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My name is Shawn Ligocki. This page is mostly used by me to organize some things that I do or am interested in, but feel free to explore if you like or leave me a message on my talk page.
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[edit] Todo
- Kolmogorov complexity - add note about self-delimiting representations and how that simplifies things
- Ray Solomonoff - make sure that there is an article about Solomonoff Inference (perhaps check up on algorithmic probability and inductive inference)
- Leonid Levin - make sure that there is an article about Universal Levin Search (http://www.hutter1.net/ait.htm).
- Ordinal analysis - learn some ordinal analysis. (See also: [1])
[edit] Bases Pages
- See discussion here
Articles about various numerical bases to cleanup, merge, delete and deal with:
- Positional notation - Overview of the notation of using a base.
- Non-standard positional numeral systems
- Negative base
- Non-integer representation - irrational bases
- Complex base systems
- Quater-imaginary base - 2i, proposed by Knuth as student
[edit] Notes for powerusers
Wikipedia is great for simple editing, but once you want to do some more complicated work, the tools are often hidden. Here are some tools I've found:
- WP:Statistics - List of statistics information about Wikipedia
- Article traffic statistics (by User:Henrik) - Tells you the number of visits on every day (Note: not number of unique visitors, does not sum over redirects)
- WikiBlame (by User:Flominator) - Let's you find who added or removed something from a page
- WP:WikiProject User scripts (/monobook.js) - Javascript scripts that can affect many things about Wikipedia interaction.
- WP:AutoEd (by User:Drilnoth and User:Plastikspork) - Runs some boilerplate checks and autofixes them then shows diff
- Wikipedia API: MW:API or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php - Access to the raw API (Unfortunately really convoluted data types are returned)
- WP:Creating a bot - Info on creating a bot and using the API, etc.
- python wikitools (by User:Mr.Z-man) - Python interface to work with API calls (Unfortunately it only has helpers for some things, ex. not for getting lists of revisions)
- Links to disambig pages (by User:JaGa) - Lists disambig pages by number of links to them (more = bad, this helps people disambiguate the internal links)
- Count number of backlinks (by User:Dispenser) - Counts number of things which "link here" for a given page (It's not exactly clear what it's counting, does it include redirects,
transclusions,etc.) source
Haven't tried
- WP:AutoWikiBrowser (by User:Bluemoose, et al) - Some sort of semi-automated editor, only runs on Windows :(
Just found out about:
- WP:Tools - Seems like just what I was looking for
- http://mituzas.lt/wikistats/ - Alternative usage statistics to http://stats.grok.se/
Don't even understand yet:
- MW:Toolserver - Seems to be a server that tools can be run on?
[edit] Programming philosophies
Things that smart people have said (or the young trade of programming has produced), that might be worth considering
- Hacker ethic
- Unix philosophy
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/)
- Worse is better (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html)
- Bikeshedding (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING)
- "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." —Knuth, Structured Programming with go to Statements
Also:
- Goto statement considered harmful
[edit] Free up images in Comparison of rapid transit systems
Apparently some of these logos are copyrighted, I'm working on fixing that. See Talk:Comparison of rapid transit systems
[edit] Cleanup hatnotes
There are a lot of hatnotes with numbered names, like {{otheruses4}}, that are cryptic and unnecessarily complicated for newcomers. They ought to be cleaned.
What's been done:
- {{otheruses4}} -> {{about}}
- Work on documentation and Wikipedia style suggestions and help pages to suggest the use of {{about}}, {{otheruses}} and {{for}}.
- Get rid of redundant templates from documentation (e.g. {{otheruses1}} and {{otheruses3}} -- which can be replaced directly by {{about}} and {{otheruses}})
- Suggest redirect for these
Todo:
- A lot of the other templates could be dealt with in various ways
- For the templates which are actually useful, they should be moved to a readable name (say, {{redirect3}} -> {{redirect-text}} or something simpilar)
- A lot of uses of numbered templates is replaceable by unnumbered ones
- Get a bot to change some things en-masse
- {{otheruses4|...}} -> {{about|...}}
- {{otheruses1|...}} -> {{about|...}}
- {{otheruses3|...}} -> {{otheruses|...}}
- {{redirect3|FOO|For BLAH, see THIS}} -> {{redirect|FOO|BLAH|THIS}}
- {{This article is about|FOO. For BLAH, see THIS}} -> {{about|FOO|BLAH|THIS}}
- Improve documentation more
- Look into the special purpose things like {{otherpersons}}, etc.
- Fixup Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage)
Note:
- {{otherplaces}} was actually generalized to be like {{otherplaces2}}, while {{otheruses}} was generalized to be like {{otheruses3}}, oy
[edit] Things I like
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Paris Metro Sign
http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
Amusing things about Wikipedia shamelessly stolen from User:The Thing That Should Not Be:
[edit] Paper's I'd like to get ahold of
- Hardy, G.H. (1904), "A theorem concerning the infinite cardinal numbers", Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 35: 87–94 (Introduced the Hardy hierarchy)
Löb, M.H. and Wainer, S.S. (1970), "Hierarchies of number theoretic functions", Arch. Math. Logik, 13. Correction, Arch. Math. Logik, 14, 1971. (Introduced the fast-growing hierarchy)http://www.springerlink.com/content/?Author=S.+S.+Wainer- Buchholz, W., and Wainer, S.S (1987). "Provably Computable Functions and the Fast Growing Hierarchy". Logic and Combinatorics, edited by S. Simpson, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 65, AMS, 179-198.
