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Is Gauge integral the same thing as Henstock-Kurzweil integral? -- Walt Pohl 20:55, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Is there a way to count all your contributions, and see how many there are?
Is it possible to view pages from other parts of wikipedia all on my en.wikipedia watchlist? It would be really convenient to be able to watch certain de.wikipedia pages alongside my en.wikipedia watchlist
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Hope that helps. Angela . 13:32, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
It is done. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 11:49, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Re: comment on
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The "5000 people test" (alternatively, the "1000 people test") is a rule of thumb for deciding whether or not information belongs on the wiki. If you think there aren't 5000 people who would care to know, don't write it. I think that this is a manifestly good idea, but I haven't seen it on any "official" Wikipolicy pages, and I don't know where I got it from. How did you come across it, and why was it associated with my name?
--Smack 22:05, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I do not think the definition of vector field should be in Differential geometry and topology, there is a ref. to vector field (which is not written well but it is better to improve this insead of giving def in Differential geometry and topology). (Those who read Differential geometry and topology probably will need just idea of vector field (and it is given) and they might go to vector field to get the correct def.) I do not insist on my change, that is not at all crutial, but still think that my edit is bit better. (I'm teaching a bit and I know that many students can work with vector field easely, but words secton of tangent bundle scare them) Tosha 12:14, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It appears to be a real area of research (which is why I have not sent Dogonadze article to vfd) but a very obscure one. All the other of 5-8 discoveries mentioned in the "history" section of Quantum mechanics are of Nobel-prize caliber (I would even say they stand out even among Nobel-prize winners). Quantum electrochemistry is very far from that level. And we are dealing with one of authors here and he has been inserting similar texts into other physics pages as well (and possibly created a page on himself as well, although he claims that that page was created by someone else). The whole episode looks like a promotion attempt. Andris 08:19, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
From any page in Wikipedia, click on Preferences in the top right hand corner and under the User data heading is a box where you can alter your nickname (it says Your nickname (for signatures):). In there you need to do a bit of jiggery pokery, that looks a bit like this:
You can alter it to whatever your preferences are and can even add extra characters, use colour or bold or italics to your heart's content, as several people who use wikipedia often do. Have fun, and let me know how you get on. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 16:04, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Graham ☺ | Talk Lethe | Talk to my page! | to my talk!
Hi, I noticed your edits to this article, and I agree that Reddi's version was unbalanced (not atypical for him, unfortunately). I did a literature search for all of the papers that cite Shankland's 1955 analysis, and I couldn't find any mainstream publications that question it. I've rewritten the article accordingly, including some quotes from Shankland and Einstein on the subject; see what you think. (Be sure to look at the history in case Reddi follows his usual pattern and reverts.) —Steven G. Johnson 21:08, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
My version is balanced. Much like Alfven's problem with his research, mainstream publications do not include works that truely question Shankland (but that doesn't change facts). My usual pattern of revert? No ... just reinclusion of opposing views. JDR
Hi Lethe. Edits from 128.104.220.225 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 04:57, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
The edits to the Scotland article weren't vandalism. If you had read the "Nation or Country" section in its talk page you would have understood what was going on. I'm not going to revert your changes but if similar changes happen, just leave them. Either version is acceptable to me, although to be frank I prefer the country one. -- Derek Ross | Talk 04:00, 2004 Sep 20 (UTC)
Hi,
Regarding translation of French in Hindi, it's not फ़्रांसीसी or फ़्राँसीसी, it should be फ़्राँसीसी or फ़्रांसीसी.
Punjabi is पंजाबी.
In my dictionaries (English-Hindi, by J.W. Raker & R. Shukla, Star Publications, New Delhi, Outline of Hindi Grammar, R.S. McGregor, Oxford U.P., and Teach Yourself Hindi, by R. Snell and S. Weightmann, Hodder & Stoughton), English is अँग्रेज़ी 3 times and अंग्रेज़ी once.
