(Asking because I have a kid who's hardcore on the chem side and wants to get sharper on the comp side).
I have this pet peeve about startup culture coining awkward words to describe concepts that already have words (like "impactful"). This language is then of course cargo-culted and never considered.
But sometimes the coined words aren't just superfluous, they're completely wrong. Every person that writes "democratizing" actually means liberalizing because what they're actually doing is commdifying some skill/product/process. As far as I know, none of the current users of the word "democratizing" is increasing voting rights or representation to anything. Case in point - using this software will not magically grant me access to the Academy of Sciences or a university faculty board or anything like that. It might help me produce some research more easily and then with that research in hand I'm admitted access but that's not the same thing.
Why am I ranting about this? If you cargo cult language, most people won't notice, but you'll still be in a cult. And cults aren't fun for people inside or outside. Just my 2c.
/dəˈmäkrəˌtīz/
verb
introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to.
>"public institutions need to be democratized"
but ever since arab spring, when twitter was the closest any app has ever been to that meaning, every app has been democratizing something.
I'll say it again: whether you were aware of the arab spring or not, whether you were aware of the uptick in this misuse of the word or not, whether you are aware that you are part of a cult or not, you still are part of the cult.
That said, I’ve found RDKit to be the singularly most useful toolkit in this area.