This is an archive of past discussions with User:Linas. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

This is an archive of assorted sections in my user space, from the 2005-2012 era that are ... out of date.

I used to have a number of long essays on this page, about structural problems that Wikipedia has, and a variety of proposals on how to fix them. However, the power elite found these essays "insulting", have censured me, and have deleted my essays. I hope I can state the following without further censure/blocking/deletion: I strongly disagree with the Wikipedia leadership on a wide and broad range of issues. Their abuse of power, failure to lead, and general mis-behaviour is damaging Wikipedia.

The mainstream media has now noted the general affliction. See, for example, 26 Nov 2009 front-page article in the Wall Street Journal: Wikipedia loosing Volunteers. Heh. Take that!

It would be interesting to read your essays which have been deleted as insults. Could you perhaps create an article called "Views that are considered insulting to Wikapedia" or perhaps "Wiki insults" and post them there with a lede advising that similar views are not to be kept on Wikapedia talk pages on pain of censure. — Philogos (talk) 20:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

I can't do that; I've already been beaten up about this, and don't see why I won't blocked or banned again. Take a look at my talk page -- these people are thugs. Here's a hint: take a look at the deletion vote for { {template:proof} }. This template was used by 30-50 different math articles, and anchored a whole category. It was the result of discussions with dozens of math editors over the course of many years. It was summarily deleted in a "drive-by deletion" by some WP admins, of whom exactly zero have ever contributed to any math article whatsoever. People who do this sort of thing should not be admins, they should be punished; instead, they run loose and fuck around whoever they feel like. Watch this spot, you will see your words and mine deleted in just a very short amount of time, as these same people will once again try to hide their crimes.

Or not. The secret seems to be to toil away at obscure topics that few care about; then one is left alone. I am sad to note the large number of people I respected and admired, who have been driven away, if not outright banned, by evil admins. Just today, I saw the ghost of User:Chalst in some articles I was reading/editing.linas (talk) 04:28, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I am currently employed by Novamente as an artificial general intelligence hacker, currently focusing on linguistic interfaces. Until recently, I worked at IBM as a hacker working on the Linux kernel for PowerPC-based mainframes. The Linux on the PowerPC wiki is a good place to find out more about IBM Linux mainframes and systems. I've been active in the Linux community; my personal website at http://www.linas.org/ has a set of once-extensive but now stale Enterprise Linux pages. I was a founder of the Gnome Foundation; and I was the lead developer for GnuCash for over 7 years. I've founded three dot-com startups, with real VC money: "Teleport Travel" (later "Intransco"), "Gnumatic", and "Tristel" (later "TQI"). All of which failed to enrich me financially. I was a founding member of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board; and spent 8 years learning about and designing 3D graphics hardware and software. I received a PhD in theoretical physics from SUNY at Stony Brook; the thesis topic was suggested by A. D. Jackson and Fred Goldhaber, on the bag model, which combines quark and meson models of the nucleon. I frittered away the marvelous opportunity offered by a year-long postdoc at SPhT-Saclay at CEA/CEN. Currently, I am utterly infatuated with mathematics, and have made large contributions to over 300 math articles in Wikipedia. BTW, y'all, global warming is for real. Do something about it.

About me:

• Had daydreams and free associations of mathematical topics, such as the quantum theory of lambda calculus.
• Recategorized several thousand articles, created some templates, and made major contributions to a few dozen non-math articles.
• Written an essay on a means to ensure article quality on Wikipedia.