Writing Hindi when WP doesn't support Unicode is not fun. :( Yann 08:47, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Ornefnaskra Isl 1081618531960.gif. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell ( talk) ( help)[[]] 20:27, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
I do see what you mean but it can't be helped. See more on my own user page. My work is the best available reference. Caroline Thompson 10:37, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Dear Lethe
Have you tried the alternative to my paper? The only other useful reference on the detection loophole is Philip Pearle's 1970 paper (Pearle, P: “Hidden-Variable Example Based upon Data Rejection”, Physical Review D, 2, 1418-25 (1970)). This paper says essentially the same thing as mine but is accessible only to mathematicians! It has no diagrams, and the only reason I was able to understand it was that I had already worked out a similar geometrical model for myself. Caroline Thompson 17:49, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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Please have a look at some of the recent exchanges in the tal kpage there. Unfortunately most of my time working on that article has been dealing with CT. Thanks. CSTAR 01:53, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC).
I wrote a pretty strong reply to CT -- maybe I went a little overboard, but please comment. Thanks! CSTAR 20:52, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have absolutely no objection to putting in references to loopholes (in fact, if you look at what I wrote, I have done so). But the problem is that CT seems intent on suppressing any statement which goes against her positions or subtly rephrasing them so as to make QM look suspect. Have you ever read her webpage? I did so the other day. It makes fascinating reading. She is a firm believer in naive (not to say cranky) physics.
If she really wanted to, and had the will to stop trying to convince scientists they are wrong, she could convert her interest into a serious research programme as follows: First provide a naive model for some subset of physics and investigate the processes by which "mainstream" scientists, often based on partial evidence or even flawe reasoning, might reject these models. This is a much rational form of the so-called "strong programme"
As far as my response to her today, I just got fed up with her ever more irrelevant objections to my contributions. In particular, her comment about the case of the probabilistic case of Bell's theorem for random variables having 0 as a possible value, not being also trivial really showed me she really doesn't know what she is talking about or at best talks impulsively without thinking. Of course, she later denied having ever said that it was not trivial, but I believe her denial was just her attempt to save face. CSTAR 04:56, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the help with Adjoint endomorphism. linas 14:23, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I guess CT finally made it [1]. CSTAR 02:45, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think there are enough votes for the deletion of the List of English words of Latin origin. How long will it take before they delete it. Decius 07:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
How do you work out how many edits you've done? — Christiaan 23:59, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Help! Xe's putting the dictionaries back in. Uncle G 19:00, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
Of course there are lots of LaTeX picture environments and they're getting better. Though it's far from perfect, I really like xfig.
I don't have access to the book you mentioned at the moment.
Make sure you you've got a recent version of Xfig:
% xfig -v Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 3d (Protocol 3.2)
Use grid mode; you will be prompted if you want vertical or horizontal displacement.
you can also zoom in.
You can put any latex math symbols in the text areas (for instance $\frac{a}{b}$) using the "special flag" and exporting to "combined/PS LaTex both parts". This produces two text files one of which you include in your LaTeX source.
Of course it expands correctly any macros defined in the source. CSTAR 00:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to Argentina for a few weeks, so I won't have time to look at much. However, xfig should export 2 files
The file you input is fuba.pstex_t
You might have to edit pstex_t
CSTAR 21:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I tagged that article for speedy deletion. It was deleted by Ahoerstemeier. Goplat 20:19, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I just restored the line you removed. If you don't understand please ask on the talk page instead of removing what turns out to be valid information and asking in the edit summary. In the case of lumber a 2 by 4 is not 2 inches by 4 inches, it is about 1 3/4 by 3 1/2. See Dimensional lumber. Rmhermen 13:24, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
Well, Hi, yes, its good to talk. You said
well, if you did, I certainly failed to take notice, and have no memory of such. FWIW, I know that I do sometimes introduce errors during edits; sometimes I catch these within minutes, sometimes within hours, sometimes, within days, sometimes ...never. Sometimes, some of these errors are major conceptual bloopers... No doubt, you'll see future edits from me that look questionable; call them out; I know I'm fallible and won't take it badly.
BTW, do you publish on arxiv.org? I've been casually working on a few papers, and wanted to post them there, but do not have any connections into an active community. linas 2 July 2005 15:16 (UTC)
I posted a request for discussion of the four templates we discussed at Talk:Transcendental number to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, together with some of your arguments. Hope this will generate some discussion. I wonder if you can follow it too. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 03:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
Lethe, what did you mean? Simply put, because antiderivatives and integrals are not the same thing. I think they deserve separate articles, although certainly a discussion of how they are related belongs in each article (which there currently is). Remember that it is only by the deep result of the Fundamental theorem of calculus that the seemingly otherwise unrelated concepts of integration and antidifferentiation end up being connected. and for certain classes of functions, this connection can't be made, because some functions have integrals, but not antiderivatives (within the appropriate domain). So the connection given by the Fundamental Theorem is deep and important, but it does not mean that the two ideas are exactly equivalent. -Lethe | Talk 01:04, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC) A function which has an integral always has an antiderivative - the same antiderivative which comes out of the Fundamental Theorem. Not all of these antiderivatives are expressible, but they all exist, because the derivative of the formula of the theorem is the function.
