12:44:14drmeisterheisig: I'm writing a proposal due tomorrow:
12:44:20drmeisterDevelopment of Web-based Molecular Dynamics Chemical and Materials Simulation Software Using Cloud-Based GPU Computing Resources and Jupyter Notebook User Interfaces
12:48:31beachAre you sure you want to pile up the words like that?
12:48:42beachWhenever my students do that, I correct it.
12:49:13beachMore than three piled-up words, and it becomes hard to understand.
12:49:40Bikeas far as i can tell, the us government eats that shit up
12:50:14beachI would have said something like Web-based software for simulation of ...
12:51:08Bikewe have a law called the "USA PATRIOT Act" and it's an acronym
12:51:47beachEnglish is unfortunate because the main noun comes after the "adjectives", so it is easy to miss it if there are too many adjectives preceding the important word. In this case, "software".
12:52:01beach[Swedish is the same, but that's beside the point]
12:52:16drmeisterHmm, the mistake was made weeks ago when I submitted the letter of intent.
12:52:32drmeisterOnce it enters the system I can't change the title
13:08:21heisigdrmeister: Apart from the unwieldy title, the proposal does sound very interesting. I know the drama with government grant proposals, so I wish you good luck with it!