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Talk:Absent-minded professor

message: Not sure if the generalization of "wizard=absent-minded professor" is so true. Dumbledore was whimsical but very in control, and the trope I have been raised to go with wizards is more of an all-knowing wise man.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.172.143.93 (talk) 16:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dumbledore?

message: whats the saying about absent minded professors? -something like "looks at the stars but falls down the well". perhaps it could be addedSpencerk 19:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: It mentions Mad Scientists as often being malevent, and that being one of the main distinctions between them. This is wrong. I say Absent-minded Professor is a TYPE of Mad Scientist. The main characterist. The main defining charactist of a Mad Scientist being that they are not normal in their heads. I would love to see a response on this. I wil also be asking in the Mad Scientist talk page about it as well. Corrupt one (talk) 23:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mad Scientist 

message: Many of the traits of the "absent minded professor" are similar to those of a mildly autistic person (intense focus on a single subject, &c.). I'm being dangerously generalistic here, but might there be a connection? --Mickel (talk) 08:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Only if you have a reliable source saying so. Lova Falk talk 17:24, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autism connections? 

message: What is this nonsense? I was about to delete it, but it looks like someone was earnestly trying to contribute.--Stihdjia (talk) 15:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted this example. It is dubious and unsourced. Lova Falk talk 17:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  André-Marie Ampère 

message: I'm wondering if it'd be appropriate to add links to the pages for schizotypal PD / schizophrenia and/ or schizoid PD in the see also section, given there is also ADHD and autism there.  
Would i need to find some sources to cite/ reference?
I'm going to link them in the meantime as i consider it relevant information,and I don't want to wait a long time for response. Feel free to remove. Schizotypewriter (talk) 10:33, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  adding stpd/ schizophrenia/ szpd to see also? 

message: Virus from 3 Idiots and scientist from Back to the future film can we include in the list pop culture depiction? Rock Stone Gold Castle (talk) 14:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Doc Brown is an obviously intentional example.  But Virus is the opposite of a creative eccentric! —Tamfang (talk) 19:57, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virus from ''3 idiot''...
Talk:Hurricane Gabrielle (2001)

message: A lot more impact is needed. Otherwise, it needs a longer intro. Given the lack of information available (I checked a bit), this should probably be merged. Hurricanehink 20:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  And why is impact a subsection under storm history? — jdorje (talk) 21:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, I merged it. Hurricanehink 19:48, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo/Merge

message: More all around and copyedit. The copy and paste was from the new Hurricane Gabrielle article, which I copied and pasted here. That article was created by User:24.164.114.53. Hurricanehink 02:07, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo2
Talk:Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi distance algorithm

message: The description of the algorithm isn't quite right.  It only works for convex polyhedra (or, in theory, polytopes in N dimensions).  And "enhanced" versions of the algorithm which use edge information, not just a point cloud, are used in practice, because they're much faster.
I've fixed the links and added a link to the best implementation.  It's actually quite hard to implement this algorithm properly; the termination condition is subtle.  The Stephen Cameron paper gets it right.  (And that took some work back in the late 1990s.)
This is a tough algorithm to understand.  It's widely used in video games, so it's of practical interest.  It's hard to implement correctly.  So a really good Wikipedia article, with pictures of what the "simplex" does, and a discussion of what can go wrong, would be useful.  I don't have time to write it, though.  It would be a nice project for a grad student in computational geometry. 
On the other hand, a good explaination of what it does, when it's used, and how to get more information is probably enough for Wikipedia. 
So I'm leaving this as a stub, but with good links to the key papers.  
--Nagle 19:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Amusingly, that paper cites my posting to comp.graphics.algorithms as identifying the problem.  The Steven Cameron paper cited in the article has some of the answers.  That needs a better cite; the link is to the IEEE repository, which is, annoyingly, a pay site.  --John Nagle 04:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

message: Some pictures were added. But they show collisions, not distances. GJK is normally a distance algorithm for non-intersecting polyhedra, but there are extensions for "negative distance", i.e. interpenetration. 
For the distance between two convex polyhedra, there are four main cases - vertex/vertex, vertex/edge, vertex/face, and edge/edge, plus the ambiguous cases edge/face and face/face, where the objects are parallel and there is no unique closest-points vector.  See the Cameron paper.  The ambiguous cases are troublesome.  In practice, in physics engines, they come up frequently, since as objects come to rest they tend to settle into a face/face configuration. This can lead to roundoff error problems in collision detection and is often a statically indeterminate system in a physics engine.  --John Nagle (talk) 03:46, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice pictures
Talk:John Smith (American wrestler)