But of course you're right that an integral and antiderivative are altogether different. Like I said in Integral, an integral may imply a means for computing it, but to say that an integral is the same as the means for computing it is to "glide through"...-- VKokielov 22:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe. If the only issue you had with my edit on compact was the omission of compact car, i will re-revert it, including the link of course. If there were other issues, please let me know. greetings, -- Lenthe 22:17, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
You have correctly understood an analogy, duly marked as not wholly serious, about a policy we have both read. So? Septentrionalis 21:10, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Lethe, remember your proposal to merge energy-momentum density into this article? I wasn't even wikiborn back in Jan 2005, but I seem to have independently come to same glaringly obvious conclusion (just put back merger template). Why didn't the merger take place last time?--- CH (talk) 22:43, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Question to Hydnjo: did I commit a faux pas by doing what's probably someone's homework?
Greetings, Lethe! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wisconsin page. The page will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wisconsin page? Thanks!!
To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin|Lethe]] to ensure proper sorting.
For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 04:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Just noticed your recent edit to Apple Macintosh, about the Intel-based Xserve RAID. Would you mind updating the Xserve RAID with this information? I don't really know much about this subject, and although I could find sources confirming that it uses an Intel chip, I couldn't find enough to confidently update our Xserve RAID page. Thanks. AlistairMcMillan 20:09, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_el-0 Thanks for giving me something to do for a few minutes :P. Although I did find teh "It's all Greek to me" comment quite clever ;). -- HawkeyE 08:19, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
What exactly is wrong with my pop article on Hilbert space? It's not very civil of you to smear people as "cranks" . I have a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California and was the first to predict the now discovered supersolid as other physicists are now beginning to affirm. Jack Sarfatti JackSarfatti 05:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe, my name is Trieu. I had made some minor changes at Dual space. I added a small example and exchange locations between "covariance" and "contravariance". Am I correct? Could you please help me to modify them if my previous modification is wrong.
Thanks.
~~ Thanks for enlighten me :-) I am a little bit better than before about those. Tensor brought to me many confusions. Trieu 07:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
People seem to be bickering over little wording issues here, but 800-pound elephant is that the article still has no account of (first-order) Peano arithmetic. Or worse, it has a misleading account--it's possible to infer that you can get Peano arithmetic just by replacing the induction axiom with an induction schema restricted to properties definable by first-order formulas, and that's just wrong: You have to add multiplication to the language and add axioms that make it work. I admit I've been reluctant to do it myself because of the technical difficulty of explaining what the new induction schema exactly is (unfortunately the arithmetical hierarchy article is in very bad shape). -- Trovatore 07:23, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Greetings. You had expressed concern about the width of your category table. While looking, I noticed a few minor issues that I took the liberty of tinkering with. As a rule I consider a user's sub-pages as untouchable, so I hope you will forgive the intrusion and revert if you object. I agree that the width is excessive, and have two possible strategies to suggest.
With a little automated help, the first option wins; otherwise, the second is a quick and dirty compromise. Here's an example.
