Gemini 3 Flash is a super impressive research assistant.

My Cursor.com AGENTS.md starts with an 'echo' to confirm that this file was read and processed. For whimsy this is: "GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN."

Gemini 3 Flash is the first model which has started responding with contextual jokes...

Beautiful photo from the article looking west (I believe) of the Westway being constructed.

I was quite pleased with this: generates a set of randomised times-table questions of given factors (f), but stochastically includes the commutative pair (i.e. c × f = f × c) and the 'division fact' (c × f = a, then ask a ÷ f) in the next few questions.

Certainly productive procrastination!

Gnuplot with image terminal support sort of works. But you get lots of weird unhappiness with detecting / outputting.

I've only just discovered the ability to pipe within `set output "|kitten icat --stdin" `, usually when I do this I output to a png and then display. But interactive would be nicer!

In many ways it is easier to write a program than to explain clearly to a person...

I'm off to a local high-school tomorrow to give an access / interested in science / Imperial talk.

I wanted to explain that ChatGPT wasn't magic, so am going to get the students to make a 2-gram word 'generative model' out of sampling Shakespeare sonnets, BY HAND.

It works really well!

I'm at the #GRCAntimicrobialPeptides2025 next week in Ventura, California, USA.

I am taking a poster about my work with MSci students Kam and Igor.

(Yes, I did check I had an ESTA before checking this time. No, I did not check that the conference hotel dates and that my UK flights aligned.)

Is there a reference for any Hackerspeak in peptide FASTA sequences?

I found myself automatically reaching for my old hexadecimal friend 0xDEADBEEF , but surely there are some more funny / bio ones out there?

#CompBio #CompChem #HackThePlanet

You really start to see the fractal nature of the backflow wavefunction, once you reduce the number of particles (N=5, which fits in a 2D -1<KMAX<1 k-space), and turn up the resolution.

I bought a little £12 Bluetooth thermal printer. (For the kids: instant hard-copy of photos! Stickers! Really fun.)

The sticker paper is perfect for printing energy unit conversions for the first page of my notebooks, rather than having to write it out by hand for every book.

#compchemsky
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Reproduces an animated version of Fig 1 from:
Krüger & Zaanen's 2008 "Fermionic quantum criticality and the fractal nodal surface." doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

Code: github.com/Frost-group/...
github.com/Frost-group/...

#physics #compchem

For anybody who needs to know: you take apart a 'Büchel Shiny 120' E-bike headlamp by unscrewing the rear of the aluminium enclosure. I certainly needed a strap wrench to get enough torque.
Unfortunately you have to desolder the LED to get access to the PCB, which makes it difficult to debug!

Actually did some work today! (PI life ^_^ ... it was really nice to sit at a terminal and struggle with errors...)

Metadynamics MD in XTB with an empirical tight binding model, looking at the collapse of an antimicrobial peptide in an implicit solvent. #compchem

github.com/Frost-group/...

Yes, simple Endianess issue.

I hacked together a lightweight PPM image library, so I could get rid of Images.jl as a dependency (also I couldn't figure out how to save files...). Unfortunately I've introduced some kind of bug (fluffed the endianess?) but it looks kinda nice and retro textured!
github.com/Frost-group/...

With cursor.com , we are really living in the future (at least, for this computational physicist!). Online, almost real-time conversion of equations into code, with the sort of errors made and correcting feedback necessary for student supervision anyway. 🧪