theophrastus

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by theophrastus 4mo ago
After spending an entire career doing 'by hand' (and a helluva lot of molecular orbital calculations) on the problem this post is about, i've got to tersely weigh in with: there's (still) not enough available data given
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by theophrastus 6mo ago
Jameco sells one [1] [1] https://www.jameco.com/z/KIT-EFK-BUNDLE-Jameco-Kitpro-Compon...
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by theophrastus 9mo ago
Had a QuantSci Prof who was fond of asking "Who can name a data collection scenario where the x data has no error?" and then taught Deming regression as a generally preferred analysis [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by theophrastus 9mo ago
Merry Christmas!! you gentle nerds you! Peace to us all.
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by theophrastus 2y ago
What was the source of the oxygen to maintain ethyl alcohol combustion in a sealed WWII torpedo?
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by theophrastus 2y ago
Curiously the default has audio output off. That is, was the little speaker icon unmuted?
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by theophrastus 2y ago
Here's from 2014 with some capacity calculations [0]. "ssh private key (900 bytes): 15 feet of tape." [0] https://heepy.net/index.php/Data_storage_capacity_of_teletyp...
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by theophrastus 2y ago
Circa 1980, as a hobbyist beekeeper with six hives nearby Seattle, they came down with foul-brood. (It never was certain if it was American Foul-brood or European) Duly reported and the county agent came in, sealed them, and carted them aw
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by theophrastus 2y ago
Shouldn't this make some initial direct reference to the author: Silvanus P. Thompson[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy
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by theophrastus 3y ago
Additional small molecule pharmaceutical candidates via molecular descriptors
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by theophrastus 3y ago
Well done: 3d is an option! Always wondered what emergent properties result from simple rules worlds when the dimensionality goes from 2d to 3d.
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by theophrastus 4y ago
Lately in advertisements there have been a lot of circular QR codes[1]. Which often apparently present data outside of the alignment patterns. Is that merely an artistic device, or is there some standard permitting information extending b
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by theophrastus 4y ago
..and curiously, with the little speaker icon 'on', it produces no audio alarm for me, (firefox 103.0.2). Whereas this[1] one produces a quite notable sound. [1] https://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-timer&#x
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by theophrastus 4y ago
As more of a story of external impressions, i'm from Seattle and I postdoc'ed in Germany and I got more than my share of the opinion on English from those who could speak English there (damn near 100% at a University). The first
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by theophrastus 4y ago
After gmail recently greeted my mutt/IMAP request (which had worked perfectly for over a decade!) with "login failed", i've embarked upon the slow winding road to getting mutt to use OAuth2, or is it OAUTHBEARER?, for gm
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by theophrastus 4y ago
from the web-page: It does not require training data - instead it uses statistical information about the frequencies of the letters and n-grams in the English language. and from this it should also be noted that it won't appar
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by theophrastus 4y ago
Well it goes the other way too. English to arcane C declaration. And that's what many of us have used it for decades (and decades...). Try: declare xyzzyx as pointer to pointer to array 153 of const double
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by theophrastus 5y ago
So this results in a single wavefunction constrained to a particular space group[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_group
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by theophrastus 5y ago
At some point in every bioinformatics lecture i always manage something akin to: "Learn awk! (or perl) You'll need it. Your data will come from various disparate sources, and you need to get them into some well-defined useful for
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Power plant touting new clean fusion technology breaks ground in Everett WA(king5.com)
2 points by theophrastus 5y ago|1 comments
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by theophrastus 6y ago
A layman's speculation followed by a layman's (at least in terms of immunology) question: introduce a novel mRNA, cells produce novel protein, it is presented to the immune system as something to foment a defense again: vaccine.
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by theophrastus 6y ago
My 89 year old mother loves to tell the story of her brother and friends spending several hours getting whatever body part they could push through the shoe slot below to be reported on how it looks by another child looking through the scope
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by theophrastus 6y ago
"LWN recently covered the effort within the LibreOffice project to find ways to support the companies doing the bulk of the development work. The project has now posted a revised marketing plan [PDF][2] with a number of changes, includ
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A new LibreOffice strategic marketing plan(nextcloud.documentfoundation.org)
3 points by theophrastus 6y ago|1 comments
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by theophrastus 6y ago
This couldn't be the leakage from that nuclear powered cruise missile 'test' lost by the Russians 2017-2018[1]? That is, is Barents sea too far from the Baltic for a couple of years of tides? [1] https://www.theve
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by theophrastus 6y ago
A chemical catalyst is an agent which lowers the activation energy for a reaction to proceed. A biochemistry professor of mine was fond of declaring life to be an entropic catalyst.
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by theophrastus 7y ago
My point of view on this is from a career as a protein x-ray crystallographer, not a mathematician nor computer scientist. I've watched countless tiny crystal dishes, the vast majority of which produce no useful crystals. And while i
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by theophrastus 7y ago
This is a worthy posting, particularly as so much becomes iterative statistics in "A.I." clothing. The two old (slightly hackneyed) counter-examples which are popular in lectures about measures of the central tendency are: - On
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by theophrastus 7y ago
Old radios too [1]. A few years back there was an intense discussion on some antiquarian site about what the function was for a central hole in an otherwise beautiful antique wooden philco radio cabinet. Finally some bright old duffer show
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by theophrastus 7y ago
This is a very impressive site for teaching molecular file formats indeed! If there is one caveat that an old crystallographer might add... press ENTER, the 2D and 3D structures will update. When going from the 2d connectivity grap

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