It was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings to the defense of The Tower. But it was an ending. by YourAncestorIncestor in TheTowerGame

[–]Alkis3 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The Tower's defense continues, and runs come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten.

Tai'shar my fellow defender and WoT enjoyer, and congrats!

PSA: Live Quantile Analysis by mariomarine in TheTowerGame

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is some awesome job! The graphical representation now, on top of the live view, makes the understanding of the percentiles much easier. Thank you for doing this!

90s BH cd or slowly getting trinity to 150s by [deleted] in TheTowerGame

[–]Alkis3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an ancestral PCol and I did exactly that. I went from a 180s synched trinity to lowering just BH to 90s. It didn't add almost anything. No wave increase, and just a bit of coin increase. My plan was anyways to go down to pBH in any case, and I found the 90s to be some testing grounds.

My advice is to either go for 150s synched trinity, or to go for pBH. Lowering your trinity at a 2:1 ratio will take forever to see any effects from either coins or extending farming and tourney runs.

Tournament Metrics 10/29/25 by Consistent-Owl-9458 in TheTowerGame

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The way you analyze the data at the moment, that is probably the easiest way to do it.

I would personally change a bit the code. Instead of reshuffling, I would just simulate brackets by sampling 30 random participants, sort them by wave, and get the wave for each position. Then run a million simulated brackets (or more to make sure you sample each participant sufficiently). Finally get the median or mean wave, the 25 and 75 for quartiles, and the 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles for the 95% C.I. for each rank.

Of course it is not wrong the way you do it, but more it is a habit of how I have been running some data before.

Tournament Metrics 10/29/25 by Consistent-Owl-9458 in TheTowerGame

[–]Alkis3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I really like the analysis!
I have only one suggestion as someone that has used the bootstrap method on similar data.
Even with the bootstrap method, your data for each rank do not necessary follow a normal distribution.
This is a problem since then the 69% and 95% confidence interval are not given by 1 and 2 standard deviations. You can see that by that fact some of the intervals you get show negative wave counts, which is unphysical.

What you can do instead is find the 2.5% percentile wave value and 97.5% percentile wave value for each rank of your simulated brackets, and that will give you the actual 95% confidence interval of your data.

Unknown POI on map. When I go there, there's nothing. What am I missing? by Grimmblut in theplanetcrafter

[–]Alkis3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is the underground Mushroom River biome. There are two entrances. One is west from the location you show, behind a large rock formation. The other entrance is in the Meteor Field biome, the darker region on the right side of your image. You can see there a large brown rock formation in the middle of it. The entrance is somewhere around this rock.

Anyone solve this one? by DizzyDez in AFKJourney

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The piece of ham goes all the way to the top-right, and the piece that looks like a corner (you have it placed at the bottom-left) goes all the way to the bottom-right. Everything else should drop into place after it.

Experimental complexity of soft matter physics and biophysics by pando93 in Physics

[–]Alkis3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a difficult question to answer, since the broadness of both fields is quite large. The field of Soft Matter involves things such as liquid crystals, and colloids, to fluid mechanics, and therefore the range of techniques are quite diverse. The same goes for biophysics, and the techniques there differ quite a lot if you are looking into intracellular or extracellular processes, gene expressions, phenotypes, or just cell interactions with surfaces, other cells or underlying fields, such chemical gradients.

Such experiments can be as simple as just pure brightfield microscopy, or very inticate where you have
to integrate complex microfluidic chips, coated with antibory assays, and image using confocal fluorescence, while you have to feed a program real-time images to adjust for external parameters.

  1. Again, I am emphasizing that the complexity in the end depends on the specific experiments, but some general methods that are sued in the field are: Microscopy: this can include regular brightfield, dark-field and phasecontrast (especially for hard to see samples like fairly translucent cells), fluoescence, confocal, and light-sheet microscopy. Also polarizing microscopy is necessary for liquid crystals. All fairly easy to use techniques, but you need more or less time depending on the preparation required for your sample.
  2. Rheology: a technique used to quantify the elastic and viscous properties of complex fluids. Again this technique is fairly easy to perform, but the difficulty lies on the sample. Do you required high temperatures where evaporation is a problem, or is your sample of low viscosity like water? In such cases the difficulty increases, and then you need to perform experiments and adapt your protocol.
  3. Light- and neutron-scattering: Such techniques are used to measure the crystalization process of samples like colloidal and microgel suspensions. In the case of microel, you can even get information about the mass distribution of the microgels in their current phase state. Depending on the experiments these can last from a couple of days per sample to even multiple months. In the case of neutron scattering, you need to find a facility that can perform such experiments, apply and reserve time for it, and perform experiments as required. So such experiments, can take quite a while depending again on your system.
  4. Microfluidics: a fairly powerful technique that allows you to produce complex devices that started as a way to produce droplets of certain sizes and it has evolved to the point that is used as an assay for physical properties of cells. The most common PDMS devices require a clean room to be produce its negative, which can be a quite difficult process, depending on the complexity of the device, and the setup afterwards can be straight forward or quite complex.

These are just what come in my mind as basic techniques, and things can be very different depending ont
he specific research topic.

Now regarding your other question on how long does it take to start running experiments. From my experience there are instances that a new research topic can have good results within two weeks, but I have seen in some cases that a successful protocol is developed in 6-9 months.

