Merge pull request #139 from jschrier/my-pages

minor modifications to wine, Italy

_posts/2023-08-29-Imaginary-Syllabi:-Wine-Across-the-Disciplines.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Date: 2023-08-29
 Tags:  imaginary-syllabi teaching wine
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-**Premise:** A senior capstone course in which wine is explored through the lens of a variety of natural science, social science, and humanity disciplines (along with a weekly wine tasting)...
+**Premise:** A senior capstone course[^1] in which wine is explored through the lens of a variety of natural science, social science, and humanity disciplines (along with a weekly wine tasting)...
 
 *In memoriam:* [Robert Germany (1974-2017)](https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/robert-germany-1974–2017), Associate Professor of Classics at Haverford College  initiated this idea over many evening conversations, and a few glasses of wine. We never got past talking about it with colleagues, but I like to think that we would have pulled it off one day.
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ There's clearly a shadow curriculum here, which is teaching students how to know
 - Course meets once a week during a semester (13-15 weeks of instruction) for 3 hours/week.  The first 2/3 of each session is a seminar-style discussion; the last third is a structured wine tasting.
 - Recruit apporximately a dozen faculty members, each of whom will prepare readings and give and lead the discussion/tastings.  
 - Deans and Provosts have a hard time handling team-taught courses, even worse if you have a dozen instructors.  So instead, we'll expect each instructor to teach a single class *pro bono*, but with the understanding that they get to take home a case of wine (and assortment from the tastings throught the semester) as compensation.
-- Midterm: Students will propose and pitch a topical idea keeping in the theme of the course (how wine relates to their studies)
+- Midterm: Students will propose and pitch a topical idea keeping in the theme of the course (how wine relates to their major)
 - Final: Students will prepare readings and discussion materials about wine and some topic related to their major (which can serve as a database for future topics in the course)
 
 # Example lecture topics
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ There's clearly a shadow curriculum here, which is teaching students how to know
 - Business:  Guest speaker winemaker
 - Statistics:  ["Lady tasting tea" problems in statistics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_tasting_tea), and how to make sense of wine ranking surveys, taste tests, etc.
 - Literature:  So many options to choose from....
+    - Jack London, [John Barleycorn](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/318) is underappreciated, and captures the appeal and dismay of drinking.
 - Film: [Sideways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideways) screening
 - Environmental studies: Climate change and wine production
 - History:  The invention of champagne ([Veuve Cliquot popular biography](https://amzn.to/44wV3CU)...why this isn't a movie yet is beyond me as it is a great story)
@@ -58,3 +59,4 @@ There's clearly a shadow curriculum here, which is teaching students how to know
 - Demonstrate psychological experiments (most people can't tell the difference between red and white wine when blinded, evaluate these wines based on price)
 
 
+[^1]: Admittedly, there is so much material here that it could be an entire degree program.  Maybe it works best as an adult continuing education program...

_posts/2023-09-15-Great-ideas-from-Italy.md

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Business and art ideas inspired by my recent trip to northern Italy...
 - I should [buy a 3d scanner](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3dmakerpro-launches-new-high-resolution-0-01mm-accuracy-seal-3d-scanner-224112/): some targets include door knockers on houses in Italy, picture frames (esp. Baroque) in museuems
 - Really, we have 3d printing ...why isn't everything covered with the equivalent of Baroque/Rococo ornamentation?  Bauhaus was about coming up with good design that was compatible with machine production...but the nature of our machines have changed, so our design can change with it.
 - **Barokea**: 3d printed baroque furniture retrofits that you can add to Ikea products 
-- [wall-scale inkjet printers](https://thewallprinter.com/en/) that can print interior walls with tromp l'oeil decorations (like late baroque frescos) or outdoor walls (like Südtirol house painting of sundials)
-- use said 3d scanner to repair chess sets that are missing pieces, as found in random Genovese hotels (scan pieces and then print a replacement to send back)
+- wall-scale inkjet printers (e.g., [TheWallPrinter](https://thewallprinter.com/en/) and [VerticalPrinters](https://verticalprinters.com)) that can print interior walls with tromp l'oeil decorations (like late baroque frescos) or outdoor walls (like Südtirol house painting of sundials)
+- use said 3d scanner to repair chess sets that are missing pieces, as found in random Genovese hotels (scan pieces and then print a replacement to send back)...inspired by an afternoon chess game at the bar of the [Bristol Palace in Genoa](https://maps.app.goo.gl/xuxaS6vhDQgbjGUK6)
 - [digital ceramic printing](https://www.ceramicprinting.com/ceramic-and-glass-printing-systems/), and subsequent use for tile-graffiti...
 
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Business and art ideas inspired by my recent trip to northern Italy...
 - Renaissance paintings, but only the architecture (if you think about it, this [De Chirico's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico) schtick)--optionally use AI-based inpainting to do this for you automagically if you are lazy
 - What is the statistical distribution of representations of different saints?  St. Francis seems tremendously popular. There are regional variations---e.g., [Sts. Cosmas and Damien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Cosmas_and_Damian) were super popular in Puglia, but you don't see a lot of them in the North.  On the other hand, I've seen a lot more of [St. Fillipo Neri](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Neri) here in the North.  I
 - Spiderman comic in the style of the [San Zeno](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/San_Zeno_(Verona)) 13th/14th century frescos
-- Late medieval frescos depictitng the martyrdom of Tupac Shakur (or other slain rappers)
+- Late medieval frescos depicting the martyrdom of Tupac Shakur (or other slain rappers)
 - DIY [synthetic cubist collage ](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/synthetic-cubism) kit...just add newspaper!  
 - [Mario Nigro.  Two awesome exhibits in Milan.](https://www.museodelnovecento.org/en/mostra/mario-nigro)  I bought the book.  He has this wonderful blend of geometry and asymmetry.  Trained as a chemist and pharmacist.
     - Inspired by watercolor squares series:  Black ink paintings to visualize latent spaces of generative image/text models. Use OpenTron to create dilutations and dispense (quantized).  Visualize a latent space in a generative mdel and then create text and images by re-reading what the camera sees (through this lossy medium)

_posts/2023-10-19-Cheminformatics:-SMILES-and-InChI-quirks-for-salts.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Date: 2023-10-19
 Tags: science cheminformatics mathematica chemdraw chemistry
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-Olivia Vanden Assem '25 asks:  *Why am I getting inconsistent* *[SMILES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_molecular-input_line-entry_system)**,* *[InChI](https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-015-0068-4)**, and InChI Key results for the salt and neutral acid-base* *[representations](https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Intercollegiate_Courses/Cheminformatics/02%3A_Representing_Small_Molecules_on_Computers)* *of ammonium nitrate?*  **There are some quirks about interconversion between SMILES and InChI in standard implementations that can result in neutral and salt forms of a pair of molecules being different...** **
+Olivia Vanden Assem '25 asks:  *Why am I getting inconsistent [SMILES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_molecular-input_line-entry_system),[InChI](https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-015-0068-4), and InChI Key results for the salt and neutral acid-base [representations](https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Intercollegiate_Courses/Cheminformatics/02%3A_Representing_Small_Molecules_on_Computers) of ammonium nitrate?*  **There are some quirks about interconversion between SMILES and InChI in standard implementations that can result in neutral and salt forms of a pair of molecules being different...** **
 
 Suppose we have [ammonium nitrate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate).  We can represent this as two neutral molecules using the following InChI identifier: