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Revision as of 23:19, 26 March 2006

To do list

/todo

Reference links

• my sandbox
• codes for entering symbols with windows W:Special characters
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Mathematics
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Universities
• Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion (AfD) and Misplaced Pages:Speedy deletions
• Misplaced Pages:How to edit a page or meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing overview
• Misplaced Pages:TeX markup or meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae
• m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables

my questions

asked

• Talk:Gstaad: How do you pronounce Gstaad in English? In Scent of a Woman, there's a debate about whether the 'g' is silent, and I'd kinda like to know.
• see about refrigerator drawers
• binary trees
• Talk:Mesoamerica

math questions

• RD and Talk:Limit (category theory): how can I view the limit of a sequence as the limit in the category theoretic sense?
• RD: evaluation is a continuous operation on maps.
  • Nicely answered by User:Dmharvey
• Talk:Fundamental group: How do I make a space (esp. a manifold) with a given group? Links to some answers, not yet read.
• : Fubini-Study metric http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Reference_desk/Science&diff=prev&oldid=25763971
• Talk:Second-order logic and Talk:First-order logic

answered

• ]

reference

1. Is there a general place for discussion of, complaints about, suggestions for all things LaTeX?
   1. Why can't Latex do \dotsc or other ams stuff (which ams stuff can't it do? all?)?

perhaps Misplaced Pages talk:TeX markup or m:Help talk:Formula, although it seems like there are more questions than answers there...

\dotsb=${\displaystyle \dotsb }$

\dotsc=${\displaystyle \dotsc }$

\dotsm=${\displaystyle \dotsm }$

'Cause Misplaced Pages uses only a subset of LaTeX. (I know this is not very satisfactory explanation.) Why is ${\displaystyle \cdots }$ (\cdots) and ${\displaystyle \ldots }$ (\ldots) not enough? Oleg Alexandrov 03:34, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

${\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2\pi i}}\oint {\frac {f(z)}{z-a}}\,dz=f(a)}$ remember your \, for spacing

open tasks

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Misplaced Pages:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

• Bhumij rebellion
• Operation of Hope
• List of analog television stations in the Philippines
• Valentino Rossi

• Filipino Cultural Association
• Stem cell laws
• Politics of Catalonia
• Robert Stoltz
• Vinicius (footballer, born 26 January 1995)

• Ranikhola
• Lingthem
• Zimchung
• Ranipool
• Pathing Assembly constituency

• Joel Zamel
• Timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (August 2019)
• Romania
• Black (Lee Hyori album)
• Skyfall

• North American integration
• JetDirect
• Three Miles North of Molkom
• De-aging in film and television
• Indian locomotive class WAG-8

• Farhampton
• Positech Games
• Tyson Sullivan
• History of Tibet (1950–present)
• Sitka, Alaska

• Northern Crossing (shopping mall)
• National Zoo & Aquarium
• National Library of Guyana
• Namık Kemal House Museum, Tekirdağ
• New Moti Bagh

• Flavia Company
• Oleksandr Merezhko
• Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry
• Otto Adolf Weismann von Weißenstein
• Castle Szidonia

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

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subpages

• /goose
• /blackhole
• /spr links and quotes
• /supremum
• /comics
• /cologneblue.js
• /evaluation
• /todo

tangent vectors on the sphere

Reminder:

${\displaystyle \chi (\mathbb {S} ^{n})=1+(-1)^{n}}$

and by Poincaré-Hopf, there can be no nonvanishing vectors if the Euler characteristic doesn't vanish (confer hairy ball theorem). Thus, only for n odd are there nonvanishing vector fields. In this case, let

${\displaystyle n+1=(2m+1)2^{4a+b}{\mbox{ where }}0\leq b\leq 3}$

then there are 2+8*a−1 independent vector fields. Thus it follows that if n is 0, 1, 3 or 7, there are n independent vector fields so the corresponding tangent bundles are trivial. These also give constructions for the 4 normed division algebras.

gauge

The criterion I like is to say a 1-parameter group of symmetries is "physical" if its generator does not vanish by virtue of the equations of motion, and "gauge" if the generator does vanish when the equations of motion hold. If our symmetry is "gauge" we should mod out by it; if it's "physical" we should not.

