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May 2, 2010 at 8:35 am #2036
LPH	Thank you for registering on TheChemBook. I hope you find the information on this site useful.
May 12, 2010 at 10:38 pm #2037
LPH	haha i may not show it but i love chemistry my favorite class since freshman year =]
May 13, 2010 at 6:40 pm #2038
LPH	Do I really have to wait two weeks to join this group?
October 2, 2010 at 10:04 pm #2039
LPH	Just thought I’d share a tidbit from my shameful past: A little over 30 years ago, I flunked high school chem ‘cuz I couldn’t wrap my head around hybrid molecules – girl’s softball seemed somehow more stimulating at the time :-) Guess what, they’re still a bit of a mind-bender http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i12/8712notw8.html See?
October 3, 2010 at 12:43 am #2040
LPH	Clever – rotaxanes. “Inorganic and organic structures are often associated with rather different types of chemistries: metal-based magnetism, electronic properties, and catalysis, on the one hand, and structurally, functionally, and dynamically complex organic molecules on the other,” Leigh notes. “The combination of both types of structural unit in a single molecule—particularly one in which the components can move with respect to each other—leads to hybrid structures with characteristics and properties of both chemistries and perhaps some new property traits altogether.”
October 3, 2010 at 9:24 pm #2041
LPH	Clever indeed… and very exciting too! Given that we now have a physical construct with the potential to greatly enhance quantum computing. Add to that cutting-edge neural-network image-recognition algorithms that actually learn as they observe, and even create fantasy constructs of what they “believe” the image “should” be based on previous experience (!) See this video by Geoffrey Hinton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M …And we have the two main components of an “organism” that can learn about its environment. The next logical step in this scenario is for the “organism” to interact with that environment. Then – hang on to your hat for this one – to remodel its environment to better fit its own “fantasy” constructs. This sounds like true AI: a cybernetic organism capable of observing its environment, interpreting what it observes based on learned experience, and adapting that environment to reflect what it deems a preferable state. Heady stuff! (And it all started in Chem 101: hybrid molecules!)

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