message: This article needs more content.
Agreed, but it should be original content.  I have removed paragraphs that were copied and pasted from various sources several times on this page. Johnn 7 19:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More content 

message: Why the understatement?  With 4 world titles and 2 olympic gold he is
considered by the wrestling community to be the best American freestyle wrestler ever.Jammen 21:16, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "was a successful American wrestler" 
Talk:Petroleum industry in Canada

message: Is "celinge" from the See Also section a spelling mistake?  I couldn't find it on the net.  SHould it say ceiling?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bow Tied69 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Peak by 2020?  This is garbage with no references provided.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.47.180.194 (talk) 15:01, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fact Checking

message: I agree.  It would make sense to me to merge & redirect oilpatch here.  -- JamesTeterenko 19:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: Not sure if I am asking in the right place, but here goes ... Transportation_in_Canada#Pipelines is looking to get some numbers filled in and accompanying Citations. Might anyone here know these numbers or where to locate them? Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 08:35, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Looking for some numbers

message: Dropped by to check on the state of Canada's oil refining capacity, and I find this article doesn't even mention the North West Refining Sturgeon Redwater refinery which has been operating for just under a year. Makes me wonder how out of date the rest of the information here is...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.103.138.179 (talk) 06:51, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs updating? 

message: cat eyes are actully quit simuller to the humen eye  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.138.62.242 (talk) 15:33, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  cat eyes
Talk:Interaction design pattern

message: Needs spam removal, references, listed references isbns, wordsmithing, see also trimming, etc. --Ronz 20:23, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. I hope someone will take care of this. For anyone interested, I suggest a look at Pattern language inside wikipedia, and at this pattern gallery by Sally Fincher. --Lhead 04:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs work

message: I propose to rename (move) this page to "Design patterns in HCI" (Human Computer Interaction). This is the term usually found in the literature. --Lhead 04:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal: "Design patterns in HCI"
Talk:Cramér's conjecture

message: A reference for the fact that it can be proved that the above conjecture holds true with probability one would be nice. Hottiger 19:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a quick ref.  It's a fairly basic fact, so it actually wasn't that easy to find a good mention. Feel free to replace this with a better reference if you find one. I found a better reference, the original I think. CRGreathouse (t | c) 12:11, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually it goes back to the original Cramér paper. CRGreathouse (t | c) 17:09, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

message: Why is there two section Heuristic justification and Heuristics? Should they be merged? John W. Nicholson (talk) 02:55, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heuristic justification and Heuristics?
Talk:Disease model of addiction

message: The article is about the disease model of addiction and not 12 step recovery so I removed the link to alcoholics anonymous and the gamblers anonymous website.  Othwerwise we'll have a hundred links to various 12 step groups.  
This is not a 12 step group article so I do not see the relevance of these 12 step group links.  I did add addiction and alcoholism.  If we are going to add links let;s try and use ones relevant to the disease model of addiction.  Mr Christopher 19:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: links

message: This sentence is unclear: "The traditional medical model of disease requires only that an abnormal condition be present that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the individual afflicted."  Requires for what?  
Did the editor mean to write, "In the medical model, disease comprises merely discomfort, dysfunction or distress to the individual afflicted."  And if so, what did they mean to imply that the model excludes?  Marshall46 (talk) 15:41, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear sentence 

message: I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#Models of addiction as a neutral ground regarding this article and the  Life-process model of addiction article. --Geniac (talk) 13:43, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion pointer 
Talk:Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin

message: As far as I know, General von Senger und Etterlin's first name was "Fridolin". Furthermore, I think that the book "Die deutschen Panzer" was written by his son, Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin (look for example here or here).--84.159.203.158 10:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Die deutschen Panzer" was definitely written by his son, Ferdinand.  Cyberherbalist (talk) 06:36, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mistake?

message: Please let me know if there are any concerns / feedback. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:14, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Article cleanup per Mar 2016 tag

message: I've requested quotations for these two statements:
*Frido von Senger und Etterlin was one of the generals who opposed the principles of Nazism, and he refused to carry out Hitler's order to execute some 200 Italian officers taken prisoner after Italy switched sides. Though he did not take part in the July 20 Plot to kill Hitler, his known anti-Nazi feelings resulted in his contribution to the defence of Cassino being played down by the German authorities.Majdalany (1957), p. 46
# 1977 source for "one of the generals who opposed the principles of Nazism" is dated / potentially unreliable, depending on what this this is being sourced to in the book
# 1957 source for "known anti-Nazi feelings" is dated / potentially unreliable, depending on what this this is being sourced to in the book
K.e.coffman (talk) 02:21, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested quotations
Talk:Paul Goldsmith

