Lab notebook

Working notes on simulation, free energies, machine learning and the papers I’m reading. Some entries are polished explainers; most are quick notes from the day.

Latest · 9 October 2026

Introducing WindowWise: plan, check and repair umbrella sampling

A free in-browser tool that designs umbrella windows before you simulate and tells you exactly which windows to add afterwards.

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2026

  1. Teaching attention to read a surface

    Replacing umbrella sampling with a CNN–GRU–attention network, then running it backwards to design surfaces.

    3 min
  2. Small crowders are not tiny PEG

    What glycine and serine do to a DNA-coated gold nanoparticle, and why depletion isn't the right picture for them.

    3 min
  3. Opening the lab notebook

    Why I'm keeping a public research notebook, and what will go in it.

    1 min

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