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unemphysbro

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    i love lattice :)

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    Comment #31887936

    Are you me? I've been slowly getting into alpinism in the Sierras and looking into getting my p2 cert. (I'd love to combine the two...imagine climbing in the palisades then paragli…

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    Comment #30882434

    oh damn...you also need a big red button to kick things into turbo/overdrive for the serious hacking

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    Comment #30805214

    what was the merge code process like?

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    Comment #30712041

    i agree; universe was a little too bleak, which was trendy at the time. we need something campy and fun.

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    Comment #30608132

    Phil, These are great! Thank you!

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    Comment #30559734

    it's not such a crazy idea. as a not-so-scientific back-of-the-envelope: assume a poissonian mutation rate and a genome length; how long till a measurable taxonomic difference?

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    Comment #30543904

    Adding to the authors point; I think there's quite a bit of innovation through maintenance. Reducing the tech debt in existing infrastructure eg. education, transport, etc I have a…

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    Comment #30305892

    I agree especially from the authentication side of things.

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    Comment #30275502

    Universities take a cut (30 - 50%) of grant money brought in by profs. The incentive structure for good science is broken. Academia is a racket.

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    Comment #30126873

    yup, i noticed that when i saw the first commits; in fact i thought it was someone's pet project. however, when i read that first odenet paper, it's clear keeping track of the grad…

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    Comment #30123815

    hence the recent renaissance in formal methods eg. https://www.certik.com/

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    Comment #30123800

    https://docs.aave.com/developers/v/2.0/guides/flash-loans have fun :) play around on the testnets first.

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    Comment #30122931

    funny enough I'm doing the exact same thing in public sector education. I'm always curious where people in our field end-up. i saw some of your other comments about being at google…

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    Comment #30121497

    yup, we used PME for non-bonded calculations in our simulations and to calculate things like electric potentials. I finished a biophysics phd back in 2020 and focused mainly on flu…

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    Comment #30120796

    why? i think it's the coolest thing ever. anyone can write a contract to automate taking out a loan, investing it, and pulling out the money, develop exotic securities, and bespoke…

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    Comment #30120649

    p3m, well pme, is exactly what we used for our calculations ;) i never did any qm work beyond basic parameterization i'm guessing you are/were also computational physics guy :)

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    Comment #30118610

    verlet list is the standard algo used to reduce the complexity in the number of interatomic calculations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_list

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    Comment #30118586

    vmd is a standard biological system simulation rendering software

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    Comment #30103096

    I'd imagine creating uniform and robust ball-bearings is not an easy feat.

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    Comment #30074557

    i'm running the counterfactual simulation and i agree :)