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18:45
"4,975 visitors/day" Not bad Chem:SE! :)
@ManishEarth Lets earn some hats and star each other's comments!
19:31
@LordStryker It was above 5k earlier
I think 7k
exam week
Nah, 6k
It'll decline now, happened last year
@LordStryker Already have the hat, but here ya go :)
19:52
You get hats for stars? whuuuuut :)
By the way: Hi guys, I welcome myself to the chat xD
\o @tschoppi
Welcome to the table where chemists do it periodically
Oh god... They do?
I assume it must be the same in Zurich?
What about that couch in the group seminar room?
;)
I think I need a couple more chat messages to get to 10 for my chatty hat :)
@tschoppi Oh dear. It seems as though every chemistry building has 'that couch'
We may be onto something here for a new chatroom name.
19:58
@LordStryker Oh god, what have I started :P
I wonder if that would be worth asking, "Does your chemistry department have 'that couch' as well?"
Would make for an interesting discussion.
I think it would be put [on hold] until further clarification is edited into the question ;)
ahhahaha
Well, as the owner of this room, I can rename it as I see fit :P
Though its original name seems to have stuck it out this long.
I still abhor the fact that I have to share ownership with that other guy
but alas, it is what it is.
Annnnnd theres my chatty hat! :D (thanks @ManishEarth!)
@LordStryker Nitrogen Strictly Forbidden
Well, you could definitely rename it to something like "Carbonyl Uranium Carbide"... Nobody would be the wiser :P
Dang it, forgot the H at the end...
20:02
I made a chemistry reference in one of my MSO posts and someone got it!
+1 for "dropped everything and started working on nitrogen compounds". :D Oh, and because I like the proposal. — Ilmari Karonen 2 days ago
> For example, with Chemistry, I see a slow, steady growth. I can't think of any reason why it would fail in the next few years (unless all the chemists dropped everything and started working on nitrogen compounds), but graduation seems very far off too.
more like "unless chemists dropped everything including nitrogen compounds". Booms are dangerous.
@LordStryker hahaha
I'm so glad I'm a computational chemist. The only thing I have to worry about is developing arthritis and getting fat.
I'll never have to worry about working with something that will kill me.
20:19
@LordStryker Isn't that half the thrill of chemistry? (I remember a time when my hand was dotted with purple spots because the guy before me didn't clean up after himself, so I got myself a dose of $\ce{Ag(NO3)}$ skin-coloring...
Aaaand mathjax doesn't work in chat mode...
@LordStryker What exactly are you computating? :)
I'll start a semester project next term and will be doing lambda-dynamic calculations on the complexation of ions and ethers in different solvents...
@tschoppi works for me :P
20:38
@ManishEarth are you saying that you understand what is written or that you actually get nicely formatted formulae from this? :)
@tschoppi My lab implements ab initio methods, specifically advanced post-HF correlated methods
We push our computers to the limit... the CBS limit.
this usually causes a computer or program to break, and a graduate student to either drop out or never finish.
@LordStryker aaand my optimism has already diminished :)
well just stay away from doing CCSD(T)/a5Z calculations ;P
sounds like you would fit well in the world of DFT
bwaahahahaha
coupled-cluster takes forever to finish a job... but dft takes forever b/c you have to use a dozen functionals to try and validate your answers to begin with
so either route you take is still a long one
unless your work is crap
i.e. you implement one flavor of DFT and don't bother to benchmark it
which happens ALL the time
damn... well, I'm in it for the spirit (I guess...) :D
20:43
programming will take a lot of the brute force work out of it
since I'm more or less using the tools developed by a PhD student in the group I hope I don't have to dwell too much on programming... It's been such a long time I feel I'd never get done...
ive run computations on an 8 atom system that took a 2TB hard drive to even attempt
@tschoppi well if you plan on entering into graduate school to do comp. chem., you will definitely want to get your programming gameface on
but man I love this job
I get to sit all day and manhandle a slick battlestation. (nerdgasm job description)

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