User talk:Keenan Pepper

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Yeast merger

There is a poll about merging Yeast and Yeast (baking). Please comment at Talk:Yeast (baking). I've put your name under the Support section for now. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-12-18 11:32Z

Jones calculus

Hi! Thanks for your link to Jones calculus. I think I missed the obvious. What should I say to KSmrq now after his post? --HappyCamper 13:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

LOL, no idea. —Keenan Pepper 15:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Pearls Before Swine

I'm curious about your moving Pearls Before Swine to Pearls Before Swine (disambiguation) "per WP style for disambig pages". To my reading, the naming convention in WP:D says that the former (no parentheses) is preferable. What were you referring to? Sanguinity 23:01, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

That wasn't me. Look at the history more carefully. —Keenan Pepper 23:15, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

So it wasn't! Sorry for bothering you. :-) Sanguinity 07:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

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Articles of unclear importance

Hi! You probably won't remember it but last June you tagged Boron phosphide as being of unclear importance. The tag being still there and the article not being updated, I was considering removing it from there (the backlog at Category:Wikipedia articles with topics of unclear importance from June 2006 is huge) since the article is already marked as a stub. What do you think about that? Do you have any idea on how to improve such articles (a lot of Chemistry components are marked as such). Thanks for your input! (I would appreciate if you could answer me on my talk page. I might miss your answer otherwise, my watchlist being overcrowded) -- lucasbfr ^talk 20:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Keenan - you did an excellent job with the Levitron article but there are some posters just trashing it with material that is libelous and just plain not accurate. Anyway, not much you can do with Wikipedia, but it just peeves me (especially after the USA Today article critiquing WP's accuracy). Oh well. TheGreatScott 06:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)TgS

Vandalism on Semitone

Hello Keenan,

Do you recall the work on the Semitone done primarily by you, Rainwarrior,"Mark" and myself? We all seemed satisfied with the results. Unfortunately, the article was vandalized on November 28, 2006, and the same day an attempt at reverting the vandalism was made. I had not checked the article for several months, but did so today. I was quite upset to find that some of the vandal's efforts had not been fully corrected, and that some professional help is needed quickly!

If you check the History of the Semitone Article, you will find there was an entire section on the Minor Second (item 1 of Contents), and one on the Augmented Unison (item 2 of Contents). The vandal COMPLETELY REMOVED the fine work on the Minor Second, including Rainwarrior's excellent musical excerpts, replacing it with nonsense. Furthermore, EVERY WORD of this section had been subjected to extensive research, discussion, and scrutiny. While the nonsense has been removed, the entire section on the Minor Second is MISSING!

The CORRECT version of the Minor Second section last appeared on November 22, 2006, in the Semitone History section. I am not sure how to restore it, but it is ESSENTIAL to the Article. (I don't want to make mistakes which could mess up the article, and in any case, I am not sure if I have the authority to make such a move.) I AM THEREFORE REQUESTING THE INTERVENTION OF YOUR EXPERTISE.

(As I recall, it was my own insistence that the Augmented Unison and Minor Second be treated equally, and the "Semitone" Article was therefore restored.) In defense of the COMPLETENESS and ACCURACY of the encylopedia,

Best Regards, Prof.rick 07:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Semitone vandalism - corrected?

Hello again, Keenan,

I tried to correct the omission of Minor Second from the Semitone Article. (I did so by using "copy and paste" from the History.) I think it's OK now...but maybe you'd like to check it out. Thanks, Prof.rick 10:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Lucas cells for radon measurement.

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Hi. Didn't know you were an admin - I thought you were the author of the page and I was just trying to be a good wikizen and follow the rules by notifying the author. Regarding whether it qualifies for speedy delete, well I will yield to you on that, but as far as whether it should be deleted, my feeling is it is pretty basic housekeeping that it should be deleted and housekeeping is eveyone's responsibility, IMO, not just admins. What is the point of having it on the server other than that it is "harmless"? Regarding "more important things to worry about", I don't think that way and if I am on my way to an important meeting and I see a bit of trash on the floor, I pick it up and throw it away. It does not detract from the more important things to do a bit of minor housekeeping. What detracts, if anything does, is bothering to discuss it which has taken time from both of us. Do with it what you will - I think it is trash myself. Best wishes. --Justanother 18:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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Happy Pi Day!!

Happy Pi Day Keenan! Having any Pi today? :) [Mαc Δαvιs] (How's my driving?) ❖ 07:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Peanut butter protection

Here is another one [1]. John Reaves (talk) 03:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Keenan, Thanks for the assistance!