Legend
Category | Objects | morphisms | conc | /,⊂ | ×,co | =,co | i,t,z | + | → | ⊗ | ccc | comments |
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Ab | abelian groups | group homomorphisms | Y | Y,Y | Y,Y | Y,Y | 0 | Ab | Y | N | ||
Adj | small categories | adjunctions | N | N | ||||||||
K-Alg | algebras over field K | homomorphisms | Y | Y | Y | 0 | Ab | Y | Y | N | a full subcategory of R-Mod | |
AlgSet/K | algebraic sets | regular maps | Y | Y,Y (?) | Y,Y (?) | N | N | N | ||||
Bool | Boolean algebras | homomorphisms | Y | Y,? | N | Y | ||||||
CAb | compact abelian groups | group homomorphisms | Y | Ab | Y | |||||||
Cat | small categories | functors | Y 1 | Y,? | ?,1,? | N | Y | Y | Y | with natural transformations, this actually forms a 2-category | ||
CGHaus | compactly generated Hausdorff spaces | Y | N | N | Y | Y | this category is used as a replacement for Top which has the benefit of being Cartesian closed |
Notes:
Probably you can do better, but this shows the benefit of short labels. -- KSmrq T 14:49, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Lethe! I don't have any problem with your edit to algebraic structure, but I find your edit summary puzzling. Since I'm responsible for the current layout, maybe I can explain... a division ring is not an algebraic structure in the sense of Universal Algebra, since the division ring axioms are not all identities. Division rings are, however, algebraic structures in a broader sense that includes integral domains and fields, and I think the article makes the distinction between the two sections clear. As for groups, yes, they're algebraic structures in every sense of the phrase: sets with operations of arity 0, 1, and 2 satisfying certain identities. Do you agree? Melchoir 22:45, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
We both want what is best for wikipedia. Neither of us wants to argue/fight/revert-war. Let's find some third party that we agree knows physics to settle this. I'm trying to have less to do with wikipedia these days. I'm easy with regard to how stuff is displayed. Help me feel comfortable with editing less ... THANK YOU !!!! WAS 4.250 23:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Yea, I did use sciforums a looong time ago. I hope I didn't piss you off... there were some pretty heated discussions there. I use this basic screenname for everything I do online. Fresheneesz 03:30, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe. Again on the same topic. You wrote at boundary (topology) that for a manifold with boundary, its boundary in the topological sense coincides with its boundary in the sense of the set of points whose neighbourhoods are not diffeomorphic to an open disk. I don't think that's true, and you wrote that right below in the article.
That is, if one considers the closed unit disk as a manifold, then its topological boundary is empty, while its boundary viewed as a manifold is the circle. Wonder what you think. You can reply here. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 01:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for creating Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics. To be honest, I had my doubts about it, seeing how few questions on maths were asked at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science, but just creating the page seems to have induced many questions. Good job! -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 12:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I can under stand your initial doubtfulness. I felt hesitant about it in the first place for the specific reason that we didn't really need it; the math traffic was quite light. My hope was that it would justify its own existence in that if math had its own quiet place to live, more math could be asked, and math people who may not want to watch a noisy RD might still watch this one. I think it's done that. Anyway, I'm glad you like it. I like it to. - lethe talk 13:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I enjoyed finding English words of Greek origin through your talk page. One thing not discussed there, that I find interesting, is pronunciation. The example that comes to mind is gastrocnemius, listed in AHED as having the syllable boundary between the c and n, clearly violating its Greek origins. Yet medical terminology uses "gastro" in other words as a unit, so you'd think pronunciation would separate the semantic units. Do you know of other such examples? -- KSmrq T 09:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, some nice examples, especially agnostic and archæopteryx. If your theory is right, then Ngorongoro Crater must completely baffle English-speakers! I do think Philadelphia is borderline; there's a syllable split, [fɪl.ə.ˈdɛl.fi.ə], whether the semantics is split properly or not; and there's both a South Jersey restaurant and a notorious communications firm named Adelphia. (Wouldn't the Greek stress go on the antepenultimate syllable, the same as the English pronunciation?) -- KSmrq T 14:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe! Thanks for voting on Talk:Hindu-Arabic numerals. You might like to take a look at the reasons we had for the change earlier, which got lost in the lengthy text. I've put it in the beginning of the vote here. Thanks a lot! deeptrivia ( talk) 19:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not going to engage in an edit war about "all" versus "virtually all", but show me any credible counterexample in classical mathematics... Randall Holmes 17:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
(the topology counterexample that I eliminated is wrong-headed; I'm a former topologist, and I know...)
In the criticism part, the point is that Sarfatti denies that he ever contacted a critic's employer to have the critic "dismissed". Sarfatti told me that is simply a false rumor. Is there any evidence for that allegation Sarfatti says is simply not true? :-) ~~RMC3
So, are you now going to visit all the talk page modifying your sig? I thought you were busy prodcusing another discontinuous linear map! :) Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 21:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some tips:
Other useful pages are: how to edit, how to write a great article, naming conventions, manual of style and the Wikipedia policies.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela . 03:52, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
Is Gauge integral the same thing as Henstock-Kurzweil integral? -- Walt Pohl 20:55, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Is there a way to count all your contributions, and see how many there are?
