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- 18:31, 27 February 2024 Security notes / One-Time Passwords (hist | edit) [3,989 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{SecurityRelated}} <!-- So, passwords fail backward secrecy and some concepts like it: : If it is found today, it can be used in the future. : Also, it means people can spy on you, and you will only learn about that when they change something drastically, like locking ''you'' out. Wouldn't it be great if the thing that logs you in today is never useful again? Well sure, but doesn't that mean I now need to learn a new password every day (or use)? Or a way of bas...")
- 18:05, 27 February 2024 MFA (hist | edit) [58 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Security notes / Multi-Factor Authentication) Tag: New redirect
- 18:04, 27 February 2024 Security notes / Multi-Factor Authentication (hist | edit) [6,370 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Multi-Factor Authentication) Tag: New redirect
- 17:53, 27 February 2024 Multi-factor authentication (hist | edit) [78 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{security}}")
- 17:46, 27 February 2024 Calibration pot (hist | edit) [56 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Resistors#Potentiometers) Tag: New redirect
- 15:41, 27 February 2024 Epenthesis (hist | edit) [37 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Phonetic changes#Epenthesis) Tag: New redirect
- 14:39, 27 February 2024 Running status (hist | edit) [54 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to MIDI notes#On timing, bandwidth, latency) Tag: New redirect
- 14:28, 27 February 2024 Cf (hist | edit) [84 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "#redrect Abbreviations:_Acronyms,_Initialisms,_Contractions,_Apocopation#Others")
- 13:43, 27 February 2024 Energy, power, and work (hist | edit) [1,461 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- MOVE: Note that "power is the rate of work" is a nice set of words, but does not teach differences like: * Energy and power :: e.g. 1000W is a ''rate''. 1000Wh is an amount of energy * Work and power '''''Roughly''''' speaking: * work is the total amount of expended energy * power is the ''rate'' - different rates over different times can equal the same overall work (or, less formally, energy, with the ). Pushing very hard for ten seconds may be just as much...")
- 13:27, 27 February 2024 Electronics (hist | edit) [40 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Template:Electronics notes) Tag: New redirect
- 13:08, 27 February 2024 Neologism (hist | edit) [28 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Word formation) Tag: New redirect
- 18:06, 26 February 2024 Algorithms (hist | edit) [3,295 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- ===What does algorithm mean?=== A way of calculating. A way of getting a particular thing done. Typically, practical answers to 'how does it X?' It refers to only the method, not the data you feed into it, nor the hardware it runs on. Programmers will often prefer to call things algorithm only when they are either specific theory (e.g. a specific way of sorting), OR concrete enough to just run And usually for simple, well-defined, questions, such as "ho...")
- 18:05, 26 February 2024 Algorithm (hist | edit) [24 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Algorithms) Tag: New redirect
- 18:01, 26 February 2024 Functional programming (hist | edit) [98 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Programming language typology and glossary#Imperative, declarative, functional, etc.) Tag: New redirect
- 17:34, 26 February 2024 Experiment building - on online experiments (hist | edit) [1,292 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Experiments}} ===On online experiments=== Online experiments, as convenient as they are, means there are many things you can no longer control for - display time, hardware response time, browser details, whether it is a computer or a phone (I have a years-old phone and I wouldn't trust its timing), headphone quality (there are some tests you can do to get a gauge of this) '''Browsers''' Assume that browsers tend to merge movement into 60Hz intervals - or what...")
- 17:33, 26 February 2024 Experiment building - on counterbalancing (hist | edit) [3,005 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "===Thinking about counterbalancing===")
- 14:01, 26 February 2024 Home assistant (hist | edit) [56 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Home automation / smartness#Home Assistant) Tag: New redirect
- 13:56, 24 February 2024 Are computers getting faster or not really? (hist | edit) [1,973 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <!-- Wirth's law - Wirth observed that perhaps software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster, though he attributes it to others who had been pointing out this patterns for at least a decade, and this is decades ago now. May's law / Gates's law - the speed of software halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's law. Programmers get lazy about efficiency because that isn't really visible as long as hardware And we keep adding more ''st...") originally created as "Are computers getting faster or slower?"
- 20:58, 23 February 2024 Precision and recall (hist | edit) [460 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- The terms '''precision and recall''' are perhaps best known around search systems and other information retrieval systems. The terms precision and recall are used more widely, and in classification they are more specific: * precision - What proportion of positive identifications was actually correct : about a lack of false positives * recall - : about a lack of false negatives Because it's F-score https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-score -->")
- 20:53, 23 February 2024 False positives and false negatives (hist | edit) [11 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(ELSEWHERE)")
- 20:28, 23 February 2024 Word embeddings (hist | edit) [73 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Words and meanings#Word embeddings) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 23 February 2024 Chunking (hist | edit) [48 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Computational linguistics#Chunking) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 23 February 2024 Chunker (hist | edit) [48 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Computational linguistics#Chunking) Tag: New redirect
- 11:59, 21 February 2024 802.3af (hist | edit) [48 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Network wiring notes - Power over Ethernet#Standardized PoE) Tag: New redirect
- 15:45, 20 February 2024 Tofixed (hist | edit) [59 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Javascript notes - unsorted#Number formatting) Tag: New redirect
- 21:57, 19 February 2024 What can I remove from ~/.cache? (hist | edit) [711 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- It is arguably safe to delete the whole thing, in that you should not suffer permanent data loss. That said, * some things are built when they need to be (and will be slow then) * some things will be downloaded on demand, which you may not want very often * some things may be currently running and not thinking about half of it dissapearing from under it. Let's look at some offenders * [https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry pypoetry] - package manager, should...")