Keenan, Glad to have met you. Thanks for the assistance. This is new to me and unfortunately computers are not my area of expertise but I'll try to catch on fast to the good things you all are what you are doing here on Wikipedia. My interest is in educating people about ICEAlity [2] and the new art genre of environmental arts. [3]

Thanks again and hope we can keep in touch!

Regards, Dave Jakupca

--Enviroarts 23:56, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

I've noticed that you do quite a bit of work on some pages that I have recently taken an interest in. As they are primarily chemistry related pages, I wondered if perhaps you have had some chemistry training yourself. As a chemical engineering major this is just of some minor interest to meHelgers7 07:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Answer to your comments

You posted some comments to my Wikipedia user talk page almost a year ago (I was forced to erase them):

… I won't even try to understand this until I understand some of the other things you say above. —Keenan Pepper 18:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, the ideas that I presented in this work-in-progress paper --- http://www.geocities.com/bencawaling/collatz_conjecture_proved.pdf and http://www.geocities.com/bencawaling/collatz_conjecture_proved_appendix.pdf --- would suffice to answer your concerns … Any further comments on my paper will be appreciated --- I intend to submit my paper to the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society on 29 March 2007. Best regards. [BenCawaling@Yahoo.com] BenCawaling 12:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

You might want to view my "Collatz 3x+1 Conjecture Proved!" publication submissions history at http://www.geocities.com/collatz_conjecture_proved/ then YOU DECIDE! For aspiring authors in mathematical journals, there are plenty of lessons to be learned. BenCawaling 08:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Spin stabilized magnetic levitation

Greetings Keenan Pepper, having followed the discussion on Talk:Levitron I thought that I would inform you of the creation of this related article. Please do join in to expand it! :-) (→Netscott) 07:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Optical levitation

Thought you might be interested in contributing to this article I've just started as well. Cheers. :-) (→Netscott) 23:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Nuclear Meltdown

Hi, Keenan Pepper, I read your question on the Spanish refdesk the other day, and the highly ambiguous translation that Camima offered. Wordreference.com translates it as "fusión de un reactor nuclear", which somewhat reduces the ambiguity. Googling shows that "derretimiento" is hardly ever used in this context in Spanish, although "derretimento" appears to be the word of choice in Portugese. You might also be interested in this page, which uses the term "fusión parcial del núcleo (de un reactor nuclear)". Best regards, --NorwegianBlue ^talk 23:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Half diminished scale

Hello Keenan, and despite our disagreements in the past, I am urging your help (if the true interests and goals of Wikipedia are our mutual goal). Please check out an article entitled "half diminished scale". It might help to start with the page's history, and it's pathetic presentation. (It used to carry a tag, of "needing wikification".) I tried to salvage it, and the tag was removed.) Still I feel it is a pointless article, since it is most rare that practicing musicians describe this particular scale as "half diminished" (see Talk Page). I am asking you to post this as an "Article for Possible Deletion". (I would do so myself, but being a mere editor and not an Administrator, I am reluctant to do so.) Thanks for your help! Prof.rick 07:54, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Frederick_Noronha

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Missing image Image:Glaciermassbalanceglobal.jpg

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Help with an entry

Hey, I know that you have somewhat of an interest in chemistry articles so I was hoping you could help me with one (Freezing-point depression to be exact.) I found that part of the entry was unnecessary, so I posted it on the discussion page and the only person who disagreed with me used the reason that nothing should be deleted from wikipedia, so, I went ahead and deleted it. He simply reverted it claiming it was vandalism. I'm hoping you can take a quick look and help sort this out. Thanks--Helgers7 11:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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Fall of the Roman Empire

Hi. Any chance you can clarify your answer on the Humanities Ref Desk? I think I've probably got my stupid head on today, but I just don't understand! --Dweller 15:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Newland transform

This article currently makes no attempt at all to say what the Newland transform is. Can you add that? Michael Hardy 16:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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CDparanoia

Hey mate, you recommended that program CDparanoia to me at the reference desk. It looks absolutely awesome, except I'm running windows. I like the idea of it not being interfered with by the sound card or anything like that. Is there a program like this for windows? NIRVANA2764 03:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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bad jpegs