Is it possible to view pages from other parts of wikipedia all on my en.wikipedia watchlist? It would be really convenient to be able to watch certain de.wikipedia pages alongside my en.wikipedia watchlist
If someone has uploaded a picture to de.wikipedia, is it possible to make include the picture in a en.wikipedia article? or do i have to download the picture from de.w to my computer, and then upload from my computer to en.w, and then include it in the en.wikipedia page?
What's the process for getting a page deleted?
Hope that helps. Angela . 13:32, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
It is done. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 11:49, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Re: comment on
my talk
The "5000 people test" (alternatively, the "1000 people test") is a rule of thumb for deciding whether or not information belongs on the wiki. If you think there aren't 5000 people who would care to know, don't write it. I think that this is a manifestly good idea, but I haven't seen it on any "official" Wikipolicy pages, and I don't know where I got it from. How did you come across it, and why was it associated with my name?
--Smack 22:05, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I do not think the definition of vector field should be in Differential geometry and topology, there is a ref. to vector field (which is not written well but it is better to improve this insead of giving def in Differential geometry and topology). (Those who read Differential geometry and topology probably will need just idea of vector field (and it is given) and they might go to vector field to get the correct def.) I do not insist on my change, that is not at all crutial, but still think that my edit is bit better. (I'm teaching a bit and I know that many students can work with vector field easely, but words secton of tangent bundle scare them) Tosha 12:14, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It appears to be a real area of research (which is why I have not sent Dogonadze article to vfd) but a very obscure one. All the other of 5-8 discoveries mentioned in the "history" section of Quantum mechanics are of Nobel-prize caliber (I would even say they stand out even among Nobel-prize winners). Quantum electrochemistry is very far from that level. And we are dealing with one of authors here and he has been inserting similar texts into other physics pages as well (and possibly created a page on himself as well, although he claims that that page was created by someone else). The whole episode looks like a promotion attempt. Andris 08:19, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
From any page in Wikipedia, click on Preferences in the top right hand corner and under the User data heading is a box where you can alter your nickname (it says Your nickname (for signatures):). In there you need to do a bit of jiggery pokery, that looks a bit like this:
You can alter it to whatever your preferences are and can even add extra characters, use colour or bold or italics to your heart's content, as several people who use wikipedia often do. Have fun, and let me know how you get on. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 16:04, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Graham ☺ | Talk Lethe | Talk to my page! | to my talk!
Hi, I noticed your edits to this article, and I agree that Reddi's version was unbalanced (not atypical for him, unfortunately). I did a literature search for all of the papers that cite Shankland's 1955 analysis, and I couldn't find any mainstream publications that question it. I've rewritten the article accordingly, including some quotes from Shankland and Einstein on the subject; see what you think. (Be sure to look at the history in case Reddi follows his usual pattern and reverts.) —Steven G. Johnson 21:08, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
My version is balanced. Much like Alfven's problem with his research, mainstream publications do not include works that truely question Shankland (but that doesn't change facts). My usual pattern of revert? No ... just reinclusion of opposing views. JDR
Hi Lethe. Edits from 128.104.220.225 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 04:57, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
The edits to the Scotland article weren't vandalism. If you had read the "Nation or Country" section in its talk page you would have understood what was going on. I'm not going to revert your changes but if similar changes happen, just leave them. Either version is acceptable to me, although to be frank I prefer the country one. -- Derek Ross | Talk 04:00, 2004 Sep 20 (UTC)
Hi,
Regarding translation of French in Hindi, it's not फ़्रांसीसी or फ़्राँसीसी, it should be फ़्राँसीसी or फ़्रांसीसी.
Punjabi is पंजाबी.
In my dictionaries (English-Hindi, by J.W. Raker & R. Shukla, Star Publications, New Delhi, Outline of Hindi Grammar, R.S. McGregor, Oxford U.P., and Teach Yourself Hindi, by R. Snell and S. Weightmann, Hodder & Stoughton), English is अँग्रेज़ी 3 times and अंग्रेज़ी once.