- 16:55, 19 February 2024 Non-negative matrix factorization (hist | edit) [436 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF or NNMF) might be compared to the likes of SVD / PCA. Both can be seen as matrix decomposition techniques - and there are others. The choice is often made in part by how ''valid'' these are for a given type of input, how exact they are (e.g. NMF is more approximate than SVD, yet seems better at capturing specific patterns) and even how directly usable the output is (NMF) -->")
- 15:34, 19 February 2024 Idiosyncracy (hist | edit) [523 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Idiosyncratic perhaps most widely means unusual and/or distinctive habits. When about a person, people, idiosyncracies are the peculiar habits or features of that person, eccentric or not. In linguistics, idiosyncratic symbols can refer words that have meanings specific to specific people. When you say "collocations are statistically idiosyncratic sequences of words", you say that you would not expect them to occur together that much, and they probably ha...")
- 12:45, 19 February 2024 Triplets (hist | edit) [426 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- In music, * a regular (part of a) beat made of three parts In knowledge bases * semantic triplets, e.g. in RDF In linguistics * etymological triplets * minimal triplets, an extension of the idea of minimal pairs * sometimes a reference to n-grams for n=3 (3-grams) In programming, sometimes a reference to a 3-tuple, e.g. as in "rgb triplet" -->")
- 12:38, 19 February 2024 Words and meanings (hist | edit) [8,774 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{stub}} ==Lexicology== {{stub}} '''Lexicology''' is the general and objective study of words and their meanings. In some ways, it is the lexical part of philology. In other ways it is closely related to etymology, phraseology, and semantics. '''Lexicography''' can be said to be the applied part of lexicology, as it studies the use of words. 'Lexicography' is also and is often used to refer to the compilation of a lexicon. Note that lexicogr...")
- 23:24, 18 February 2024 Hypernyms (hist | edit) [45 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 23:24, 18 February 2024 Hyponyms (hist | edit) [45 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 23:19, 18 February 2024 Meronyms (hist | edit) [45 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 23:19, 18 February 2024 Meronym (hist | edit) [45 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 13:33, 18 February 2024 Lexicographical (hist | edit) [43 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Lexicology) Tag: New redirect
- 01:42, 18 February 2024 Class methods (hist | edit) [61 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Instance methods, static methods, class methods) Tag: New redirect
- 01:41, 18 February 2024 Class method (hist | edit) [61 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Instance methods, static methods, class methods) Tag: New redirect
- 01:41, 18 February 2024 Static methods (hist | edit) [61 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Instance methods, static methods, class methods) Tag: New redirect
- 01:40, 18 February 2024 Instance methods, static methods, class methods (hist | edit) [2,833 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- For context, most functions defined on a class will be considered '''instance methods''': they will work on an instance of that same class. Calling them will always take. (exactly how explicitly it is in the ''definition'' of this function may vary with the language) They will accept one, and do so implicitly somehow - some languages make you write out the object reference ('self' or 'this' turns up around here), others have it implied. That is not the only...") originally created as "Static method"
- 17:21, 17 February 2024 Yubikey (hist | edit) [84 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Security notes / Identification, authentication, authorization#Yubikey) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 17 February 2024 Yubico (hist | edit) [84 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Security notes / Identification, authentication, authorization#Yubikey) Tag: New redirect
- 14:41, 17 February 2024 Composite Document File (hist | edit) [37 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Office document formats) Tag: New redirect
- 15:50, 16 February 2024 Turtle (hist | edit) [149 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Knowledge representation / Semantic annotation / structured data / linked data on the web#Notation3 (Notation 3, N3), Turtle, N-Triples) Tag: New redirect
- 15:47, 16 February 2024 Ttl (hist | edit) [613 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In electronics, TTL refers to a way of doing logic in circuits : historically, Transistor-Transistor Logic (transistors perform both the logic as well as any amplfication) replaced earlier styles, mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor%E2%80%93transistor_logic resistor–transistor logic] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode%E2%80%93transistor_logic diode–transistor logic] : practically often just means "logic at 5V" :: which now is often in contrast wit...")
- 11:08, 16 February 2024 Nethogs (hist | edit) [44 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Network tools#Watching traffic) Tag: New redirect
- 18:15, 15 February 2024 Office document formats (hist | edit) [1,551 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- {{stub}} * MS Word between 97 through 2003 (and most formats from Microsoft Office 97-2003) :: has varied names - Composite Document file, Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format (CFBF) or Compound Document File Format, and OLE2 seems related? :: file extensions: .doc for word processing, .xls :: MIME: application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel ? :: which resembles a FAT filesystem internally :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format...") originally created as "Document formats"
- 13:52, 15 February 2024 Caveat (hist | edit) [245 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Caveat - "may you beware of" In general, "with a caveat" is used to mean "has a footnote". Caveat emptor - loosely translated as 'buyer beware' - you are Caveat lector - 'reader beware' - often a "don't believe everyting you read" -->")
- 22:45, 14 February 2024 OSI (hist | edit) [53 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Networking notes - General#Layer models) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 14 February 2024 Kernel (hist | edit) [587 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- A kernel panic happens when the kernel (the core of the OS) notices that something has happened that makes it impossible to continue, or just too risky in terms of data corruption. It will choose to halt the system. Depending on configuration, it may or may not reboot. Technically this is distinct from the kernel itself crashing ''without'' noticing. there is probably a history to why the unix-side of things chose this name, presumably because it wasn't a...") originally created as "Kernel panic"
- 15:00, 13 February 2024 Argmax (hist | edit) [398 bytes] Helpful (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} ArgMax is the maximum value a function takes under given constraints. In mathematics, with contonuous functions, this might involve some symbolic analysis and manipulation, In computation, with discrete values, it may just amount to "go through array and remember the largest value you saw" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arg_max")