User:JakeVortex

In different contexts I am known by different names:

• 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
  • IEEE 754r -- Denormal -- arithmetic overflow -- arithmetic underflow -- 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
  • Half precision == Single precision -- Double precision -- Quad precision -- NaN -- Numerical differentiation

• 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

• Chess
  • Shatranj, Chaturanga

• Other
  • Formal, horchata, Richard Gere, Lancelot, Monologue, Plot, Rodney Dangerfield, Story, Tournament,Turbulence, Vortex, Vow, Mangosteen, Group 70

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 from 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 -- ...