Re:Chemists Invent Drugs and Drugs Save Lives
by bdrencher on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:17AM
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I agree! When I started my PhD I wanted to use software to help sift through the ocean of research papers and pair that with micro fluidics to create a way to quickly determine the validity of novel reactions. None of the professors were interested in working with me on something like that.
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Re:Chemists Invent Drugs and Drugs Save Lives
by kragen on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:20AM
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i didn't mean 'the idea that chemistry is not part of software'
'tech' is short for 'technology' in the oed's sense 1b, 'practical arts collectively', for which their first citation is from 01859, referring to, as it happens, chemistry; specifically, the formulation of varnishes for wood
https://archive.org/details/oed9barch/page/n548/mode/1up
possibly also the second half of their sense 1a, '... the scientific study of the practical or industrial arts,' for which i think the first citation is from bentham in 01802–12
obviously in the 19th century they weren't talking about software
your idea is good though
i hope you do it