User:Tardis
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My first contribution, before having a username, was to merge two articles on the Vulcan nerve pinch in the summer of 2004. Nowadays I answer questions on the Science, Math, and Computing Reference Desks, and otherwise copyedit and occasionally patrol Recent Changes.
Useful Wikipedia links
[edit]Editing
[edit]Math
[edit]Patrolling
[edit]Interesting articles
[edit]Physics
[edit]Mathematics
[edit]- Natural density
- Rational trigonometry
- Gramian matrix
- Simpson's paradox
- Unit disk graph
- Skolem's paradox
- Lanchester's laws
- Preferred number
- Arrow's impossibility theorem
- Ellsberg paradox
Numerical methods
[edit]Computer science
[edit]- Hungarian algorithm
- Interactive proof system
- Advice (complexity)
- Fuzzy string searching
- No free lunch in search and optimization
- Fitts's law
- Mental poker
- Binary angle
Society
[edit]- Chesterton's fence
- Relevance theory
- Flynn effect
- Wilmington insurrection of 1898
- Tulsa race massacre
- Operation Gladio
- Nazca Lines
- Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
Todo
[edit]Cleanup
[edit]- Percentile rank (repetitive, overcomplicated)
- Polarization (unclear; confusing mathematics)
Confusion
[edit]- Oberth effect (PAR's comment, particularly)
Link fixing
[edit]- Special:WhatLinksHere/Heat capacity (most links really mean specific heat capacity)
Images
[edit]- Image:Bell_observers_experiment2.png (make SVG to remove JPEG artifacts)