User talk:Ancheta Wis

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Now we are back to a formal system: A formal language can be specified in a great variety of ways, such as:

Strings produced by some formal grammar
Strings produced by a regular expression;
Strings accepted by some automaton
Decidable questions whose answer is YES — see decision problem.etc. etc.

If we extend the alphabet of these productions, which is what the visual symbols would effectively be, and what would the result be for an operation on combinations of the visual symbols. - need a parser for the symbols. The term "foundations of mathematics" is sometimes used for certain fields of mathematics itself, namely for mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, proof theory, model theory, and recursion theory. The search for foundations of mathematics is however also the central question of the philosophy of mathematics: on what ultimate basis can mathematical statements be called "true"?

The current dominant mathematical paradigm is based on axiomatic set theory and formal logic. Virtually all mathematical theorems today can be formulated as theorems of set theory. using the operations of formal logic.

First order predicate calculus.

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Meghan Trainor

Takin' It Back is the fifth major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Epic Records released it on October 21, 2022. Trainor worked with producers including Federico Vindver and Gian Stone and featured artists like Teddy Swims and Natti Natasha. Inspired by the sound of her album Title (2015) after its title track went viral on TikTok, Takin' It Back is a doo-wop and bubblegum-pop album about motherhood and self-acceptance. Trainor promoted the latter with televised performances and two singles, "Bad for Me" and "Made You Look". The latter peaked at number 11 in the US and reached the top 10 in several other countries. Reviewers thought Takin' It Back showcased Trainor's maturity, growth, and musicality, but they were divided on whether it was a progression from her earlier work. The album debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200. Its deluxe edition was supported by the single "Mother". (This article is part of two featured topics: Takin' It Back and Meghan Trainor albums.)

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Thanks for all your work on categories. We don't have anything like a consensus about what is fundamental, or where we should be going with highest-level categories or levels of granularity in each category... but I hope we will soon. Is there a main Categories Wikiproject?

In any case, we shouldn't let our debates about categorization spill out onto the Main Page. I am confused about why the people who have been active in editing the category-list haven't chimed in with their thoughts on the new main-page template. +sj + 22:33, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello, AW. You said:

Thank you for responding to my appeal on the Fundamental category. What if we transfer the thread of conversation to Category talk:Fundamental. I will alert the folks on the Main Page that we will pick up the conversation there. Ancheta Wis 01:42, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Good idea - copy or move my contribution and put yours in too (telling BodNotBod!) Maybe new heading such as "Refining number and wording of the "fundamental" categories"? Robin Patterson 03:21, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not —	he is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not —	he is ignorant; teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows —	he is asleep; awaken him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows —	he is wise; follow him.

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Thank you for your kind words on my talk page -- hike395 12:53, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Bible & Hebrew Script Issues

Hi Ancheta, thanks for the response to my question. Digging on Amazon, the only book I can find that you refer to is "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible" [1] Is that the one? Spellbinder 18:19, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, Ancheta. Sorry, it's taken a while to respond, but I've been away. That 'Cambridge History of the Bible' looks fascinating; I'll have to try to get hold of a copy. Spellbinder 21:15, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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How to help yourself survive a heart attack when alone

I got this from my mother-in-law, who spent months last year in a cardiology ICU, and who is now at home again. She emailed me with this last March, but it's on paper now and wikipedia is a superior place to have this information if I need it. Ancheta Wis 00:58, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could save your life!!

Let's say it's 6:15PM and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about 5 miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

How to survive a heart attack when alone

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However these victims can help themselves by

coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.

A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep within the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

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Scientific enterprise

I've listed Scientific enterprise for cleanup for three reasons: 1. the formatting is very inconsistent with typical Wikipedia standards (and makes it difficult to read), 2. it contains a lot of re-definitioning which can be accomplished better by wiki links (why repeat an explanation of the scientific method? Brevity is a good thing!), and 3. I think it is somewhat incoherent what the point of it is, because the connection between the sentences and paragraphs is often fairly cryptic. Which is not at all to imply that I don't think an article on the scientific enterprise -- science as an enterprise -- is a bad idea, or that the contents are poor -- I just think it needs some work, and I think it needs to be edited down quite a bit, to be made more concise. Just letting you know! --Fastfission 02:07, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. ... I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! snoyes 05:24, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Welcome by me, too! Optim 20:35, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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The (Un)Enlightenment

Hi Ancheta,

Don't worry too much about Category:The Enlightenment being on WP:CFD. User:Postdlf has been doing a lot of work trying to clean up isolated and annomolous categories, and he may have been just a little too quick off the mark on this one.

I know a little philosophy, but probably not enough to make an informed decission. You mention 'some eastern philosophies view enlightenment as a fundamental topic'. Are you suggesting that ideas from the western Age of Enlightenment spread to the east (or vice versa), so that there are topics in both eastern and western philosophy which have the same roots and come together under Category:The Enlightenment?

If by 'enlightenment' in eastern philosophies you mean the enlightenment or bodhi of Buddhist, then I doubt there is any association. Buddism started around the 6th century BC, there was very little communication with the west. The only connection with the west's Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century would be a coincidence in the name.

