Rewriting a researchers patchy python incremental Single Particle Analysis (and Reconstruction) in Qt/C++ was really interesting.

Crazy tech with -186°C cryo electro magnetic microscopes (the guys doing the cryopreservation makes C++ wizards look like normal people) where you scan up houndred of thousands or millions of 2D “photos” over days of some molecule and then you have to figure out the 3D structure. First run with tensorflow for me too so that was a cherry on top back in the day. Classic ‘old’ machine-learning AI was used too.

The tech in the microscopes are amazing as well, diamond knives, lasers, proton beams, quantum mechanics, electro magnetic lenses to focus at different depths and sometimes just transform matter into em radiation to “see” what it wasby some crazy energy source, the different cameras etc etc.

You also get the terminology like black ice but sometimes peta byte storage problems too.

Fun times.

The company wanted me to go to a major event in another country to be their on-site tech. They rushed me to get a new passport and pack for the flight with just a couple days to do all this.

The morning of the trip they cancelled just as quickly as they rushed me through it.

They didn’t even pay for the emergency passport paperwork they made me fill out :/

There were early leaks of the Marvel Iron Man movie costume design, and they were really good.

That turned out pretty well, over all, I would say.

But now I’m waiting for Disney’s streaming incompetence to bankrupt them and sell Marvel to DC so we can have nice things again.

I’m thinking it’ll take awhile, though. And I’ll still buy a Disney government issued ID, when the time comes, just in case. I figure I will still want to drive on my local Disney issued roads in my Disney car, while I wait.