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 The Periodic Table

Haikus are awesome / Chemistry's even better / So pull up a chair
Gaurang Tandon
May 2, 2021 10:19
Although this is a particularly hard question, iirc, serious chemists don't use this concept of covalency anymore (?). So the whole concept of covalency in itself is just kinda ill-defined, which makes it difficult to give usable answers using it :/ (at least I think so)
Gaurang Tandon
May 2, 2021 10:17
@SafdarFaisal I'm gonna occassionaly ping you, I hope you don't mind :') This is another answer with 25k views that could use some fresh replies. Thanks!
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 26, 2021 17:58
@AvyanshKatiyar Yep. SDE is the way to go! :D
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 10:47
@SafdarFaisal Great!
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 10:47
@AvyanshKatiyar Hey Avnish, long time :) And nice, good to know
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 08:26
Nice SEDE query. I added a " AND Posts.ViewCount > 1000" on the where clause. Not sure why my post doesn't show up in the results then :/
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 08:23
@SafdarFaisal Great, thanks very much
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 08:23
@SafdarFaisal It absolutely is! :D
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:26
Nice. Good luck! :)
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:20
How do you plan to handle your content on the site though, btw? ;)
Considering, IIUC, your involvement is also gonna go down quite a bit for the next 2-3 years.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:18
Right, of course, I meant to say, we would have no dearth of comments waiting to be explored and replied to.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:17
Indeed. I feel we can limit ourselves to more active comments (like <1week). I'm sure if someone writes a SEDE query to find them there's gonna be quite a few.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:15
But I agree JEE-regulars will probably find the content more relatable
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:15
I do not feel my request is specifically related to JEE :P
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:13
Hey Safdar! Right. Another way we could handle this is by using a chatroom akin to Spring Cleaning.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:10
Of course, this is a very time-consuming process. So I would only use this flag for very very popular posts. The one I linked to in particular has 80k views.
I feel it is important to make sure the quality of our site's most viewed posts is very high, and to address any genuine comments that may be received about them. And I do regret my inability to engage with such comments constructively anymore.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:08
Is there a way I can "flag" them for "review" by prevailing active members of the site? Who could then read the comment and take action accordingly: edit the answer/reply to the wrong comment/etc.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:07
For example, this latest comment.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:06
I occassionally receive comments on my old answers that later became popular. However, I've been away from chemistry entirely for almost 3 years now and I lack the required knowledge or confidence to engage with them: either by correcting my own answer or replying to the comment itself.
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:05
Is there some facility for "review requests" in general on stackexchange and in particular on chemistry stackexchange?
Gaurang Tandon
Apr 25, 2021 07:05
Hi, been a long time here, how's everything going? :)
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 15:16
@M.A.R. :P
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 02:47
@YuvrajSingh... can you create a separate chat room please
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 11, 2020 15:24
@YuvrajSingh... hi sure, ping me in a separate chat room
 

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Gaurang Tandon
May 14, 2020 04:07
Although my questions would be comparably a lot more basic than the ones I see on the current homepage of the site :P
Gaurang Tandon
May 14, 2020 04:06
I recently switched to using vim full time for my stuff, let's see how it goes, hopefully I'll post a few more questions on the website :)
Gaurang Tandon
May 14, 2020 04:06
I've marked my question as duplicate of the one you linked to
Gaurang Tandon
May 14, 2020 04:05
@statox Thanks, I'll try to setup makeprg, it does seem useful.
Gaurang Tandon
May 13, 2020 15:26
@statox Hey thanks for helping me out! :) I will check it and let you know in a while if it works for me. Regarding mkprog, I wished to ask if it works globally. Like, my gmm alias works in every directory. Will mkprog also work (without the need for any make files)?
 

 Room for Yuvraj Singh... and Gaurang …

Gaurang Tandon
Jan 14, 2020 13:17
I'm studying in CSE branch
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 13, 2020 03:00
@YuvrajSingh... regarding questions about IIITH, I can
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 18:25
if you do all this right now you'll get distracted from jee
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 18:25
you'll have ample time to compare colleges later
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 18:24
once you know what your options are then it's actually better to try compare colleges imo
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 18:24
you should focus mostly on jee mains marks
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 18:24
@YuvrajSingh... I do not think much specific advice about colleges matters at this point
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 15:17
the cutoff's usually 250 to 260 marks
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 15:17
depends on your level of preparation for mains though
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 15:17
for jee mains, it is reasonably hard to get into IIIT
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 15:17
it would be better post on IIITH counseling forum facebook group regarding ugee
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 15:16
I have not given ugee
Gaurang Tandon
Jan 12, 2020 10:56
Hi, what do you want to ask?
 

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Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 12:03
hehe exactly
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 12:02
Nice reduction. Thanks. That's the only problem I'll solve then. I don't have the energy to solve the others :(
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 12:01
I see. Can we say that $\frac 1 {\phi(d)}$ is multiplicative? Oh, of course, we can
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 11:58
Any ideas on how to go about them?
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 11:57
@ÍgjøgnumMeg Hi, so I solved all three more parts of prob. 13 using the identity you showed me today. And now I am stuck on two more parts: $\sum _{d|n} \mu^2(d)\phi^2(d)$ and $\sum _{d|n} \frac {\mu(d)}{\phi(d)}$
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 07:46
Sure, I'll let you know by today or tomorrow! :)
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 07:45
@ÍgjøgnumMeg Nice! I think you're right. Yeah I had skipped problem 5 hehe :P
Gaurang Tandon
Dec 9, 2019 07:33
Yah, that's right. The PDF didn't name the function to be Kronecker delta.