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Thank you for fixing the formulas. Excellent.
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But then you even went and looked at my code too. Well, all I can say is thank you very much indeed! :-)


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I implemented (most of) your suggestions, though perhaps in a slightly different way than you might have been thinking. Take a look:


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Hi,
Using the value of None or a string value means more checks, since it's illegal to do arithmatic on a None value. If the previous formula had been correct, then no valid input would have given me a negative value on output. If it had been negative I could assume the output was really undefined. :-) Dirty? Kinda. And I should have checked input to be honest.
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Now we've noted that h can take on negative values, so I can't use that dirty trick anymore. (not that I should have done that in the first place).


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There's an interesting argument. There's actually 2 schools of thought on that.


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Well, listing 1 assumes that if foo doesn't hold, then bar must hold (and vice versa), but you don't ever mention bar.

In fact, if *neither* foo *nor* bar hold true, then it will assume that bar holds true. The assertion is never raised

In Listing 2, both foo and bar are mentioned. Should your assumptions be wrong, and neither foo nor bar happened, then the programme will be able to raise an assertion to warn you.

I like Listing 2 better than listing 1 for that reason. :-)

There's a slight variant on listing 2 which I use in the programme:

'''Listing 3'''

<pre>
x="undefined"
if foo:
x=a
if bar:
x=b

return x
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Listing 3 will explicitly test both assumptions, and return the string "undefined" if neither holds true.

'''Listing 4'''

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if (foo or bar):
if foo:
x=a
else:
x=b
else
x="undefined"

return x
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listing 4 should do the same thing, now using if ... else. I'm not sure if that's really clearer though! :-)

Let's see how that does branching
* Listing 3 does set, compare, branch, set, compare, branch, set, return
* Listing 4 does compare or compare, c1branch 1: {compare2, c2branch 1 : set , c2branch 2 : set}, c1branch2 : set, return

Don't be mad at me if I made a typo on listing4, it's tricky. :-)

Hopefully that tells you something about views on if...else that you hadn't seen before. I'm sure it's a holy war somewhere. :-)

Thanks again for looking at my horrible python code! :-)

Have a nice day! ] 10:30, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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I've credited you on ]
Thanks for your time! ] 14:36, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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In regard to your inline (&#8253;) question about shibboleths on the ] page, I presume the person who used the term was referring to the fact that many prescriptionist rules function as shibboleths, in that only certain groups are capable of using them correctly. I've fiddled with the "shibboleth" entry a bit; tell me if you think it makes sense in the context of the prescription article.]|] 06:42, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

==hello==

Hi Chinasaur! I'm glad to see someone else is familiar with ]. Actually it would make a great double-bill with Salome (which I would like to see the SF Opera do--did you catch the Electra a few years back?) Be well, ] 05:40, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

'':By the way, have you seen the Teldec video movie version? Pretty good watching, although the traditional staging gets thrown out the window. --Chinasaur 05:53, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)''

No I haven't--is it available on DVD? (presuming you mean Bluebeard's Castle) Sounds great though! Since the drama is internal it probably doesn't need elaborate staging, in fact it might help not to have too much distraction. I like your edits to the article, btw. I was trying to decide whether or not to put any of my personal interpretation of the piece into the article when I first wrote it, and decided not to--you did a good job though. Incredible psychological study of a relationship and places you cannot ever go. --I also saw that Elektra (Nov 1997). Did you catch the Busoni ''Doktor Faustus'' this weekend? Best, ] 06:11, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Nice job on the rewrite. Gives me chills just thinking about "door six." Be seeing you! ] 06:24, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

==Seikilos==

OK, now I'm truly impressed! I had no idea anyone else knew about Seikilos. (And you read my mind, because I was just thinking about writing a little bit about it!) Are you interested in ancient Greek music, and if so do you have an idea where it can fit in the Misplaced Pages scheme of things? Right now "history of western art music" begins with Pope Gregory and "Medieval music." I think Ancient Greek music needs its own article with numerous other subarticles, none of which even have stubs yet. ] 20:50, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

== ] ==

Awwww! Look at the cute little guy! *grins* - ] 11:33, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

== Nobel Prize winners ==

Hey Chinasaur! Thanks for your great work on all the biology articles. I noticed you have ] on your "To work on" list. With your interest in vision and the retina, I thought you might want to take a look at ], ], ], and ]. Some of these are okay, but may need some fact-checking; the Granit article is little more than a stub. Please post any replies on my talk page. Keep up the good work! ] 15:41, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

== Hydrofoil vs. Hydroplane ==

See this link for an example of hydroplanes: -] 18:11, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

:Wow, those things look like some crazy good times. I was basing my hydroplane==hydrofoil on the dictionary though, so it may still be a valid point. --]

::Yeah, I'm just saying that "hydroplane," in a purely nautical sense, means something else. -] 18:31, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

