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This is lovely, great to see science like this! Many thanks to you and your colleagues!

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

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.ai…

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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 …

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

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…

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 i…

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 dynami…

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 …

Take it into the woods and shoot at tin cans and watermelons.

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…

The Ten Commandments are now called requirements.txt.

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…

I'm still holding on to my CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Abramowitz and Stegun for when they turn the Internet off.