User talk:Zawersh

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Bible citation
Thanks for the excellent work on re-pointing those links. I will continue adding the abbreviation redirects and will correct any affected by your change. Peter Hitchmough 07:59, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation
Note &mdash; the linking method used for, e.g. Amos, needs attention. It might be best if the page Amos were the disambiguation page, and all links to Amos meaning Book of Amos were fixed. This can be done gradually over time. That would be the current use of disambiguation on the site. Peter Hitchmough


 * Looks good (splitting Amos into (prophet and book). Of course, if you split you need to look at its What links here Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Amos and edit the links. However I think there needs to be the following pages:
 * Amos &mdash; for disambiguation, replaces the current disamb. page.
 * Amos_(prophet)
 * Book_of_Amos

Anyway, thanks for discussing. Be bold, be wise. Peter. 08:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism inquiry
Hey, Zawersh, I was just wondering, I noticed that you corrected some vandalism on a page that I originally created and that I watch (historical thinking). How did you find this vandalism? It was a couple of characters appended onto the last reference on the page... I'm just curious to know how I can catch stuff like that. Andicat 2:40, 6 Feb 2005

Copyright Question
Fortune 1000 seems to be largely a data dump from. I read over the various articles about copyright violations, but couldn't figure out whether it would be a violation to reproduce the full-scale data from a magazine like is done on that page. I tried finding a place where I could ask for someone to check on it, but it seems that the only way to do it is to blank the page and put up the copyvio notice, and I wasn't sure that that was appropriate since I really have no idea if it's a copyvio or not. I also tried figuring out where to ask more generally and finally got frustrated and decided to use the helpme tag -- sorry!! How should I approach this article/situation? Thank you! -- Zawersh 00:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure of a policy to handle it either, but taking it to the talk page is certianly the right next step. In fact it stumped a series of helpers hiding on #wikipedia-bootcamp. I think the question that should be asked there is exactly what you have asked above. Random brainstorm ideas; ask the magazine, ignore the issue and use it till they complain or read the magazines copyright. Sorry that i have no 'pat' anser, but you've done the usuall things I would do to anwser the question! -- &infin;Dbroadwell 01:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Heh, I'm glad it wasn't just me being stumped on it. :) Thanks for the help, I think I figured out a tolerable solution to the situation now. Cheers! -- Zawersh 02:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

confidence interval
Your proposed confidence interval using z-scores was far too wide unless the sample size is 1. A 90% confidence interval for the mean of a normal distribution should contain nowhere near 90% of the data (in fact, in some cases, it should contain none of the data). Besides, you're not taking into account uncertainty that comes from estimation of the variance--that's what Student's t-distribution accomplishes. Michael Hardy 01:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Computer science
Hi! I noticed that you have just signed on as a participant in WikiProject Computer science, and wanted to welcome you aboard. Please stop by the project talk page to see what issues are currently being discussed by other project participants, and give your input. --Allan McInnes (talk) 23:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the welcome! I look forward to contributing to the project. -- Zawersh 00:22, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

welcome to WikiProject Programming languages
I look forward to working with you. Ideogram 02:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Likewise! I'm glad to see the project revived. – Zawersh 04:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting Barnstar
Greetings. There is a Barnstar for stub-sorting up for proposal here. If you'd like to participate in the discussion, we'd much appreciate it. Thanks, and have a great days. :) SynergeticMaggot 18:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Fortune 1000
Is there some way somebody can "import" the complete 1997 list electronically? I could even do with a list of names to copy/paste, i dont need revenues, etc. I can only get a hold of 1997's Fortune 500, but i need the 1000....Dragonlord kfb 17:43, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:COMPUTING Invitation
I have noticed that you are already a member of a related project and thought you might be interested in this wikiproject also and hence leaving this note ... - From the outreach dept

Integrated banner for WikiProject Computer science
I have made a proposal for a integrated banner for the project  here . I invite you for your valuable comments in the discussion. You are receiving this note as you are a member of the project. Thanks --  Tinu  Cherian  - 12:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

kernel density estimator
You recently undid a revision I made to the kernel density estimator article. I think you should add h back to the denominator:

Consider the case where X is a continuous random variable. The probability that xi equals x is then zero, and f(x) needs to be estimated by averaging those xi that are in an interval around x, say x +/- h/2, where h is the width of the interval -

x - h/2 <= xi <= x + h/2

which can be rearranged as

1/h * (-1/2 <= (xi - x)/h <= 1/2)

You can see from this that there needs to be another h outside of the summation.

Refer to pp 7 - 10 of Nonparametric Econometrics by Adrian Pagan & Aman Ullah, everything is explained there.

Mr wadsworth (talk) 18:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Aha, I had misunderstood your edit summary to mean something else, but looking at the edit history I can see that you were actually restoring the equation to what it had been prior to this revision. I apologize -- I'll revert it back. -- – Zawersh 20:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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