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I am currently attending graduate school at the University of Washington for computer science.

For the curious, here's my homepage.

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Selected Contributions

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My first logged-in edit ever:

• Self programming language, timestamped 15:14, 3 July 2002. Wikipedia:Statistics says that there were fewer than 40,000 articles back then.

Articles to which I've contributed significant original content:

• Programming language:
  • I once engaged in the hubristic folly of a total rewrite of this article in my user space. It got out of hand and I never managed to merge it back into the main article. Two years later another user had to come along and rescue what could be salvaged. Let this serve as a cautionary tale: Don't be like me. Edit on the live article, and divide your work into small chunks that can be committed incrementally.
• Type theory and related topics:
  • Static typing and dynamic typing
• Mozilla
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and its museums:
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
• Sister Souljah moment
• Al Gore

Articles to which I've done significant editing for style:

• Microsoft: This is a contentious entry, for obvious reasons. I've tried to limit my editing to cleaning up prose, reorganization for flow, and NPOV.
• Computer mouse

Articles to which I hope to make significant edits in the future:

• Manhattan and related topics (particularly, fill in neighborhoods).
• Library (software)

Notable uploads:

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  Picture of the Day, 18 Nov 2006, English Wikipedia
  Featured Sept 2006, English Wikipedia
  Featured Sept 2006, Wikimedia Commons

Miscellaneous

Current rant:' Over time, a maddening entropy has grown to inflict nearly all articles related to programming languages. For whatever reason, programming language articles are not served well by the gradual accumulation of random facts, at which Wikipedia excels. This may be because too many people overestimate their own knowledge of programming languages, or because too many people confuse familiarity with a few programming languages with a systematic understanding of programming languages as a field. Unfortunately, I do not have the time right now to rewrite the articles into better form, but if I ever get around to it, you can expect major changes.

Sub-rant: I'm not merely whining. I do spend time editing Wikipedia and I think it's literally one of the Great Wonders of the Post-Internet World. As far as I'm concerned, it's right up there with Google and Project Gutenberg. However, I currently spend most of my Wikipedia-budgeted time on either

• damage control on computer-related topics,
• my suggested PL rewrite, or
• minor edits-for-fun on articles unrelated to programming languages.

I've observed that this is because significantly rewriting an article, in a way that would meaningfully improve its quality, takes a big chunk of labor that's not easy, and (for various reasons) frequently not fun. Those big chunks of time don't come often, for me or for most other people. However, should I ever get such time, consider this rant an explanation in advance for why I replaced 90% of an existing article, and meanwhile left out your explanation of foobar typing or whatever.