User:JakeVortex

• Jeff Kidder has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and works on Floating Point Arithmetic validation in CPUs. My background is in dynamical systems, real analysis, knot theory, and complex systems (such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, chaos and the like).
• Jake Vortex is my on-line guise.
• Jason the Voracious is my SCA persona. Born in 1466, living in Tuscany 500 years ago.

TODO

• Mathematics
  • Tangent bundle
  • Curve
• Floating point arithmetic
  • Denormal
  • Single precision
  • Double precision
  • Validation
• History esp. of stuff going on 500 years ago
  • History of chess rules[?]
  • Medieval history[?]
  • History of cooking[?]
  • Lathe
  • 1500s
    • 1505, 1506, 1507
    • 15th century, 16th century
  • Society for Creative Anachronism
  • Squire[?]
  • Courtier
• Meaning
  • Happiness
• The human condition[?]
  • Bicentennial Man[?]
• Other
  • Exercise
    • Aerobics
    • Kathy Smith[?]
    • Stretching[?]
    • History of Fitness[?]
  • Vernacular[?]
  • Anniversary[?]

Projects of interest:

• WikiProject History[?]
  • WikiProject Battles
  • WikiProject Historical Figures[?] (maybe inherit from Biography too)
  • WikiProject Timelines
  • WikiProject Wars[?]
• WikiProject Mathematics
  • WikiProject Theorems[?]

Contributions

• FP
  • Double precision

• The human condition
  • Groundhog Day (movie)
  • Groundhog Day

• Meaning
  • Meaning of meaning

• History
  • 1500s (often should be 16th century)
  • 1502, 1503, 1504, 1378
  • Historical reenactment

• Other
  • Formal, Richard Gere, Lancelot, Monologue, Plot, Rodney Dangerfield, Story, Tournament,Turbulence, Vortex, Vow

Wiki Wish List These are thoughts on features I wish Wikipedia supported. I've filed most of these on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php

• Support for what ought to link here
  • Easy mode for batch editing instances of a link.
    • E.g., if you want to change links to 1700s to 1700s. Right now you need to go to each page. Edit the page. Save the change. I'd like to bring up all articles that link to 1700s and edit them all at once, or in some batch format. Blind substitution of the links doesn't work because some of the links should be left alone.
• Search for links
  • Right now if you see a broken link, broken[?], there isn't an obvious way to search for all articles that link to broken. You can click on the link, then in the edit page click cancel, then click What links here
• Be able to sort searches and What links here in some meaningful way(s)
  • When last edited -- alphabetically -- length -- ...
• Performance
  • Should have a fast static version of Wikipedia with content that is less than a day old. Changes could be batched up and pushed to the static site on some regular basis. Each page could include a link to the "live" version for up-to-the-minute or ability to edit.
• Navigation
  • The page that results from requesting that a page be added to your watch list now includes a link back to the page you just left. [Thanks to Magnus Manske]