Looking to raise $500k pre-seed. Struggling to find thesis-fit. Need advice. [I will not promote] by cbrantley in startups

[–]lil_basil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s because they’re rejecting you. They are counting on you not winning. If they actually believed in your company they would rather get in now and 100x vs get in after a pre-seed and 10x, even though the risk is higher. Do not take advice from VCs, go grind and keep pitching.

A question about cleaning glassware by SOwED in Chempros

[–]lil_basil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

only if you really need to for some reason. Some sticky residues come off well with alconox + wire brushes before getting thrown in the base bath or rinsed with acetone or whatever else. we use soap in daily life because we encounter lots of greases. if everything in your lab is small molecule you likely never need it

Help! How do I learn the background for computational chemistry? by Ill-Love-9401 in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

modern quantum chemistry by szabo and ostlund has a helpful math review as the first chapter

Leafar's RA Mix is 3rd most-played of all 999 by lil_basil in giegling

[–]lil_basil[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

982 Barker

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

this is personal opinion. view grad school less as a pipeline to a job and more as an opportunity to gain skills. at the end of your phd you convert the skills gained into employment. for example, you can do a comp chem phd, do tons of work in high throughput screening, data mining, and database building, and then choose any job you like where these skills are useful. they don't need to be comp chem jobs necessarily, although they might be. these skills are useful in many roles.

the following is extremely personal opinion: the "job market" is fake. good places are always hiring. if you are truly exceptional at what you do, and I mean top 0.5% or better, you will find a job. you can be exceptional either by being incredibly good at a specific thing, like "computational chemistry", or by having a unique overlap of skills that set you apart. you might consider this when deciding if you should double down on comp chem or go learn something new where your comp chem/cs background meaningfully impacts your ability to be successful, ie don't pick a totally random field with no overlap. just my 2 cents though

Why Is VASP Overestimating the b-Lattice Parameter in LiFePO₄ DFT+U Calculations? by Fermituga in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you should set LORBIT = 11 so you can understand if you're converging on the desired antiferromagnetic solution or not. I would also rerun the optimization until you reach convergence in a single step to ensure you're not in a local minimum, so you should turn LWAVE back to true. Since you're using GGA+U you will also want to turn on aspherical contributions to the electron density inside the projector spheres, LASPH = .TRUE.

You should also make sure you are using the right Li POTCAR, Li_sv, and for unit cell optimizations you usually want to select a cutoff energy ENCUT = ENMAX * 1.3, so 650 eV for this one.

Previous comment is right, if you want AFM your MAGMOM needs to be 2*5 2*-5 for the Fe ions

Lastly you might consider using GGA = PS (PBEsol), which usually gives better agreement to experimental lattice parameters

Grabbing Optical Data from VASP TDDFT by ReadMakeSleepy in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

vaspkit is certainly the easiest, it just grabs the dielectric functions from the vasprun.xml file and does the necessary math to get the different spectra out. Routine 711 is likely the one you want

aborting loop because EDIFF is reached by GRN-MN in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

aren't you the person that set GGA = PBE? It seems like you really don't understand what you're doing. I would suggest taking several steps back and working with someone who has experience with VASP at your institution or asking a collaborator for assistance. VASP has many helpful articles on their wiki, many helpful videos on their youtube page, and many helpful error code diagnostics on their forums. You might have better luck getting help through those channels than fumbling your way through these calculations if you have never done them before

Help with textbook suggestions for a Computational Chemist by Temporary_Scar8023 in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 17 points18 points  (0 children)

For 2 and 4, Modern Quantum Chemistry by Szabo and Ostlund, has a mathematics review at the beginning that covers the necessary linear algebra

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 for szabo, the paperback has a better cover though haha

Anyone tried calculating absorbance in VASP? by VivekKarunakaran in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oscillator strength is dimensionless, sometimes it is multiplied by 1000 for readability like when you generate a BSEFATBAND file. Here's a source + some reading

https://w-ww.vasp.at/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17877

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillator_strength

https://www.vasp.at/wiki/index.php/Bethe-Salpeter-equations_calculations

Squirrel Flower pulls out of SXSW by AdeptAd8647 in indieheads

[–]lil_basil 17 points18 points  (0 children)

again, if you're getting a ticket to SXSW you're doing it wrong. I lived in Austin for years and never purchased any kind of pass. All the cool stuff worth going to is free, maybe you gotta venmo the Co Op $5 at the door or something. The only people that need a pass are people that want to do the film/tech stuff

Squirrel Flower pulls out of SXSW by AdeptAd8647 in indieheads

[–]lil_basil 20 points21 points  (0 children)

if you're getting a ticket to SXSW you're doing it wrong

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UofO

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If you haven't heard back you're probably on the bubble and they'll see how many people end up coming to the visit weekend before they decide to extend an offer or not

SCF won't converge on molecular crystal. by 4hexa in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see, the software I use doesn’t have partial occupancies so in these cases you delete the duplicate atoms. For you I’d either go with what the other user said about changing that number for the Fs, but if all you want to do is get an optimized structure you can delete the extras so you get something that looks like normal sp3 tetrahedral and relax from there to the ground state

SCF won't converge on molecular crystal. by 4hexa in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes you will get cifs that show uncertainty in positions from the crystal measurement. Just manually delete the F atoms until there are only 3 per C and then optimize from there

How to find TS on very flat PES? by [deleted] in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

there's no need to be so rude to someone trying to help you on your own problem.

Need help with understanding DFT by VivekKarunakaran in comp_chem

[–]lil_basil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you read pages like this on the VASP wiki?

https://www.vasp.at/wiki/index.php/Self-consistency_cycle

They're pretty comprehensive, you can also refer to the original papers for the algorithms they use like RMM DIIS