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Comment please

Hi Mark. Can you please have a look at the work & stress talk page discussion Talk:Work & Stress regarding multiple reverts of established content and reliable sources attached, on the 17th January, by iss246. You helped establish consensus over several weeks in this contentious article between a number of editors. Your guidance based on Wikipedia policy at the time was very helpful. Thanks.Mrm7171 (talk) 04:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Comment please

Hi Mark. Can you please have a look at the work & stress talk page discussion Talk:Work & Stress regarding multiple reverts of established content and reliable sources attached, on the 17th January, by iss246. You helped establish consensus over several weeks in this contentious article between a number of editors. Your guidance based on Wikipedia policy at the time was very helpful. Thanks.Mrm7171 (talk) 04:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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Please Consider this Article for Inclusion in Wikipedia

Hi Mark -- I was hoping you'd be so kind as to help me get this article in my sandbox into Wikipedia. It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sjzaslaw/sandbox. The title of the article is "AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project." Please note the Talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sjzaslaw/sandbox) where I have reproduced permissions to reuse a press release from UC Santa Cruz and an article of the University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center. I do not know how to officially register these "licenses" so as to avoid getting into trouble over copyright infringement. Previously, I published the article Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation.

Thanks for any help you can give me! Sjzaslaw (talk) 18:42, 11 February 2014 (UTC)Sjzaslaw (talk) 18:43, 11 February 2014 (UTC)Sjzaslaw (talk) 18:44, 11 February 2014 (UTC)Sjzaslaw (talk) 18:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Sjzaslaw, I don't know the answer about registering permissions for copied press releases either. Typically what editors do is to read sources and summarize the information in those sources in their own words. That way permissions are not needed for exact copies, provided the sources are referenced properly. Rewriting in your own words may be the simplest approach. If you want to stick with the verbatim text, I suggest you ask about how to do that at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Good luck! --Mark viking (talk) 01:48, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

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Constraint satisfaction problem: why lists X1,...,Xn etc.?

Hello Mark viking, I'm confused about some details of your recent edit of Constraint satisfaction problem#Formal definition:

• Why didn't you use curly braces to denote sets, e.g. X = { X₁,...,X_n } ?
• If D is not the set formed of members D₁, ..., D_n, what is it instead ? An n-tuple ?
• If every variable X_i may have its own set D_i, shouldn't the range of v be changed apropriately, e.g. to D₁∪...∪D_n ?
• And shouldn't R_j be adapted as well ?

Jochen Burghardt (talk) 16:19, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Jochen, thanks for the critique.

• I've seen both parentheses and curly braces used in CS, but agree that curly braces are more common. I'll change that for the sets.
• I guess there are two ways to go about this. We could either say a set of variables ${\displaystyle {X_{i}}}$ and their respective domains ${\displaystyle {D_{i}}}$. Or we could treat ${\displaystyle X}$ as a Cartesian product of the variables ${\displaystyle X=\prod _{i=1}^{n}X_{i}}$ so that it can be represented as ${\displaystyle X=(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n})}$, an ordered tuple and do the same for the domain. Treating these as sets may be simpler for the users.
• I think ${\displaystyle v:X\rightarrow D}$ for the most general evaluation is still correct. But if we go with the Cartesian product the representation ${\displaystyle v:(\prod _{i}X_{i})\rightarrow (\prod _{i}D_{i})}$ may be more descriptive. Actually, the defn of evaluation is not quite right here, as an evaluation could be a function of any subset of the variables to values in their respective domains.
• I agree, it should be "${\displaystyle \langle (x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}),R_{j}\rangle }$ if ${\displaystyle (v(x_{1}),\ldots ,v(x_{k}))\in R_{j}}$".

If we go with Cartesian products and ordered tuples, should the ordered tuples be written as ${\displaystyle X=(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n})}$ or ${\displaystyle X=\langle X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n}\rangle }$? Parentheses are more common in math and physics, but I am less sure about CS. Dechter's book Constraint Processing uses parentheses for the tuples of an instantiation (Section 2.1.2) --Mark viking (talk) 20:24, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Mark, thanks for your explanation. For tuples, I'd prefer ${\displaystyle X=\langle X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n}\rangle }$ over ${\displaystyle X=(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n})}$, but I consider this a matter of taste, while I feel curly braces being the only choice for set construction; I can't remember to have seen sets constructed with parentheses instead, except for sloppy notation. I think a tuple of sets ${\displaystyle X=(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n})}$ is quite different from a cartesian product ${\displaystyle X=X_{1}\times \ldots \times X_{n}=\prod _{i=1}^{n}X_{i}}$, while you seem to consider both to be the same. As to my knowledge: a tuple can be built from any mathematical objects, while a cartesian product can be built only from sets; a tuple is not a set, while a cartesian product is; the elements of a cartesian product are tuples. E.g. (-1,2) is a tuple, while ℤ×ℕ is a cartesian product, and (-1,2) ∈ ℤ×ℕ. In contrast, (ℤ,ℕ) is not a set, and neither "(-1,2)∈(ℤ,ℕ)" nor "(-1,2)∉(ℤ,ℕ)" makes sense - similar to e.g. "ℕ∈2" and "ℕ∉2". If I'm right, a definition ${\displaystyle v:X\rightarrow D}$ doesn't make sense if ${\displaystyle X=(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n})}$ is not a set, while a definition ${\displaystyle v:(\prod _{i}X_{i})\rightarrow D}$ means that v gets an n-tuple of variables as argument, so e.g. ${\displaystyle v(x_{1})}$ doesn't make sense. - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 10:54, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Jochen, thanks for your advice. I agree that tuples are not equivalent to Cartesian products, but elements of a Cartesian product can be represented as a tuple. I've modified Constraint satisfaction problem#Formal definition to use curly braces for sets to get rid of the tuples in favor of just talking about sets. Sets seem simpler and hopefully there is not much scope for confusion. While I thought it was important to note that the different variables could each have their own distinct domains, I don't want to make the definition more complex than it needs to be. See if it looks reasonable to you; if not please edit to taste. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 06:11, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

