https://siba-p.github.io/tags/meta/Recent content in Meta on Sibasankar PanigrahyHugoen-usFri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0530https://siba-p.github.io/notebook/2026-10-09-opening-the-notebook/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0530https://siba-p.github.io/notebook/2026-10-09-opening-the-notebook/<p>For six years most of my thinking lived in places no one else could see: slide decks, half-finished Jupyter notebooks, and margins of printed papers. This notebook is an attempt to move some of it into the open.</p> <h2 id="what-to-expect">What to expect</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Short daily notes.</strong> A plot that surprised me, a parameter that mattered, a paper worth reading. Some are three paragraphs long.</li> <li><strong>Explainers.</strong> Longer pieces on methods I use all the time: Kirkwood–Buff theory, umbrella sampling, polarizable metal models, attention-based networks for materials.</li> <li><strong>Behind the papers.</strong> The reasoning and dead ends that don&rsquo;t fit in a methods section.</li> <li><strong>Tool notes.</strong> Release notes and recipes for the <a href="https://siba-p.github.io/software/">software I build</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="why-bother">Why bother</h2> <p>Two reasons. Writing is the fastest way I know to find out whether I actually understand something. And most of what makes simulation work, like which force field to trust, how long to equilibrate, or why a free-energy profile looks wrong, is rarely written down anywhere useful.</p>