I've tried applying for CZI funding. Like many foundations, it's opaque. Got encouraged to submit a full proposal, but didn't get the $$. Why? No idea, because there's no feedback.

At least with NIH and NSF you generally get reviews to improve your work.

Tagging @rkurchin.bsky.social in case she sees this...

I think Rachel Kurchin at CMU has been doing some great things with Julia with DFTK.jl

docs.dftk.org/stable/

At my polling place at least, the poll workers were really good at telling people there were two sides to the ballot and be sure to flip it over.

I think information definitely got out as far as flyers, but I think Allegheny County got through to the poll workers too to remind us about both sides

That's great, great news! 🎉

Wow. Looks fantastic

I should have taken some photos - had this @pittchemistry.bsky.social too - I was giving out 3D printed caffeine molecules to anyone who stopped by with an actual costume.

I think they're angling into the Canva subscriptions through schools. So Affinity becomes the free option vs. expensive Adobe subscriptions - particularly for K-12.

So then these students push to use it in future jobs, etc. over Adobe.

And yes, maybe they think the AI features will bring $$

Yep. Getting the variance in the models is also really interesting.

Yes - I've been mostly opening small molecules.. so when I opened a protein and it froze I had to go fix it.

Onward to 2.0.0! 🎉