I have so much respect for anyone who regularly does pilates.
Running in heavy rainfall and winds at 5AM while the weather app says severe coastal alert shall remain one of the best things I've done here in PT.
Storm Ingrid is here and the winds are strong !
Joined Prof. Nuno Basílio's Lab in Photochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry Research Group!
I need to setup a decent lab notebook.
Reading up on aggregation kinetics, it's a fascinating field !
I wish I had a huuuuuge HPC, waiting for people to reply to emails is such a pain in the rear :(
Working in an actual lab was a wonderful idea !
Zarr works really well with GPUs !
I started reading विनोद कुमार शुक्ल.
Reading and using (!) Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth.
Everytime I (am forced to) use R, I realise why I love python :)
I hate fixing packaging errors in python packages :( Please stop this slop code olympics.
A paper that I've worked on since 2024 was submitted, finally.
This Week In Cheminformatics is live !
Watched Panchayat S4. It lives up to the hype.
Rewriting the rewrite of the rewrite gets really boring after a while.
Finished Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, today. Good Grief !
Lisbon is foggy today.
Fun fact: Google changes font if you search Geocities or Comic Sans. Also see Under Construction.
Merry Christmas !! I read Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" today.
I'm launching a Cheminformatics Newsletter !
Had a case of what am I doing with my life, today. Winter takes its toll after a while. Stay warm !
Working on reproducing an old (1996) paper today. Hopefully I'll be done with it soon enough.
Wrote More on More O'Ferrall-Jencks Diagram last night. Making the figures tufte-esque took longer than I thought.
Watched The French Dispatch today. Wes Anderson is a weirdo (in a nice way).
Happy Holidays !! I'll try to end this year by writing all the things I said I will :)>
Had my Physical Organic Chemistry finals today. A lot of what I read came from resonance, for example this review on Curtin–Hammett Principle. I'm very glad that resonance exists and I hope to contribute to it someday.
Absolutely loved watching Left-Handed Girl. I'd give it a strong 8.5/10.
I've entered Edward Tufte fandom and just found out Andrew Nisbet's post. Definitely worth a try !
Loved reading this Anecdotal History of Chemistry. It captures the human side of the science beautifully.
Enjoyed reading about Woodward-Hoffmann rules by none other than Subramania Ranganathan. You can find the full text here.