My intention was to explain the message above. I was never trying to comment on McCain's character. But it sounds like you weren't asking in the first place. Sorry about that

He voted to keep it intact in a very famous 51-49 vote where he defected. My mistake. www.npr.org/2017/07/27/5...

John McCain sided with the Democrats to originally pass the ACA

I'm married to a teacher so I do get the teacher's frustration with parents trying to fight them on grades. This is pretty outrageous though, especially this choice quote. Pretty insane failure on a shocking number of levels

Hatch and my cat Daisy could be twins! They have almost exactly the same face 🥹🥹

In short, if you want to give your chemistry the best chance for reproducibility, use overhead stirring.

It's not a solution per se, but I've been making homemade yogurt for a couple years now and have not bought it from the store since. Everyone I tell is really surprised at it, but it's actually extremely simple, especially if you have an instant pot.

There's a difference between AI being used to analyze well curated datasets and "gen-AI" which is being broadly peddled as the next big thing. The former has been in use for the societally useful things you mentioned far longer than chatGPT has been around too.

If a drug doesn't make it to market then the company has no way to recoup the substantial amount of money spent developing that drug candidate. So think of it as the successful drugs (<<1% of all drug candidates) subsidizing research into the entire rest of the company's pipeline.

Oh yeah there's plenty of opportunism out there to be sure! But I'd just push back on discounting a whole field because it's occasionally over-hyped.

That's a pretty cynical way of looking at it. There's tons of value in optimizing older results and turning them into useful methods. Just because it showed up in a 1970s paper doesn't mean it's a reaction that someone would actually use.

Obviously you should only do so with proper acknowledgement

Boring chemistry is great! I also think further emphasis should also be put on techniques that use quotidian "off the shelf" materials. The barrier to me trying chemistry I'm not 100% sure about is wayyy lower if I don't have to wait for/make a fancy ligand/reagent.

Where's the dislike button on here 😔

Back when I was an undergraduate we had a laptop repair/loaner system for situations like that. If your computer crapped out for whatever reason you could bring it to them and they'd fix it for just the cost of parts. Granted we also had well equipped computer labs as well.

Haber Bosch process, water gas shift reaction, Ziegler Natta - big industrial processes basically.

Lanthanide mining/separation is an interesting one too

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Thank you!