I hesitated to send this message, because it seems kind of ridiculous. All
I learn from Lachlan's examples, Linda's problem etc., is that: A computer
will by the time being not be able to replace a serious thinking regarding
crystallography and structural chemistry of a given sample, especially if
the composition of a sample is known (as should be the case with a
home-made sample at least). They can help you do the job, but they cannot
take over.
I don't know wether this gives me relief (concerning a philosophical point
of view ... sure :-) ), because the big heads do often think of
crystallography as "this applied-maths science", i.e. all is vector algebra
and statistical tests, though computers do that faster than man.
This is not true, and we should insist on this !
Greetings
Carsten
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