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- 17:53, 3 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 75 revisions on page Unsorted webdev notes: content hidden
- 17:49, 3 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 45 revisions on page Template:ShellsAndAdmin: content hidden
- 14:22, 3 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Metaphysics (Redirected page to Philosophy#Metaphysics) Tag: New redirect
- 13:44, 3 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page F string (Redirected page to Python notes - syntax and language#f-string formatting) Tag: New redirect
- 12:55, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Variac (Redirected page to Electronics notes/Inductors and transformers#Named purposes / designs) Tag: New redirect
- 12:10, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Format() (Redirected page to Python notes - syntax and language#format()) Tag: New redirect
- 11:50, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page F strings (Redirected page to Python notes - syntax and language#f-string formatting) Tag: New redirect
- 00:46, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 79 revisions on page Symmetry: content hidden
- 00:45, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 173 revisions on page Common plugs and connectors: content hidden
- 00:45, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 34 revisions on page Common plugs and connectors: content hidden
- 00:42, 2 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 385 revisions on page Init systems and service management: content hidden
- 16:35, 1 March 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 170 revisions on page Filters on data: content hidden
- 12:10, 29 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Cloves (Created page with " <!-- Cloves are the flower buds of {{latinname|Syzygium aromaticum}} Kruidnagel Nelken (Gewürznelken) -->")
- 19:03, 28 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 198 revisions on page Electronic music - notes on audio APIs: content hidden, edit summary hidden and username hidden
- 13:26, 28 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Paging (Redirected page to Virtual memory#Swapping / paging; trashing) Tag: New redirect
- 11:59, 28 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Rust (as in iron oxide) to Iron and rust
- 18:31, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Security notes / One-Time Passwords (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 Helpful talk contribs created page MFA (Redirected page to Security notes / Multi-Factor Authentication) Tag: New redirect
- 18:04, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Security notes / Multi-Factor Authentication (Redirected page to Multi-Factor Authentication) Tag: New redirect
- 17:53, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Multi-factor authentication (Created page with "{{security}}")
- 17:46, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Calibration pot (Redirected page to Resistors#Potentiometers) Tag: New redirect
- 17:19, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Phonetic changes to Sound change
- 15:41, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Epenthesis (Redirected page to Phonetic changes#Epenthesis) Tag: New redirect
- 15:38, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Lenition to Phonetic changes
- 14:39, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Running status (Redirected page to MIDI notes#On timing, bandwidth, latency) Tag: New redirect
- 14:28, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Cf (Created page with "#redrect Abbreviations:_Acronyms,_Initialisms,_Contractions,_Apocopation#Others")
- 13:51, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Skeuomorph to Skeuomorphs
- 13:43, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Energy, power, and work (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 Helpful talk contribs created page Electronics (Redirected page to Template:Electronics notes) Tag: New redirect
- 13:22, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Linguistic terms and descriptions to More linguistic terms and descriptions
- 13:08, 27 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Neologism (Redirected page to Word formation) Tag: New redirect
- 18:06, 26 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Algorithms (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 Helpful talk contribs created page Algorithm (Redirected page to Algorithms) Tag: New redirect
- 18:01, 26 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Functional programming (Redirected page to Programming language typology and glossary#Imperative, declarative, functional, etc.) Tag: New redirect
- 17:39, 26 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Writing numbers to Writing numbers as words or digits
- 17:34, 26 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Experiment building - on online experiments (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 Helpful talk contribs created page Experiment building - on counterbalancing (Created page with "===Thinking about counterbalancing===")
- 14:01, 26 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Home assistant (Redirected page to Home automation / smartness#Home Assistant) Tag: New redirect
- 13:56, 24 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Are computers getting faster or slower? to Are computers getting faster or not really?
- 13:56, 24 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Are computers getting faster or slower? (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...")
- 12:21, 24 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Security notes / pre-boot authentication (content was: "<!-- The aim of pre-boot authentication (PBA) is to provide an environment to the OS we are booting that we can reasonably say has not been tampered with. The way of doing that varies. How far into boot that reaches varies. Even the ''types'' of guarantees vary. PBA can refer to "am I being accessed by the same person" and/or "am I running on the same hardware", whic...", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 23:35, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Category:Condiments (content was: "Category:Cooking", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 23:35, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Category:Discussion (content was: "Discussions should be used in moderation, and used mainly to compare concrete features in alternatives - not column-like bits that just weigh a few details they happen to like a bit.", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 23:35, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Category:Links and references (content was: "Pages that consist of or contain major interesting sites on a subject, or have lists that do a good job of covering, say, all tools for a specific purpose. Use sparingly. Basically consider 'would I find a page by this?'", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 23:34, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Category:Machine Learning (content was: "Algorithms that use data to classify, cluster, predict and other such things. Category:Algorithms", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 20:58, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Precision and recall (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 Helpful talk contribs created page False positives and false negatives (Created page with "(ELSEWHERE)")
- 20:28, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Word embeddings (Redirected page to Words and meanings#Word embeddings) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Chunking (Redirected page to Computational linguistics#Chunking) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 23 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Chunker (Redirected page to Computational linguistics#Chunking) Tag: New redirect
- 12:01, 21 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Network wiring notes - Power over Ethernet to Ethernet notes
- 11:59, 21 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page 802.3af (Redirected page to Network wiring notes - Power over Ethernet#Standardized PoE) Tag: New redirect
- 15:45, 20 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Tofixed (Redirected page to Javascript notes - unsorted#Number formatting) Tag: New redirect
- 21:57, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page What can I remove from ~/.cache? (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 Helpful talk contribs created page Non-negative matrix factorization (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 Helpful talk contribs created page Idiosyncracy (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...")
