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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 1

ChrisM@Work (7/26/2012)
Tom, carbohydrate chemistry is a massive and important field of study which we barely touched on when I did my bichemistry degree in Aberdeen in the 70's, nevertheless I'm familiar with the names and can even remember one or two of the structures which you mention - but how on earth do you remember all of this when it wasn't even your major?
Extraordinary. You're a walking wiki.

Todays word: Joatamon. Which definitely doesn't mean "walking wiki".

How do I remember it all? I don't! Actually, I remember only a few odd bits - the bits that I have at some point been fascinated by. I once had write a program to calculate some 3-D molecular geometry, and the "known answer" molecules I could test my program on were Benzene, cyclohexane, and inositol. That got me interested in shapes and in particular in molecules that could have multiple shapes which would exist in some sort of equilibrium, and the 6-carbon sugars were probably the best understood extreme example of that so I read up on them (although they were completely irrelevant to the molecular geometry program I was writing, which was only concerned with the atomes forming a ring in a molecule, and only handled rings with 6 atoms in them). Organic chemistry generally and carbohydrate chemistry in particular I know zilch about, and what I know about hexose and inositol is more physics than chemistry (because it's about physical shape, not interaction with other molecules).

When I decided not to be a mathematician but do other things where I could use some of the maths I had learned I effectively condemned myself to being a generalist - like every generalist, someone who knows a little about a lot of things, a moderate amount about a few things, and a lot about pretty well nothing - ie to being a JoATaMoN (I think it's more fun than being a specialist and knowing nothing about almost everything and a lot abot very little). Even most of the maths I have used inmy career is things I learned because they were relevant to computing or to something else I was doing (queuing theory, probability theory, numerical methods, various combinatorial stuff) rather than stuff I learnt when I was stuying/researching maths (type theory, multi-valued logics, and computation theory and are the three exceptions). I can give you a reasonable discussion on tensor-theoretic as opposed to differential formulations of a theory of gravity (well, I think I still can - that was a long time ago) because I got interested in that at one point so I had to learn tensor theory and a lot of applied maths which I had paid no attention to when doing my degree, but ask me for some help on semi-group theory and I won't have a clue (although abstract algebra was my main interest as a maths student before I switched to logic and set theory).

Tom

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 3

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crookj SSChampion Points: 14075 More actions · Answer 4

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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31164 More actions · Answer 5

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 6

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Cliff Jones SSChampion Points: 10547 More actions · Answer 7

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rhythmk SSCertifiable Points: 7271 More actions · Answer 8

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Perry Whittle SSC Guru Points: 234013 More actions · Answer 9

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crookj SSChampion Points: 14075 More actions · Answer 10

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Scott D. Jacobson SSCertifiable Points: 6149 More actions · Answer 11

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Cliff Jones SSChampion Points: 10547 More actions · Answer 13

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

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ChrisM@Work (7/26/2012)
Tom, carbohydrate chemistry is a massive and important field of study which we barely touched on when I did my bichemistry degree in Aberdeen in the 70's, nevertheless I'm familiar with the names and can even remember one or two of the structures which you mention - but how on earth do you remember all of this when it wasn't even your major?
Extraordinary. You're a walking wiki.
Todays word: Joatamon. Which definitely doesn't mean "walking wiki".
How do I remember it all? I don't! Actually, I remember only a few odd bits - the bits that I have at some point been fascinated by. I once had write a program to calculate some 3-D molecular geometry, and the "known answer" molecules I could test my program on were Benzene, cyclohexane, and inositol. That got me interested in shapes and in particular in molecules that could have multiple shapes which would exist in some sort of equilibrium, and the 6-carbon sugars were probably the best understood extreme example of that so I read up on them (although they were completely irrelevant to the molecular geometry program I was writing, which was only concerned with the atomes forming a ring in a molecule, and only handled rings with 6 atoms in them). Organic chemistry generally and carbohydrate chemistry in particular I know zilch about, and what I know about hexose and inositol is more physics than chemistry (because it's about physical shape, not interaction with other molecules).<<snip>>

That's about how far molecular geometry predictions had progressed when I was studying the subject and I'm still awed that such predictions can distinguish between the flat double doughnut of benzene and the chair etc configurations of less saturated 6-carbon ring compounds.

We had many discussions of protein folding and dreamed of computers powerful enough to calculate and model how a protein would fold on itself as it was synthesised, naturally or in the test tube. This work, IIRC, is progressing well.

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Cliff Jones (7/27/2012)
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Revenant (7/26/2012)
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Ketchikan
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Kathmandu
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