Science

...take me many hours and lots of work to make a list of the best absorbents in my files, with the understanding that there may be thousands of papers that I never accessed with even better absorbents.

(I was inspired to do this because I came across an adsorbent that can capture uranium from very dilute sources to make a composition richer than the best uranium ores.)

As the end of my life approaches, it seems that we are entering an age of new computational tools that can sort through our vast knowledge to identify the best knowledge, and the paper I linked in this obscure post, came back to me.

So I reached out to my son to see if kids today in Graduate school are using these kinds of data mining tools to benchmark their work.

They should you know...

This post is a little note to myself.

I'll take it up with him when we talk.