Nick T

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Graduate student at Northwestern University studying bio sciences; still know my electrical engineering though.

Learning:
- Python (+ wxPython, PIL Image, others),
- PowerShell
- Java (on Android platform)
Know C on embedded well (what's a file? stream? :P)
Used to know HTML (sort-of now), CSS (less-so...), JScript (no.) At least I was able to forget most of this stuff just in time for AJAX to become useful. (Because it's totally different from DHTML...)

I like stout, esp. oatmeal stout. Gin and tonic if we're talking mixed drinks. Also like Portal (hell, all Valve games), and would kill a bus full of baby nuns with fire if Gabe would release Half-Life 3 already.

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Jan 24	comment	Why have humans evolved much more quickly than other animals? @MatthewPatrickCashatt it seems like you're coming at it from a fairly anthropocentric view which stoicfury is trying to address
Jan 24	comment	Why is a lack of oxygen fatal to cells? You're being a bit anthropocentric, plenty of organisms get on fine without, some are even harmed by free oxygen. `:P`
Jan 24	comment	Do mitochondria simply automatically convert glucose to ATP? Mitochondria only have a handful of genes; their regulation is utterly intertwined with their host. Additionally, only the TCA (Krebs, Citric Acid...) cycle occurs within mitochondria; glycolysis occurs in the cytosol.
Jan 20	comment	How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts? Ah, I guess if I translated the "command line/interactive form" of the commands into the API version, I should have also kept those parenthesis that `get_view` returns so they're really nested (so you do pass it a tuple). Would look like `cmd.set_view((1,2,3...))`
Jan 20	revised	How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts? make it more obvious what was done by using provided snippet
Jan 20	suggested	suggested edit on How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts?
Jan 20	accepted	How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts?
Jan 20	revised	How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts? added 828 characters in body
Jan 20	asked	How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts?
Jan 17	revised	If a human takes antibiotics are all bacteria in the body killed? fix c-diff name
Jan 17	suggested	suggested edit on If a human takes antibiotics are all bacteria in the body killed?
Jan 17	comment	What is the origin of “melting” in molecular genetics? What if you just consider melting where the intermolecular forces (here, base pairing) give way?
Jan 17	comment	Are there any plants that fix their own nitrogen? Fun Fact: 80% of the nitrogen in human tissues was fixed synthetically via the Haber-Bosch process
Jan 8	comment	What causes the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria? @J.M. you're eluding to how calling it a "war" is a bit of a lie; reminds me of a guy on TotN talking about the "war on cancer"
Jan 8	comment	What causes the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria? @J.M. and the route taken by bacteria is to evolve/select for beta-lactamases that have activity against carbapenems, like some of the lesser-prevalent (at present) class-D enzymes, thus ensuring a continuing source of funding for our lab.
Dec 29	awarded	Scholar
Dec 29	accepted	How long does antibiotic-dosed LB maintain good selection?
Dec 29	answered	Has there been any observation of species adapting the evolution process?
Dec 21	awarded	Nice Question
Dec 21	awarded	Beta