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Mirror symmetry

Hello Mark viking,

I wanted to let you know that the article on mirror symmetry is currently a featured article candidate. Back in October, you gave a very helpful review of the article on the AdS/CFT correspondence, so I thought you might be interested in reviewing this one as well.

Thanks for your time,

Polytope24 (talk) 22:32, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Great job on the new Kernel adaptive filter article! I had noticed some text that didn't sound like it belonged on wikipedia in that article, so it stood out when I happened to read the exact same words again in the book it was copied from. I'm glad you had the time to write up a little on the subject - I hated to see us lose an article on it, but wasn't going to be able to write up anything of my own soon. Katie R (talk) 12:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Katie! And thanks for tracking down the copyvio. Regards, --Mark viking (talk) 20:13, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Another barnstar for you!

Sorry for jumping on the bandwagon, but your edits on homology are outstanding.

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		Thank you for your wonderful edits on homology. Brirush (talk) 18:40, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Brirush! I've admired your edits on Topology and other articles and am glad my edits pass muster. Regards, --Mark viking (talk) 20:17, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Reciprocal Quantum Logic

Hi,

Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reciprocal Quantum Logic, it was actually an article when I nominated it. The author then wrote a new article, merged in the content and redirected there. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 11:39, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Qwertyus, sorry about the comment, I had not realized that the situation had changed so much after nomination. Next time I'll check the edit history. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 16:49, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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Indexing info

Thanks for adding indexing info to the "Elektronika (journal)" article: [1]. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 05:13, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome. Thanks for checking and removing the tags. --Mark viking (talk) 07:39, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Redirects

Thanks, Mark, for BCRS. I think it'll be useful. I noted in talk that you had set up the BCRS redirect also. I've been curious how that's done. Could you give me a pointer? Thanks, Evensteven (talk) 15:59, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Evensteven, redirects are pretty simple. They are, at their most basic, one-line articles of the form

#REDIRECT [[target article]]

See Wikipedia:Redirect for the full story. --Mark viking (talk) 17:28, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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Trace and tensors

I am interested in what happens when one takes an irreducible representation of GL(n, C), which can be taken as a subspace of T^k(V), some n-dimensional V, already possessing various symmetry properties, and then restricts the representation to a subgroup, say O(p, q), p + q = n. The restricted representation will not, in general, be irreducible. It is here extracting traces come in, and I want to find an intuitive understanding of how to go about to find the irreducible subspaces reasonably efficiently. What about Sp(m), 2m = n (meaning a skew-symmetric form)? Similar procedure? Any hint to a nice article would be appreciated if you know of one. I am at the moment working through this article [2], which might explain my curiosity. It basically takes off from Weinberg's Chapter 2 in QToF Vol I, which is a pretty good starting point. YohanN7 (talk) 20:06, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the background to your question. An expert on the many different relationships among the classical groups and their representations I am not. But the paper you mentioned looks good and in the paper, trace seems synonymous with index contraction. If you are interested more generally in the role of traces in group representation theory, you might want to check out Character theory, where traces of matrix reps are group characters. --Mark viking (talk) 22:46, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, definitely characters will be important. They will tell if the subdivision into subspaces is correct, at least in principle. Fortunately, this is covered well in books I have. Thanks for the reminding me, it will certainly help in understanding why the procedure presented in the paper is correct. YohanN7 (talk) 11:44, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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Question about your comment on "Fractal Tree Index"

Hi Mark,

I've been working on an article on the "Fractal Tree Index" and having no luck moving it forward. You left a comment that searching for ["fractal tree index"] on GScholar gave only two hits, thus suggesting a lack of interest in this topic. I would suggest that for an open source software project, the number of scholarly citations is probably not the best measure of interest, but even so, it's pretty easy to generate more hits on GScholar. For example, ["fractal tree indexes"] gives 6 hits, 5 of which are new. The query ["fractal tree" mysql] gives 7 hits (not all of them on topic, admittedly), but a couple of which were not found in the previous searches. (As an aside, "fractal tree" in this context is a trademark, which is why I use it as an adjective and add "index", but not everyone will be as attentive to this detail. Hence the use of "fractal tree".) Also, ["fractal tree" tokudb] gives a couple more hits, as does ["fractal tree" tokufs]. In short, it's pretty easy to find over a dozen papers on GScholar that talk about this non-academic software project.

