Cory Simon

"guidelines for multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of molecules and materials"

our News & Views article in Nature Computational Science.

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How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling (Gift Article) A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.

My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

beavers are cool. glad our mascot is a beaver.

> The fur trade transformed North America but it nearly destroyed the population of several fur-bearers like muskrats and beavers who are critically important to their ecosystem.
🥺

🍷solving a linear program for optimal wine blending in Julia

simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/wi...

😅 yeah, I think he wanted to go on a walk!

a post-fermentation blend of *nine* white wines from Oregon! and a linear program for wine blending.

🚰 "Optimizing mixtures of metal–organic frameworks for robust and bespoke passive atmospheric water harvesting" by C. Harriman, Q. Ke, T. Vlugt, A. Howarth, C. Simon.

feedback welcome on our ChemRxiv preprint:

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

fascinating: atmospheric water harvesting by indigenous populations on the Canary Islands long ago.

Kennedy & Boreyko. “Bio‐inspired fog harvesting meshes: a review”. Advanced Functional Materials. 2023.

finally got to meet Mark Allendorf from Sandia National Lab! currently co-director of the DOE Hydrogen Materials – Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC). been following his work since grad school.

with @cgbischak.bsky.social and @shijingsun.bsky.social at the Automating Chemical Labs Scialog in Tucson! 🌵

me with the shipwreck of Peter Iredale on the Oregon coast. happened in 1906. everyone survived.

Inferring the cross-sectional area profile of an unseen solid in a draining tank from liquid level dynamics We aim to reconstruct the horizontal cross-sectional area profile of an exogenous, heavy, unseen solid contained in a tank from measurements of the li…

💦 our recent paper, published in Chemical Engineering Science:

can we infer the cross-sectional area profile of an unseen solid contained in a draining tank from its liquid level dynamics?

🔙 we employ Bayesian statistical inversion to do so.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

interesting. so e.g. given an antibiotic used by both humans and for animals in agriculture, we could indirectly attribute the antibiotic in a water sample e.g. 90% from humans, 10% from an animal farm, based on the sucralose concentration there being high (unless the animals get sweetened hay 😆).

😍 please tell me their name so I can look up their work! the optimal sensor placement is a very cool one.

(inverse problem for my class:)

🏭 suppose:
1. a monitoring station at a lake measures the concentration of a pollutant every two hours.
2. a factory injected pollutant into a river upstream.

from the monitoring station's time series data, infer when and how much the factory polluted the river.

🎥 Chunking Express (1994)

> somehow I've become very cautious. when I put on a raincoat, I put on sunglasses too. who knows when it will rain, or when it will turn out sunny?

so this cancer drug Taxol was discovered from the bark of this Pacific yew tree that grows naturally in Oregon! will be on the lookout for one.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The "Skeleton Flower" Turns From White to Translucent When Exposed to Water The Diphelleia grayi or “Skeleton Flower” is finally a reason to look forward to rainy days. This rare flower transforms into a translucent beauty [its skeletal form] when exposed to water, its white ...

a cool and beautiful flower that turns from opaque white to translucent when exposed to water. wonder if this material/chemistry has some application (e.g. humidity sensing).

www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/skel...

Edward Hopper
Soir Bleu
1914

> no one is like anybody else. everybody is separated from everybody else. [...] one is always searching for a meaning somewhere else, in a costume or in a prostitute or in a drink or in a cigarette or in a party. - Rick Brettell

celebrated Oslo's sixth birthday yesterday! 🎉

Dantzig rejected Berkeley's offer for a faculty position and returned to the Air Force. 😆

Will There Be Enough Power to Remove Carbon From the Sky?

Explain to me like I’m 10 years old: Why would we use our limited renewable energy for carbon dioxide removal instead of using it to curtail the use of fossil fuels?

An annotated diagram of the forces on an iceberg out of equilibrium.

Iceberg dynamics in #Python with #Matplotlib scipython.com/blog/iceberg...

The Best Choice Problem: calculating the optimal
stopping rule using Markov chain theory

simonensemble.github.io/Secretary_Pr...

first day riding my new BMX bike (re-living my childhood)!

Exploring the potential landscape of chemical engineering science Nature Chemical Engineering - As part of the first anniversary issue of Nature Chemical Engineering, we present a collection of opinions from 40 researchers within the field on what they think are...

It was fun thinking about opportunities ahead for the field of chemical engineering for the first anniversary issue of @natchemeng.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7O59

ha, agree! this parking problem isn’t relevant for many folks living in Europe!

interesting decision-making problem: where to park your car?

I’m a “prudent parker” because I like walking and dislike searching for a parking space.

David Lynch in sunglasses saying ‘I hope you are all having a lot of fun working on your favourite projects’

How to spend today