Hartree-Fock method introduces electron (spin)orbitals and they are commonly used for qualitative rationalization of many molecular properties. However, MOs have meaning only if we ignore electron correlation. Post-HF non-DFT methods build correlated wave-function, but due to correlation extracti...
@Mithoron I think it's going to be more like things you mostly already knew organized into presentable chunks. Like the resistance book Winston was reading in 1984.
That's often a worthy end to pursue
You can't build on knowledge you can't express, so once you do, the world broadens.
Site is community moderated, "mod-helpers" do a lot. Diamond moderators do more sensible stuff - have more power, but therefore use it much more carefully and leave a lot to mod-helpers.
@Mithoron @Safdar in semi-official terminology, "curators". Mods are always few, and working like submarines so no one notices them. Their work is mostly just dull work that requires a high degree of responsibility, so you only have few people doing it. It's like an important governmental bureaucrat that just mostly signs letters.
Except the trolls and possible harassment, that must be fun.
Everyone else would help with flagging, reviewing, and voting. You don't have nearly enough mods for any of those, and it's a known phenomena that if high-rep users don't burn out, they switch instead to moderational activities for a while. Their helping/repository-filling sense has been satiated, and it takes a lot for newer questions to excite them.
@Safdar deleting socks, the occasional spammer, suspending the occasional robo-reviewer or self-voter
Trust me, it's dull. We just let them think they have any power, but it's as much as a nuclear waste disposal company can do
And a requirement of investment and leadership
Anyway @Mith Gateway has just the right amount of science it needed, it was awesome.
What I don't enjoy about it is the randiness, also probably a natural consequence of those trips
But that's easily forgivable. It's all around us anyway. Writers can't do without a sex appeal.
@Safdar Wha, no, they don't lose anything. They can clear the queue as much as they want. But then the community would become lazy and stop close voting, so the site looks totalitarian and apathetic at the same time
There was an SE this happened to, I forgot.
In fact, normal users get 40 close reviews and 24 votes or something like that, but mods can do it indefinitely.
@M.A.R. I saw a post on MSE which ranted about a mod closing a post that OP agreed had to be closed (just not by the mod alone).. which escalated slightly.
I am a high school student and in one class,my inorganic chemistry teacher told IA group elements with the exception of Lithium and IIA group elements with exception of Be, Mg form blue-colored solutions in liquid ammonia.What are the conditions for a metal to form a solution in liquid ammonia,a...
@Safdar Stack Overflow? They have this volume problem so the close vote queue goes up to 10000 and the reviewers are pissed and come to meta so the company does something about it and it goes down, rinse and repeat
@M.A.R. for me, there is a fine line between homework and self studying problems. I have posted questions before that were basically "I thought it was this, but how do you complete this problem?" then again, my questions didn't get closed, but I suppose as people have said, it is about the effort and if you know how to ask a question correctly
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table