This library is fucked

install library
seems okay
"Error: file is not a database"
nervously opens database file

the SQLite database file is actually the HTML code of the Dropbox 404 page

@xeno
what library?? 🥴

@xeno
"Curie is a python toolkit to aid in the analysis of experimental nuclear data"

wat

@tthbaltazar yeah im at work
@xeno
wat
@tthbaltazar i work at a lab that does nuclear medicine, we have a medical particle accelerator that we use to make radioactive isotopes

and you would think there would be a not-totally-broken library in any programming language to let you do calculations on the databases we have of these reactions but I am still coming up short lol

i don't want geant4 or a full mc code, I just want to be able to get the fricking reaction data as a numpy array but that turns out to not yet be easy
@xeno
cool job, cursed library
@tthbaltazar
@tthbaltazar @ozzelot It is

and at least I don’t have to write Fortran like the Astro folk I used to work with did

@xeno Aside: Part of our company has a "thorium cow" for producing medical-grade actinium. This is possibly the weirdest term I've heard at any job.

Hope you sort out your database woes with the minimum of scowling and cursing.

@arclight No way I found someone who works at a place with Ac-225 (I assume?) on here!

Yeah I’ve heard the cow term used because getting the daughter nuclides is “milking the cow”. Questionable naming for sure….

Thanks for the good words, little did you know this is for a secret project also for producing a (different) alpha-emitting medical isotope lol