The other part of science with kotlin: <https://ma...

# science

[bjonnh]

The other part of science with kotlin: https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/mWqvshReBiwJnkNPaSimbswf

[altavir]

We are going to bring Kotlin to Tango controls (https://www.tango-controls.org/) next year. Not the same but close.

[bjonnh]

Oh SCADA cool. Yeah my stuff is more directed toward analytical, biotech, pharma, academic, not really industrial scale equipment

[altavir]

I think tasks are quite similar. In fact I've written quite a lot laboratory data aquisition and control code in kotlin, so I would be really happy to cooperate in this matter. I intend to bring some new people into this.

[altavir]

Tango is also mostly used by experimental physics by the way.

[bjonnh]

Do you have that on a repo somewhere?

[bjonnh]

yeah my stuff is really basic, I just needed to control that one device the way I wanted for an experiment.

[bjonnh]

(done that in the past with much more complex systems too)

[altavir]

Yeah, but it is unmaintained at the moment and is not really documented: https://bitbucket.org/Altavir/numass/src/dev/numass-control/

[altavir]

But last few years it was running the whold slow control and analysis on Troitsk nu-mass experiment (https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00544). And some code was used by my phd student on singnal processing.

[bjonnh]

Cool i have one of these (USB connect though) https://bitbucket.org/Altavir/numass/src/dev/numass-control/vac/src/main/kotlin/inr/numass/control/readvac/ThyroContVacDevice.kt

[bjonnh]

did you find that sterile neutrino?

[altavir]

If I had, I would have Nobel prize already. Only the uppel limit.

[bjonnh]

hah

[altavir]

ThyroCont is the latest addition. They have a non-standard way to calculate checksums.

[bjonnh]

I have no idea what a sterile neutrino is. I kind of grasp what a neutrino does (meaning it doesn't interact much with matter)

[bjonnh]

that's the one I have https://thyracont-vacuum.com/en/product/vd83-compact-vacuum-meter-pirani/

[altavir]

Well, sterile one does not interact even with things regular one does 🙂

[bjonnh]

not enough for all our vacuum needs (we have stuff at 10-6 up to 10-7 mbar

[bjonnh]

wait how would you detect something that doesn't interact? by the fact you can produce it and it doesn't interact with anything?

[altavir]

Different model, we measure down to 1e-9, but the protocol is probably the same

[altavir]

We measure mixing of starile neutrino with regular neutrino. It causes some anomalies in the specturm. I read some popular lecture about that, but they are in russian sadly.

[altavir]

I would gladly make a short seminar in english if anyone is interested. We can even do it here in slack.

[altavir]

Or in space?

[bjonnh]

should do a kotlin in science virtual conf

[bjonnh]

Also what would it mean to bring kotlin in tango?

[bjonnh]

and second question, would tango be open for other kind of research instruments

[altavir]

Let's start several additional threads 🙂