Hello CASINO developers,
ChatGPT shocked me by stating that CASINO is an acronym for "Cambridge Advanced Simulation of Interacting N-electrOns." However, I couldn't find any confirmation of this either in the documentation or on Wikipedia. Is this true, or is it a hallucination of the neural network?
Best regards,
Vladimir
Is CASINO an Acronym?
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Is CASINO an Acronym?
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Re: Is CASINO an Acronym?
No! It's hallucinating..
I *really* hate acronyms - especially stupid contrived ones.
The name CASINO was an offhand suggestion in the Cambridge TCM coffee bar by Paul Kent who was a student in Richard Needs's group in the mid 1990s (who has since gone on to bigger and better things in the US). I vaguely remember some other people (Andrew Porter springs to mind for some reason?) trying to give it an acronym when they excitedly realized that C could be made to stand for Cambridge but nothing ever stuck, probably because I laughed at them.
At that time I was assembling the original fully general code (atoms, molecules, 1D-2D-3D periodicity of any crystal structure etc) based on the original Needs group bits and pieces which included separate codes to do atoms and diamond-structure solids and HEG so the general code needed a proper name that was not 'the atomic QMC code and the 'diamond QMC code' etc.. This was so long ago Neil and Pablo had still not arrived.. Pablo may even have still been in short trousers.
I *really* hate acronyms - especially stupid contrived ones.
The name CASINO was an offhand suggestion in the Cambridge TCM coffee bar by Paul Kent who was a student in Richard Needs's group in the mid 1990s (who has since gone on to bigger and better things in the US). I vaguely remember some other people (Andrew Porter springs to mind for some reason?) trying to give it an acronym when they excitedly realized that C could be made to stand for Cambridge but nothing ever stuck, probably because I laughed at them.
At that time I was assembling the original fully general code (atoms, molecules, 1D-2D-3D periodicity of any crystal structure etc) based on the original Needs group bits and pieces which included separate codes to do atoms and diamond-structure solids and HEG so the general code needed a proper name that was not 'the atomic QMC code and the 'diamond QMC code' etc.. This was so long ago Neil and Pablo had still not arrived.. Pablo may even have still been in short trousers.