-John Baez

Usually people don't bother to define "forgetful functor" very precisely - like pornography, you're just supposed to know a forgetful functor when you see it.

"Lethaeum ad fluuium deus euocat agmine magno, scilicet immemores supera ut conuexa reuisant rursus, et incipiant in corpora uelle reuerti"

failures of wikipedia

the password list debacle

Wikipedians, in their infinite wisdom, voted not to delete a page which exposed users' passwords, because the users in question were probably trolls. Developer Brion Vibber said this about it:

Nonetheless, this list was at best borderline with respect to our privacy policy. I deleted it as soon as I was made aware it was still here (I'd been under the impression it had been deleted within hours of originally being posted, and no one has contacted me or the developers team about it that I'm aware of). If the site admins here on en.wikipedia.org didn't remove it, that's a group failure and I'm rather disappointed.

--Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. 22:37, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

spreading misinformation via wikipedia

Viajero included the following line to the original version of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake article

"Priests of the inquisition roamed the city, rounding up "heretics" and hanging them on the spot for angering God"

It stayed in the article for years, spreading all over the Internet, and was eventually quoted in the Washington Post , and from there it was tracked down by some Catholic who knew it to be obviously false. This resulted in bad press for Misplaced Pages, and then he was asked by Jimbo himself where that information had come from, to which Viajero (who is an administrator and so a trusted member) apparently never replied.

Contributions

Pages by me

• Center for Hellenic Studies
• Benno Fürmann
• Invariant basis number
• differential Galois theory
• Käte Hamburger
• Clarence Cooper
• Tom Dooley
• Derivative (generalizations)
• Ashokan Farewell
• English words of Greek origin
• Almost complex manifold
• Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
• German Aerospace Center
• Experimenter's bias
• Casimir invariant

editcountitis

Edit count for Lethe

It appears some of my edits have been disappearing. I suppose that means they've been deleted?

I made my 1 edit here on en:wikipedia at 05:29, October 10, 2003 UTC.

I made my 1 000 edit here on en:wikipedia at 16:40, October 12, 2004 UTC.

I made my 2 000 edit here on en:wikipedia at 15:08, July 1, 2005 UTC.

I made my 3 000 edit here on en:wikipedia at 14:40, November 20, 2005 UTC.

I made my 4 000 edit here on en:wikipedia at 18:39, January 26, 2006 UTC.

Lethe is in violation of US Federal Law

Friendly advice: Back off Lethe and your cronies, Sarfatti really seems to mean it this time. You could wind up in court over this. The issue is your anonymity. If you reveal your true ID you are within the law.

On Mar 26, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote to a public list:

"Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name."

http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance,+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html

I am now seriously considering about filing a federal complaint about this anonymous Lethe character who is in obvious violation of the above Federal Law. Would DOJ then demand Misplaced Pages to reveal Lethe's true identity? This would be an interesting test case of the law like the Google issue. However, if Wiki does remove the offensive slurs, lies and insinuations I will not do so. Lethe and his Gang should be prevented from this kind of harassment of me and others. They are a Gang of Cyber-Terrorists plain and simple. The issue here is Lethe hiding his true ID.

On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Hey Michael and David will you please confirm my real name to these people? Thanks. Some of my political enemies are trying to steal my name from me! Can you believe that? I am also sending this to our cousin Victoria so she can testify.

Lefty Lethe completely spins the facts to make it appear that my real family name was "Sarfatt" which is not true. Do I need to scan in my father's papers to prove this?

On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote to his list: Apparently Lethe wrote on Misplaced Pages: He was formerly known as "Jack Sarfatt", and changed his surname to "Sarfatti" in 1974. (His earlier publications are written under the name Jack Sarfatt, and later publications under the name Jack Sarfatti.)

The above is false. My real name was "Sarfatti". My father's name is Hyman Sarfatti. My two brother's names are Michael and David Sarfatti. The "i" was omitted by error on my 1939 birth certificate and my father had it CORRECTED in 1974. My real name was RESTORED! I DID NOT CHANGE MY SURNAME. MY SURNAME WAS RESTORED TO WHAT IT REALLY IS! THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE. THIS LETHE IS USING HIS ANONYMITY TO HARASS ME AND IS CAUSING ME PAIN AND SUFFERING.

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