brilee

"It's young, and it shows"

"Holds up"

"not a toy, but not a sprawling project either, and ideally.."

"And that’s the trap"

ctrl F "real" -> 6 usages

ctrl F "genuine" -> 4 usages

(author here)

As a serial successful field-hopper, I agree that I'm not the right person to be making these estimates.

But the external view is that college courses roughly expect you to do what I'm claiming, in roughly the time investment that I'm claiming -- and undergrads are typically in 4+ classes at a time. So is it that the whole educational system is delusional? (I fully acknowledge it might be so!)

I could have sworn that sickly sweet smell was the smell of various phosphine reagents? Just my vague recollection of my time in lab from 15 years ago.

Does this handle, e.g., water of hydration CaSO4 . 2H2O? states of matter H2O(g)? does it preserve subunit information, as in (C6H5)CH2COOH? Writing a parser for basic formulae is such a tiny tiny part of the actual problem... deciding the scope of what you want to handle and how is the real problem

Great write-up, but I admit that I found the interweaving of human and AI-written content/headlines/summaries pretty distracting. I kept on wanting to scroll past, but had to keep on backtracking to find the human thread again.

I think if you want to give your reader a quick intro to, e.g., what is the Adam optimizer, a simple link to Wikipedia is fine. No need to copy-paste an AI tutorial on Adam into the blog post.