User talk:Stefan.karpinski

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Meelar (talk) 22:52, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of List of most interesting Wikipedia pages


A tag has been placed on List of most interesting Wikipedia pages requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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 * I'm sorry, but an article on "interesting Wikipedia pages" is just not appropriate, for several reasons; it isn't a notable topic, it can't be neutral (because it is a matter of opinion), and it is too self-referential.


 * We do, however, have pages like that in "Wikipedia:" namespace. We've already got List of unusual articles.  Chzz  ► 21:52, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Julia promotion strategy
Hi, you don't know me, but I'm a huge Julia fan, something like twice your age, and although I really appreciate your work on its article here, it's doing nothing for your visibility compared to your 0.1 release.

Right now, if you want press and exposure, the language to beat with completely undeserved mystique among the masses is R, partly because "big data" (in the old days we called it "statistics") is hot on the venture markets as companies try to figure out how they can optimize and data mine. So you've got to use that. And it's so easy: R is a sitting duck because it has so many decades of legacy, it's one of the most ugly, incomprehensible languages around, at Perl-levels of unreadability but it's hard to write, too. And dog-slow compared to Julia.

So, here's what you do: Make a series of ten blog posts, about one per week, on a theme e.g. "R versus Julia: Big data speed and comprehensibility shoot out" ("bake off" is a trademark, so go for the gun metaphor, the press eats it up, sadly.) Each post should take less than an hour: take a common statistical operation, show what it looks like in R and Julia code, run it on some god forsakenly large data set, and show the benchmarks in a big simple graph at the end of the post with some bullet holes photoshopped in on the much larger R graph bar. Then submit each post to Y-Combinator Hacker News, Slashdot, Ars Technica, and anywhere else that publishes that sort of thing.

If that doesn't get your article page views up 10x or more, your money back. Seriously, please do this. I don't want to live in a 0-based index future, and you're the last best hope to save us from borghood. 168.103.94.19 (talk) 20:34, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

November 2013
Hello, Stefan.karpinski. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Julia (programming language), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Yworo (talk) 22:47, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Yworo. As you note, I'm clearly one of the Julia language creators – hiding my identity when making edits to the language page would definitely be wrong and against policy. In general, I have tried to only make edits to the Julia page to correct factual errors. I think the upshot of the most recent back-and-forth edits (with a user in the 94.106 IP block) is that the relationship between Julia's language features and those of other Lisp-family systems like Common Lisp and Dylan is much more clearly stated in a way that's quite even-handed. In any case, thanks for the warning about conflict of interest. I will definitely exercise caution. Stefan Karpinski (talk) 17:36, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I don't see you doing anything wrong. Just a formality. Yworo (talk) 17:38, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Stefan.karpinski. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Stefan Karpinski, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 13:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)