User:Ejrh

Person
Edmund Horner was born on the 19th of December 1978, in Wellington, New Zealand, and still lives there. On Earth, the countries he has visited are Singapore, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Australia, the Iranian embassy in Wellington, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong.

In 2005 he finally finished his degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington. He then stayed on and did BSc Honours in Logic and Computation. He now works in full time in Wellington.

Edmund has a blog at http://ejrh.wordpress.com/. He also has a "home page" at homepages.paradise.net.nz/~ejrh.

History

 * 2003-01-23 : Saw mention of the Wikipedia on Slashdot.


 * 2003-01-23 : Went to www.wikipedia.org and read approximately 170 articles in areas such as Information theory, Graph theory, Knot theory, Game theory, Chaos theory, Computational complexity theory, Computability theory (it occurs to me that "theory" must be my word-of-the-day), the Wannsee conference, New Zealand, Copyright, Anti-psychiatry, Wikipedia FAQ...


 * 2003-01-23 : Attempted editing the Taylor series article, to replace equations with TeX.


 * 2003-01-23 : Created a Wikipedia account.


 * 2003-01-23 : Actually saved changes from my edit to the Taylor series article.


 * 2003-01-23 : Began this history.


 * 2003-01-23 : Created the MIX article, and added to The Art of Computer Programming.


 * 2003-01-24 : An informal survey of 100 random pages.


 * 2003-02-21 : Revisited this history. I have continued TeXifying equations on Wikipedia, which has often resulted in faulty equations.  I will try harder.


 * 2003-12-18 : After a long break (my excuse is university) with only sporadic editing, I finally got round to adding a worked example of Markov chains.


 * 2003-12-18 : Updated Subversion article. (I use Subversion a lot myself: I strongly recommend it.)


 * 2004-01-26 : Repeated the survey of 100 random pages.


 * 2012-01-23 : Realise it's been nine years since I joined, and more than eight since I contributed anything substantial! But I've definitely supported Wikipedia by heavy use of it.