I'm way far away from the real world (i.e. I'm in Wyoming USA) and won't be able to deal with any of this until I return to the real world. As you note almost all images are jpegs (which I thought were okay . . . there were no contra-indications from wikipedia until now). I know that one guy took one of the jpgs (on Turing machine ) and fiddled with it, putting it back modified as a png or something like that. I'm no wizard, I'm a really old guy (>30 years): I don't know how to convert them, and reconstruction would probably be impossible as what you are looking at are (basically) the originals. I will avoid jpegs in the future (they don't look so good on certain browsers, I do know that). Lemme know what you want to do here (but it will be weeks before I can make anything can happen), I certainly have no allegance to jpegs. wvbaileyWvbailey 23:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:UnitedStatesGraphViz.png : SVG improperly rotated

Hi, thanks for trying to improve Media:UnitedStatesGraphViz.png with an SVG version, but as you noted the rotation is wrong. Orientation is crucial to this image, as I'm trying to show that the physical layout of the graph matches the actual geometry from which it originates. I actually tried to produce a proper SVG with neato v2.12 (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:UnitedStatesGraphViz2.svg ) but it evidently looks cut off. Also, I wonder why the SVG looks so horrible in Firefox! In any case, I undid your changes in order to at least preserve the orientation. Note that this was prompted by a note from an actual Graphviz expert (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJordanSamuels&diff=143005516&oldid=127526764 ). JordanSamuels 04:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Help at 53 equal temperament

Hi Keenan. Do you think you could comment at Talk:53 equal temperament#Newton's unpublished manuscripts?? I am having a very strange back-and-forth edit with User:Commator who believes I must prove that an unsourced statement is false before I can remove it. - Rainwarrior 16:27, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Never mind. Another author has found a source, so the problem is solved. - Rainwarrior 17:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Pizza Pop!

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Digits of pi

hi, here is the original matlab code. good luck and thanks. -mark

a = [1973.5 930 1973.81 1111 1973.95 1210 1974.5 1505 1975.93 4096 1977.3 5050 1978 10000 1979 10625 1980 20013 1981.6 31811 1987.3 40000 1995.2 42195 2005.6 83431 2006.81 100000];

plot (a(:,1),a(:,2),'.-') axis([1970 2007 0 100001]) box off xlabel('Year') ylabel('World Record: Digits of \pi Memorized')

Mebden 11:45, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Renaming Cell (microprocessor) to Cell microprocessor

Hi :)

While trying to remove some of the double redirects created by renaming Cell microprocessor to Cell (microprocessor), I realized looking at the history of a redirect that I had just undone your rename from 2006. You must have gained editing experience in the last year, but in case you still do not see why Cell (microprocessor) is preferred, this is to clarify that "microprocessor" is not part of the topic's name, but only a word added to disambiguate the page's topic.--Chealer 04:38, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Daaaaaang

		A Barnstar Slice
		You get this slice of a Barnstar of Good Humor, as part of the group in the RD/M Daaaaaang thread. This is only a symbolic part of the barnstar, the rest of it lies with the other members. lucid 23:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Keenan. Here are a couple of random ideas. <OR> There may be two processes involved: typing a's individually, and just holding down the 'a' key and letting it repeat automatically. Six a's are starting to be a lot to type individually, but are not many to type by holding down the 'a' key. Also, when I hold down the 'a' key, the rate at which a's are typed speeds up suddenly after a few a's so that it is not easy for me to deliberately type exactly 6 a's in this way. Two letter repeats like banananana can't be done by holding down one key so, if there is anything to these ideas, they may have differently shaped graphs. </OR> Cardamon 04:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Second that (the slice award)! --Kushal^{Click me!} --Kushal^{Click me!} write to me 05:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)write to me 05:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Signature line updated ^New!

Hey Keenan, would you like to see my new signature line? Let me know what you think about it. --Kushal^{Click me!} write to me 05:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Kushal^{Click me!} write to me 05:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Kushal^{Click me!} write to me 05:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Queenan

Whenever I have a question for you...I will communicate to you though wikipedia becuase I know this is the quickest way to reach you!

Rasine 03:44, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Note to self

Hilbert transform, Analytic signal, Instantaneous phase —Keenan Pepper 20:21, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Clay Mathematics Institute and Millennium Prize Problems

Hi there. I have proposed a revision to Clay Mathematics Institute and a suggestion for an article on the Millennium Prize Problems. I've started a new discussion on this issue. Comments appreciated. Thanks. MP ^{(talk•contribs)} 11:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Ionic solid merger

Hey Keenan, I'm planning to merge ionic solid into ionic compound. And by merge, I mean delete and redirect. Ionic compound could use a section on example compounds, however, but from my knowledge there's no significant difference between the solid state and the general compound that needs to be specified. Please undo and let me know if you have objections. SamuelRiv (talk) 18:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Physics

Keenan, Peter Lamont here. Do you really not know that accelleration leads to loss of temperature. It is, I believe, a tennet of General Relativity. Think about it - ball lands, warms up. Surely you can see that? What happens next? That's right , ball rebounds.

