OT: Life Under Shaperla's police state, starting from scratch.
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Verashiden
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Can I give you belated spankings? 
Dii Legend
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Probably best not to ask permission and just do it. :laugh:
KellKheraptis
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electricblue
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hello folks,
i hope everything is fine
i hope everything is fine
Dii Legend
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I turned 26 last December, so ha!
Besides, Shap would be the oldest of the posters around these parts.
Psh, you're never too old to play this game!
Dii Legend
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Oddly enough, thinking about posters' ages here made me think of you. You are ~26 as well, right?
Edit: "Born 1/2 year and 1 day after Christmas 1981" means you turn 26 on June 26 this year?
Queen Mebd
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Real nice guys wouldn't go streaking. I think you might need to correct your avatar. ^_^
p.s. howdy Strid and electric, don't see you guys much around here, how's it going?
Strid
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Hey .. that would be true if I was American! Well remembered! :smiley:
But in my country, the 25th means nothing. The 24th is the true X-mas day!!! And Santa doesn't live on the North Pole either - everyone knows that he lives on Greenland. And here "Santa" is what would be translated to "the Yule Man". Our "Christmas" isn't that closely related to Christianity.
But to get back on the subject, me, I am ~26, my birthday is June 25th. How've you been??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
@Queen Mebd: Howdy! That is almost sexist. "That naked girl is real nice." is in many cases a perfectly correct sentence - why does my manhood make things any different?? :laugh:
I'm doing great, actually, thanks! Been working hard at the university for some time now on this project. I hope to have my very first article published this fall, if our model and data fits properly! That would be awesome. We did our first statistics this week and it was better than expected (though still kind of sucky, lol) but we're getting there!
How are all you old friends doing???
By the way, lots of new faces! Hi guys and girls! :wave:
Queen Mebd
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A huge congrats on being published if that goes through. What's the project on and what kind of statistical analysis are you running (any regression)? I've actually had a good chunk of my coursework so far on stats so I'm a bit curious.
Dii Legend
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Ah yes, that's right. You share a birthday with my sister on the 25th June, she was just born a year later (1983).
Where have you been hiding?
Strid
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Funny, and I didn't even know you had a sister. Same birthday as Georges Michael. I always tell my self that it's a great day to get borne - this way you have your gifts distributed evenly through out the year, lol.
Where I've been hiding? Uhm, behind my books, that is for sure. I just got away from the forum gradually and yesterday I talked to old Unchosen and thought I might aswell streak by and say hi... Remembered the good old times way back. So much fun I've had here - I can easily get (what was that word now)! How are you doing??
@Queen Mebd: The project is on a computational method of predicting the NMR chemical shift of protein amide protons. We have some earlier published work, which we've showed that the method described only works in certain cases, when the proton is bound inside a large alpha-helix or beta-sheet configuration. So we're basically trying to correlate chemical shift data with the newest high resolution x-ray structures of smaller proteins and find the flaws of the method and describe what's wrong and how to correct it.
The statistical work we've done wasn't anything fancy, but stuff like r-factor, root mean squared, linear plots of experimental data vs. our predicted chemical shifts and so on.
The funny thing about research .. I think 50% of our time has been spent on finding data hidden in databases and litterature and converting the odd file-formats to a standardized format that can be read by a program. I mean - that is that stuff takes no more intelligence than what a 7th grader posses. Luckily the other 50% take a little more IQ to figure out!
It's funny - I've dreamed of becoming a scientist since I was five (before that I wanted to be a janitor, but that is whole other story) and now I sort of am one. And I love doing research!
What subject are/were you studying Queen Mebd?
Where I've been hiding? Uhm, behind my books, that is for sure. I just got away from the forum gradually and yesterday I talked to old Unchosen and thought I might aswell streak by and say hi... Remembered the good old times way back. So much fun I've had here - I can easily get (what was that word now)! How are you doing??
@Queen Mebd: The project is on a computational method of predicting the NMR chemical shift of protein amide protons. We have some earlier published work, which we've showed that the method described only works in certain cases, when the proton is bound inside a large alpha-helix or beta-sheet configuration. So we're basically trying to correlate chemical shift data with the newest high resolution x-ray structures of smaller proteins and find the flaws of the method and describe what's wrong and how to correct it.
The statistical work we've done wasn't anything fancy, but stuff like r-factor, root mean squared, linear plots of experimental data vs. our predicted chemical shifts and so on.
The funny thing about research .. I think 50% of our time has been spent on finding data hidden in databases and litterature and converting the odd file-formats to a standardized format that can be read by a program. I mean - that is that stuff takes no more intelligence than what a 7th grader posses. Luckily the other 50% take a little more IQ to figure out!
It's funny - I've dreamed of becoming a scientist since I was five (before that I wanted to be a janitor, but that is whole other story) and now I sort of am one. And I love doing research!
What subject are/were you studying Queen Mebd?
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Strid
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No the word where you melancholic look back to the good ole times thinking "everything was so much better when I was young". But distracted will do just as fine in my case, lol .. thanks. :smiley:
Glad to see you're still the same - always up for a snappy snap comment. That's how I like you! :grin:
Dii Legend
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Reminisce is the word you are looking for then, though it wouldn't have fit into your sentence very well.
KellKheraptis
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KellKheraptis
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Forgive the double post, but when I woke up earlier, I had a totally jacked dream...like the kind you wake up from and start questioning and second guessing decisions made. Anyone know what I mean?
Dii Legend
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Yes, it just sort of happened to me... At least the jacked-up dream part; I'd really rather not share it though, I'd prefer to not think about it anymore. :undecided: