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14:43:04
drmeister
The presentation the DOD is giving right now has a big Microsoft Windows error dialog box covering the middle of every slide.
14:43:58
drmeister
A sigh of relief just went up when one of the tech support people managed after 5 min to drag the dialog box out of the presentation.
14:44:59
drmeister
This was in a presentation about basic research to allow warfighters to work in radioactive environments. Good grief.
14:50:46
drmeister
The presenters have a lot of plans, very little money and the audience is full of about 200 anxious academics. It's a powder keg.
15:18:30
drmeister
Paraphrased from the current slide: "There does not yet exist a predictive model of human society".
15:19:49
drmeister
We have transitioned from nuclear physics and materials to something to do with social networking. I don't follow what they are getting at - but phrases like "Social behavior modeling", "infrastructure response" are being tossed out.
15:23:32
drmeister
This is another good book in that vein: https://www.amazon.com/Country-Blind-Michael-Flynn/dp/152260586X
15:27:29
drmeister
They mentioned Puerto Rico and the slow recovery from the hurricanes last year as a model of how infrastructure changes with a disaster. Everything they said about it assumes a rational adminstration that wants to improve things and protect people. It's good to know that at least the "Deep State" cares about people.
15:28:39
Bike
if they're using phrases like "predictive model of human society" with any amount of seriousness they're making a whole lot of assumptions like that
15:32:09
drmeister
They want more involvement from graduate students, undergraduates and high school students in defense from WMD research.
15:38:15
drmeister
These folks are serious and thoughtful. The administrations that run things... not so much.
15:39:57
drmeister
Good lord - "Nuclear Fireball Plasma Chemistry" and "High temperature properties of organophosphorus species".
15:41:56
drmeister
ACTION goes back to soothing himself by writing code to recognize logical combinations of chemical bonds.
15:43:56
drmeister
The SMARTS "specification" specifies a test for a "ring bond" '@' - but they don't specify how large of a ring. How annoying is that.
17:45:08
Bike
i think it could be rewritten iteratively, guess i'll do that for at least my purposes
22:20:07
drmeister
Got it. I'm still an hour out from Philadelphia. Somehow I got off my normal path and ended up in more rural Rhode Island and Delaware.
22:23:46
drmeister
I'm doing "dream time" in Delaware. I'm at a Krispy Kreme watching an amazing cloud burst come down.
22:25:18
drmeister
For some reason people really like to take selfies with donuts rolling down the conveyor belt behind them.
22:26:28
drmeister
I've changed every lexical 'e' in the clasp source file to something more recognizable and i'm building 'dev' on an AWS instance.