Computational Chemist - He/Him

Joined January 2010
People need to hear more often that you can learn quite a bit from "bad" results and that unexpected results can sometimes lead to more scientific questions.
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TFW you spend hours trying to debug your code to find the problem and it's all because you used i twice...
Just when you feel like your data parser can handle just about anything you can throw at it, Fortran introduces you to exponents using D instead of E...
Reminder to self: Coordinates can be reported in Bohr
Saturday mornings are by far the best time to submit jobs to the cluster.
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Finally starting to code again after lots of data processing and writing and it feels fantastic! Not that I don't enjoy data processing, it's just a different feeling!
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A lot of interesting work being presented at @PGHQuantum's virtual poster session! Check out the posters for a short preview of my next paper. pqi.org/content/quantum2020-…
I do not comprehend tutoring scam emails. What do these people actually get out of them?
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Btw if liberals were capable of creating viruses, controlling the media, and drinking the blood of children in order to live, I’m pretty sure we could’ve pulled a Weekend at Bernie’s on Ruth Bader Ginsburg until after November so you may want to reevaluate some of your theories
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Instrument and biotech marketing, if you scrape my email from the department website and spam me with marketing emails I will not purchase your products. Mostly because I am computational but also this is an annoying practice that clogs inboxes. My univ spams me enough as it is.
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The 3 or so weeks that proceed my landlady turning the heat on are going to really make me miss going into the office this year...
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Apparently lots of teachers are getting their wills together for this coming school year. Nothing says back to school quite like preparing arrangements should you pass...
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This is absolutely insane. @MLB why are you allowing teams to hold meetings on whether or not they should play their next game after players test positive? Did the @Phillies get a say in this or was it only the @Marlins that got to decide to put all the players at risk?
The Marlins learned before Sunday’s game that three players had tested positive for COVID-19. So they held a player’s meeting to decide if they should play against the Phillies. Can’t find that protocol in MLB’s 101-page manual.
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This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester. ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-m…
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What does a mask do? Blocks respiratory droplets coming from your mouth and throat. Two simple demos: First, I sneezed, sang, talked & coughed toward an agar culture plate with or without a mask. Bacteria colonies show where droplets landed. A mask blocks virtually all of them.
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Wrong question. Let’s say you’re a painter. A client who is renovating apartments says he will pay you 100k this year for your painting services. You agree and sign the contract. You expect to be paid 100k. The client then experiences a fire and loses half of their apartments. 1)
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If you are from VT or interested in how COVID is trending in that state, I made some figures originally for my mom but thought I would share. dlf57.github.io/projects/vt-…
One thing I have learned while working from home is that there is always a lawnmower being used in my neighborhood.