Hythem Sidky

Postdoc @UChicagoIME | Liquid crystals, molecules, proteins, data, probability, physics, and ML... I roll (digital) dice for a living. I also climb rocks.

[Richard Sever @cshperspectives]

Amazingly common at scientific meetings these days: response to introducing two people, “No we haven’t met, but we know each other from twitter.”

[Jonathan K. Whitmer @jonathanwhitmer]

I'm organizing a session with @JuandePablo6 on Free Energy and Reactive Path Methods for the 2019 @APSphysics March Meeting. The deadline is next Friday, earlier than usual. Please retweet if your followers might be interested, and contribute if you are. https://t.co/ZplDLR0pTv

[Jonathan K. Whitmer @jonathanwhitmer]

Extremely proud of my graduate student Vikramjit Rathee for his latest paper, just accepted to @J_A_C_S, on the complexation of weak polyelectrolytes. Ben Sikora and @hythemsidky with big contributions as well. https://t.co/1HsYh2yiqM

[Hythem Sidky @hythemsidky]

@curexcomplex Woah, mind blown! Turns out so am I. I just asked my siblings and they can all picture things except for me. How did I not know about this?!

[Helix (noop_noob) - Migrating off twt @helix65535]

LaTeX is wild

[Bruce Bursten @bebursten]

Fabulous talk on #catalysis and the nitrogen cycle in ⁦@WPI⁩ Chem Eng by Prof ⁦@wmfschneider⁩ of ⁦@NDCBE⁩. Bill was a PhD student with me and I am so impressed with and proud of all he has accomplished! #ProudPapa

[Ciarán Maguire @ciaranmag]

I wrote a script to grab 2 months worth of car insurance quotes from @Ask123ie to show how they adjust your premium based on the day of the week you were born. Here's the graph, see if you can spot the pattern

Spoiler: It costs €130 more if you were born on a Sunday vs a Monday

[Mustafa Al-Bassam @musalbas]

Quick phishing demo. Would you fall for something like this?

[Jonathan K. Whitmer @jonathanwhitmer]

This is always a potential issue with open-access publishing, though it is also an issue with the proliferation of journals in general, as content becomes ever more thinly spread. https://t.co/dXGeKT9gqo

[Simon Baron-Cohen @sbaroncohen]

In 1923, 2 scientist at University of Toronto (U of T) got the Nobel Prize for discovering insulin. The patent was sold to U of T` for $1 so insulin would be widely available. Today, a single vial of insulin is > $250 and most patients use 2-4 vials per month and can't afford it

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Never confuse kindness as a sign of weakness. https://t.co/exeIPKiCiT

[Andreas Mueller @amuellerml]

Possibly the biggest / most important change is the addition of ColumnTransformer to handle heterogeneous pandas dataframes. Right now you need to provide a callable (or list) to say what columns are, say, categorical. Next up: providing robust mechanisms in sklearn.

[Dr. Katie Wedemeyer-Strombel, PhD @krwedemeyer]

There is a difference between hard work and emotional abuse. Grad school should be challenging & intellectually difficult. I'm not arguing it should be easy. You should work hard, but you should NOT be emotionally abused. The culture should not promote emotional abuse.

[Nature Chemistry @NatureChemistry]

Our September issue is live! Modelling kinases (on the cover), microporous membranes, strained azacyclic allenes, designer enzymes, proton hydration structures (and a great cover line related to them!), N-doped graphdiyne electrocatalysts & much more... https://t.co/aswrEE63Ix

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Duck survival skills 🦆 https://t.co/FO6he9ZpIn

[Daniel G A Smith @dga_smith]

Released v2.1 of my tensor contraction order optimizer, opt_einsum! Added @PyTorch backend support and @TensorFlow eager-mode execution along with other optimizations. Downloads available from #pypi and @condaforge.

https://t.co/lOchrbusCm

#compchem #numpy

[RealScientists @realscientists]

Here's a thread on basic tips to help improve your next science figure! 📝 (ie common mistakes I see). It'll cover:
1) Contrast (color value) ⬛️⬜️
2) Color (it’s a tool, not decoration!) 🌈
3) Fonts 🔤
4) Image Resolution 📷
5) Spacing / margins 📐
6) By request! 💡

[Jan Jensen (janhjensen.bsky.social) @janhjensen]

Improving Chemical Autoencoder Latent Space and Molecular De novo Generation Diversity with Heteroencoders https://t.co/bsaRHJaPIx #compchem

[Hythem Sidky @hythemsidky]

Liquid crystal display display 😬

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

NEW VIDEO - The 2019 iPhone X Models! https://t.co/MBAs8XiOZW - RT!