Jun 05
Any discussion of Wolfram Alpha should start with Wolfram’s flagship and source of dominance in the universe: Mathematica®, upon which I imagine Alpha is built. There are any number of categories of software that leave me amazed that such works of accomplishment can even spawn from the limited human mind: regular expression parsers, C++ compilers, …
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May 20
Well, here it is. My friends out there, knowing I’m a chemist, had to suppose that fairly soon there would be something here about chemistry. I am a physical/computational chemist and this post is more about biochemistry, but biochemistry needs computations, too. This particular topic relates to some literature research I am doing at the …
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May 08
Science fiction just ain’t what it used to be. I grew up on the Tom Swift, Jr., series and give it much of the credit for my going into science and engineering. I have all the books except for two or three, and re-read them every now and then. When I do, I put myself …
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May 06
When I wrote A Hierarchy of Gods, I needed relativistic flight to, then, Xi-Geminorum, both with and without turn-around at the halfway point. The star has since changed as a consequence of what we know about exoplanets, but that is minor. At the time, the Internet was much younger and one did not easily find …
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