Writing Hindi when WP doesn't support Unicode is not fun. :( Yann 08:47, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Ornefnaskra Isl 1081618531960.gif. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell ( talk) ( help)[[]] 20:27, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
I do see what you mean but it can't be helped. See more on my own user page. My work is the best available reference. Caroline Thompson 10:37, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Dear Lethe
Have you tried the alternative to my paper? The only other useful reference on the detection loophole is Philip Pearle's 1970 paper (Pearle, P: “Hidden-Variable Example Based upon Data Rejection”, Physical Review D, 2, 1418-25 (1970)). This paper says essentially the same thing as mine but is accessible only to mathematicians! It has no diagrams, and the only reason I was able to understand it was that I had already worked out a similar geometrical model for myself. Caroline Thompson 17:49, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Please have a look at some of the recent exchanges in the tal kpage there. Unfortunately most of my time working on that article has been dealing with CT. Thanks. CSTAR 01:53, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC).
I wrote a pretty strong reply to CT -- maybe I went a little overboard, but please comment. Thanks! CSTAR 20:52, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have absolutely no objection to putting in references to loopholes (in fact, if you look at what I wrote, I have done so). But the problem is that CT seems intent on suppressing any statement which goes against her positions or subtly rephrasing them so as to make QM look suspect. Have you ever read her webpage? I did so the other day. It makes fascinating reading. She is a firm believer in naive (not to say cranky) physics.
If she really wanted to, and had the will to stop trying to convince scientists they are wrong, she could convert her interest into a serious research programme as follows: First provide a naive model for some subset of physics and investigate the processes by which "mainstream" scientists, often based on partial evidence or even flawe reasoning, might reject these models. This is a much rational form of the so-called "strong programme"
As far as my response to her today, I just got fed up with her ever more irrelevant objections to my contributions. In particular, her comment about the case of the probabilistic case of Bell's theorem for random variables having 0 as a possible value, not being also trivial really showed me she really doesn't know what she is talking about or at best talks impulsively without thinking. Of course, she later denied having ever said that it was not trivial, but I believe her denial was just her attempt to save face. CSTAR 04:56, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the help with Adjoint endomorphism. linas 14:23, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I guess CT finally made it [1]. CSTAR 02:45, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think there are enough votes for the deletion of the List of English words of Latin origin. How long will it take before they delete it. Decius 07:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
How do you work out how many edits you've done? — Christiaan 23:59, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Help! Xe's putting the dictionaries back in. Uncle G 19:00, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
Of course there are lots of LaTeX picture environments and they're getting better. Though it's far from perfect, I really like xfig.
I don't have access to the book you mentioned at the moment.
Make sure you you've got a recent version of Xfig:
% xfig -v Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 3d (Protocol 3.2)
Use grid mode; you will be prompted if you want vertical or horizontal displacement.
you can also zoom in.
You can put any latex math symbols in the text areas (for instance $\frac{a}{b}$) using the "special flag" and exporting to "combined/PS LaTex both parts". This produces two text files one of which you include in your LaTeX source.
Of course it expands correctly any macros defined in the source. CSTAR 00:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to Argentina for a few weeks, so I won't have time to look at much. However, xfig should export 2 files
The file you input is fuba.pstex_t
You might have to edit pstex_t
CSTAR 21:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I tagged that article for speedy deletion. It was deleted by Ahoerstemeier. Goplat 20:19, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I just restored the line you removed. If you don't understand please ask on the talk page instead of removing what turns out to be valid information and asking in the edit summary. In the case of lumber a 2 by 4 is not 2 inches by 4 inches, it is about 1 3/4 by 3 1/2. See Dimensional lumber. Rmhermen 13:24, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
Well, Hi, yes, its good to talk. You said
well, if you did, I certainly failed to take notice, and have no memory of such. FWIW, I know that I do sometimes introduce errors during edits; sometimes I catch these within minutes, sometimes within hours, sometimes, within days, sometimes ...never. Sometimes, some of these errors are major conceptual bloopers... No doubt, you'll see future edits from me that look questionable; call them out; I know I'm fallible and won't take it badly.