- 14:39, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Word embeddings (content was: "{{ling}} ===Word embeddings=== <!-- Where people are good at words and bad at numbers, computer are good at numbers and bad at words. So it makes sense to express words ''as'' numbers. It makes sense to do something that presents a balance between multiple needs, e.g. compact and fast to work with, meaningful to do computation on, and keeping some sort of meaning you can...", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 14:38, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Semantic similarity (content was: "{{ling}} <!-- Semantic similarity is the bread area of metrics between documents and/or terms that is (ideally) based on their meaning/semantics. ...contrasted e.g. with : similarity based only on lexicographical details : vaguer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_similarity This can include * words that appear in similar context (see also word embeddi...", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 13:44, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:XD card.jpg (crop)
- 13:44, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page File:XD card.jpg (Taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XD_karty-ruzne.jpg under GFDL)
- 13:44, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs uploaded File:XD card.jpg (Taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XD_karty-ruzne.jpg under GFDL)
- 13:14, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Document formats (content was: "#REDIRECT Office Document formats", and the only contributor was "Helpful" (talk))
- 12:45, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Triplets (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" -->")
- 12:39, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs deleted page Philology, Etymology (content before blanking was: "{{stub}} '''Etymology''' is the study of the '''history of words and phrases''', primarily reporting use, change, transfer between languages and such, often comprising of finding and proving (or disproving) these genetic-like relations. There is usually overlap with morphology simply because a lot of carried meaning comes from morphemes. The term is related to '''philology''', which refers to the extensive study of historical linguistics, which may ea...")
- 12:38, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Words and meanings (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...")
- 00:43, 19 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Semantic similarity (Created page with "{{ling}} <!-- Semantic similarity is the bread area of metrics between documents and/or terms that is (ideally) based on their meaning/semantics. ...contrasted e.g. with : similarity based only on lexicographical details : vaguer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_similarity This can include * words that appear in similar context (see also word embeddings, even topic modelling) * words that have similar meaning * Topological / ontological...")
- 23:24, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Hypernyms (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 23:24, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Hyponyms (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 23:19, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Meronyms (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 23:19, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Meronym (Redirected page to Word similarity#Other relations) Tag: New redirect
- 13:33, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Lexicographical (Redirected page to Lexicology) Tag: New redirect
- 01:42, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Class methods (Redirected page to Instance methods, static methods, class methods) Tag: New redirect
- 01:41, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Class method (Redirected page to Instance methods, static methods, class methods) Tag: New redirect
- 01:41, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Static methods (Redirected page to Instance methods, static methods, class methods) Tag: New redirect
- 01:41, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Instance method, static method, class method to Instance methods, static methods, class methods
- 01:41, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Static method to Instance method, static method, class method
- 01:40, 18 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Static method (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...")
- 17:21, 17 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Yubikey (Redirected page to Security notes / Identification, authentication, authorization#Yubikey) Tag: New redirect
- 17:21, 17 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Yubico (Redirected page to Security notes / Identification, authentication, authorization#Yubikey) Tag: New redirect
- 14:41, 17 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Composite Document File (Redirected page to Office document formats) Tag: New redirect
- 15:50, 16 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Turtle (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 Helpful talk contribs created page Ttl (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...")
- 14:48, 16 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 386 revisions on page DIY, craft, materials, and such / Household and DIY substances: content hidden
- 11:08, 16 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Nethogs (Redirected page to Network tools#Watching traffic) Tag: New redirect
- 11:06, 16 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 105 revisions on page Python notes - strings, unicode, encodings: content hidden
- 01:21, 16 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 153 revisions on page HTTP notes: content hidden
- 21:30, 15 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 4 revisions on page Hypercorrection, hypocorrection: content hidden
- 18:15, 15 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Office Document formats to Office document formats
- 18:15, 15 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs moved page Document formats to Office Document formats
- 18:15, 15 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Document formats (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...")
- 13:52, 15 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Caveat (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" -->")
- 11:39, 15 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 109 revisions on page Python usage notes - PIL: content hidden
- 22:45, 14 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page OSI (Redirected page to Networking notes - General#Layer models) Tag: New redirect
- 21:49, 14 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 39 revisions on page Locking, data versioning, concurrency, and larger-scale computing notes: content hidden
- 21:49, 14 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs changed visibility of 250 revisions on page Locking, data versioning, concurrency, and larger-scale computing notes: content hidden
- 17:21, 14 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Kernel panic (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...")
- 16:42, 14 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Security notes / pre-boot authentication (Created page with "<!-- The aim of pre-boot authentication (PBA) is to provide an environment to the OS we are booting that we can reasonably say has not been tampered with. The way of doing that varies. How far into boot that reaches varies. Even the ''types'' of guarantees vary. PBA can refer to "am I being accessed by the same person" and/or "am I running on the same hardware", which is part of why it's confusing as hell. Consider for example: * classical full-disk encryption...")
- 15:00, 13 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Argmax (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")
- 10:03, 9 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Grounded (Redirected page to Grounding) Tag: New redirect
- 15:09, 8 February 2024 Helpful talk contribs created page Flow control (Created page with "<!-- Flow control is the idea is that the receiving side can pause the sending side. Perhaps the easier to understand form is '''hardware flow control''', because these are often dedicated things separated from the transfer (out of band). For example, in a parallel ports, e.g. a printer can assert the busy pin, and the sending side will choose to pause sending until that clears. In in serial ports there is a similar construction: the sender sets RTS to signal th...")