Clay Batton

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

Postdoc @StanfordUChem

ChemE PhD @UCB_Chemistry

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

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Probably got lost going to Albany

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🇺🇸🇦🇱 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.

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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Going to be back in Minnesota for #apsmarch this week, stop by session K31 for my talk and a whole bonanza of excellent active assembly talks

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Going to be in Orlando for AIChE this week, and presenting on Tuesday on my recent chiral assembly work. Details below! #AIChEAnnual

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Spent part of my day savagely trying to open a tabless aluminum can with a house key for a Nobel prize winner

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@CoryMSimon @jpotoff This goes along with math modeling/computational exercises, but most intro math sequences don't focus enough (or at all) on PDEs and numerics which leads to large issues down the line for many departments