When I first became active (2007) my most active area of academic work was in all types of mathematical models of cognition. I was on-and-off for years before reactivating with the community again in 2022, by which point my editing interest was much more toward fields I don't research.

I highly recommend all new and current academic Wikipedians shift to edit outside their fields if this has not already begun naturally, though I warn you that if you thought you struggled with citations when you know the field, you ain't seen nothing about editing yet.

Edit style notes

• It is no exaggeration to say that I would rather see an article written with garbage sources and a good editor, than the reverse. [Source: My twist on Sash Petraske's quotation about ice and cocktails, as quoted in Solmonson & Solmonson (2014), The 12 Bottle Bar, p. 26.]
• I generally transcribe all English reduced vowels as schwa to emphasize their neutralness, though I have no strong feelings about it one way or the other.
• As an editor I greatly prefer using {{ math}} to <math/> tags, but from a UX perspective I don't know the technical debate well. A template that converted {{ math}}'s syntax to TeX inside <math/> is maybe feasible.
• Wikiphilosophy hasn't meant much since 2010-2012-ish when equilibrium standards of inclusion were pretty well agreed, but if you see me trashing your article I'm an "inclusionist-exclusionist" who wants to keep all they can salvage and dump all the junk ( 10YT is my policy of the month). The topic of the article sets the standards for rigor of sourcing, but regardless of standards, any statement directly attributed to a source must accurately reflect that source. I do a random spot-check of almost every article I read to see whether this might not be done in general, and the failure rate is disturbingly high, especially in political articles. SamuelRiv ( talk) 02:59, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Articles

• Margaret Armour (2019-04-27)
• Helen M. McLoraine (01/09/2011)
• Biological neuron models (11/24/2007)
• Synaptic weight (11/24/2007)
• Generalized Hebbian Algorithm ( Sanger's rule) (11/24/2007)
• Oja's rule (rewritten 11/22/2007)
• Embedded pushdown automaton (11/21/2007)
• Neural backpropagation (11/20/2007)
• BCM theory (11/11/2007)
• Activation function (11/10/2007)
• Multilayer perceptron (11/10/2007)
• Read-only Turing machine (11/06/2007)
• Queue machine (11/06/2007)
• Flashsort (11/06/2007)
• Inversion temperature (11/04/2007)
• Nonsingular black hole models (11/03/2007)

• Maya ceramics (08/2008)

etc.

Significant edits

• Answering questions at the Science, Math, and Language reference desks.
• Hebbian theory (2007-11-14)
• Backpropagation (2007-11-13) (reverted 2007-11-17, moved to neural backpropagation)
• Synaptic plasticity (2007-11-11)
• Theoretical computer science (11/10/2007-11-10)
• Virtual pitch (2007-11-04)
• List of important publications in physics (2007-11-04)
• Notation for differentiation (2007-10-14)
• Cleisthenes (Athenian) (2006-03-23)

• {{ Cite object}} (2022-08-something)

Projects

Universal legal citation template

Initial proposal at WProj Law (2022-07-03 ongoing)

• Subproject A: Cross-European legal citation template
  • Phase 1: Preliminary survey: Complete (2022-07 late.)
    • Notes: Electronic lookup quality, standards implementation, and public access spotty throughout EU. Once you hit the Caucuses, glhf.
  • Phase 2: Template implementation: Existing Euro law templates all updated (2022-07 end)
  • Phase 3: Unified European citation style research: In progress (notes in /DraftTemplate)
  • Phase 4: Begin unification (planning: will have to finish getting scope of each country's online accessibility and current encoding, as not all legal documents, that will be, have been given electronic identifiers)

Template scope:

• EU Law (2022-07 edits): {{ CELEX}} * {{ ECLI}} * {{ OJEU}} * {{ ELI}} * {{ EUR-Lex link}}
• Europe local law (2022-07 redoc/update):

Drafts

WIP or on hold, or cancelled but still used as a demo:

• User:SamuelRiv/List of coups and coup attempts – Demo for objective criteria and table layout.
• User:SamuelRiv/DraftEssay – draft Essay(s)

Meta

Links of convenience:

• c:User:SamuelRiv – Commons userpage, with active projects
• wikt:User:SamuelRiv – en:Wiktionary userpage, generally dormant
• User:SamuelRiv/sandbox – Userspace sandbox
• Module:Sandbox/SamuelRiv – my Module sandboxes
• User:SamuelRiv/DraftEssay – draft Essay(s)
• User:SamuelRiv/DraftTemplate – draft Template(s)
• User:SamuelRiv/TeXbox – my LaTeX sandbox
• User:SamuelRiv/Bot – for the bots I use
• "Natural units" userbox (11/03/2007)
• My archived stuff – We all had a userbox phase, so I'm keeping this up even though I'm embarrassed by it, just as a reminder that I shouldn't judge anyone's User Page choices (too much)

To do

• Generate diagrams for automata pages
• Generative phonology
• Quantum brain dynamics
• Integrate-and-fire model
• PCA network
• ICA network
• kurtosis
• Mildly context-sensitive grammar
• Linear indexed grammar
• Probabilistic potential theory
• Electroosmotic drag
• Covariant anomaly
• Macromolecular system
• Biophysics
• Delbruck scattering

Favorite simple proofs

• ${\displaystyle 1\neq 0}$ ( fields are fun).
• ${\displaystyle \|\mathbb {N} \|=\|\mathbb {Q} \|,~\|2^{\mathbb {N} }\|=\|\mathbb {R} \|}$ ( cardinality and countability).
• Magnetism <-> Electricity ( Lorentz force).
• Magnetic monopoles imply electric charge is quantized.
• Neural networks are Turing complete.
• The bosons! They just disappeared!
• Hungarian has a hidden high middle unrounded vowel.

New trickier weirdness

• Reactionless drives made simple: the bare minimum standards for stupid ideas.
• Cannibalism: Should you eat the fat guy? The answer may surprise you!
• That probability you were wondering about? Probably 56%
• How many photons can you really see?
• Longest contraction I can think of: y'know'i'll've'd'a ("you know I will have had to" +infinitive) - /jnoɫvt⁼/ in a single syllable. (2007 I think)

rev. 2011ish??? have to check notes: y'all'd've'd't'a

Temporary external safe test section

I don't want to make another page for this -- this is just to test sandbox stuff from an external page, and should be perfectly safe.