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My talk at Imperial College
Yesterday I was guest with Judy at the Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College, where I presented the what I am working on. As I met up in a pub with Ron (my former PhD supervisor, who now works on metabolomics at the Istituto Agrario San Michele all’Adige in Italy) the night before, the presentation does share many slides from previous talks, but also adds a few new ones.
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Supramolecular chemistry
Some smart software developer once said to not optimize your code too early. However, not caring about it at all does not help either. Some basic knowledge of memory management can keep you going. That is, I just ran into the limits of Oscar and ChemicalTagger. As I blogged earlier today, I am analyzing the BJOC literature , but Lezan and I are running into a reproducible out-of-memory exception. At first I thought it was a memory leak, as it was the 95th paper if fell over on, but after we optimized our code a bit, by reusing classes, the problem remained and turned out to be not in recreating objects (though the code is significantly faster now), but in a single BJOC paper being too large.
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Trust has no place in science #2
Thanks to all who replied and shared their views. Particular thanx to Christina who replied in her blog. With Saml, and Cameron and Bill they think this is about semantics. Linguistic tricks. I hope not; this is too serious to get away with such. “Reliable, trustworthy, assumptions”: it’s all working around the real issue. Similarly, splitting up ‘trust’ into ‘blind trust’ and ‘smart trust’ is just working around the real problem.
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Trust has no place in science
One discussion I had often had in the past year, is about trust in science. I, for one, believe (hahahaha; you see the irony? ;) that trust has nothing to do with science. Likewise, any scholar should be, IMHO, hes is suspicious when someone talks about trust. A scholarly scientist will never trust any result: hes will accept it as true or false, but will take responsibility for that decision; hes will not hide behind ‘but I trusted him’ or ‘but it was published in Nature’.
