BernardoSulzbach

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I'm Bernardo Sulzbach, a computer scientist interested in further developing The Free Encyclopedia. I consider myself to be slightly nihilistic and strongly believe that the Universe is not random.

If you think I can contribute to an article, let me know. I am particularly interested in computer science, mathematics, and biology. I like to enforce that existing articles are verifiable.

I personally prefer American English and like titles to be in sentence case. However, I consider consistency to be paramount. Citations should always use the "cite" templates and fill as many fields as possible. Too much detail about a reference is probably never going to be a problem. I think templates are not used frequently enough.

I always try to write concise, descriptive, and civil edit summaries, and I think everyone should do the same. I have written some scripts to help me contribute to Wikipedia and made them available in this Git repository on GitHub. I also maintain the script User:BernardoSulzbach/last-modified that inserts the last modified date of a page right under its title.

You can read about me and my ideas in my personal website.

List of bad users

These are users whose contributions seem to be of very low quality, yet not obvious enough to be reverted by bots. These are mostly guilty of not disclosing conflicts of interest, giving undue weight, and self-citing.

• 170.254.73.0/24 (talk · contribs), last checked 2021-08-25

I list them here so I remember to occasionally go through their new contributions and revert whatever needs reverting. Feel free to go through their contributions yourself.

Things worth knowing

I intend to maintain a list of things "worth knowing" in this section. Needless to say, this list is not exhaustive: there are things worth knowing which are not explicitly listed here. The order is somewhat meaningful: the most important things come first.

A complex differentiable function is infinitely differentiable and analytic. Some more of this in holomorphic function.

Correlation is not necessarily transitive.

According to the Pick's theorem, the area of a polygon whose vertices lay on a grid of equal-distanced points can be computed from the number of lattice points in the interior of the polygon and the number of lattice points on the boundary of the polygon.

The fact that the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value is called the law of large numbers.

The idea that self-control and willpower are finite resources during a period of time is called ego depletion.

The psychological stress caused by holding two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values is called cognitive dissonance.

Because of the Schwartz–Zippel lemma, it is possible to perform polynomial identity testing (PIT) in probabilistic polynomial time.

The (mainstream) Internet seems to greatly affect our capacity to concentrate for long periods of time.

The paradox of hedonism refers to how constant pleasure-seeking may not yield the most actual pleasure or happiness in the long run.

Quotes

These are some quotes that resonate with me, in no particular order.

Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Raise your words, not your voice. It is the rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

— Rumi

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

— Salvador Dalí

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

— John Burroughs

When in doubt, say nothing and move on.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes

• The most common way of denoting transpose in the English Wikipedia seems to be ^\textsf{T}, which produces things such as $\mathbf {A} ^{\textsf {T}}$.

• The right way of putting diffs and links in text is described in Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide#How to put diffs and links into your text.
• If you need diffs in an edit summary, a wikilink starting with Special:Diff can make clickable diffs, as shown in Help:Edit summary.

Wikipedia to-do

These are some ideas of what I could do to improve Wikipedia. Feel free to address these issues yourself.

High priority

• Continue my work on declarative programming, which is still a very low-quality article. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:48, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

• Improve wording, text, and add references to false sharing. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:21, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

• Average absolute deviation is a mess right now. It is an important page, I think. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 21:15, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• Consider creating BRKGA (Biased random key genetic algorithm) (as in [1]) or adding it to metaheuristic. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 20:38, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

• Fix the "mathematical" parts of Blind deconvolution, which seem quite poorly written as of today. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 00:40, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

• Read and rewrite Power (statistics) with proper citations. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:59, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

• Improve Separable filter by finding reliable sources. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 16:51, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

• Help finish writing memory management. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:38, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Low priority

• Do a read-through and analyze Nymph (biology) and how I can help fix it. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 00:17, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Archive

• Create Caves of Qud (the game). BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:22, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

• Document the two (or more?) Xenophora peroniana subspecies. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:38, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Done. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 08:32, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

• Work on the issues of XPath. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 19:56, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Done with revision consistency and updates here. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 09:15, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

• Transform the references of Permute instruction into proper {{cite}}s. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 22:04, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Done here. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 10:42, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

• Make Global Offset Table encyclopedic. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 13:46, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

I think I am done with it. I don't think there is much to be added to that article, yet I think it should exist, as it is an important computing aspect. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 19:47, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

• Work on finding proper sources for Hemimetabolism. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 00:17, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

There is no way to cite the terminology of aquatic entomology section, I think. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 01:03, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

• Reread and provide better sources for Round-robin DNS. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:38, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

I think I'm satisfied for now. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 23:23, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

• Investigate more about Microcrystalline wax and fix the article issues. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 02:19, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

The values shown in Fahrenheit and Celsius could use a template to convert between units (currently done manually). BernardoSulzbach (talk) 02:51, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Could not find a source for the values, so I won't bother changing this. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 23:09, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

• Get at least one or two sources for Zooid. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 17:17, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Done. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 21:58, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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