Shoot From the Hip

The one class I absolutely hated while at SDSU was Comm 103, public communcations. Essentially it was a public speaking class; a class made solely to get awkward people in front of a room to talk about stuff they don’t care about. I did not hate it because I am bad/afraid of public speaking  but rather because it was…

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The start of another semester

On Tuesday I start my second semester at MIT. Overall, it is shaping up to be a very difficult semester; I am registered for two classes and I will be listening (the MIT term for auditing) to another. In addition to this, I am going to attend two conferences and try to go to Vegas…

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Collect your Wavefunctions

This is a short post that is mainly just to solidify a mental note for myself: always collect your wavefunctions. When quantum espresso does a calculation, the wavefunction files that it generates can only be used in post-processing if you run on the same amount of processors. I.E. If you run four nodes with 16 processors apiece, you must…

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