User:Bernanke's Crossbow


 * My drafts

Hi! I'm a PhD former mathematics graduate student at UCLA. My username is a joke from this xkcd comic.

I edited some pages (typically train- or mathematics-related) before making an account, so my "User Contributions page" doesn't show all my work here.

My recent work (since ~2022) has focused on chemistry-related topics, although I expect to return to mathematical contributions in the future.

If you want to reach me, try my talk page.

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An edit summary I am very proud of: The gallery tag is your friend; it breaks better at line's end. Stop using tables!

User:Utopes, on List of smiley codes (at the time a redirect to Emoticon) wrote at RfD: "Has some 2005 cruft history to list the three primary emotions that humans can muster: Happy, Sad, and Money Smiley."

Citogenesis?

 * I don't think copies from Wikipedia.  One particular trouble is in the article on magnesium iodide.  Ropp appears to mangle our discussion of (Z) alkenes in the MBH reaction, saying: "Usage of magnesium iodide in the 'Baylis–Hillman' reaction...tends to give vinyl-specific compounds."  But he also spends a few sentences on some carbohydrate chemistry which doesn't appear on the magnesium iodide page.  So I think he's just reading the same sources, plus others.
 * (I'm still annoyed that he thinks cutting footnotes for space is appropriate, though.)
 * I take it back. There are just way too many instances of word-for-word COPYVIO for this to be Wikipedia's fault.  Shame on you, Richard Ropp, shame on you!