Structural biology by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
The study of the three-dimensional organization of biological molecules and its relationship to function. Experimental structures constrain molecular explanations, while a static structure alone does not determine the full sequence or rates of a molecular mechanism.
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Application of biological systems or their components to produce useful materials, measurements or processes.
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Variation among biological cells in states such as cell-cycle stage, expression level and responsiveness. Population averages can agree even when individual-cell histories differ.
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Scientific collaboration responsible for analysis of the Planck mission data.
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The map from a three-dimensional astronomical distribution to its observed sky position or integrated surface signal. For a scalar volume emissivity in simple transparent geometry, surface brightness is proportional to along the ray. Reconstructing the spatial distribution requires additional geometry or symmetry assumptions; a projected surface distribution is not a unique three-dimensional density.
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www.wsj.com/tech/openai-who-is-greg-brockman-e699816c from May 29, 2026 mentions:
Greg said he met Anna at a dinner party in 2018 and it was a “love-at-first sight situation.”
[...] the couple married a year later, which included a civil ceremony at OpenAI with a robotic hand ring bearer
The daughter of Korean immigrants, Anna worked in tech, including at Stripe, although not at the same time as Brockman, he said. She is intensely private: almost no information, including her maiden name, is available online. In one political contribution last year, her profession was listed as “retired.” She declined to comment.
The best approch to find her maiden name might be to look into dumps of Stripe employee emails. According to his LinkedIn, Gret was at Stripe from 2010 to 2015, so it must be outside of that ti
In three dimensions use the -space density of states per spin species and the spherical shell volume :
Thus the three-dimensional free-electron density of states grows as . For physical electrons, including both spin states gives
All three total density of states functions have units when energy is in joules; they count states per energy interval. The paper explicitly suppresses spin in (a) but does not repeat that convention in (b), so giving both conventions avoids a hidden factor-of-two ambiguity. Parts (c)--(f) below use the physical two-spin-state electron gas.
In two dimensions the density of states in space per spin species is . A annulus of radius and thickness has area . Therefore
The two-dimensional free-electron density of states is constant in energy, , above the band bottom. Including both spin states gives . Dividing by gives the density per unit physical area, rather than the total specimen's density.
To preserve the convention of part (a), first count one spin species. Define as the number of spatial states in the whole specimen in that energy interval. Put
In one dimension there are intervals near both and , so the one-dimensional free-electron density of states is
Thus . The factor of two here comes from opposite momenta, not spin. For physical electrons with two spin states, the spin-summed density of states is . These expressions are continuum approximations away from individual discrete levels.
A slit of width has the single-slit diffraction complex amplitude factor , where . Thus for ,
The interference factor keeps the same zeros and the same nominal principal-order positions as in part (i), while the single-slit diffraction wave envelope suppresses off-axis wave intensity. Its zeros are
At nominal principal diffraction orders , the wave envelope factor is . Consequently
All nonzero even principal orders are missing. The central single-slit diffraction maximum extends between the envelope zeros near and includes the central and the principal orders. Because there are only three slits, the maxima of the product can shift slightly from the nominal nonzero-order positions; the quoted values are the exact product at those positions. The lower panel of the figure shows the full product.
Both panels normalize to their own central wave intensity. An absolute comparison would require the unspecified widths and transmitted power of the initially “narrow” slits; the normalized pattern change is fully determined.
Take the quoted separation to mean adjacent slit centre spacing . For three equal very narrow slits at , the Fraunhofer diffraction complex amplitude in the transverse direction is
With denoting one narrow slit's contribution, the light intensity is
The quotient is interpreted by its limit where both numerator and denominator vanish. At small angles on a screen at , and . Principal interference fringes occur at
Between successive principal maxima there are two zeros, at and . Halfway between them is a smaller maximum , one ninth of a principal peak. The pattern is symmetric about . The positions quoted in millimetres use the paraxial approximation; exactly and .
Figure 1.
Original calculated Fraunhofer diffraction patterns for three narrow slits and for three finite-width slits
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