Super excited (despite the pouring rain) for my new job at @BerkeleyLab, joining the Data Science and Technology department at @LBNLcs. Can't wait to get started with this new chapter of my career on the "other side of the code" in science.

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

@CalFalconCam Classic Zephyr

[TelemetryHub @Telemetry_hub]

More than ever we’re focused on security and uptime threats from software supply chain issues, that makes @lkbianchi’s talk especially interesting:

What's old is new again: using Python's import machinery to handle API deprecations

a complete solution based on Python’s importlib machinery that allows to redirect modules or module attributes with deprecations in a simple, robust, and scalable way

https://t.co/jFF17AjBMD
#PyconUS #PyCon

[Dr. Maria Żurek @mariakzurek]

Happy #WomenInScienceDay! I ❤️ seeing my timeline taken over by all these amazing #WomenInScience! I'm Maria, and I'm a postdoc in nuclear physics at @BerkeleyLab. I like smashing protons to understand their spin and spinning during smashing outreach events! #imaphysicist

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

*breathes out*

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

@sonic_status Looks like it's back now in central Berkeley. Thanks, and good luck!

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

Correction! short but quite elegant flight with graceful landing on the balcony. Both humans and falcons were cheering loudly!

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

First time seeing @CalFalconCam live! didn't see any actual flying yet but we managed to catch a flurry of young wings flapping on the ledge, one watchful parent looking out from above, and lots of (unexpectedly loud) peregrine chatter!

[Dr. Maria Żurek @mariakzurek]

Have you seen the new #SciComm release comparing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the future Electron-Ion Collider? It's rad! In RHIC we can smash massive ions to study the hot soup of elementary particles called quark-gluon plasma.

📽️ credit: https://t.co/wT8CxfTtiF

[André David @DrAndreDavid]

@PKoppenburg Protons, high-energy version: ggggugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggguggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggdgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggguu̅ggggggggggggss̅ggggggg

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

@Ksquared56 @CalFalconCam Happy to hear that! I'd say that our raptor stars deserve all the credit for being so cute and expressive. Yesterday I found this gem while scrolling through their old posts, and I couldn't stop laughing! https://t.co/c4wJoOlt2c

[CalFalconCam @CalFalconCam]

@colinL_OBnerd2b Don't worry, they can be totally fierce as well.

[AdvancedLightSource @advlightsource]

#ScienceSimplified #TenHundredWords w/Alpha N'Diaye: We learn about tiny things that go together. We can call them Mr. Tiny. There are many Mr. Tiny in everything. Sometimes they can move, sometimes they can't. Sometimes they can turn around and look in different directions.

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

#WFH TIL: @zoom_us supports calling in a meeting via phone in one step by adding ",," between the zoom phone # and the meeting ID, e.g. [phone],,123456789

On an Android phone, you can insert a comma from the dial screen by selecting "Add 2-second pause" from the menu

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

(Also, I wanted to specify that I like using "the big hugging snake computer tongue"... sadly "snake" is not allowed! #Python)

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

#TenHundredWords I write computer words so that people who study the world with numbers can track how their numbers change, and what steps they have taken to get the numbers, to help them and others check if the numbers are right.

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

Thanks @mariakzurek for tagging me! I've tried to find a more honest expression for #programming, but the only fitting words in the #TenHundredWords seem to be profanities... I'm putting @andih and @Nepomuk on the spot next to see what they can come up with!

[Matthew Rocklin @mrocklin]

Matt Henderson from @LBNL talks through using Dask and IPython parallel to process large volumes of complex imagery on the Cori supercomputer

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

(Source: https://t.co/cXdO1081Pg)

[Ludovico Bianchi @lkbianchi]

TIL a quick way to create a double-clickable shortcut to run a script installed in a Conda environment: create a file on the desktop called "My Script.bat" (ofc spaces... because Windows 🙃)

[Dr. Maria Żurek @mariakzurek]

Look who will give a #sciencecomedy show and #scicomm workshop @BerkeleyLab! The one and only @sciencecomedian Brian Malow! I met Brian during #LINO19 @lindaunobel, and I'm so happy that our community will have a chance to interact with him. Sign up here: https://t.co/tC64rih0M8