Afnan MostafaHow to Compile LAMMPS on HPC Clusters using Mighty Makefiles!!Memes apart, compiling LAMMPS is non-trivial if you don’t know what is going on during the whole compilation process or if you want to…6 min read·May 31, 2023----
Afnan MostafainLevel Up CodingBinary vs. ASCIIComputers only know 0's and 1's, or a combination of them. So any character (numeric or non-numeric) must be converted into a binary…9 min read·Feb 18, 2023----
Afnan MostafainLevel Up CodingHow to use SED to manipulate text files (Part 2: pattern, regular expression)This is part 2 (hopefully final) of my SED cheatsheet and here, I will explain pattern matching and regular expression in SED. So let’s…3 min read·Jun 17, 2022----
Afnan MostafainLevel Up CodingHow to use SED to manipulate text files (Part 1: print, delete, append)SED (stream editor) is a successor of ED and QED (quick editor) in Unix-like systems and is used for plain text editing. It’s not rare to…5 min read·Jun 16, 2022----
Afnan MostafaWriting A Long, Yet Attention-Retaining Statement of Purpose (SOP)A Statement of Purpose (SOP) can be referred to as a document including all the blanket statements about an applicant’s life story. In…5 min read·Jan 14, 2021----
Afnan MostafainLevel Up CodingHow to Create Tables in LaTeX (in Layman’s Terms)Why do we need to create tables using commands and environments in LaTeX when someone already took the toll to generate the built-in…10 min read·Dec 3, 2020----
Afnan MostafainThe StartupMathematical Terms in LaTeXSo to initiate, we need to declare the type of document we want to have our project printed in; that is, whether we want an article or a…5 min read·Nov 28, 2020----
Afnan MostafainThe StartupNitty-Gritty of Quantum Mechanics From a Rubberneck’s POV (Detour Section 1: Space) (Chapter:2)(Prologue: In order to understand how mathematical formalism in Quantum Mechanics works, we have to get a good grasp on the Hilbert Space…8 min read·Nov 25, 2020----
Afnan MostafainCuriousNitty-Gritty of Quantum Mechanics from a Rubberneck’s POV (Chapter 1)Quantum Mechanics- a hard nut to crack? Let’s break it down to its root words- Quantum and Mechanics. Let’s start with Mechanics; this is…7 min read·Nov 20, 2020----
Afnan MostafainThe StartupHAL/S, Language Used in NASA’s Space Shuttle Programs (Part 1)HAL/S (High-order Assembly Language/Shuttle) is a programming language developed for NASA in the early 1970s by Intermetrics. HAL/S is…5 min read·Aug 16, 2020----