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Storing Vortex scripts outside the Vortex file system

28 January 202628 January 2026 chris

At least on a Mac the default place to store Vortex scripts is in the vortex folder ~/vortex/scripts Any folder/scripts you put in the vortex/scripts

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A Jupyter Notebook to access structures and data from the Idler master worksheet

26 January 202628 January 2026 chris

There was an interesting publication from the Todd group at UCL on Chemrxiv “Idler Compounds: A Simple Protocol for Openly Sharing Fridge Contents for Cross-Screening”

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Update an Expired Certificate Error on HP Printer using a Mac

5 January 202616 January 2026 chris

This morning I tried to print something to my HP LaserJet Pro printer and got an error. A quick search of the HP website suggested

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RDMA over Thunderbolt support is now in macOS 26.2

19 December 202519 December 2025 chris

Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either computer’s operating system. This permits high-throughput, low-latency memory access over

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Vortex script for Hit expansion

9 December 20259 December 2025 chris

One of the frequent situations after running a screen is you have a list of hits and you want to select related analogues to explore

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External drives for Mac

30 November 202530 November 2025 chris

I’ve updated the page describing my testing of various external hard drive options. https://macinchem.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=1899 On my Mac Studio M2 Ultra the ACASIS 80Gbps M.2 NVMe

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External SSD drives

21 November 202521 November 2025 chris

I’ve just purchased another external hard drive, after reviewing options I ended up buying another Acacias enclosure with the Crucial P310 4TB SSD M.2 2280

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TabPFN-2.5

10 November 202510 November 2025 chris

I’ve reviewed TabPFN in the past. https://macinchem.org/2025/02/06/looking-at-tabpfn and I noticed there was a recent update. TabPFN is a foundation model  trained on around 130,000,000 synthetically generated

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Use the Foundation Models framework to access the on-device LLM that powers Apple Intelligence.

8 October 2025 chris
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MayaChemTools updated

2 October 20252 October 2025 chris

The excellent MayChemTools has been updated MayaChemTools is a growing collection of Perl and Python scripts, modules, and classes to support a variety of day-to-day computational discovery needs. The

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    Mole2D molecule drawing package

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