User:Delirium
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I seem to spend most of my time listening to music. Currently my favorites are EBM, Industrial, synthpop, futurepop, neofolk, punk rock, and various sorts of assorted avant garde stuff.
I'm a computer science PhD student with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, especially creativity. I'm also rather interested in philosophy. As a hobby of sorts, I maintain a site attempting to make the mystifying and scam-filled world of personal finance a bit clearer.
I spend most of my time on the English Wikipedia, but I'm also sometimes active at Commons and on the Greek Wikipedia. My native languages are Greek and English (I learned them simultaneously while an infant), and I speak both fluently, but since I was educated in English and live in the United States, my English—and especially my written English—is substantially better.
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[edit] Stuff I've Written
Here's a list of articles I've started. I originally wrote most of these articles in their entirety, and some are still mostly my work. Some have now been here for upwards of three years, though, so may no longer very closely resemble my original articles.
Some are things I'm actually interested in, and some are just things I stumbled across that needed an article. Some short articles are probably missing from this list, as are ones I forgot about.
[edit] History and Politics
- Biographies
- Mahmoud Abbas (major initial portion) -- former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and now its President
- Athenagoras of Athens -- early Christian apologist (adapted/supplemented from an old encyclopedia)
- Warren Austin -- American statesman and diplomat
- Martin Van Buren Bates -- Civil War-era man nearly 8 feet tall
- Patriarch Bartholomew I -- current Patriarch of Constantinople
- Marvin R. Baxter -- justice on the Supreme Court of California
- Denis Burke -- Australian politician
- Camilo Cienfuegos (major part) -- Cuban revolutionary; disappeared in 1959
- Lawrence Eagleburger -- American statesman and diplomat
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- noted British anthropologist
- Sulaiman Abu Ghaith -- Al-Qaida spokesman
- Gregor Gysi -- former East German and current German politician
- Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim -- former leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims
- Chaim Herzog -- sixth President of Israel
- Salim Jubran -- first Israeli Arab to become a permanent member of the Israeli Supreme Court
- Siegfried Kampl -- Austrian politician embroiled a 2005 row over controversial remarks about Nazis
- Anatoly Lebedko -- Belarusian opposition leader; opponent of dictator Alexander Lukashenka
- Menachem Mazuz -- Israeli attorney general
- Benno Ohnesorg -- protestor against a visit of the Shah of Iran to Germany killed in 1967
- Romano Prodi -- at various times Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Commission
- Elyakim Rubinstein -- Israeli diplomat and politician
- Smith Thompson -- United States Supreme Court justice
- Sanjar Umarov -- jailed Uzbek opposition leader
- Urukagina -- 24th-century BC ruler of Lagash in Mesopotamia
- C.F.W. Walther -- founder of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
- Wu Jinglian -- one of China's preeminent economists
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi -- first Israeli Arab appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court
- Acteal massacre -- a 1997 massacre in Mexico
- Coat of Arms of Australia (about half)
- Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
- Heim ins Reich -- pre-WW2 Nazi policy
- Iqtisaduna -- a prominent work on Islamic economics
- Know-Nothing movement -- 1840s-50s U.S. nativist movement
- List of earthquakes (various)
- Loyal Legion -- society of American Civil War veterans, and now their descendents
- Marienfeld -- field in Germany, and site of World Youth Day 2005
- Patriarch of Constantinople -- head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Radio Free Afghanistan -- U.S. government radio service in Afghanistan
- Rheinische Zeitung -- radical paper edited by Karl Marx
- Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (Australia) -- controversial law legalising euthanasia between 1995 and 1997
- Students Islamic Movement of India (about half) -- Islamist movement in India
- Yasukuni Shrine -- controversial Japanese memorial shrine
[edit] Geography
- Greece
- Ambracian Gulf -- gulf of the Ionian Sea
- Dodecanese -- island group
- Kerkis -- mountain on Samos
- Mikri Vigla -- small village on Naxos
- Mount Kyllini -- mountain in Peloponnesus
- Simi -- island in the Dodecanese
- Zakros -- archaeological site in Crete
- Brie -- a historic region of France, most famous for its Brie cheese
- Herat province -- in Afghanistan
- Montecristo -- Italian islet
- Port Royal -- former capital of Jamaica, prior to destruction in an earthquake
- Tsauchab -- rivier in Namibia
[edit] Philosophy
- Categorical Imperative (introduction and section on formulations)
- Hypothetical imperative
- Richard Swinburne -- noted Christian philosopher
- Paul Tillich -- theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher
[edit] Music
- Genres
- Groups
- Bad Religion (various portions)
- VNV Nation
- Labels
- Come Organisation -- Power noise label associated with Whitehouse
- Memento Materia -- Label "focusing on synth-, electro- and futurepop"
[edit] Arts and Literature
- Anglicisation -- making things more like the English language
- Cease and desist -- a demand or order for someone to stop doing something
- Hymn to Freedom (literal English translation)
- Joseph Kosuth -- American conceptual artist
- Justin Pierce -- actor in Kids
- Rothko Chapel -- chapel in Houston, Texas filled with works by Mark Rothko
- Théâtre du Marais -- theatre and theatre troupe in Paris
- William Steig -- author of Shrek, among other works of children's literature, and also a prolific cartoonist for the New Yorker
[edit] Math and Science
- Computer-related
- Bitwise operation (initial version, incl. most of the current content)
- GUIDO music notation
- Identifier naming convention
- Klee's measure problem
- Myhill-Nerode Theorem
- Neural network (section on Simple Recurrent Networks)
- Type polymorphism
- Xiph.org Foundation
- The Analyst, or, Mathematical Museum -- early American mathematics journal
- Henry Darcy -- French hydraulics researcher
- Darcy-Weisbach equation
- Empirical relationship
- Guido Fubini -- Italian mathematician
- Prony equation
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
- Three cottage problem
- Josef Hoene-Wronski -- eccentric philosopher of mathematics
- Wronskian
[edit] Alcoholic Beverages
- Anise-flavored liqueurs
- Commandaria
- List of wine producing regions (Greek wine regions)
- Mythos Brewery
[edit] Random
- Claremont Colleges -- a consortium of colleges in California
- Cross-quarter day (major portion)
- Insanity
- JeffK (major portion) -- a fictional internet personality
- Oplegnathidae -- a family of fish
- Shizuoka University of Art and Culture -- a university in Hamamatsu, Japan
- Toyoko Inn -- a business-hotel chain in Japan
- Yosemite Decimal System -- a rating system for climbing difficulty