If we look at hits on google itself, I get:

["fractal tree index" -site:tokutek.com] 27,300 results

["fractal tree indexes" -site:tokutek.com] 23,000 results

(adding the -site:tokutek.com so as to filter out mentions on the tokutek website itself).

Trying the "fractal tree" query with various added words to try to narrow the focus of the searches gives:

["fractal tree" -site:tokutek.com tokutek] 5,360 results

["fractal tree" -site:tokutek.com tokufs] 132 results

["fractal tree" -site:tokutek.com tokumx] 6,370 results

and finally, the oldest use of fractal trees:

["fractal tree" -site:tokutek.com tokudb] 47,900 results

I'm happy to modify the article, but frankly I don't know how. Could you give me some guidance?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farach (talk • contribs) 12:43, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Farach, I see that Ktr101 has moved your draft into mainspace and that you posted on his talk page at User talk:Ktr101#Fractal Tree indexes. I took the liberty of replying there to keep the conversation in one place. --Mark viking (talk) 18:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

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Inevitability thesis

Just thought that I'd let you, as a participant, know that based upon the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inevitability thesis, I have somewhat boldly turned Inevitability thesis into a disambiguation page. See also Talk:Inevitability thesis. --Bejnar (talk) 20:23, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for following up on this. The disambiguation page looks fine to me. I thought that the topic should be covered somewhere on WP and Hayek looked like the best place for that. But I agree that that usage isn't necessarily dominant and disambiguation is a reasonable compromise. Thanks for creating the page and providing the references on the talk page. --Mark viking (talk) 23:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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Restriction (mathematics)

Hello! I agreed with your assessment of restriction (mathematics) as a stub, and so I've been trying to get it to at least a somewhat usable level. I'd like to get it to a C level. In your opinion, what more does it need before it reaches that point? Thanks, Brirush (talk) 19:01, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Brirush! You have already done a good job organizing the article, expanding it and adding references--beyond start and heading to C. This is sort of a limited subject, so I don't think much more would be needed for C class. A few ideas:

• Indicate what a restriction is good for. The plot in the article demonstrates a main use: cut out the undefined/singular bits of a function to make it well behaved. In topology, the neighborhood is sometimes used as a kind of restriction. In database theory or relational algebra, a restriction in the form of a selection operator is a fundamental operation, useful for filtering and for specifying joins.
• How do restrictions relate to other similar concepts? Clarify the difference between projection and restriction, for instance--one is a subset, the other a map to a new space. How are restriction and corestriction related?
• Notation: some people use ${\displaystyle {f|}_{A}}$ and some people use ${\displaystyle f{\upharpoonright _{A}}}$. We should probably note both notations.

I attempted to expand and clarify the definition, please check that I didn't introduce errors or infelicities. Please take or leave these suggestions according to your good taste. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 21:10, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

There is also restriction of the range of a function. (Already mentioned.) How this works out in the smooth manifold case can be found in John M. Lee's book Introduction to Smooth Manifolds pp. 190 - 195. Restriction of tensor fields to submanifolds might be worth mention too. Willard's book General Topology lists (as problems to work out) a couple of nontrivial propositions that involve restrictions of functions. One of them is a generalization of the pasting lemma.

Wikipedia's rating policy is rather unrewarding to writers of short, concise and good articles. Ratings often measure length/importance of topic rater than quality. One screen articles almost never get past "Start". YohanN7 (talk) 22:18, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Seven states of randomness

See if the article is easier to understand now. Perhaps latter I will add a more technical explanation of what Mandelbrot had in mind.Lbertolotti (talk) 00:21, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Lbertolotti - I think you have done a good job of giving the context of financial risk analysis and management for the seven states of randomness, to help establish why these ideas are important. But I'm not sure if the definition of a quant or its relation to a financial engineer is directly relevant to the subject, other than to say that these are the sorts of people who think about types randomness in their models. Regards, --Mark viking (talk) 03:13, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, risk management has been done for a long time without using math. Financial engineer practice is what is directly affected by Mandelbrot's work.Lbertolotti (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8

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Featured article candidate

Hi Mark viking,

I hope you're doing well. I just wanted to invite you to take a look at the M-theory article, which is currently a featured article candidate. You've given wonderful comments on past articles, and I'd love to hear from you again if you're interested.

Thanks,

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Proportion

Hi, as a mathematician, could you chime in Talk:Proportion. Thanks. Mikus (talk) 17:32, 26 April 2018 (UTC)