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by gilleain 2y ago
Hah I did something similar around the same time, using random white/gray/black pixels (apparently, I don't remember any details any more!) https://gilleain.blogspot.com/2008/11/chalky.html
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by gilleain 2y ago
I never used to cross my zeros until I was spending some time writing a lot of diagrams that had both O (for oxygen) and 0 (for the numeric label). It got very confusing!
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by gilleain 2y ago
Yes, that's pretty good ... but - the charges on [NH4]+, [HCO3]-, and [HPO4]2- should be above the subscripts on their last atoms. Minor point really.
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by gilleain 2y ago
It's a reasonable definition, especially when classifying biochemicals, but there are always edge cases. For example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carborane that definitely do have C-H bonds but are mostly B-B,
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by gilleain 2y ago
I feel your use of TeX (or whatever that notation is precisely ...) is far too clear. Possibly use InChI instead, so instead of "$HPO_{4}^{2−}$", use "InChI=1S/H3O4P/c1-5(2,3)4/h(H3,1,2,3,4)/p-2". Or,
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by gilleain 2y ago
Dimethylmercury, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
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by gilleain 2y ago
> I don't know why you people are just pulling this bs out of thin air. "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong." - Principal Skinner
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by gilleain 2y ago
Incidentally i see 'on accident' more from Americans. In British English we tend to use 'by', so 'on' sounds a little strange but I've grown to like it recently.
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by gilleain 2y ago
Technically amazing - such fine detail, and of course precision. However ... I recently heard the saying "a great artist knows when to stop" (it was Ben Afflek talking about AI art - I guess he was quoting someone?). I feel like i
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by gilleain 2y ago
Sure, ok I guess. Let's say it's valid, I can agree with that. ... but _why_ point it out? What's the purpose of doing so?
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by gilleain 2y ago
I don't understand the point of a comment like this - the article is about a historical figure who is relevant to a large-scale event. Why is that a bad thing, and why do we need to solve all other issues in the world first?
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by gilleain 2y ago
There are a few 'long form' creators like Jenny Nicholson (I recommend the one about the failure of the Star Wars Hotel!). Contrapoints (eg the Twilight one), Big Joel's (recently made a 6hr one!), FoldingIdeas and so on. It
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by gilleain 2y ago
So I've been thinking about this recently and come to the conclusion that 'smart' and 'stupid' are just extremes of behaviour and capability. That is, people have clever _moments_ - some more than others perhaps - b
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by gilleain 2y ago
Er, not really in 'Northern England', the Picts lived in what is now Scotland. My favourite aspects of the pictsies ('Nac Mac Feegle') was their fear of writing, given its association with lawyers.
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by gilleain 2y ago
Learned the other day about the 'Hunt Brothers' attempts to do something similar in the silver markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday > The brothers were estimated to hold one-third of the
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by gilleain 2y ago
Really? >Investigators also found hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, which the agency described as “an explosive material that is so unstable it can be exploded merely as a result of friction or temperature changes.” I mean, I don't
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by gilleain 2y ago
In chemistry, a 'monomer' is a single unit and a 'dimer' a pair. Haemoglobin in your blood, for example is a 'tetramer' of four separate units (although technically more like ABAB so a dimer of dimers).
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by gilleain 2y ago
Is is naive to think that the same effect could be replicated with something the same size and density (and some other properties?) of the grapes. Basically, an artificial grape.
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by gilleain 2y ago
The sinister, malicious plot to change all the stained glass windows to other, different windows.
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by gilleain 2y ago
Agreed. With some decades of Java experience, I would only use Eclipse or IntelliJ or similar to develop non-trivial Java programs.
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by gilleain 2y ago
Hmm. As a born Britisher I used to have this attitude until I read 'Mother Tongue' by Bill Bryson. He's an American who moved to the UK and has a good handle on the differences between American and British english.
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by gilleain 2y ago
Perhaps some kind of human guidance is needed to train AIs in morality. A technological guide, if you like - perhaps analogous to a 'priest', say. A tech-priest.
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by gilleain 2y ago
It's interesting that there is this division between programmers who claim LLMs are super helpful, and those saying they are useless. While it's certainly possible that this divide is based on how 'hard' the problems peo
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by gilleain 2y ago
Uhm. > The People’s Liberation Army Navy is the largest navy in the world, but it currently operates only 12 nuclear-powered submarines, a rather small number compared to the 67 attack subs and ballistic-missile subs of the U.S. Navy. Is
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by gilleain 2y ago
For what it's worth, protein structural biochemistry uses similar terminology for sheets. Since a strand has a direction (N to C), sheets are 'parallel' when neighbouring strands are pointing (roughly) in the same direction,
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by gilleain 2y ago
From the abstract of the paper, the mechanism for radioprotection is the antioxidant properties of this particular mixture of Mg, orthophosphate, and this short peptide. "Mn2+ coordinated by orthophosphate (Pi), metabolites, or peptide
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by gilleain 2y ago
Not particularly important, but it is 'balkanization' with a k.
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by gilleain 2y ago
Huh, so a lipid tail and a mixed R/L cyclic peptide head which is cytotoxic? At a wild guess, perhaps it forms a pore in cell membranes?
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by gilleain 2y ago
Agreed, as someone who spent far too long writing out tree-like expressions similar to this , it's very easy to get them wrong. Of course an editor with bracket-matching will _help_ but not to get the subtrees correct. ('signatur
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by gilleain 2y ago
Well you cannot tile a sphere with just hexagons, you need a minimum of 5 pentagons. Oh, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene : "A closed fullerene with sphere-like shell must have at least some cycles that

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