Clay Batton

Somewhere in the void of chemistry, math, and computers.

Postdoc @StanfordUChem

ChemE PhD @UCB_Chemistry

[rembutquaglet @rembutquaglet]

wow it actually works

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Apparently you can tag the mayor of NYC in Instagram stories and things just get fixed

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

@CoryMSimon Oh gosh, grad school class sizes in undergrad haha. Back then, mass and energy balances was their distillation column meant to separate 240 people into chemes or matsci (same department at Minnesota), enrollment is down nowadays so that's no longer needed I reckon

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

I feel like I've done something bizarre with my eyes where my normal vision is bad, but staring at my phone screen it's like 60/20. I'll take photos of stuff and I'll be able to make out details on the screen from like a mile away compared to the equivalent with my bare eyes

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

As a Knicks fan since January 22nd, this win means so much to me

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Probably got lost going to Albany

[kos_data @kos_data]

🇺🇸🇦🇱 Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams is now officially Albanian.

He has been granted citizenship and has received an Albanian passport by a special decree issued by the Albanian president.

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Anything is possible with the power of God, anime, and Claude Code on my side

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

One of the more interesting pieces of NYC to me is how available picnic shoulder is in grocery stores while Boston butt is a lot rarer. They come from the same primal cut, those pork butts must be going somewhere but certainly not here

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

At the young age of 30, I finally figured out how to read Roman numerals. I'd also like to mention I got a degree in mathematics almost a decade ago

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Read some of my undergraduate application essays, I would have definitely bullied that kid

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

I'm in Anaheim for APS! Stop by Session MAR-F50 on Tuesday morning to see recent work looking at phosphoryl hydrolysis using machine learning and simulation tools

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

First time seeing a critter like this happen, underlying cause was a weird memory issue that lead to an error message printing a bunch

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

The last burrito I had was wrapped in aluminum foil (oh man they might actually be doing it!), only to find there was an internal parchment paper layer underneath the foil

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Burritos in San Diego are pretty good, the Oaxacalifornia (quesarito) at La Perla is probably the most decadent in the state. The features I wish they'd steal from Mission to have a Grand Unified California Burrito would be grilled outside and aluminum foil wrapped for stability

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

I'm in San Diego for AIChE! I'll be talking today about how we've been training machine learning potentials for cheaper on various problems, stop on by! #AIChEAnnual

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

I haven't updated my Bay Area burrito rankings in a while. There's one standout and then a four-way tie for second

The best: @AfghanBurrito, transcendental, nothing else like it

The rest: La Taqueria, Taqueria San Bruno, Antojitos Mexicanos Jovanni, Lopez Taqueria 3

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Pretty amazed at both how bad Google can be for some technical questions and how overexcited but correct ChatGPT can be for the same ones. I could evolve the caveman speak to get better answers, but I don't need to with ChatGPT

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Happy to say it's now in print at Soft Matter (along with an updated arXiv)! https://t.co/wG6eac0HK1

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

Have a paper up with @GrantRotskoff on how chiral active particles (bumper cars with misaligned wheels) can produce robust assembly forces for passive particles, and how the odd transport properties of CAPs give rise to it. Check it out! https://t.co/8mZxA20Upq

[Clay Batton @cbatton35]

@jmlepstein @JoshKoomz Changing the aspect ratio for important results like a cinematographer breaking out the IMAX camera