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Have you been practicing your chalk talks?

The first step to safety is being being cool enough or intimidating enough to have people listen to you. That's why the assless chaps stay on at work.

Have to say I was not expecting the chaps but I really should have expected them

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

But we've all heard or know horror stories of ppl who can't leave because they are made black sheep >.<

Yup. A friend transfered programs fairly easily bc it was a pretty amicable split with their prior PI (genuine bad match in research interest, no bad blood). Worked out fine. But that's the Goldilocks scenario where you have ppl advocating for you so you're not seen as the "drop out"

Very dependent on circumstance. A lot of rules can be and are bent/broken but it really depends on you/your network which makes it inherently unfair

You'll finish and it will get better 🫶

Also phd program

I was so confused when I first moved to Chicago cuz I heard it said long before I saw it spelled and everyone kind of slurs it into one word so I didn't understand what they were saying 😂

Solid state shenanigans.

I'm also remembering that in undergrad in the advanced analytical lab, there was a headspace GCMS running in windows 98 and we had to find floppy disks to export the data 😂

The prof was the kind of guy who built his car wn custom mass specs so he has been keeping it alive

I went to a training and they asked what model everyone used. When I said what we use they were like "... We stopped selling that a decade ago"
"Yup. We're aware". Somehow it lumps along

Every year we ask for a new one and every year we're denied.

This is part of what I research so I have feelings 😅

The podcast maintenance phase has a recent episode on "ultra processed foods" that I think does a good job explaining the contours of why the popular and scientific discussion is problematic

"processed" doesn't really mean unnatural or unhealthy in any scientifically consistent way, and It quickly becomes a way to moralize over culture and class without actually engaging with issues with diet and our food system

Because there is no definition of processed foods that is useful and coherent. It's not a particularly useful concept for reasons like this

Now lets not get hung up on who said what 😂

The methods caution against it for the radical, but I'm glad to hear that was precautionary and that nothing happened 🙏

Andre look what you did

Out of context this was a very weird notification to get 😂

If you have to caution the readers that it's explodey, I would have second thoughts about calling it stable

Yeah one glance at that molecule and my thighs was "we have very different definitions of the word "stable"

#lessonsfromdnd

Inorganic chemists correctly depicted as king 😂

Though none of that is AI in the LLM sense. Just well designed algorithms for fitting data

But it still requires someone to know how to evaluate the solution and ensure it's correct. And most of the time you still need to futz with it even with good data

Crystallography is "close" with modern software but there are critical differences. Diffraction patterns are fit globally (each spot has information on the whole molecule) so it's easy to check goodness of fit of model to data. Sometimes nearly no input from the user is needed, just clicking refine

I think it's plausible that something like that could exist that could spit out a rough answer and then use refinement by the user. Like categorizing molecule type or doing part of the core

But eliminating the need for an experienced spectroscopic? Probably never

Adding pickle juice to a pickle beer is hard core. I wouldn't want to mess with Mrs the chemist

Though some do so voluntarily after passing because circumstances/it's not working out/want to change programs/etc