Notices by Canageek (canageek@cybre.space), page 25

This one is the least complete, it uses the very traditional, old fashioned ORTEPs that you used to see in papers. It was a lot of work and very hard to see though. #RealTimeChem #ChemBehindTheCurtain #3Dprinting #3D #XRD #XRay https://cybre.space/media/EJTWwnTW8tzUj3vPbUE

This one worked, kind of, but made the two structures a bit too hard to see. #Chemistry #Chem #RealTimeChem https://cybre.space/media/OWC_tnENr44AEnNf0wM

@halcy have you tried the soy based biodegradable version?

My 3D printing paper (http://doi.org/10.1039/C7CE01901G ) is being featured so I had to make some publicity figures. I love this one, but we decided not to use it, so I'm sharing it here. It has the whole process in one image.

(Preprint va @ChemRxiv https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Three-Dimensional_Printing_of_Ellipsoidal_Structures_Using_Mercury/5592715 ) #RealTimeChem https://cybre.space/media/2t-uzBcLWQnmFwEdJsk

@KitRedgrave see I'm not getting what you're saying here. how would a computer measure what's more valuable than another?

@KitRedgrave But can't you just tell it to generate them when you need them?

@KitRedgrave Seems like most of the time it would just waste CPU cycles and RAM generating things you don't need?

@KitRedgrave Wouldn't you still have to tell it that nmap exists, and that getting this data would be useful? That seems a really limited case that I could replicate on the command line super easily?

@KitRedgrave Right, so you are automating making more measurements. That only works on computer stuff, not physically measured data though.

@KitRedgrave @amphetamine By adding data, I assume you mean metadata of some sort? Like, you can't just add data out of nowhere, you have to measure it off something....

@kara @KitRedgrave http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch01s06.html Doug McIlroy's points i and ii are what I'm referring too.

@KitRedgrave Wait, but don't you still have to tell it what math to do? Like, there are an infinite number of transforms you can do on a dataset.

Like, I have a bunch of values of peaks in a gamma ray spectrum, I need to tell the program that I want to do a baseline correction, fit a Gaussian to each one, then find the centre of each Gaussian, then run a least-squares fit on that vs the known energy value of that peak.

@KitRedgrave true, though I saw someone recently point out that at certain scales you will beat big data tools since it gives you parallel processing for free in a lot of cases.

Don't you always have turned define the flow of data though?

@rey @DialMforMara @kara Yeah, I missed the non- and just saw chemical sense

@KitRedgrave Isn't that the entire idea around *nix's philosophy?

Me: "I should totally do this reaction at 10 pH values and see if I can find a cool trend." Boss: "That's too much work, do five or less and see if you see anything interesting." Me: "But nice data series" Boss: "Don't do ten" Me: "Okayyyyy" #RealTimeChem

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