User:DonkeyKong64

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About Me

I am qualified as a mathematician.

I currently work in discrete event simulation.

I am an Australian citizen.

I am interested in mathematics, philosophy, religion/belief, ...

I am philosophically agnostic, in practice I am nontheist, but psychologically (ie: 'in my heart'), I am atheist. I believe these are properties of my beliefs, rather than names for my beliefs. Ie: One could say that I am agnostic, but this only gives a tiny bit of information about my beliefs regarding truth, reality, etc.

I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (now AD/HD) when I was about 10 years old.

I love talking to thoughtful people who have perspectives that are different from my own. Now that I think about it, talking to someone knew, who has a perspective on something that I hadn't encountered before (and can discuss it thoughtfully), is probably one of my greatest thrills.

My blog is: donkeykong64.livejournal.com (now pretty much abandoned)

See also: My Edit Count

You can send me an email: Special:Emailuser/DonkeyKong64 (note, this is not my daily email address - I check it every now and then)

Links to Wikipedia articles

I usually add any articles to my watchlist whenever I think i might want to come back to them. ie: I use my watchlist like a bookmarks list. This makes my watchlist very cluttered, and means that I can't really keep track of changes to the pages that I really want to watch. So, i've decided to list the pages here instead:

Mathematics
Axiomatic set theory | Russell's Paradox

Lp space | Reflexive space | Real Analysis | Functional Analysis

Cantor set | Smith-Volterra-Cantor set

Optimal control

Mathematicians, Philosophers & Scientists
Bertrand Russell | Alan Turing | Leonhard Euler

Confucious

Philosophy, etc
Agnostic atheism | Philosophical zombie (see also, Zombies (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)) | Münchhausen Trilemma

Political Philosophy
Demarchy

Miscellaneous
Larry Fleinhardt - (A character from Numbers) | Invisible Pink Unicorn | Nobel Peace Prize | Web 2.0

Scholarpedia

... Link list is incomplete. I will finish it at some point in the future.

• I haven't edited this list in years (I think). I just noticed that I have 443 pages in my watchlist. Clearly it's impractical to go through all of them and add them to this section manually. If someone has a JavaScript to provide an in-wiki bookmarking feature (like the watchlist, but just a different list), I would use that, but otherwise I might just have to delete all of those pages that are just in my watchlist as bookmarks. Anyway, I don't have time now. Not that it matters at the moment, because I don't enough time to do any wikipedia editing for the time being anyway. - DonkeyKong64 (Mathematician in training) (talk) 09:54, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Non-articles on wikipedia

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment

Links to Wikibooks, Wikiversity, etc. pages

Wikibooks:Linear Algebra Mayflower - Search engine for Wikimedia Commons

Links to other web pages

• Bertrand Russell:
  • Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
  • Bertrand Russell Quotes from Wikiquote
• Adventures in Computation:
  • Are the Reals real?
  • Alice, Bob, a Simple Game, a Surprise, and a Paradox
• measure theory background 2008.pdf - A summary of mathematical background material for a measure theory course. Covers set theory and real analysis. Seems very clear and not 'too formal' (to a mathematician, that is).
• cut-the-knot.org A top-quality maths website giving easy-to-understand explorations of maths-related concepts.

Subpages

• /Userboxes
• /Optimal Control Researchers
• /Citizendium

User Boxes

This user is a participant in WikiProject Mathematics. CurtinThis user is a student or graduate of the Curtin University. BScThis user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematical Sciences. BSc (Hons)This user has a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. This user comes from Australia. ADHDThis user has ADHD. xhtml-1This user is a beginning XHTML user.

C++-1This user is a beginning C++ programmer. athThis user is an atheist. This user goes by "DonkeyKong64" across Wikimedia.

(Note: "atheist" is not a word for my beliefs, it is a property of my beliefs. I have a complex set of beliefs, one aspect of which is atheism...see Agnostic atheism)

see also: my extended userbox page, which contains other userboxes which apply to me, but which I don't want to clutter up my main user page with.

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How to insert a picture into an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{alt=}|{caption}]]

Only [[File:{name}]] parameter is required.

Do not put spaces between parameters. The other parameters are optional and can be placed in any order. Some infoboxes do not require the brackets. Keep parameters in lower case. The other parameters are:

Type

'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.

Location

'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.

Size

{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 pixels and height to 40 pixels). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. If thumb or thumbnail is chosen, size should normally be left out, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.

alt=

(keep it lower case). This is the "alternate image" parameter used to describe the image for screenreaders or for people with low-vision. It should be more descriptive than the caption alone. Do not use this for another copy of the caption or of the article title, as the reader will already be aware of these.

Caption

Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader would not have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. Full sentence or multi fragment captions require full stop punctuation.

If you have created a picture that is not already in Wikipedia's image collection on the Commons that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Bonus tip: Similar formatting is used to insert basic audio or basic video clips into articles.

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