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tripleee

Mar 23 09:45

@Tyberius sorry for taking so long to respond; yes, there have been issues with Sloshy and I haven't had the time to investigate, but I hope to try to sort it out now

user1271772

Mar 20 11:55

@Tyberius the GitHub issue says that tripleee is too busy right now and that we may have to express condolences to Sloshy. Perhaps we will need to use a different bot, which will probably be less convenient to configure.

Tyberius

Mar 19 17:17

@user1271772 It looks like Sloshy might be down for all of StackExchange (though Stackoverflow chat is apparently okay). github.com/tripleee/sloshy/issues/116

user1271772

Mar 19 01:32

I'll ask a mod to re-open our Ask a moderator room, which is usually where we'd ping mods. I'll also ask to re-open Bounty Land, HNQ, Milestones and GPAW.

sloshy

Feb 20 02:33

unfreeze sprinkling antifreeze

user1271772

Aug 31, 2024 09:14

@tripleee thanks! I have a baby's birth expected today, so I have my attention elsewhere, but will try to reply later (-:

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user1271772

Dec 9, 2023 18:04

I agree that people can just walk away and let that happen, but I didn't spend so much time building MMSE just to see it die within 4 years! In fact, I'm just getting started!

Yoda

Feb 28, 2022 08:43

Speaking as someone with two MSc and one PhD in quantum chemistry, my advice is to seriously consider why you want to get a PhD. If you know that research is what you live for, and you know that you have it in you to succeed in academia, then a PhD is the first step towards an academic career. If, however, you have doubts as to whether you want to give up your free time or give up on having a family, or if you are not sure that doing research is what you want, then a PhD might not be correct.

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user1271772

Nov 28, 2023 04:45

in The h Bar, 9 mins ago, by Relativisticcucumber

i often feel physics stack main site is a ruthless place

Geoff Hutchison

Dec 31, 2020 19:47

Happy New Year! Hope 2021 goes well for everyone - and a good year for MM.SE

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user1271772

Aug 23, 2023 17:00

@uhoh We need to get more people from that area on our platform.

Nike Dattani

Mar 6, 2023 13:55

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Q: MMSE Community Promotion Board

Taking the suggestion from Geoff Hutchison in Highlighting Matsci.org forum - community promotions, I decided to put together an MMSE page for community ads. Simply add an answer with a title, a brief description, and a link to whatever project your advertising (and ideally an image to go with th...

uhoh

Mar 1, 2023 22:18

context: for a long long time I have thought that something like an "Optics and Photonics SE" site would work. We can talk later about why Physics SE is not working for this subject, I just want to have a very concise summary of the main steps and how hard it is to build the interest.

Nike Dattani

Jan 12, 2023 06:57

Hi @Quantum_Magnet

Nike Dattani

Jan 3, 2023 00:49

@GeoffHutchison This anagram solver was helpful for me: thewordfinder.com/multiple-word-anagram-solver

More Anonymous

Dec 28, 2022 16:59

@NikeDattani Oh shes very good at her job

More Anonymous

Dec 28, 2022 16:57

@NikeDattani Asian parents

More Anonymous

Dec 28, 2022 16:56

And she stormed in and went "he is. I am representing myself as his mum!"

More Anonymous

Dec 28, 2022 16:52

My mum is quite the charector :P

tripleee

Dec 1, 2022 15:17

@NikeDattani @Tyberius ping?

Nike Dattani

Aug 13, 2022 19:26

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Q: The MMSE Sandbox

Similar to this sandbox, you're encouraged to write drafts of your questions here before posting them on the main site, if you think this may be beneficial. I was tempted to come up with a set of "rules" for this, or to simply say "don't over use this", but my guess is that this won't be necessar...

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TheSimpliFire

Jul 18, 2020 17:49

@NikeDattani I know you do, you've put so much effort into it. It is rare to see someone with that much enthusiasm

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TheSimpliFire

Jun 23, 2020 20:05

Congratulations @Tyberius, @I.Camps and @Thomas on becoming our new mods on Matter.SE!

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Feeds

May 8, 2020 21:58

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Q: How to get email notifications when questions are asked about your favorite software or favorite topic

My friend Peter Nagy, a developer of the MRCC software, asked me how to get email notifications when people ask questions with the mrcc tag. Surprisingly I could not remember how I did it years ago when I started following certain tags on other Stack Exchanges, and I couldn't find the answer eas...

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user1271772

May 2, 2020 05:02

So people can continue asking molecular questions on ChemSE, or if for some reason they prefer, they could ask here. In either case a migration can be done if necessary, but I don't think there's any way to force the askers to choose one or the other, Rory's comment says that the focus has always been on giving the asker the option to make their own choice.

