[14:10:12] o/ [15:19:28] morning, halfak. you able to make our meeting in 1.5 hours, or should I move it? [15:20:28] I'll be there [15:21:33] cool [17:57:57] o/ DarTar [17:58:11] howdy halfak [17:58:28] how goes? [17:59:18] Not bad. Glad to see you around. Amir1, just suggested an interesting idea for getting some more funding for hardware for ORES. [17:59:47] Maybe we could apply for a grant externally. I know that is a little weird for building up our budget generally. Does a special purpose grant for hardware sound crazy to you? [17:59:54] DarTar: I hope you get better soon [17:59:56] o/ [18:00:50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Institute_for_Artificial_Intelligence [18:00:56] I was suggesting something like this [18:01:11] they actually helped Wikidata to form [18:02:12] jsut don't let them give hardware donations, that usually sux [18:02:36] halfak: I saw your response, thanks for it. I’m following up with Wes on this today coz I had a couple of ideas [18:03:29] no a special purpose grant doesn’t sound crazy as well as any in-kind donation from a big partner (apergos point taken ;) ) [18:04:39] when we've gotten hardware donations in the past they generally: don't look like any existing hardware (so adds to maintenance overhead), have some curious idiosyncracies which is why the hardware is donated in the first place (maybe it's being phased out, some model that just didn't fly, etc) [18:04:58] money for hardware is great tho [18:06:52] Good to know. Thanks DarTar & apergos [18:07:13] DarTar, we're slowly engineering ourselves out of an immediate need :) [18:07:19] But the need will still come. [18:07:23] apergos: I hear you, that’s not what I had in mind, [18:07:35] I can stop advertising our engineering successes if that'll help us get stuff ;) [18:07:35] but if we want to explore I’d definitely need your perspective [18:07:38] halfak: 🖖 [18:07:44] hm I wonder if your font shows that [18:07:44] halfak: yep [18:07:57] it does here ;) [18:08:12] apergos, it does but it was so tiny I had to copy-paste and make the font bigger [18:08:13] :D [18:08:14] DarTar: what were you thinking of more specifically? [18:08:26] heh [18:08:28] apergos: I need to talk to Wes first and will report back [18:08:31] k [18:08:52] mind you I'm not speaking on behalf of the ops team or any such damn fool thing, just reporting my experiences [20:34:48] halfak: what is your favorite python module for measuring levenshtein distance? [20:35:03] hare, I don't have one. Sorry :( [20:37:22] Looks like python-Levenshtein works in python 3.5 [20:37:33] Its API is a bit ugly [20:37:40] And docs are sparse. [20:37:46] This was useful in my quick test: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/courses/LT1/2011/slides/Python-Levenshtein.html [20:38:17] I just installed https://pypi.python.org/pypi/editdistance/0.3.1 and I like it [20:39:02] Cool [21:05:16] hello [21:54:29] Hey AbbeyRipstra [21:54:33] hello [21:54:43] Registered account and waiting on a cloak! [21:54:44] Wooot [21:54:50] yay!