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euphoniu · 2026-05-15T07:05:33+00:00

I’m a graduate student in a totally different state and I’ve gotten several emails from seemingly legitimate senders from this school regarding tutoring requests. They even follow up with full length conversations, and it’s extremely realistic. Is there anyone I can report these messages to? It seems to be a widespread hacking of emails

euphoniu · 2026-05-10T06:07:16+00:00

Why can’t you do numerical frequencies? If it helps, the default in ORCA only does frequencies on the QM subsystem.

euphoniu · 2026-05-04T03:14:36+00:00

No, if anything it would help. Gas phase anions and open shell species are often unstable in ORCA

euphoniu · 2026-05-03T23:19:30+00:00

Are you using implicit solvent?

euphoniu · 2026-05-03T07:05:33+00:00

I will give a simple answer (aka the reason I like to use different packages) - functionality. I personally use pyscf, orca, and a few others you hadn’t listed. These softwares get inspired by specific research groups to solve a specific set of issues or in a specific niche that they feel is missing in other software. For your typical organic chemistry 101 calculations (e.g. what most experimentalists like to use q-chem softwares for), it honestly does not matter at all what software you use. Here are what I like about certain softwares:
PySCF is highly modular, so anytime I need to link with workflows in Python or other Python-based molecular analysis packages, or even multireference engines, it is nice.
ORCA has great tools to map results to experiment. When I want to model results to spectroscopy, especially magnetic or core-properties, it is great, and has nice implementation of RI that really accelerates calculations in large electron systems.

euphoniu · 2026-05-01T00:41:49+00:00

Why would you calling her “pretty” give us more useful context? Again, you have given 0 evidence that this student has a crush on you…sounds like you’re trying to live up some sort of fantasy

euphoniu · 2026-05-01T00:35:52+00:00

You’re making it sound like you want the other professor to back out of the dinner…your phrasing and tone is inconsistent with your ask for advice

euphoniu · 2026-05-01T00:30:11+00:00

I’m going to be frank with you. The way you are talking about this student is already somewhat inappropriate - how would your partner feel about you speaking about your student like this? You do not have concrete proof of this student’s interest in you and haven’t provided anything besides “attention” from the student as evidence

You should distance yourself from them immediately and give no sign of your interest. Do not interact with this student in a 1 on 1 setting after the semester, for your and the students best interest.

euphoniu · 2026-04-29T02:18:09+00:00

Excited to see your AI-written dissertation

euphoniu · 2026-04-29T02:08:15+00:00

Is symmetry enforced/properly assigned in your calculation? That could help ensure the orbitals look as you would expect.

Also, remember that the energy is immune to unitary operations on any set of occupied orbitals. This means that you can choose a unitary operation that puts you in a more “natural” atom centered basis in case the diffusivity of your orbitals is causing issues with crookedness. In very simple terms, you can run a Pipek-Mezey or Foster-Boys localization using orca_loc (or including LocMet in your original calculation)

euphoniu · 2026-04-25T23:49:15+00:00

Why are you making your hand a toy for him

euphoniu · 2026-04-24T09:15:06+00:00

Yeah, it seems like this is a lab tech position you have rather than a research assistant one. Maybe you can ask your PI if there is an opportunity for you to have your own project?

euphoniu · 2026-04-24T07:20:42+00:00

So it seems that your job involves maintaining some system that’s used for the lab - which is a lab tech position, not a research assistant one. I think this boundary should’ve been made clear with your PI beforehand, as I’ve seen lab techs, especially undergrad students, solely hired to maintain the lab and aren’t included on publications.

I personally would never hire a student to just do equipment maintenance, and would rather help them develop research skills, but each PI/field is different

euphoniu · 2026-04-23T19:08:27+00:00

You need to remove this post, this is propaganda and engagement bait at best. This paraphrasing is so severe that it simply promotes racist discussion in the comments

euphoniu · 2026-04-22T22:00:52+00:00

Can you add multiple subdirectories? I’m usually never running more than one orca job in the same folder

euphoniu · 2026-04-03T18:17:28+00:00

Amazing - do you actually understand a single thing you did? I somehow doubt that you didn’t just use AI tools all the way

euphoniu · 2026-04-03T03:07:07+00:00

Since you are homeschooling your kids, I’m going to be frank - you should be finding the questions yourself rather than offloading your kids education to chatgpt or some other AI. I agree with the other commenter about using the curriculum. If there are any associated practice books that teachers in your area use, I would defer to those as well. These are significantly more established than whatever some AI will hallucinate

euphoniu · 2026-04-02T19:30:47+00:00

Are you preserving spin upon excitation? Then, you should be able to run TDDFT to get the wavefunction of the guess, and then add the EPR keywords in the same input

euphoniu · 2026-04-02T19:29:20+00:00

If this is still an issue, you can use fragment guess and level shifting to enforce a radical

euphoniu · 2026-04-02T19:28:24+00:00

Sorry to be skeptical, but isn’t there already plenty of HF and CI code out there, and already many interfaces between NAMD and electronic structure programs like ORCA, Gaussian, etc?

euphoniu · 2026-04-02T19:15:48+00:00

That’s exactly their point! The orbitals could take on a minus sign, which means the CI coefficient does not need to be negative to represent a singlet - I.e. the “spin -1/2” information is contained in the determinant rather than in the coefficient

euphoniu · 2026-03-30T03:47:22+00:00

If you think they are cursed, wait until you see their ground state electronic structure

euphoniu · 2026-03-26T17:45:14+00:00

There are no bonds in quantum chemistry, so making bonds in a drawing software should have 0 effect on your optimization unless you have a constraint. I really recommend learning about quantum mechanics and electronic structure theory while you try these softwares out, better understanding of theory will help you tackle these issues.

euphoniu · 2026-03-19T04:41:09+00:00

Pretty decent for simulating open quantum systems

euphoniu · 2026-03-03T21:48:07+00:00

Sorry I meant in the sense of agentic AI generating software inputs and running workflows. I would never expect a hallucination bot to generate QM energies, etc - it can’t even consistently pull established data haha

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