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Reading this has made me realise that I am nowhere near as literate as I think I am.

I intend on having a fruitful, storied academic career before suddenly going mad. I then would abandon everything and live on a mountain, making jam by day and writing insane rambl…

I don't know, but whenever I plead with people in computational science to read Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics I'm usually met with an eye-roll.

Don't listen to my opinions, sure. But pay heed to the large number of computational chemists who do use these languages. There is a reason that professionals employ the tools that…

Interesting. You might be the first computational chemist I know who actually uses Rust. I know a lot of computational chemists! Python is the big one, all of the aforementioned ch…

Statistical mechanics, molecular simulation and high performance computing. That is the centre-point of nearly all of my effort in life. Nearly everything I do is based around gett…

I would like to dedicate my life and energy to the field of science that interests me. I would also like the opportunity to achieve something amazing with programming as my medium.…

Anybody who loves statistical mechanics has surely heard of Jaynes. Unfortunately, those who like statistical mechanics seem few and far between. :(

Or more specifically, how do you balane your life as a knowledge based worker when there's so much to learn and so little time to do it all? I am a physicist who specialised in mol…

As someone who has taken extremely heavy doses of some very, very potent psychedelics (LSD, DMT, ketamine, mescaline and psilocybin), I am inclined to agree with you. I acknowledge…

The first two paragraphs present such a blatant false dichotomy that I won't be doing myself the disservice of reading any further. If you're going to announce yourself as a philos…

There are too many fields in which advances in complex systems modelling will be revolutionary and I frankly don't have the knowledge to describe most those. Let me tell you about …

I'm a PhD student in physics and I am really, really optimistic about how the field will be developing going forward. People are well aware of the glamorous fields of physics: cosm…

I'm three years into a PhD and during that time have tried some very potent psychedelics (psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, DMT and mescaline). Fearless experimentation - nothing more tha…

I am currently building a suite of software that'll allow users to easily design and run Monte Carlo simulations to solve problems in statistical physics. I am in no rush, mostly b…

This kind of thing, whilst fun, is kinda dangerous. I'm not so sure what to make of it. I sniffed it out quickly because I have extensive experience with maths. Many people don't, …

I went into high school as a curious kid who loved reading and enjoyed opportunities to be creative. I left high school as a nervous wreck who was terrified to apply myself in any …

Stole my comment! :) You're right, though. I started playing chess to improve my concentration as a teenager, mostly for the purpose of improving my ability to focus on math. Then …