message: In 1995, I received my FAA private pilot’s license at the Griffith, Indiana airport (05C) where I met Paul Goldsmith. 
He was always cordial and would take time to talk to me... I didn’t know he was a superstar until one late night when I was watching a TV show that featured the race on Daytona Beach, when they still raced on the beach... I told Paul that I saw him on TV, he responded: “Yeah, other people have said they saw me on that show, but I’ve never seen it”. 50.111.30.203 (talk) 01:00, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meeting Paul Goldsmith
Talk:Dugald Stewart

message: Dugald Stewart's account of Robert Hooke's theory of gravitation can be read in the Talk section of the Robert Hooke article.Lestrade 19:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Robert Hooke

message: Dugald Stewart seems to have considered Sanskrit to be a forgery. See "Aryans and British India", by Thomas R. Trautman.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.1.208 (talk) 15:51, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Stewart might have been writing in 1827.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.1.208 (talk) 16:02, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A professor in Dublin defended Stewart's ideas as late as 1838.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.1.208 (talk) 13:09, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake 
Talk:Brown Debating Union

message: MementoVivere keeps eliminating the list of past presidents.  I don't know why.  He also posted a link to his own website for Pacifica House, which no longer exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.96.98 (talk • contribs) 14:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason why I persist in removing the list of past presidents is that an incomplete list of past presidents (or for that matter, a comprehensive one) for a short article on a student organization is unnecessary, especially since the listed individuals are non-notable. Also, the listing is clearly self-serving, as it only lists the presidents from 2000 on. You are mistaken when you claimed that I "posted a link to [my] own website for Pacifica House." I did no such thing. Neither do I have "[my] own website" on the subject. If you were to examine the history of the article, specifically my edits to it, you would verify for yourself that I had actually removed the external link to the Pacifica House website and added a link in the See also section to the then-existing article at Society of the Pacifica House. The reason for this was that someone else had added a reference to the Pacifica House in the main body of the article and it is a common practice to place internal links to related (or referenced) subjects in a See also section. — 23:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Talk:A Bucket of Blood

message: What does this sentence mean?
"Griffith says he talked Corman around…"
Talked him around? That's a phrase I've never heard.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meve Stills (talk • contribs) 18:41, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: "Talk around" has two different meanings. To talk [someone] around = "to persuade someone to agree with or support you" . To talk around [a subject] = "to avoid talking about a subject".  MacMillan dictionary. Can be confusing if you haven't heard both usages. -- Naaman Brown (talk) 09:38, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  idiom 

message: "...  "cheap teen movies" released for the drive-in market ... " 
I see this meme repeated a lot in discussion of 1950s B-movies often by commentators who read like they were not alive in the 1950s and who saw these movies only in retrospect. In 1959 or 1960 I saw this movie at the Rialto (a second-run B-movie walk-in theater). I saw "House of Usher" (usually listed as another of Corman's " cheap teen drive-in movies) at the Strand (a first-run A-movie walk-in theatre). In the 1950s Mom and Dad took me and my younger brother to the drive-in theater on family night out. It was not until the 1960-1970s that drive-ins shifted from mostly family to mostly youth date night venue. History is what actually happened even if history is passed on as a written cliche. --  Naaman Brown (talk) 10:07, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  teen drive in
Talk:Kerem HaTeimanim

message: I apologize for missing this move message that was put up while working on some edits before I moved the page from hatemanim to Hatmanim. In any case, I would oppose using haTemanim or even HaTemanim. I would actually suggest spelling it Hateimanim, but I suppose that a redirect could be added later. --Shuki 20:47, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. Kerem Hateimanim. Crzrussian 21:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm not sure this neighborhood's name is that widespread in English-speaking circles to have a definitive English name, or an English common name, so I suggest naming it Kerem HaTeimanim per WP:HE. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 21:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: Some relevant articles that I haven't had time to go over:
* http://www.jpost.com/IsraelGuide/TelAvivAndCenterTours/Article.aspx?id=456
—Ynhockey (Talk) 22:11, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Materials
Talk:IFilm

message: It really sucks that MTV bought it.
Simple equation: something becomes cool + MTV waits until it's just about to become mainstream and then Co-opts it = it's no longer cool.
I think this page should be merged with this page.  Thoughts? 67.101.49.110 01:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

message: Any thoughts on the 1,000+ flash ads on every page that make movie streams run like molasses? 150.134.120.220 (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism
Talk:Billy Claiborne

message: So what is "the problem" mentioned in paragraph 3?  This needs to be specified/clarified.
ClintFord 20:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "The Problem"

