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🔍 Kent Beck discusses his personal journey in managing emotions using insights from Karla McLaren’s “The Language of Emotions.” He provides a “code book” for interpreting various emotions as signals for necessary actions or changes in life, aiming to improve personal and professional relationships in software design and beyond.

📊 This guide provides a comprehensive overview of saving Matplotlib animations, covering various formats such as GIF, MP4, AVI, and MOV. It includes essential parameters, troubleshooting common issues, and specific instructions for both Windows and Unix systems to ensure successful animation saving.

🧪 This document explores column loadability in preparative chromatography, emphasizing that optimal loading depends on dynamic loading capacity, which is influenced by flow rate and chromatographic parameters like retention time and peak width. The true loadability varies with purification goals, requiring a balance between productivity, yield, and purity through loading studies and fraction analysis.

😊 This episode of the “Code for Thought” podcast explores the enduring relevance of Fortran, tracing its development from its inception in the 1950s through modern applications. Interviews with experts such as Thomas Clune and Wim Vanderbauwhede offer insights into managing legacy Fortran code and its evolution to meet contemporary computational needs.

🧪 This document discusses computer-aided chemical product design in the era of AI, highlighting frameworks for product design, property prediction, and candidate generation. It emphasizes the integration of AI and machine learning to manage complexity and improve design processes, while also addressing future development needs and potential improvements in chemical engineering databases and predictive models.