User:SamuelRiv

When I first became active (2007) my most active area of academic work was in all types of mathematical models of cognition. I was on-and-off for years before reactivating with the community again in 2022, by which point my editing interest was much more toward fields I don't research.

I highly recommend all new and current academic Wikipedians shift to edit outside their fields if this has not already begun naturally, though I warn you that if you thought you struggled with citations when you know the field, you ain't seen nothing about editing yet.

Edit style notes

 * It is no exaggeration to say that I would rather see an article written with garbage sources and a good editor, than the reverse. [Source: My twist on Sash Petraske's quotation about ice and cocktails, as quoted in Solmonson & Solmonson (2014), The 12 Bottle Bar, p. 26.]
 * I generally transcribe all English reduced vowels as schwa to emphasize their neutralness, though I have no strong feelings about it one way or the other.
 * As an editor I greatly prefer using math to  tags, but from a UX perspective I don't know the technical debate well. A template that converted math's syntax to TeX inside   is maybe feasible.
 * Wikiphilosophy hasn't meant much since 2010-2012-ish when equilibrium standards of inclusion were pretty well agreed, but if you see me trashing your article I'm an "inclusionist-exclusionist" who wants to keep all they can salvage and dump all the junk (10YT is my policy of the month). The topic of the article sets the standards for rigor of sourcing, but regardless of standards, any statement directly attributed to a source must accurately reflect that source. I do a random spot-check of almost every article I read to see whether this might not be done in general, and the failure rate is disturbingly high, especially in political articles. SamuelRiv (talk) 02:59, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Articles

 * Margaret Armour (2019-04-27)
 * Helen M. McLoraine (01/09/2011)
 * Biological neuron models (11/24/2007)
 * Synaptic weight (11/24/2007)
 * Generalized Hebbian Algorithm (Sanger's rule) (11/24/2007)
 * Oja's rule (rewritten 11/22/2007)
 * Embedded pushdown automaton (11/21/2007)
 * Neural backpropagation (11/20/2007)
 * BCM theory (11/11/2007)
 * Activation function (11/10/2007)
 * Multilayer perceptron (11/10/2007)
 * Read-only Turing machine (11/06/2007)
 * Queue machine (11/06/2007)
 * Flashsort (11/06/2007)
 * Inversion temperature (11/04/2007)
 * Nonsingular black hole models (11/03/2007)

etc.
 * Maya ceramics (08/2008)

Significant edits

 * Answering questions at the Science, Math, and Language reference desks.
 * Hebbian theory (2007-11-14)
 * Backpropagation (2007-11-13) (reverted 2007-11-17, moved to neural backpropagation)
 * Synaptic plasticity (2007-11-11)
 * Theoretical computer science (11/10/2007-11-10)
 * Virtual pitch (2007-11-04)
 * List of important publications in physics (2007-11-04)
 * Notation for differentiation (2007-10-14)
 * Cleisthenes (Athenian) (2006-03-23)


 * Cite object (2022-08-something)

Universal legal citation template
Initial proposal at WProj Law (2022-07-03 ongoing)
 * Subproject A: Cross-European legal citation template
 * Phase 1: Preliminary survey: Complete (2022-07 late.)
 * Notes: Electronic lookup quality, standards implementation, and public access spotty throughout EU. Once you hit the Caucuses, glhf.
 * Phase 2: Template implementation: Existing Euro law templates all updated (2022-07 end)
 * Phase 3: Unified European citation style research: In progress (notes in /DraftTemplate)
 * Phase 4: Begin unification (planning: will have to finish getting scope of each country's online accessibility and current encoding, as not all legal documents, that will be, have been given electronic identifiers)

Template scope:
 * EU Law (2022-07 edits): CELEX * ECLI * OJEU * ELI * EUR-Lex link
 * Europe local law (2022-07 redoc/update):

Drafts
WIP or on hold, or cancelled but still used as a demo:


 * User:SamuelRiv/List of coups and coup attempts – Demo for objective criteria and table layout.
 * User:SamuelRiv/DraftEssay – draft Essay(s)

Meta
Links of convenience:


 * c:User:SamuelRiv – Commons userpage, with active projects
 * wikt:User:SamuelRiv – en:Wiktionary userpage, generally dormant
 * User:SamuelRiv/sandbox – Userspace sandbox
 * Module:Sandbox/SamuelRiv – my Module sandboxes
 * User:SamuelRiv/DraftEssay – draft Essay(s)
 * User:SamuelRiv/DraftTemplate – draft Template(s)
 * User:SamuelRiv/TeXbox – my LaTeX sandbox
 * User:SamuelRiv/Bot – for the bots I use


 * "Natural units" userbox (11/03/2007)
 * My archived stuff – We all had a userbox phase, so I'm keeping this up even though I'm embarrassed by it, just as a reminder that I shouldn't judge anyone's User Page choices (too much)

To do

 * Generate diagrams for automata pages
 * Generative phonology
 * Quantum brain dynamics
 * Integrate-and-fire model
 * PCA network
 * ICA network
 * kurtosis
 * Mildly context-sensitive grammar
 * Linear indexed grammar
 * Probabilistic potential theory
 * Electroosmotic drag
 * Covariant anomaly
 * Macromolecular system
 * Biophysics
 * Delbruck scattering

Favorite simple proofs

 * $$1 \ne 0$$ (fields are fun).
 * $$\|\mathbb{N}\| = \|\mathbb{Q}\|, ~ \|2^{\mathbb{N}}\| = \|\mathbb{R}\|$$ (cardinality and countability).
 * Magnetism <-> Electricity (Lorentz force).
 * Magnetic monopoles imply electric charge is quantized.
 * Neural networks are Turing complete.
 * The bosons! They just disappeared!
 * Hungarian has a hidden high middle unrounded vowel.

New trickier weirdness

 * Reactionless drives made simple: the bare minimum standards for stupid ideas.
 * Cannibalism: Should you eat the fat guy? The answer may surprise you!
 * That probability you were wondering about? Probably 56%
 * How many photons can you really see?
 * Longest contraction I can think of: y'know'i'll've'd'a ("you know I will have had to" +infinitive) - in a single syllable. (2007 I think)
 * rev. 2011ish??? have to check notes: y'all'd've'd't'a

Temporary external safe test section
I don't want to make another page for this -- this is just to test sandbox stuff from an external page, and should be perfectly safe.