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- HornandsoccerTalk 02:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: This article asserts that Billy Claiborne was born in 1860.in Yazoo, MS as William Floyd Claiborne. However, only a single source is cited for this and that link is dead. We have no way to verify this. 
The corner's report for Billy Claiborne only lists his first name as William. Theres no other  useful information. 
The person that hes reported to be is still alive and living in MS and marries in 1887, so Billy Claiborne cannot be William Floyd. JClayborn (talk) 07:46, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdate and name in question 

message: Billy Claiborne is portrayed in Tombstone Rashomon (2017). BiographyHound (talk) 22:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Film
Talk:List of notable Atlantic hurricanes/Formations

message: How do you define Northeasternmost or southeasternmost? Hurricanehink 21:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Latitude + longitude or latitude - longitude. — jdorje (talk) 22:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But using Latitude + longitude would cause a storm in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, say at 70º West and 40º north, to result in a very high number. I'm not sure if you can actually add that. You could use the distance formula and use distance from 0º West, 0º North, possibly. Hurricanehink 22:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Methodology
Talk:Sioux Falls Canaries

message: I am new to the Wiki editting process, so I am doing my best to see how this works! I would like to add more information about the Canaries Community Fund. Please add this information to the current page, 
"With enthusiastic support of Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, The Canaries Community Fund will focus on the foundation’s three pillars — education, community engagement, and character building among youth. 'The Canaries are so much more than baseball,' said Slipka. 'People will see this when they come to the games. The team is excited to seed the Canaries Community Fund with a healthy six-figure commitment. As the season progresses, we will designate charities and causes in and around Sioux Falls and throughout the entire state of South Dakota where we can help.'" 
This is relevent information becasue it explains where the Canaries Community Fund comes from and why it is a thing. In addition, the owner touches on the importance of the foundation's pillars and how they shape the stadium.
https://sfcanaries.com/community/canaries-community-fund/ Selenagonzales11 (talk) 17:30, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Facts about Canaries Community Fund
Talk:Ted Puffer

message: * Henry Runey, bass 
*Ted Lambrinos,  dramatic baritone 
*Tonio Di Paolo, dramatic tenor 
*Genaro Mendez, lyric tenor 
*Steven Crawford, pianist w/ Metropolitan Opera
*Evelyn De La Rosa, soprano
*Cami Thompson, jazz/pop singer
of whom probably most are former students. --Jerzy•t 20:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Sacramento Municipal Utility District

message: I am currently in a university class that is partnered with the Wikipedia Education project. I am considering adding information about SMUD policy and programs that have been implemented to save electricity and prevent large demands being placed on the grid at one time. If anyone has any suggestions please do not hesitate to say something. Kshea692 (talk) 01:48, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Addition
Talk:Dhrystone

message: :If MDIPS are used with the Dhrystone method, then why isn't it mentioned in this article? Couldn't we add a secion here and then we could "merge" the two articles. The MDIPS page is an almost empty stub. Andrew Powell 20:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MDIPS

message: The article seems to be a little dated in its praise of Dhrystone for use as a benchmark. I added criticisms of the algorithm and reference to a statement made by the author himself that the benchmark was outmoded and should not be used. Starseeker shkm 03:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Outdated

message: The criticism and comparisom section take as a given that benchmarks are supposed to measure the performance of the hardware, as independent as possible from the compiler.
The sensitivity tocompiler optimizations is presented purely as a weakness in the article. But when doing benchmarking to compare combined hardware / software systems or when comparing compilers it is a strength.
The comparison pretends that all that matters is that both Dhrystone and Coremark can be obtained free of charge. But Dhrystone is free software, while Coremark is non-free software that may not be redistributed and can only be obtained by agreeing to EEMBC's terms. They forbid redistribution. The terms even require that you delete your own copies of old Coremark versions whenever EEMBC releases a new version. See Coremark license.
93.216.193.194 (talk) 08:25, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Unfair criticism and comparison to Coremark

message: Therefore, an optimizer can replace a string copy with a sequence of word moves without any loops, which will be much faster. This optimization consequently overstates system performance, sometimes by more than 30%[citation needed].  Which is the citation needed for? That optimizers do that, or that the performance change is 30%? Gah4 (talk) 09:07, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed?
Talk:Dat Nguyen

message: On the page 'Dat Nguyen' we have two different locations being listed as the place of birth.  Since I don't really know, I will defer it to somebody else to fix this.  However, I don't consider AsianWeek the end-all authoritative source for this type of specific information.
The ESPN card also lists Arkansas as his birthplace, so I removed "overseas".Gigemag76 (talk) 18:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled