Cory Simon
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ChemE prof @ Oregon State University | Bayesian optimization, inverse problems, algos for mobile robots | dog-walking, bike-riding, Starcraft, wine | views mine
Corvallis, OR
Joined August 2012
🥤"Optimizing mixtures of metal–organic frameworks for robust and bespoke passive atmospheric water harvesting" by C. Harriman, Q. Ke, T. Vlugt, A. Howarth, C. Simon. feedback welcome on our new preprint! 💡the key idea is to optimize the composition of *mixtures* of
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at the AIChE conference in Boston! 👋 my PhD student Qia Ke is giving two talks: 🎤 "Optimizing mixtures of metal–organic frameworks for robust and bespoke passive atmospheric water harvesting" 📅 Tuesday, Nov 4 🕘 8:48 AM 📍 Sheraton Boston, Back Bay Ballroom B 🎤 "Adaptive
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don't compute the inverse matrix to solve a square, invertible linear system!
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> the determinant of a square matrix is a single number. that number contains an amazing amount of information about the matrix. > eigenvalues are a [...] way to see into the heart of a matrix. - Gilbert Strang
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what do you think @gavincrooks, @Andrew_S_Rosen?
…the law of conservation of energy is true because we make it true, by assuming the existence of forms of energy for which there is no other justification than the desire to retain energy as a conservative quantity. Gilbert Lewis and Merle Randall 1923
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…the law of conservation of energy is true because we make it true, by assuming the existence of forms of energy for which there is no other justification than the desire to retain energy as a conservative quantity. Gilbert Lewis and Merle Randall 1923
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in my math for ChemE's class, we fit ellipses to points outlining the shapes of red blood cells in a microscopy image. the distribution of their eccentricities can reveal disease. it's a fun and practical application of the least-squares approach for an overdetermined linear
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> a conic section is a curve obtained from a cone's surface intersecting a plane. the three types of conic section are the hyperbola, the parabola, and the ellipse; the circle is a special case of the ellipse, though it was sometimes considered a fourth type.
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useful heuristic the Best Research Problems are: (A) non-obvious enough that no one else will solve in the next six months (B) important enough that someone would solve eventually stressed? pick a less obvious problem laboring in obscurity? pick a more important problem
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likewise.
Paper rejection, usually. Most one-off grants have acceptance rates well under 50%, so rejection is expected. For a paper that is well-targeted to a journal, acceptance is expected. On top of that, papers require more work than grant proposals (unless you are out there writing
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this is my 9th year as a professor. 👀 as a rite of passage, my PhD supervisor is coming to visit Oregon State University in a few weeks.
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If you don't read enough, you risk reinventing the wheel. If you read too much, you risk paralysis. The art of balancing learning and creation is delicate, especially today, when short-term success is so easily conflated with lasting impact.
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> shipping logs from a disposal company supporting Montrose Chemical Corp. of California, a DDT-producing company, show that 2,000 barrels of DDT-laced sludge could have potentially been dumped each month from 1947 to 1961 into a designated dumpsite 👀
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Achira is growing! We’re looking for talented software engineers, ML research engineers, and AI/ML scientists to join our team in building foundation simulation models to power the future of drug discovery. Apply at
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Building foundation simulation models for drug discovery
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hey what about cancer
BREAKING: OpenAI has reportedly been taking steps to develop an AI that generates music, per The Information
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