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Henry WH Hack v2.1.3

Apr 28, 2020 18:42

Congrats [Nike Dattani](https://area51.stackexchange.com/users/190792), your proposal made
it into private beta now let's see if it will get out! :)

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Paul Eugenio

Dec 13, 2021 16:25

@user1271772 @user1271772 Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to respond to this message until recently. I found this site by googling my answers, typically using the search style "quantum espresso: <question or keywords>". Previously, I had been using Research Gate to ask and find answers to my questions, but Research Gate isn't really the type of coherent focused community that would be best to engage with for these technical questions.

Paul Eugenio

Nov 21, 2021 20:51

I appreciate this community. I'm not sure who's running it, but it's great that it exists. I ran into it because I was looking for DFT advice, but I'm glad to see it's a broader community

Tyberius

Nov 3, 2021 13:51

I had a CS minor in undergrad, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a CS background.

Buttonwood

Sep 3, 2021 07:40

Feel free to add notes (e.g., additional clarifying question/comments) here. I am going to return to this page later the day.

Cody Aldaz

Aug 31, 2021 20:34

There is a lot of overlap between the sites. I say yes because calculating distributions are very important in matter modeling. However, a better question to ask on this site is "how" to calculate something, rather than asking about some theoretical detail (which could be asked on physics SE.)

Nike Dattani

Jun 15, 2021 17:45

Now while the title of that paper says it involves "fast computing machines", it was the 1950s and HPC (high performance computing) was different then that it is now. If you want a more recent reference, this is a paper in which Monte Carlo is used for a matter modeling problem in a truly HPC sense (more than 24000 CPU cores were used!): aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0005754

Cody Aldaz

Apr 16, 2021 02:22

Glad you joined MMSE @ShoubhikRMaiti :)

Nike Dattani

Dec 31, 2020 20:04

@GeoffHutchison Thanks so much Geoff!

TheSimpliFire

Dec 29, 2020 20:40

@NikeDattani I see. I wonder if they targeted your comments of the sort "+1 We hope to see you more here!!" as they are numerous. Strictly speaking they can be removed, but I find it in poor taste to flag for mass deletion especially from someone with no content contribution to the site.

Cody Aldaz

Aug 24, 2020 20:35

Ooh Windows subsystem for linux has a new version WSL2! "WSL 2 is a major upgrade over the original version of WSL Microsoft introduced back in 2017. WSL 2 isn’t just a version bump, either. It’s faster, more versatile, and uses a real Linux kernel. Future Linux kernel updates will be released as Windows 10 software updates — which is kinda crazy when you think about it!"

Nike Dattani

Jul 18, 2020 17:57

I mean the early users could get 200 points in a day just from one question, but now it's a lot harder to earn rep, which I think is a bit unfair for the new users.

Nike Dattani

Jul 13, 2020 22:25

@TheSimpliFire, @StephenXie, @TAR86 don't forget to try to vote a bit more if you don't mind! We were predicted to have 152 users with 200+ rep by the end of 90 days in Beta, but that has now dropped to 148 users. This is ranked as "okay" instead of "excellent". I am just trying to encourage a bit more voting in general, not to downvote or upvote any specific question :)

Nike Dattani

Jul 5, 2020 17:34

I voted to close this, and wrote a long comment about the reason for it. It can easily be re-opened if the user comes back (but they haven't signed in even once since the day they joined) or if someone writes a comment saying that they want to answer:

Martin Sleziak

Jun 23, 2020 03:54

So far 77 caucus and 54 constituent badges. (Maybe election is useful also as some kind of measure of number of active users on a site.)

user1271772

Jun 22, 2020 02:14

This seems to be the most successful Hot Network Question we've ever had! I think it's rare for them to last more than 50 hours, and to attract such a large number of new users! Thank you to everyone that voted for the question and the answer, and if you have anything to add, then don't hesitate to add another answer! There would be no better time than now. Don't hesitate to spread the word about this question to anyone you know that might be interested!

user1271772

Jun 22, 2020 02:14

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Q: Did the 2019 discovery of O(N log(N)) multiplication have a practical outcome?

Some time ago I've read this news article, Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply, reporting a discovery published in 2019, where Harvey and Hoeven[1] found a algorithm able to execute multiplication in $N \log N$ steps. Compare with the $N^2$ we are used to while doing multiplicati...

high-performance-computing algorithms history

TheSimpliFire

Jun 10, 2020 08:27

@Nike materials.stackexchange.com/questions/1104/…

uhoh

May 25, 2020 01:34

@NikeDattani oh no need to apologize; it is always good question hygiene to refer to and distinguish from existing questions and answers. It's always good to cite related material but more importantly it's possible others won't read before commenting similarly.

Thomas

May 19, 2020 21:54

Congrats all

Martin - マーチン

May 19, 2020 21:09

Congratulations everyone!

Cody Aldaz

May 19, 2020 20:16

yay! we are in a public beta :)

Cody Aldaz

May 19, 2020 20:16

congrats everyone

Martin - マーチン

May 19, 2020 09:51

There was some serious commitment going on here. That was nice to see...

TheSimpliFire

May 19, 2020 09:49

The statistics on 51 pretty much have made certain that we will :P

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