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by toddm 2mo ago
This is lovely, great to see science like this! Many thanks to you and your colleagues!
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by toddm 1y ago
Us old UNIX guys would likely go for cut for this sort of task: cut -d " " -f1-2,4-5 file.txt where file.txt is: one two three four five and the return is: one two four five
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by toddm 1y ago
Lots of them. I wrote 6 on my way to my Ph.D. in the late 1990s, and there was plenty of prior art at that time. Here's one of mine, see references therein as well: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-abstrac
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by toddm 1y ago
!
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by toddm 1y ago
Frank Zappa notably said that "nobody looks good wearing brown lipstick." Except, of course, Silicon Valley, which was before his time but fully predicted in his music as early as 1978. I can only hope Altman and his ilk are footn
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How to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression All at Once(nytimes.com)
6 points by toddm 1y ago|2 comments
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by toddm 1y ago
The American Chemical Society (ACS, predominant professional organization for us chemists) does a Molecule of the Week: https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week.html
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by toddm 2y ago
This is really cool and fun! I don't know much about the security issues others have raised, but if you're good enough to make this thing then I deserve to be pwned by you. Chapeau!
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by toddm 2y ago
What does deprecation of an upstream file format - still the most widely-used one, by the way - have to do with support of said format by someone else's software? If anything, it illustrates backward compatibility. And it has nothing t
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by toddm 2y ago
Great to see LEaP (and AMBER) on the front page of HN! Note that LEaP is one part of the AmberTools suite of programs and is used to prepare systems for subsequent molecular dynamics simulations. - Long-time AMBER disciple/user
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Simulating Railroads with OpenUSD(developer.nvidia.com)
1 points by toddm 3y ago|0 comments
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by toddm 3y ago
Irrespective of other comments, please do support eBird and Merlin, both freely available from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO). I am not associated with the CLO other than as a supporter; they do great work and birders come in as many
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by toddm 3y ago
Take it into the woods and shoot at tin cans and watermelons.
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by toddm 3y ago
Kudos to Victor for assembling such a wonderful resource! While I am not acquainted with him personally, I did my doctoral work at UT Austin the the 1990's and had the privilege of working with the resources (Cray Y-MP, IBM SP/2 W
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by toddm 3y ago
The Ten Commandments are now called requirements.txt.
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by toddm 3y ago
I am a professional chemist (Ph.D.). After a time, one gets a chemical intuition (as I've heard it called). There are just things that you know or you know where to look and how to filter irrelevant information. All of that depends on
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by toddm 3y ago
I'm still holding on to my CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Abramowitz and Stegun for when they turn the Internet off.
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by toddm 3y ago
India is the new Texas.
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by toddm 3y ago
Former HFT quant here. Thinly-disguised clickbait/advertising. Reminds me of being pamphleted in the airport in the early 1990s.
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by toddm 3y ago
You're not going to get traction using Ruby or Perl for a Ph.D. in astrophysics :)
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by toddm 3y ago
You have to eat the whole meal (inclusive of the shrimp cocktail, salad, baked potato, and dinner roll) without getting up and without throwing up in the allotted hour. The no-throwing up rule was instituted some time ago because passers-by
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by toddm 3y ago
You could be visiting beautiful Palo Duro Canyon State Park, or passing through as others have mentioned. You could, like I was many years ago, be doing field work at Pantex as part of your Master's thesis. The people in the Texas Panh
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by toddm 3y ago
Required watching for context is The Plutonium Circus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114147/
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by toddm 4y ago
I published in refereed journals from 1997 until 2006. I was in academia - the last one, post-academia - and it was (to me) understood that having peer review was at least a gatekeeper for releasing information that might be useful to or ot
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by toddm 4y ago
On a positive note, you could have been on Amtrak: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/amtrak-delayed-va-fl.h...
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by toddm 4y ago
Professional bike fit, $175 from a seasoned coach/racer.
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by toddm 4y ago
I post on LinkedIn, Stack Exchange, and this site using my real name. The benefit of doing so is that I have to keep myself in check and really think before I write - yes, there are edits and deletions - and overall the effect has been very
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by toddm 4y ago
python package management
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by toddm 4y ago
Ph.D. in chemistry here. The stoichiometry which factors into the definition of pH is H_{2}O <=> H^{+} + OH^{-} which actually includes the activity of proton - that's H^{+} multiplied by a coefficient that reflects the
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by toddm 4y ago
make, dbx, vi, sed, awk, cut, paste, (s)diff, (f/e)grep, comm, sort, col, column, bash, csh, ksh, man, find, cvs, svn, date, f77/xlf, cc/xlc, bcc, TeX, ghostview

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