==Monoecious==
Hi Chinasaur - Your editing at ] is good in some aspects, but it has become very ]-centric in its terminology (flower, stamen, carpel, etc); it should be re-worded to include ] etc as well (many of which are also monoecious) - ] 20:16, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:I'm hardly an expert in botany/horticulture subjects; I just tried to make sense of what I've seen in books and on the web. Thanks for the warning about the pinophyta; I'm not too familiar with their sexual organs but I'll try to be more general. Let me read up a little and then I'll think about fixing it; in the meantime if you have suggestions for more general terminology that would be great. --] 00:15, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

::Thanks; will do if I get the time - ] 14:06, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

== Binaural ==

:''HRTFs are for recreating monaural cues, not relevant to binaural. also deleted stuff that's in the binaural recording article''

I'm not an expert on HRTFs, but I would think that it is precisely the differences between the HRTFs for the right and left ears that allow for binaural auralization from monophonic recordings/synthesized sounds . More here . -- ] 09:44, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:See the soon to be published article at ]. You're right, HRTFs are relevant to binaural processing, but they aren't primary; inter-aural time differences are much more significant. --] 09:51, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

::Surely interaural time difference is captured as part of the HRTF (though may be more efficiently implemented separately from the otherwise huge HRTF ] filter, from what I guess/gather). In any case, it sounds like you know what you're doing so I like forward to seeing the new ] article. Certainly ] and the related articles deserved some attention. Oh, I see sound localization is ready now. Will check out. -- ] 10:05, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:My understanding is that HRTFs focus on frequency filtering as a function of source location. Time information is not something that HRTF people worry about I don't think (at least not in biology). The time scale of inter-aural time differences is probably too long relative to the frequencies to be resolved in the low end of the frequency transform. Not sure if this argument makes sense mathematically, or if it is answering your question. My understanding is all from the biology side; my signal processing understanding is not so great. --] 10:39, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

::It is true that HRTFs filter frequency as a function of source location, but it is important to realize that they have both an amplitude and phase component. ], the total delay of a signal at a given frequency, is equal to the slope of the phase response of the HRTF (or filter in general) at a given frequency. The difference in group delays between left and right ears will therefore be the interaural time difference. Of course the length of interaural time delay reproduced by an HRTF is limited by the length of its impulse response (and the resulting FIR filter), but I think most HRTFS are at least several thousand samples long (so 10s of milliseconds long) -- this should be enough to capture the interaural time delay. Since not everyone has a computer capable of convolving such long impulse responses with an input signal in real-time, though, I would imagine that many real-time solutions use delay-lines to introduce interaural time differences and then use much lower order filters. Don't know, though. Egads, sorry for the ramble. Anyway, I think your article is an improvement, regardless. -- ] 10:50, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:I don't really get it; I don't see ITD as being a frequency dependent thing; shouldn't the time delay between two ears be the same for all frequencies? In terms of the phase offset results, I don't think this is on a time scale a human observer is going to notice, even for a very coherent, low frequency signal. Trying to use the terminology you have just introduced to me: if the group delay necessary to capture the ITD is much more than a single phase of the signal, then how could you use it? Is what I'm saying making any sense? Time for bed. --] 11:15, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

==Complementary colors==

I agree that the article is inadequate. I don't know the topic, so I can't fix it. But I have these two comments:

* You wrote ''complimentary color'', with an ''i''. I hope that's just a typo and you know that ''complement'' with an ''e'' and ''compliment'' with an ''i'' are two different words that mean quite different things.

* Is there really such a thing as "imaginary colors"? Can you explain?

] 01:15, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for you lengthy discussion of ]s. Maybe your comments could evolve into a new article? ] 23:20, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

== Phase perception ==

''Regarding your comments on phase perception:'' (in Talk:Color)
But actually I'm fairly certain that this is true of all biological color vision systems. I just can't think of a good way for any biological system to use phase information constructively (except in very special cases), so I would assume none do it. Thoughts?


-Not only is phase information not terribly useful.. I can't think of any way a biological system could retrieve phase information. For visual color, the time from wave trough to crest is on the timescale of femtoseconds, 1E-15. There is nothing in biology, or chemistry even, which can react that fast. Its pretty much accepted in physics that 'the only thing fast enough to measure light, is light.'.. That is, the only way to get phase data is through interference.

One practical example of that would be femtochemistry (see Zewail, nobel prize winner), which (in simplified terms) uses interference to measure chemical reactions (which are slower than the femtosecond timescale).

/End of lesson ;-)

:Good point; I hadn't thought about the time scale issue. Still I'm not completely convinced that the time argument rules out light phase processing by a biological system. This is mostly just to play Devil's advocate, but if you look at thin-film optics in biological structures like butterfly scales, or the '']'' you can see that there is the possibility of structured biology at the scale of light wavelengths. So definitely I would say there are interference possibilities, although making the structure sensitive to more than a few wavelengths and phases through interference is hard to imagine.

