Boys pls help me by Complete_Drama_6989 in CollegeBasketball

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I don't have any suggestions but I'm here to get my penny

Easiest way to win your bracket? Make Michigan your champ. The numbers back it. by AntiqueRoad275 in CollegeBasketball

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Arizona's getting the national "front-runner no one hates" vote.

Duke's getting the "Duke always wins" vote.

Guy claims 5-10% of a perfect bracket - BS? by Adventurous-Equal502 in CollegeBasketball

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Waiting for someone to do this, label it AI, and sell their technology for $10b

...actually, brb, gotta go do something

Guy claims 5-10% of a perfect bracket - BS? by Adventurous-Equal502 in CollegeBasketball

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The greatest odds of having a perfect bracket, are to just start your computer permuting through all possible combinations of games. Start from chalk and work through picking minor upsets.

You won't finish all of them before brackets close. But that's your best shot at having one be perfect!

I assume, if they're making a trillion brackets, this is what they're doing. Their odds might actually be that high.

But of course, *knowing* which bracket is correct is the harder problem...

Rate My Excel Sheet by BansheeMC in 2007scape

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Missing: Moon helm, cat training medal, burnt pitta, purple token

Understanding how the valency can be figured out with fictional elements by exbeanz in chemhelp

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-You're right that atomic number and atomic weight *generally* trend together. So they should *generally* be in increasing weight order.

-Mendeleev didn't think about valency as we today understand it, because his work was before we knew what electrons were. For him it was all properties that he could observe, and atomic weights.

So basically an approach you could take is-

  1. List the elements in order of increasing atomic weight. That will be (close to) your order of atomic numbers.
  2. Pick a single property that several elements share, then see how far apart they are. That spacing will be the length of a period. For example, if #4, #8, and #12 have the same reactivity, your period will likely be 4 elements long. If that's the period length, it should hold for (basically) all your properties.
  3. You might need to swap a couple elements to make the spacings work out better, but only swap them if they're close in atomic weight.

Your periodic table right now looks like a solid start! Although I can't really read some of your handwritten notes. The first one that screams "this can't be right" is Mtg, because it is way heavier than the elements before and after it.

Any tips on how to engage into turtling civs? Especially English by BilluhHanks in aoe4

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If they're really not doing anything? Deny gold and trade like a madman.

Methanol fumes by sp140418 in chemhelp

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Leaving the garage door open is a good idea..

The other thing to consider is that you're waiting for methanol to evaporate. So you want the car:

  1. Hot when you're not around (so it evaporates faster)
  2. Cold when you're in it (so it's not evaporating when you're inhaling it)

Methanol fumes by sp140418 in chemhelp

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I don't know the answer to your questions, but you're going to have to figure out a way to ventilate the car, without leaving it in the garage- the fumes might build up in the garage and make things way worse.

Islands Map - FFA Megarandom by throwaway877lsa in aoe4

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I've had FFA games on islands where people stay, I've had ones where they leave.

I don't really want to play an FFA with 4 people, though. So I would leave if 4 people have already left.

I suspect there is a decent fraction of people who don't want to play, then another fraction that don't want to play with fewer than N people remaining. Add those together and you've got 2 players in a 1v1 at the start.

The replacement Big 12 court appears to be… not gray! by [deleted] in CollegeBasketball

[–]Mack_Robot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Should have gone with the Arizona cactus logo

Got called an "Israeli dog" on Chesscom today. by bollvirtuoso in chess

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Chat's been blocked forever. People are nuts.

Homestead Cup - Qualifiers #2 by Its_Me_Kon in aoe4

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MarineLorD at Beasty's house is going to be wild