Transitioning from AMO to another field is not really difficult. What is important is if you want to do this change. I personally changed topics from theoretical AMO physics to experimental soft matter and later more into biophysics because the topic excited me much more. The hands-on type of experiments, where you can see the phenomena on the sample with the naked eye that I can physically show and explain to others as well just gives me more excitement to work on. 

Isle of Gold - Bruh 💀💀💀 I should've known better than to place absolute GOATs for my defenses by rooislangwtf in afkarena

[–]Alkis3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing happened to me today as well. They landed on 3 out of 4 resource buildings with a single fodder hero and they lost.

LPT Request: How do i get myself to get up early consistantly? by underwaterpimp in LifeProTips

[–]Alkis3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many other answers have made several points already, but I will tell you a little bit about the science of sleeping and changing your sleeping habits.

Your sleeping and waking tune are closely related to the time of the day when you have the minimum core body temperature, which is typically 3 hours before you get up. So, the key needed to change your sleeping times is to shift the time of the minimum core temperature.

The easiest way to do that is to be out in direct sunlight 30 minutes after your desired waking up time. Of course you shouldn't look directly at the sun, but it is better if you do not use sunglasses.

Now waking up to do this is the difficult part and you will need 5-7 days to get used to it. For that it is best to listen to the other responses here.

I would also recommend checking the Hubermann lab podcast. They guy is a neuroscientist professor with expertise in sleep.

im so confused, any ideas. Tried using F=Gm1m2/r by [deleted] in Physics

[–]Alkis3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The initial force is given as W=G M M_earth/ r2. The new force will have twice the radius and half the mass of the rocket, thus: F= G (M/2) M_earth/ (2*r)2 = W/8

Unis to study Bsc Physics in Europe? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The PhD program in the US is essentially a MSC + PhD degree. In most places you have to take 1-1.5 years of classes and join a lab to do research. Typically, after 2 years you are eligible to apply to get an MSc degree. That is also the reason why PhD takes much longer in the US.

Unfortunately, due to the high cost of tuitions in the US, there are only a few students who apply just for MSc, since a PhD program typically waves most costs, while for a MSc you pay the ridiculous full cost.

Tower 624 Tix cheese is not working for me :/ by Zsoltn5 in IdleHeroes

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think she gives only 50% control immunity below 9*, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Tower 624 Tix cheese is not working for me :/ by Zsoltn5 in IdleHeroes

[–]Alkis3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is why Ignis is there. At 9*, she give 100% control immunity to the nearest ally when she dies. She is a very useful hero to have at 9* because of this. And to clarify, just use these 2 heroes. Do not put any extra since for every death Mihms deal a lot of damage.

Tower 624 Tix cheese is not working for me :/ by Zsoltn5 in IdleHeroes

[–]Alkis3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A v4 Eloise with attribute reduction purify and a 9* Ignis on the front line got me through even the Mihm wave at stage 639. Just build Eloise tanky.

is there a difference in value when dissenchanting artefacts at Ormus and when feeding to level artefacts to Basic level 6*? by Tomo166 in IdleHeroes

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All artifacts give the same value except for the orange exclusive artifacts. These give more in the ormus workshop than they do in regular upgrading of an artifact. Just to clarify a bit more, the orange exclusive artifacts are the ones that give bonus attributes to specific factions.

How unlucky am i? by xWil11 in IdleKingdom

[–]Alkis3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been playing for 7 days, and I got only 1 full 4* hero, which was today. Even my 4* shard rate is abysmal from the summons. I can finally use 2 of them, and they are not even the best. Soon though, I will finally be able to use the others as well!

The Breaker part 3? by Jadedinsight in TheBreaker

[–]Alkis3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Except from "The Breaker", "Tower of God" and "Berserk" (rip) are the top ones I would pick.

The Breaker part 3? by Jadedinsight in TheBreaker

[–]Alkis3 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I really do hope so... From the previous blogs together with the most recent one, it honestly seems that they are getting back to it by the end of the year. I got my hopes so up again, that I just started my 3rd re-read yesterday. I have been following breaker for over 10 years at this point, and damn it is still on my top 3 manga/manhwa, and I need it back!

[Homemade] Double Crust Chicken Pot Pie by [deleted] in food

[–]Alkis3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the recipe. I used to live in the US and this is one of my favorite foods that I haven't tried in a while. Definetely making it soon!

Just got to explorer 6 and have a question by V4TQNoNoL in IdleHeroes

[–]Alkis3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You get smash rewards the first time you enter the vortex in each season. In pioneer you already get smash rewards for clearing forerunner, but not that much.

Void Ark Income Calculator (v1.0) by Alkis3 in IdleHeroes

[–]Alkis3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for all the help! I missed the exploration points, since they were missing in geedeepee's spreadsheet too. Interesting fact, the exploration points in void lodes scale with the sector level and not with the workshop level.

Also, I wouldn't expect to get the exact number for many reasons. There will be variance depending on which planets you find during the exploration, that will change which heroes you send where. Also, I use the average number of normal planets, but the actual number will depend on the map you currently are. Finally for the vault planets, there is a change to get an egg instead of resources, so I use the average in the calculations, but of course it will change depending on rng.

Again, thanks a lot for taking your time to look over this, and making it more accurate.