BTW, do you publish on arxiv.org? I've been casually working on a few papers, and wanted to post them there, but do not have any connections into an active community. linas 2 July 2005 15:16 (UTC)
I posted a request for discussion of the four templates we discussed at Talk:Transcendental number to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, together with some of your arguments. Hope this will generate some discussion. I wonder if you can follow it too. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 03:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
Lethe, what did you mean? Simply put, because antiderivatives and integrals are not the same thing. I think they deserve separate articles, although certainly a discussion of how they are related belongs in each article (which there currently is). Remember that it is only by the deep result of the Fundamental theorem of calculus that the seemingly otherwise unrelated concepts of integration and antidifferentiation end up being connected. and for certain classes of functions, this connection can't be made, because some functions have integrals, but not antiderivatives (within the appropriate domain). So the connection given by the Fundamental Theorem is deep and important, but it does not mean that the two ideas are exactly equivalent. -Lethe | Talk 01:04, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC) A function which has an integral always has an antiderivative - the same antiderivative which comes out of the Fundamental Theorem. Not all of these antiderivatives are expressible, but they all exist, because the derivative of the formula of the theorem is the function.
But of course you're right that an integral and antiderivative are altogether different. Like I said in Integral, an integral may imply a means for computing it, but to say that an integral is the same as the means for computing it is to "glide through"...-- VKokielov 22:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe. If the only issue you had with my edit on compact was the omission of compact car, i will re-revert it, including the link of course. If there were other issues, please let me know. greetings, -- Lenthe 22:17, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
You have correctly understood an analogy, duly marked as not wholly serious, about a policy we have both read. So? Septentrionalis 21:10, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Lethe, remember your proposal to merge energy-momentum density into this article? I wasn't even wikiborn back in Jan 2005, but I seem to have independently come to same glaringly obvious conclusion (just put back merger template). Why didn't the merger take place last time?--- CH (talk) 22:43, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Question to Hydnjo: did I commit a faux pas by doing what's probably someone's homework?
Greetings, Lethe! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wisconsin page. The page will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wisconsin page? Thanks!!
To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin|Lethe]] to ensure proper sorting.
For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 04:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
Just noticed your recent edit to Apple Macintosh, about the Intel-based Xserve RAID. Would you mind updating the Xserve RAID with this information? I don't really know much about this subject, and although I could find sources confirming that it uses an Intel chip, I couldn't find enough to confidently update our Xserve RAID page. Thanks. AlistairMcMillan 20:09, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_el-0 Thanks for giving me something to do for a few minutes :P. Although I did find teh "It's all Greek to me" comment quite clever ;). -- HawkeyE 08:19, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
What exactly is wrong with my pop article on Hilbert space? It's not very civil of you to smear people as "cranks" . I have a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California and was the first to predict the now discovered supersolid as other physicists are now beginning to affirm. Jack Sarfatti JackSarfatti 05:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe, my name is Trieu. I had made some minor changes at Dual space. I added a small example and exchange locations between "covariance" and "contravariance". Am I correct? Could you please help me to modify them if my previous modification is wrong.
Thanks.
~~ Thanks for enlighten me :-) I am a little bit better than before about those. Tensor brought to me many confusions. Trieu 07:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
People seem to be bickering over little wording issues here, but 800-pound elephant is that the article still has no account of (first-order) Peano arithmetic. Or worse, it has a misleading account--it's possible to infer that you can get Peano arithmetic just by replacing the induction axiom with an induction schema restricted to properties definable by first-order formulas, and that's just wrong: You have to add multiplication to the language and add axioms that make it work. I admit I've been reluctant to do it myself because of the technical difficulty of explaining what the new induction schema exactly is (unfortunately the arithmetical hierarchy article is in very bad shape). -- Trovatore 07:23, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Greetings. You had expressed concern about the width of your category table. While looking, I noticed a few minor issues that I took the liberty of tinkering with. As a rule I consider a user's sub-pages as untouchable, so I hope you will forgive the intrusion and revert if you object. I agree that the width is excessive, and have two possible strategies to suggest.
With a little automated help, the first option wins; otherwise, the second is a quick and dirty compromise. Here's an example.
