[drmeister]

I do have a couple of talks on YouTube and thank you (the most recent one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM). Yes - we are building molecules using our code. I have started a company and we are several months in to developing a new technology for warding off future pandemics (maybe even doing something about the current one). We literally started compiling the first molecules using an application I implemented in Cando (Clasp + computational chemistry) yesterday.

[reitzensteinm]

Your Google talk was one of my top 10 ever, it blew me away.

It's not uncommon in the tech industry to build some mad scientist solution - pardon the expression - because we're trying to do something pedestrian but have painted ourselves in to a corner, eg HipHop VM.

Doing it to help with cutting edge science is genuinely exciting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE

[drmeister]

Thank you!

[7thaccount]

That is really cool and I feel your pain. I've mostly been dissapointed in numerical computing stacks. You've got C/C++/Fortran that are blazing fast, but very cumbersome to use. They are nice in that you can distribute an executable. Python and Julia are good at finding a sweet spot where your scripting language is fast and user friendly, but distribution is a pain I guess unless you have a SAAS product. Matlab, Mathematica, GNU Octave, Scilab...etc have their own problems like cost or performance and also make distribution painful.

I looked at SBCL, but didn't see good ways to use existing numerical libraries. I'll have to look at Clasp again.

[1980phipsi]

It would be good to make the slides available.