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If you spend enough time developing scientific software, you eventually learn that the first solution to a problem is rarely the best one. Science, and the code we write to execute it, is a continu...

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Orbitals Are Mathematical Pick up almost any introductory chemistry textbook and you will find an orbital depicted as a tangible object: a lobed shape around an atom, a probability cloud you could...

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The Problem I came across an issue on a project I was working on a few years ago which, for whatever reason, popped into my head yesterday whilst building a shed. I was working on a method for rec...

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The Problem AM1BCC charge calculations are painfully slow. A single ligand can take minutes instead of seconds, making high-throughput workflows impractical. The culprit? Unnecessary geometry opti...

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