22 Feb 22
@sonhouse saidI don't recall him saying he was a professional chemist. So would you have to be computer savvy to be a pro-chemist?
@Very-Rusty
You do know he is a professional chemist? I would imagine he knows computers🙂
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22 Feb 22
@very-rusty saidI am.
I don't recall him saying he was a professional chemist. So would you have to be computer savvy to be a pro-chemist?
-VR
You don't exactly need to (depending on your specialization) but it helps. When I was a PhD student I was responsible for all the hardware in the Institute. (we migrated from Win31. to Win95....and we had some Silicon Graphics machines, for those in the know)
22 Feb 22
@ponderable saidGood for you Pondy!
I am.
You don't exactly need to (depending on your specialization) but it helps. When I was a PhD student I was responsible for all the hardware in the Institute. (we migrated from Win31. to Win95....and we had some Silicon Graphics machines, for those in the know)
Can you write up programs? I was learning how to do some of that on chat site back many years ago. I really should have kept it up.
-VR
22 Feb 22
@Very-Rusty
I can still do Basic (visual basic for office), I learned ( got the supercomputer licensce back in 1992) but have not prcatised for some time Pacsal, I do a bit Python
22 Feb 22
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@ponderable said1992 would have been around the time I was learning to write up programs. One of the Supervisors on the chat site back then was teaching some of us operators on the site how to do it. I found it very difficult at first to be honest with you and everyone.
@Very-Rusty
I can still do Basic (visual basic for office), I learned ( got the supercomputer licensce back in 1992) but have not prcatised for some time Pacsal, I do a bit Python
-VR
22 Feb 22
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@ponderable saidI loved Pascal because it had sets and set operators - union, intersection etc. And I wrote a program in C
@Very-Rusty
I can still do Basic (visual basic for office), I learned ( got the supercomputer licensce back in 1992) but have not prcatised for some time Pacsal, I do a bit Python
to solve all the positions to the 8 queens problem that I wished I had written in Pascal.
good stuff.
* 8 queens problem - arrange 8 queens onto a chess board where no queen checks any other
22 Feb 22
@Ponderable
Have you seen "Breaking Bad" the Netflix series?
Great show about a Chemistry Teacher.
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23 Feb 22
@contenchess saidThat guy was “cracked”.😲😉
@Ponderable
Have you seen "Breaking Bad" the Netflix series?
Great show about a Chemistry Teacher.
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23 Feb 22
@executioner-brand saidMust be difficult, always living in the future. 😉
it's already been..........
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23 Feb 22
@earl-of-trumps saidSorry, Earl. I took a nap after breakfast and slept all day.
Make a post so that it looks thusly:
22 Feb 22 22:22
However: 22 Feb 22 22:22
Happy now? 😉
24 Feb 22
@kevin-eleven saidMe so happy, Kevin 😍
Sorry, Earl. I took a nap after breakfast and slept all day.
However: 22 Feb 22 22:22
Happy now? 😉
24 Feb 22
@ponderable saidPascal was my favorite programming language, it made the most sense to me. Never did get the hang of C. That was back in college, though.
@Very-Rusty
I can still do Basic (visual basic for office), I learned ( got the supercomputer licensce back in 1992) but have not prcatised for some time Pacsal, I do a bit Python