Legend
Category | Objects | morphisms | conc | /,⊂ | ×,co | =,co | i,t,z | + | → | ⊗ | ccc | comments |
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Ab | abelian groups | group homomorphisms | Y | Y,Y | Y,Y | Y,Y | 0 | Ab | Y | N | ||
Adj | small categories | adjunctions | N | N | ||||||||
K-Alg | algebras over field K | homomorphisms | Y | Y | Y | 0 | Ab | Y | Y | N | a full subcategory of R-Mod | |
AlgSet/K | algebraic sets | regular maps | Y | Y,Y (?) | Y,Y (?) | N | N | N | ||||
Bool | Boolean algebras | homomorphisms | Y | Y,? | N | Y | ||||||
CAb | compact abelian groups | group homomorphisms | Y | Ab | Y | |||||||
Cat | small categories | functors | Y 1 | Y,? | ?,1,? | N | Y | Y | Y | with natural transformations, this actually forms a 2-category | ||
CGHaus | compactly generated Hausdorff spaces | Y | N | N | Y | Y | this category is used as a replacement for Top which has the benefit of being Cartesian closed |
Notes:
Probably you can do better, but this shows the benefit of short labels. -- KSmrq T 14:49, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Lethe! I don't have any problem with your edit to algebraic structure, but I find your edit summary puzzling. Since I'm responsible for the current layout, maybe I can explain... a division ring is not an algebraic structure in the sense of Universal Algebra, since the division ring axioms are not all identities. Division rings are, however, algebraic structures in a broader sense that includes integral domains and fields, and I think the article makes the distinction between the two sections clear. As for groups, yes, they're algebraic structures in every sense of the phrase: sets with operations of arity 0, 1, and 2 satisfying certain identities. Do you agree? Melchoir 22:45, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
We both want what is best for wikipedia. Neither of us wants to argue/fight/revert-war. Let's find some third party that we agree knows physics to settle this. I'm trying to have less to do with wikipedia these days. I'm easy with regard to how stuff is displayed. Help me feel comfortable with editing less ... THANK YOU !!!! WAS 4.250 23:55, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Yea, I did use sciforums a looong time ago. I hope I didn't piss you off... there were some pretty heated discussions there. I use this basic screenname for everything I do online. Fresheneesz 03:30, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe. Again on the same topic. You wrote at boundary (topology) that for a manifold with boundary, its boundary in the topological sense coincides with its boundary in the sense of the set of points whose neighbourhoods are not diffeomorphic to an open disk. I don't think that's true, and you wrote that right below in the article.
That is, if one considers the closed unit disk as a manifold, then its topological boundary is empty, while its boundary viewed as a manifold is the circle. Wonder what you think. You can reply here. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 01:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for creating Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics. To be honest, I had my doubts about it, seeing how few questions on maths were asked at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science, but just creating the page seems to have induced many questions. Good job! -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 12:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I can under stand your initial doubtfulness. I felt hesitant about it in the first place for the specific reason that we didn't really need it; the math traffic was quite light. My hope was that it would justify its own existence in that if math had its own quiet place to live, more math could be asked, and math people who may not want to watch a noisy RD might still watch this one. I think it's done that. Anyway, I'm glad you like it. I like it to. - lethe talk 13:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I enjoyed finding English words of Greek origin through your talk page. One thing not discussed there, that I find interesting, is pronunciation. The example that comes to mind is gastrocnemius, listed in AHED as having the syllable boundary between the c and n, clearly violating its Greek origins. Yet medical terminology uses "gastro" in other words as a unit, so you'd think pronunciation would separate the semantic units. Do you know of other such examples? -- KSmrq T 09:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, some nice examples, especially agnostic and archæopteryx. If your theory is right, then Ngorongoro Crater must completely baffle English-speakers! I do think Philadelphia is borderline; there's a syllable split, [fɪl.ə.ˈdɛl.fi.ə], whether the semantics is split properly or not; and there's both a South Jersey restaurant and a notorious communications firm named Adelphia. (Wouldn't the Greek stress go on the antepenultimate syllable, the same as the English pronunciation?) -- KSmrq T 14:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Lethe! Thanks for voting on Talk:Hindu-Arabic numerals. You might like to take a look at the reasons we had for the change earlier, which got lost in the lengthy text. I've put it in the beginning of the vote here. Thanks a lot! deeptrivia ( talk) 19:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not going to engage in an edit war about "all" versus "virtually all", but show me any credible counterexample in classical mathematics... Randall Holmes 17:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
(the topology counterexample that I eliminated is wrong-headed; I'm a former topologist, and I know...)
In the criticism part, the point is that Sarfatti denies that he ever contacted a critic's employer to have the critic "dismissed". Sarfatti told me that is simply a false rumor. Is there any evidence for that allegation Sarfatti says is simply not true? :-) ~~RMC3
So, are you now going to visit all the talk page modifying your sig? I thought you were busy prodcusing another discontinuous linear map! :) Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 21:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)