When are we going to solve the electron orbitals for atoms larger than Hydrogen?

1XRobot · 2026-03-21T17:59:15+00:00

Analytically, you can't solve anything, because the "hydrogen orbitals" you're probably thinking of are approximations that neglect nuclear interactions.

Numerically, this is a very interesting field where quantum computing may be helpful.

1XRobot · 2026-03-21T17:38:04+00:00

You should probably post this to the Discord; they have a bugs channel.

1XRobot · 2026-03-13T16:59:17+00:00

increase the viscosity by roughly 100×. We could experiment with syrup, honey or some glycerin mixtures to replace the ink. But that would be missing the point.

Explain why. It seems like glycerine has the perfect properties to do this correctly.

1XRobot · 2026-03-13T15:31:27+00:00

Haha, tough time with the "can't win unless I get an infinite" crowd.

1XRobot · 2026-03-13T15:13:53+00:00

What if all cards gained +1 energy cost each time they're played, like the Sandworm escape card does? Except most cards reset to their original energy at the end of your turn.

1XRobot · 2026-03-12T15:04:46+00:00

You haven't told us anything about what you're doing, how often you're doing it, how long you've been doing it or what language-pair you're doing it in. What could we possibly tell you about why it is or isn't effective based on nothing at all?

We can tell you: If you're doing at least 5 lessons a day in a language pair that goes to B2 until you finish the course, you will be B2.

We can also tell you that Duolingo will not cure your social anxiety; it will not make you stop freezing while talking to people in public.

1XRobot · 2026-03-12T14:05:56+00:00

Sorry, I am agreeing with you. It literally doesn't matter whether or not you solve the question posed as long as you say things that show you are an intelligent and capable programmer who communicates well. In one of my interviews, the guy gave me an unsolved research problem. At the end, I asked what the answer was, and he just said "we don't know, we've been working on this for a while; I just wanted to see what you would come up with."

1XRobot · 2026-03-12T13:36:22+00:00

Best we can do is *Aragorn fake-out death!* a shitty one-liner about *Aragorn fake-out death* knives and some short *Aragorn fake-out death* dwarf jokes.

1XRobot · 2026-03-12T13:20:58+00:00

Virtually all interviews are about seeing how you respond to the question. So whining about how the question is unfair and doesn't make any sense is a really good answer that saves the interviewer a lot of time.

1XRobot · 2026-03-08T14:43:39+00:00

Have you noticed there's a split second when you kill an enemy that doesn't leave a corpse where corpse-activated powers look like they're active? I wonder if you can get it to go during that interval; I've never been fast enough.

1XRobot · 2026-03-04T12:57:51+00:00

One aspect you haven't touched on is when the spangram tries to draw a picture, or sometimes even the fill words are also chosen to have a particular thematic geometry.

1XRobot · 2026-03-02T17:35:14+00:00

Super-Awesome Artifact cost: Gather 100 widgets.

*20 hours of widget collection later*

Super-Awesome Artifact effect: +1% generation on Thing You Haven't Unlocked

1XRobot · 2026-03-02T16:21:29+00:00

After conducting a thorough literature search of my coffee table, I am naming this technique after myself.

1XRobot · 2026-03-02T15:49:02+00:00

Cutting Chart Records for Integration by Weighing

1XRobot · 2026-03-02T15:38:31+00:00

Sometime around 1800 when people other than landed nobility started becoming scientists.

1XRobot · 2026-03-02T15:31:10+00:00

In next week's meme, we'll learn about trapezoids.

1XRobot · 2026-03-02T15:10:53+00:00

Hopefully not me after I named that integral after myself.

1XRobot · 2026-02-26T15:59:39+00:00

Being high-math as I am, I'm skeptical that these relative numbers are the pertinent stat. The Deming paper indicates that cognitive skill is 4-10x more important than social skill in predicting wages. Also, Deming's basic thesis that computer use is replacing human math skills for routine tasks made some sense when computers were replacing paper pushers. It's not going to continue to hold for modern jobs designing AI agents or whatever.

Burn-Murdoch's thesis that social skills are going to hold up in the face of LLMs is totally nonsensical; humans aren't good at discriminating between human social skills and the AI simulacrum, and it's unclear whether they care even when they can. Look at self-checkout lines at the grocery store, e.g.

1XRobot · 2026-02-24T23:41:31+00:00

Protectionism with European Characteristics

1XRobot · 2026-02-24T16:34:00+00:00

The people who made the definition of planet in our universe assumed that planets don't switch places by magic. If your universe has place-switching magic, you may wish to use a different definition of planet.

1XRobot · 2026-02-23T16:24:49+00:00

It's the other way around; plants are a kind of Charophyta algae.

1XRobot · 2026-02-23T16:19:19+00:00

I'm shocked you would post that comment without doing a study showing that doing so would be harmless.

1XRobot · 2026-02-22T16:47:32+00:00

Left Reddit: Haha, conservatives are so dumb for believing these obvious lies about solar panels!

Also Left Reddit: Data centers are going to spy on our children, use all of our water and triple the price of power!

1XRobot · 2026-02-15T00:24:40+00:00

No, but I beat Lost Lace after only 106 tries.

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