Now, if I'm wrong, the ball will warm up again, right? As it falls back... And then it warms again, as it lands for the second time. That's an awful lot of warming. By the time your ball has bounced down a flight of stairs, it must surely be too hot to touch?

Same goes for the Loss of Pressure and Expansion. Can you really not see it?

But you warn people against it? Hmmm... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Astrocat0-1 (talk • contribs) 12:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

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Decay Rates

I posted this question on the reference desk, but no one responded. I was hoping you would know. This website [4] shows how decay times depend on the force responsible for the decay (scroll down). Is there any (hopefully simple) way to calculate this using the coupling constant, mass etc.? Thanks, 69.17.180.90 (talk) 18:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC).

I'll reply here because your IP address appears to be changing. There's no way to calculate those decay lifetimes because they don't really mean anything. It's a kind of lie-to-children. Those numbers are supposed to give a feel for the average decay times in "ordinary" situations, but there's no way to make that rigorous. In certain situations, the ordering of the times can even be reversed. For example, some nuclear isomers can decay by either beta decay (through the weak interaction) or gamma decay (through the electromagnetic interaction), but they are more likely to beta decay. That means the branching fraction for beta decay is higher, so the partial half-life for beta decay is shorter (whereas usually the partial half-life for the electromagnetic interaction is shorter). I'm sure you can find examples where the electromagnetic interaction goes faster than the strong interaction, as well. —Keenan Pepper 22:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

PPN Article

Hello Keenan,

there seems to be a sign mistake in your article.

If I compare the formula of the g_{\mu\nu} with the wellknown Schwarzschild-Metric, then the last line should be

  g_{ij} = (1 + 2U)\delta_{ij}.

A simple power expansion of (1-2M/r)^{-1} gives 1 + 2M/r + ... Or am I wrong?

kind regards wolfk@gfz-potsdam.de —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.130.242.54 (talk) 14:19, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Mechanical Turk proxy.

I was referred to you from the reference desk by User:Kushal_one in response to my question there:

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing#mechanical_turk_proxy

I had e-mailed him as follows

“ Hello Kushal,

You wrote me at the reference desk:

"Would advertising on Craigslist work? I don't know how I can suggest you to trust a person who you do not already know with hundreds (at least one hundred US dollars which, I believe, is the amount you need to earn before being sent any payment)."

But actually $1 balance is enough to post HIT requests, and it's enough for what I want to experiment with!!

Still, it's pretty fishy to ask for anyone on craigslist that's not in person, so I think I'll try to get my friends to help me, but I don't know if they have cc's.

Do you have a cc with a U.S. address?

Regards,

(my name)

”

To which, as you can see at the reference desk, he replied:

“ I am sorry I misunderstood you. You want to request a task for the workers at the Mechanical turk to work? I thought you wanted to work on the hits that were already there! I am not sure how this would work. I have a friend who might be able to help you. His name is Keenan Pepper and he is an administrator on The English Wikipedia. Try requesting at User_talk:Keenan Pepper. Even if he says no, he will not be rude to you (or anyone, in fact).

-User:Kushal_one

”

So, I'm turning to you for assistance based on his referral and wonder if you might help me.

Thank you very much in advance!

Curious guy32 (talk) 00:47, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I forgot to mention, I can repay the favor by coding something small for you in Python or Perl, which I know, or even C or C++. Or suggest a different way to make up for the favor, maybe I can help test some of your software or something. Thank you!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Curious guy32 (talk • contribs) 00:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

thank you for your reply. however, I cannot create a HIT since despite having a balance of $30 as a hit completer, since the system requires a transfer with a credit card. if you have a credit card, you could make a HIT requester (I can't because I don't have a CC) with $1 and then remove your credit card. This is enough for me to test the API, since I'll be submitting $0.01 hits, so $1.00 is enough for a hundred of them. I can repay you for the account by coding something for you in python or perl, or in any other way you suggest. Thank you for the prompt reply!! Curious guy32 (talk) 01:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)