akuro

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by akuro 4y ago
Reading this has made me realise that I am nowhere near as literate as I think I am.
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by akuro 4y ago
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 ramblings on a variety of topics that nobody cares about. Eventua
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by akuro 4y ago
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.
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by akuro 4y ago
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 they do.
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by akuro 4y ago
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 chemists are either intermediate or advanced in that. The runn
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by akuro 4y ago
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 getting a deeper understanding of this field or being able to em
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by akuro 4y ago
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. That's it, I suppose. I can't really think of any
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by akuro 4y ago
Anybody who loves statistical mechanics has surely heard of Jaynes. Unfortunately, those who like statistical mechanics seem few and far between. :(
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Ask HN: How do you balance your life as a knowledge-based worker?
4 points by akuro 4y ago|4 comments
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by akuro 4y ago
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 that some people experience great benefits from psychedelic
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by akuro 4y ago
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 philosopher in the title of your blog post, the least yo
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by akuro 4y ago
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 my own field, soft condensed matter physics. A grand ai
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by akuro 4y ago
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: cosmology and particle physics. These are the disciplines t
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by akuro 5y ago
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 than science, right? :) The change I've experienced t
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by akuro 5y ago
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 because there are probably only a few thousand people wh
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by akuro 5y ago
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, because unlike me most people have social lives. M
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by akuro 5y ago
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 academic situation because I'd been mocked so much - by
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by akuro 6y ago
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 I realised that I got better at concentrating at math b