User:SamuelRiv

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My most active area of WP work is in all types of mathematical models of cognition. See the archive for more general information about me.

Contents 1 Career 2 Articles 3 Significant edits 4 Meta 5 To do 6 Favorite proofs

[edit] Career

• (2007 - present) PhD student in physics (condensed matter and biophysics theory) at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
• (2003 - 2007) Undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with dabbling in physics, mathematics, linguistics, and computer science.
• (1985 - 2003) Born in London, raised and schooled in Chicago, Illinois.

[edit] Articles

• Biological neuron models (11/24/2007)
• Synaptic weight (11/24/2007)
• Generalized Hebbian Algorithm (Sanger's rule) (11/24/2007)
• Oja's rule (rewritten 11/22/2007)
• Embedded pushdown automaton (11/21/2007)
• Neural backpropagation (11/20/2007)
• BCM theory (11/11/2007)
• Activation function (11/10/2007)
• Multilayer perceptron (11/10/2007)
• Read-only Turing machine (11/06/2007)
• Queue machine (11/06/2007)
• Flashsort (11/06/2007)
• Inversion temperature (11/04/2007)
• Nonsingular black hole models (11/03/2007)

[edit] Significant edits

• Answering questions at the Science, Math, and Language reference desks.
• Hebbian theory (11/14/2007)
• Backpropagation (11/13/2007) (reverted 11/17/2007, moved to neural backpropagation)
• Synaptic plasticity (11/11/2007)
• Theoretical computer science (11/10/2007)
• Virtual pitch (11/04/2007)
• List of important publications in physics (11/04/2007)
• Notation for differentiation (10/14/2007)
• Cleisthenes (Athenian) (03/23/2006)

[edit] Meta

• User:SamuelRiv/Articles/Encyclopedia Dramatica (12/08/07)
• "Multisport" userbox (11/22/2007)
• "Kendo" userbox (11/22/2007)
• "ML" userbox (11/22/2007)
• "Natural units" userbox (11/03/2007)
• My archived stuff

[edit] To do

• Generate diagrams for automata pages
• Generative phonology
• Quantum brain dynamics
• Integrate-and-fire model
• PCA network
• ICA network
• kurtosis
• Mildly context-sensitive grammar
• Linear indexed grammar
• Probabilistic potential theory
• Electroosmotic drag
• Covariant anomaly
• Macromolecular system
• Biophysics
• Delbruck scattering

[edit] Favorite proofs

• (see field theory).
• (cardinality and countability).
• Magnetism = Electricity (Lorentz force).
• Charge is quantized.
• Neural networks are Turing complete.
• Hungarian has a hidden high middle unrounded vowel.