User:Brighterorange

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Not actually orange.
Not actually orange.

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[edit] About

Hello, I am Tom 7. I'm a graduate student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I consider myself an expert in type theory, programming languages (esp. Standard ML), and logic (esp. modal logic). I also know a lot about some other things, like indie rock, Nintendo, and First-Person Shooters.

Recently I am prone to alternating spurts of binge editing and total disapperance, related to procrastinating my dissertation or working on it (depending on guilt/stress level).

Please use my talk page to communicate with me about Wikipedia rather than e-mail; I more likely to read your communique if it goes there, and definitely more likely to respond.

My real home page is at tom7.org.

[edit] Opinions

I love Wikipedia and have a number of opinions about how it could be improved.

[edit] Wish list

I found out that if I put a wish list of articles on my user page, sometimes they just appear out of nowhere!

Here are some articles I'd like to extend.

[edit] Work on

[edit] Started

Here are some articles that I started.

Here is a project I started.


[edit] Notes

[edit] PeriodBot

I've written some software in SML for mining Wikipedia off-line. One early application is PeriodBot, which searches for article paragraphs that don't end with punctuation (an incredibly common mistake). We manually apply these changes as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation. (Since this program doesn't automatically interact with the live wikipedia either to read nor write, it doesn't really qualify as a bot as per WP:B). You can get the source code here if you want.

Useful links for database dumps:

Since then I have been more interested in extending the Wikipedia interface using Javascript (ugh) to automate repetitive editing tasks, particularly as respects my superficial editing interests (punctuation and typography, image formats). These are not quite ready for prime time yet, but please ask if you're interested in beta-testing.

I also frequently run my autopunctuation script on featured article candidates and featured articles. If you're working on an article that you would like to have high quality punctuation (particularly en dashes), just leave a message on my talk page and I will run it on your article. (example)

[edit] Images

I like taking photographs, and I've uploaded some images to Wikipedia, too. I occasionally replace poor pictures with better high-resolution ones; when I do, my policy is to use a license at least as generous as the old one.


Doritaenopsis

Brugmansia

Brugmansia (detail)

Cogon grass

My friend Brendan wearing a bunch of climbing equipment

Heinz Field

Single hitch

Pile hitch

Sheet bend

Double sheet bend

Sheepshank

Surgeon's knot (tying)

Surgeon's knot

Highwayman's hitch

Albright special

Racking bend

Merton College library

Merton College front quad

Mob Quad

Old book bindings

British Typex machine

London Heathrow terminal 3

Intertec Superbrain

The Eagle and Child interior; where the Inklings met

adjacent angles

Gopher rockfish of family Sebastidae

Jellyfish

Ira Glass

oak

caterpillar face

G. guira

Blue Jay

Inca tern

Rhinoceros Hornbill

Maple bug

Sam Davol of The Magnetic Fields
(back before I had a good camera ;))

The Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh

South Side Slopes from Carson

Steep street in South Side Slopes

Map of Pittsburgh's neighborhoods

Ixora

Belamcanda chinensis

Solenostemon scutellarioides

Adiantum peruvianum

Locator maps for all of the Pittsburgh neighborhoods

Primanti Bros. in the Strip District

EWR Terminal A at night

Mist on Mt. Tuscarora in Allegany State Park

Canon D60, the camera I took most of these shots with

Harrison Hills Park outside Pittsburgh

Cotton gin at Eli Whitney Museum

Model trains at the Eli Whitney Museum

Timeworn workshop

Lots of paint

Allegheny Cemetery

Allegheny Cemetery

East End Brewing Company

As an image quality stickler, I also spend a lot of time tagging and converting images to better formats, especially SVG. Unfortunately SVG thumbnail support is pretty unreliable so some of these don't even show up. Does anybody know if I can do anything to make this situation better?
Zone plate Absolute complement Relative complement Premature ventricular contraction
Brahmagupta's formula Bohr model of the atom Tartrate crystals from Louis Pasteur's experiments Example for Carathéodory's theorem

[edit] To do

I say old chap have you seen Brighterorange?
I say old chap have you seen Brighterorange?

[edit] Easily improved

[edit] WP:IS a social networking site

en This user is a native speaker of English.
λ This user is fluent in Lambda calculus.
This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
• This user participates in Project Punctuation.
P This user is a Pescetarian.
This user is a cross country runner.
This user enjoys photography.
This user hacks happily with Emacs.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Pittsburgh.
SI-0 This user thinks the metric system is bureaucratic and inhuman and will think in Fahrenheit until he/she dies.
This user lives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.