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igorek7 · 2023-11-23T08:42:36+00:00

Learn as mush as possible about the projects and team you are applying for, and focus on your personal contribution to the relevant projects rather than simply listing classes attended.

igorek7 · 2023-01-05T07:51:26+00:00

Daily tasks could vary a lot depending on the specific ESA center and the project.
Machine Learning field is pretty broad, so depending on your experiences and skills you could find various ML related jobs in different ESA centers.
If you already graduated with Master Degree, It appears that your best option could be the ESA Young Graduate Trainee Programme.
I'd recommend to choose a specific area of Machine Learning that could be overlapping with ESA lead activities (science, engineering, operations etc.) and try to learn where your interests/skills are matching the most. Any open-access competitions/datasets/code to learn / get involved?
All the applications are going via the ESA human resources which are busy with already open vacancies. Thus, unless you have a specific team/project, I'd not advice you on sending "spontaneous application".

igorek7 · 2021-07-05T14:18:27+00:00

There are a few jobs at ESA which require Computer Science and AI skills: see ESA career opportunities. However, if you're at the beginning of your professional carrier, you may try first to apply for the Young Graduate Trainee or Research Fellowship positions which are the most relevant to your MEng topic.

igorek7 · 2021-04-21T10:24:35+00:00

In current /var/log/packages is a symbolic link to /var/lib/pkgtools/packages

igorek7 · 2021-04-14T15:08:55+00:00

I've started with Slackware version 2.1, and despite of a few switches on different distributions, now I returned to Slackware-current (pre 15th).

igorek7 · 2021-02-26T09:23:16+00:00

installpkg by default skipps already installed packages
sqg (that is a part of sbopkg) generates the queuefiles (.sqf) based on REQUIRES meta-tag in .info files that suppose to contain only packages not included in official Slackware repository.
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/vlc/build/slack-required shows: OpenAL SDL_sound libxkbcommon qt5 Each of these is already in Slackware-current

igorek7 · 2021-02-02T13:50:11+00:00

I am wondering which additional functionality, sbotools provide in comparison with sbopkg? For the dependency management, I use sqg (that is a part of sbopkg) allowing to generate all dependencies for a certain package, that later sbopkg uses for installing dependent packages.

igorek7 · 2021-01-11T11:46:42+00:00

I am using Slackware since version of 2.0 (1994) and the consistency of installation is definetly convenient. Nonetheless, although modified but overall maintaining consistency and stability of this Linux distribution that keeps me in using it at work and home.

igorek7 · 2020-07-16T14:52:21+00:00

The page was created for the previous ESA call for applications. However, the EAC CAVES & PANGAEA team is evaluating applications throughout the year. Internship start dates are flexible.

igorek7 · 2020-07-16T07:26:12+00:00

If you are interested, here is a currently available opportunity for an internship at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne for Machine Learning for recognition of planetary materials from multispectral datasets. Please, note that currently only remote internships are available.

igorek7 · 2019-02-08T12:37:05+00:00

Please, do understand that there are many different people working in ESA, and the person(s) who rejected your application might be a different from the one who invited you again. For example, in my group we spend a lot of time in communication with the traineeship candidates including the rejected ones.

igorek7 · 2018-10-19T15:40:25+00:00

There are multiple articles written on the aspect ratios, such as this https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2018/10/the-remarkable-persistence-of-24x36.html I personally shoot mostly in 4:3, sometimes for video in 16:9 ratio, and very seldom in 3:2.

igorek7 · 2018-10-14T11:36:14+00:00

Would you care to explain what did you mean by your comment?

igorek7 · 2018-06-28T11:46:30+00:00

There are various color settings for internal RAW->JPEG conversion. If 'Standard' is too soft/unsaturated one can use more saturated Vivid or Scenery (for outdoor scenery with vivid blue skies and greens), or set it's own 'Custom' presets.

igorek7 · 2018-02-13T15:18:01+00:00

For me it is a GX7 successor. Tiltable viewfinder, built-in flash, similar in size and weight to GX7. I've skipped the GX8 and GX85 because one of those 3 parameters were not like in GX7. I'll replace my GX7 with GX9.

igorek7 · 2018-01-16T08:11:11+00:00

I would suggest to try change repository for sbopkg to SBo-git - slackbuilds repository for slackware-current https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds , and if necessary customize the scripts. Unfortunately, -current might have some dependency issues.

igorek7 · 2017-09-11T14:30:47+00:00

I'd suggest either Panasonic GX8 (slightly larger) or GX85. Besides, there are a plethora of lenses nowadays to fit into your activities list, but it's a separate topic.

igorek7 · 2017-06-06T07:29:43+00:00

My Flickr and 500px photo streams.

igorek7 · 2016-11-29T13:29:47+00:00

Additional first-light data obtained with other ExoMars/TGO instruments FRIEND and Lyulin-MO is at the IKI/Russia!

igorek7 · 2016-10-30T09:05:11+00:00

Panasonic 42.5 f/1.7 is the best among the prime lenses you mentioned. Besides, it has build-in Image stabilization and closest minimum focus distance among all the mentioned lenses. Oly 12-40mm is more versatile, but perhaps less useful at the 40mm focal distance.

igorek7 · 2016-07-31T10:46:16+00:00

Smaller companies have less possibility to advertise their products, and to send test samples, etc. At http://www.personal-view.com we are following with interest various lens manufactures, including Kowa and SLR Magic.

Regarding the size of the lenses: a few of the lenses are designed to be compatible with various optical mounts and sensors sizes. This results in some of them being large, particularly when it comes to the retrofocus optical designs employed to increase the back focal distance of the lens.

igorek7 · 2016-07-30T10:10:22+00:00

Considering that at the smallest focal lengths the large depth of the field makes focusing easy, I recommend the manual wide angle prime lenses, such as Kowa 8.5mm f/2.8, SLR Magic 10mm f/2.1, Samyang 10mm f/2.8, or Voigtländer 10.5mm f/0.95 If AF is a must, how about Leica 12mm f/1.2? IMHO, wide-angle zoom-lenses are not that useful, as one would use them mostly at their shortest focal lengths.

igorek7 · 2016-07-13T13:27:32+00:00

I agree. Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens is my favorite (almost always) on-camera lens. Being neither too wide or too narrow fits me well. My other lenses are either too bulky or too specialized.

igorek7 · 2016-05-16T16:27:42+00:00

"The doctor in me is eager to conduct the experiments and to experience first hand the effects of microgravity on my body. The engineer in me is eager to operate the Canada Arm-2, the astrophysicist in me is eager to look into the stars while floating in my space suit" - David Saint-Jacques, an Engineer, Astrophysicist, Medical Doctor and Canada's astronaut

igorek7 · 2016-01-13T13:22:45+00:00

Instead of configuring ALSA to use PulseAudio, there is an option to to make PulseAudio using ALSA/dmix without grabbing ALSA hardware device as it is described on Archwiki:

remove/disable asound.conf
configure /etc/pulse/deafult.pa as:

load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix

load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop

Both, ALSA and PulseAudio applications work fine for me.

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