There is an article on Enlightenment (concept) that suggests they are connected. But I don't buy it, except in a fairly loose sense on 'convergent evolution'. There is a similarity in the 'eureka' moment which perhaps give a degree of connection, but its not a philosophical movement. -- Solipsist 10:07, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Eye of Providence

I like the start of the Eye of Providence article. I'm surprised it doesn't have any reference to Freemasons though. In particluar the symbol's precense on the $1 dollar bill is often thought to be due to freemasonary, although this article makes quite a good case that it is just a coicidence (again co-convergece in similar ideas). Of course that could add up to making a rather interesting article. -- Solipsist 10:14, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

... actually novus ordo seclorum is on the Great Seal (as shown at the top of page), which is where the one dollar bill gets it from. -- Solipsist 23:06, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries

Yes, Ancheta Wis, I can look into those 'Selected Anniversaries'. And, thanks for the tip. :-) -- PFHLai 04:58, 2004 Aug 30 (UTC)

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Los Angeles

Someone removed a change you made back on Jun 13, 2004 whose edit comment was "The skilled drivers of Los Angeles", and whose main content was:

Traffic laws are governed by a California principle called flow of traffic; speed laws are meant to ensure efficient flow, and drivers at the speed limit can get a ticket for driving too slowly, if the rest of the freeway is driving faster, at that moment. On a good day with free-flowing traffic, the skilled drivers of Los Angeles tend to travel in checkerboards, all at the same speed, to minimize the dangers of driving 1-car-length apart at speeds over 60 miles per hour; they accomplish this by monitoring the brake lights of the cars in front of them, as viewed through the windshields of the cars in front of them. If a driver leaves a larger gap, another car will simply fill in the gap, so drivers learn to leave no room for another car in front of them. When a brake light lights up, the drivers following will respond with the impressive phenomenon of an entire section of freeway slowing down at the same time. The news channels will then respond with reports on that freeway.

This appears to be nonsense to me, as a resident of Southern California. Where did you get this from? —Morven 07:44, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

I think maybe the rise in popularity of the SUV, minivan and truck has killed this off, along with the tendency for ever-more-tinted glass. Now, the odds are if you are driving in a car, the vehicle in front of you is one you can't see through. —Morven 16:32, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

Fort Worth

A.W.: Rather than doing anything fancy, I decided it would be best to reduce Fort Worth to a redirect, and merge/give indication of the merger on Fort Worth, Texas (should anyone be interested in the former page's history). If this isn't quite what you wanted, please let me know. CJCurrie 21:33, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

er ... Fort Bliss, that should be

Obviously, the Fort Worth pages were left unchanged. (I apologize; I was using Wikipedia while concurrently hosting a radio program earlier today, and my attentions were somewhat compromised.)

More generally, I have to confess t I'm still fairly new to this sysop business, and it's entirely possible that I've misread the situation. If so, I'd request that you clarify what you were asking of me. (I'm not really the fumbling space cadet that my previous contribution to your page made me out to be, though I must confess that I had some difficulty in understanding the nature of your request.) CJCurrie 02:08, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Anagrams

OK, so colour me curious: I have a feeling that your user-name (Ancheta Wis)is an anagram, but I can't work out for what! Am I wrong, or what? Also, why did you reckon I'd be interested in the Stata center thing? Are you someone I knew IRL at MIT? Noel 14:24, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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X-rays are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, with wavelengths shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays – roughly in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometres. X-rays were discovered by German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, who named them X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation. X-rays can penetrate many solid substances such as construction materials and living tissue, and X-ray radiography is widely used in medical diagnostics. This medical significance was noticed by Röntgen shortly after he discovered X-rays; this print, titled Hand mit Ringen (Hand with Rings), is a print of his first medical X-ray, taken of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand in December 1895.Print credit: Wilhelm Röntgen; restored by Yann Forget

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Critical theory

That gets a lot of it, but it doesn't really get the psychoanalytic theorists like Lacan. Snowspinner 14:40, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

News!

See m:Wikinews and m:Talk:Wikinews.

Chicago Meetup

It was a pleasure to meet you today. I think your summary covered the main points of the talk pretty well. -Pete P. Riis 00:46, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

History of Telegraphy

Hi, Ancheta Wis. I just reverted your date change in the Ground (electricity) article, and I thought you might like an explanation. My information was based on an article called The Electromagnetic Telegraph, which gives a detailed history of telegraphy from long before the 19th century. 1820 appears to be the date of the first electromagnetic telegraph, built by Baron Schilling. Like you, I was surprised by this early date. It appears that electromagnetism was put to practical use within a year of Oersted's discovery, and long before anybody had a mathematical model of how it worked. --Regards, Heron 13:49, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Scientific method

Hi there! I knew what the link was for, but the title of an article shouldn't be linked (per the Wikipedia:Manual of Style). --David Iberri | Talk 22:58, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Just two short paragraphs later, the MoS says (in bold):

Do not link words in article titles; find other ways to include and then link those words.

And Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Headings says to "avoid links in headings". Looks like you stopped reading a bit too soon ;-) Best, David Iberri | Talk 00:46, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

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Hello. We haven't met before, but I think I should inform you of a recent development on the "Vandalism in progress" page which may have affected your contributions.

About an hour ago, I attempted to report an act of vandalism in the "Current Alerts" section. Unfortunately, as I was doing this I accidentally deleted an important section of the "Vandalism in progress" main page -- possibly accounting for some of the confusion which other users have reported in the last hour.

I've fixed the situation now. Please note that the difficulty arose out of a misinterpretation on my part, and was not a deliberate act of vandalism. I apologize for any inconvenience that my actions may have caused. (Please also note that it took me almost an hour to identify and solve the problem.)

You may wish to review your recent contributions to the "Vandalism in progress" page, to ensure that everything you intended to write ended up in its proper place. CJCurrie 02:15, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Voyager 2

What's so special about Voyager 2 and August 24? The article on the probe only reports the distance at that date, there's nothing special about it... 193.216.55.231 19:31, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I would like to ask the same question. Anyway, someone else (maveric?) has taken that item off the 'selected anniversary' template. -- PFHLai 07:55, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

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Would you mind checking into this user's complaint about VeryVerily? I hate to bother you, but he is being quite annoying. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily/Evidence#VeryVerily and the cold war Thank you. Shorne 11:06, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)