:On the other hand, wavelength scale structures may provide a way to get phase information without interference or femtosecond processing. I don't know enough about the optical activity of chemical absorbers like ] to be able to say how this would work, but you can imagine that if light absorbing pigments were arranged in structured microlayers and had absorptional preference for the wave at a particular phase (this is the part I'm sketchy on) then it wouldn't be necessary to process extremely quickly, only to have a prolonged response and calculate a difference between responses based on the distance separation of the pigments. What do you think? Could we get light phase info by matching the wavelength of light, rather than trying to match the timescale? --] 19:17, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

::Funny how these issues keep coming up with me. Check out the discussion of binaural above; you might find that interesting and might have some input. --] 19:20, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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:Ah yes, I should have remembered. Good thing I was (uncharacteristically) unbold about adding them to the main page myself... --] 08:49, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

== Mapquest template and Mapit-US-streetscale template ==

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:Thanks; it's good to get responses about this. I think everything you've brought up is consistent with my scheme: there are separate MQ only templates that can be used for mapping through lat/long (<nowiki>{{</nowiki>MQ-dec}} and <nowiki>{{</nowiki>MQ-deg}}) or address name (<nowiki>{{</nowiki>Mapquest}}) throughout the world. But my new templates also include some other resources that only work in the U.S., and generally I want these templates to be dynamic and updatable with the latest resources, so it seemed to make sense to limit it. For other countries, I would recommend using the existing MQ templates as that's about the best that can be done. If there are other non-U.S. specific resources then new templates can be made to use those, but for now I think mapquest and british grid system (not compatible with lat/long) is about all we have outside the U.S. (as far as I'm aware). Let me know if you have other concerns! --] 11:58, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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== RSS ==

On main page talk, (]), you said: " I also worked up a My Watchlist RSS script, but ultimately I decided this wasn't all that useful. --Chinasaur 06:48, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)"

Is this true? This has been much asked for, but the developers have argumented that I'd take a lot of cpu from servers and be hard to protect - the watchlist is private. Does you solution, practically, work? That would be great!

The relevant meta page is ], where I now see that Watchlists as RSS are on the roadmap. ] 21:17, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

:I wrote a simple cookiejar screen scraper client in perl that allowed you to login to your account based on the password cookies that WP stores on your machine. So it would login for you and then parse your watchlist HTML page to make an RSS update. I just don't think this is the kind of application where RSS shines. It makes more sense for the Did You Know and News templates. For watchlist I really think a better solution is just to check it on the web. In cases like mine, the watchlist is so long that getting it over RSS is impractical.
:The only advantage I can see is that you could use the script as a middleman to do some additional processing on your watchlist, so for example don't bother to include edits from "trusted" usernames. Greater control over what appears in the watchlist is something that should be incorporated into MW.
:Anyway, I have the source if you want to see the client I cooked up. But one other user had trouble even getting it to run. --] 18:13, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

== Millenium Actress ==

I looked over the page for ], and it looks good to me. It might be useful to add a list of voice actors. BTW - thanks for your work on the lotuses. Sorry for the late reply, I wandered off for November and most of December.
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==Onegin stanza==

Doesn't it make sense to have information on the Onegin stanza in the article on Onegin, because it's directly releventant to it? ] 11:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

:I thought it was worth splitting since it was getting into some technical details that I doubt were very relevant to most readers of the Onegin article. And I think it has more room now to expand if people want to talk about other works written in that form or other nuances such as comparing it to Italian sonnet form, etc.. Finally, it's nice to have a separate page so that it can be linked to directly from poetry and sonnet articles; I really don't like linking to headings within articles. --] 18:57, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thought about it over the weekend and I think you're probably right, but I'll put some more information on the Onegin page too. ] 12:48, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)


== Thank you ==

Thank you for starting ].
This could develop into a really useful resource.
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== Coor link in Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale etc. ==
Some time ago I put in a link to the "Other maps" via ] on ]. For a good reason, I thought. You choose to revert that change. I have now put a link to coor into the heading. If you revert this too, the consequence will be that reverse mapping in ] will not work for articles using the Geolinks template. (And it is easy enough to revert or alter. Just change in ].) -- ] 06:41, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

::FYI there is now a new ''region'' field that allows specific, targeted map source files to apply for specific regions. I have updated the above templates with '''region:US'''. In addition, the default scale is now influences by the ''type'' of a point. -- ] 16:54, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

== Nelumbo ==

If you decide you want to get back into editing, would you please do something about ]? It has received four edits since you started it back in September, but none have actually accomplished much. It'd be nice to have at least a complete sentence or two. -- ]|] 04:47, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

== Unicode template ==

Hi,

I see from your recent comments on ] that you were the originator of the Unicode template. There's been some recent discussion on ] and ] to the effect that the Unicode template doesn't pick up a lot of unicode characters, and the Polytonic template, although designed specifically for Greek, is actually better in this respect. Do you have any thoughts? ] 09:56, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Misplaced Pages about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 19:53, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Geolinks-US-buildingscale

Template:Geolinks-US-buildingscale has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:16, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Taps.gif missing description details

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Nomination of LSM (Zeiss) for deletion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Unicode

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Nomination for deletion of Template:NSFIL

Template:NSFIL has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • 17:50, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Please claim your upload(s): File:Ceiling and chandelier of the Castro Theater, San Francisco.jpg

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This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transferred to Commons. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Little Oak Ranch

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Nomination of Little Oak Ranch for deletion

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