Category: Modeling
Interactive science (Image credit: Franco Landriscina)If future historians were to write a book about the most important contributions of technology to improving science education, it would be hard for them to skip computer modeling and simulation.Much…
The Firefox performance regression introduced into the codebase on 2012-09-29 and present in FF v18, v19, and Nightly versions is much more serious than I previously thought. Basically FF versions after v16 are now almost unusable running NextGen models of any complexity for longer than 30s. See: Firefox Performance Comparison 20131902 and Confirmation of FF […]
The opposite of Thomas Dolby I was terrible at the first four weeks of organic chemistry. I just couldn’t get the right pictures into my head. The depictions of the chemical reaction mechanisms I was supposed to memorize seemed like just so many Cs (and Hs and Os and, alarmingly, Fs) laid out randomly as […]