Jonas Verhellen @jverhell@qoto.org

Read this before you request or initiate any meeting. I had already defaulted to 30 min. According to this advice it should be 25 minutes.

Very importantly also: don’t invite everybody. If you can, do it in person.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/11/why-meetings-are-terrible-happiness/672144/

#meetings #mysery #WorkTips #acacemiclife #academia #ChemiVerse

Ik ben SINDS VANDAAG gestopt met roken en ik wil echt niet meer beginnen en ik hoop dat als ik dat hier officieel aankondig, de groepsdruk en mijn nood aan people pleasing groot genoeg is om het zo te houden

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had asked “What makes a good citizen?"

Right now in #PyDataNYC:

JAX jax jaxified a jaxed jax, jaxing a jaxed jaxification jax jax jax.

@tacaswell "Scientists do not have time to be domain experts AND professional developers" 💯 #PyDataNYC​

Corollary: Data scientists do not have time to be domain experts AND data engineers.

Hi #ChemiVerse

I might come to regret this, but I've seen some journalists compiling lists of people on here & I thought it might be useful in the early days here to do something similar for the chemistry community (& those who interact with the chemistry community – you can define that quite liberally).

So, here is a Google Form that you can fill in if you wish: https://forms.gle/gF9MLUGMWs23EFix6

And it feeds into this Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qdJvHHvu-BC4N6nk1jNMhTwoBrIaqHLUCZRf9pCQwDs/edit?usp=sharing

(The form does not collect e-mail addresses)

Check out our recent #compchem paper on deep generative models for the conditional generation of material compositions: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01860

This is our first foray into using generative models, so we wanted to test different approaches in a well defined test space. To this end we considered the 2Mio Elpasolite compositions enumerated by Faber et al. We tested how accurately and how completely the generative models could recover the known compositions in a desired formation energy range.

A charming little gecko I met in the walled medieval city of Besalú, near Barcelona. It's worth clicking-to-zoom in order to see the glowing fractal golden eye and beautiful red flecks in its skin.

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse