User talk:Ben pcc

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shut up.

Ben pcc 22:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

? :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NBL image

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Thanks so much for creating HoustonPano03 Small.jpg! Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory looks so much better now, and it's definately more complete with your photo. Keep up the good work! — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 15:04, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey cool, thanks. -Ben pcc 16:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC) But you know, it's spelled definitely. -Ben pcc 18:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Are you a robot or a guy who really likes to copy and paste?

No, I'm sorry for being a smartass. It's just that I was doing an overhaul of cartographic notation, outlined my intent in the map projection talk page beforehand, and didn't want to repeat it over and over in the edit summary. -Ben pcc 15:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a robot. :) I use {{subst:summary}} ~~~~

Note

I replied your question above.

Regarding this edit, first note that your browser damages Unicode (scroll to the bottom of the diff).

Also, did you indeed copy stuff from MathWorld? That is not OK.

You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I cut out the mathworld text for now, as I don't want us to run into copyright trouble. If you can get that text from somewhere else (and with a references, if possible), we can put it back in. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's bad. I just edited again as I was reading this, there was a minor problem, so it must be ruined again (in fact, I got an edit conflict writing this). I'll see if I can figure out how to fix that. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.1. Thank you for letting me know.

It wasn't blatantly copied, it was read, understood, and rewritten (they used some inconsistent notation and a redundant case statement). It's not exactly original research or anything like that, it's more like "copying" 2 + 2 = 4, except a topic of higher math; I don't believe it's worth citing but I don't know. It's certainly not a copyright thing and, again, not one character was copy + pasted, they look quit different. For reference: central, forward, backward.

Thank you for looking out for me. Please let me know if you think it's alright if I put it back in. -Ben pcc 03:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is OK to use stuff from MathWorld, as long as, as you said, you read it, understood it, and wrote it in your own words. Adding the appropriate links to MathWorld in the external links section could be good too (citations are good simply for verification, if the reader wants to know more on the topic or to double check what is being said).

I took that text out temporarily as a precaution. I think it is fine if you would like to put it back in. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

... and a style note

Sorry to bug you again. :) In math notation variables must be italic, so either n or $n$ but not simply n. I fixed this in the finite difference article. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I want to do it right, don't be sorry. -Ben pcc 03:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

==rvannatta is local===

yes. I'm local. think 'West Oregon Electric' and "www.vannattabros.com" web site.

as for the railroad in Mist, I pulled that because to my knowledge it is wrong or at least misleading.

I believe the railroad that you are referring to is the "Kerry Line" that came from Woodsen over Nicoli Mountain (and through it) arrived at Fishawk, and had the roundhouse at Neverstill west of Birkenfeld and mostly supported logging west of there.

I don't regard Mist is being part of that route.Rvannatta 02:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure which line I'm talking about to be honest, but more then one person (old natives) tell me that there was a railroad through Mist which was taken out because it was no longer necessary. One person told me that circa 50 years ago the Nehalem would freeze so thoroughly that rail tracks were temporarily laid over it.

Nice to here from you. I visit Mist often and used to live there with my parents (who are still there), now I'm in Portland; thank PSU for robbing me from that firry wonderland. -Ben pcc 03:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do understand that there were temporary branch railroads 'everywhere' as in about down every ridge. Logging roads and trucks didn't not exist, so temporary railroads were layed out between 1900 and 1940, and logs were drug with cables to the tracks and loaded. these tracks were then relocated to the next site. these spur roads were often no more than half a mile apart. to my view the mainlines are news these tempoary spurs are just that---about as news worthy as a tempoary truck road tohaul logs....

Easily seen remanents of a RR --- if you look A railroad crossed the Nehalem where the bridge is at Big Eddy Park. ---if you look accross the Or 47 from the present bridge you will see some RR piling in the low ground there.

Also if you look at the ground by the Apiary Road intsection you can see the RR cuts there. The power line is along them and a cut turns up the Apiary road---which is a converted RR all the way to the Rock Quarry. Rvannatta 02:44, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

inline TeX

MediaWiki didn't do anything to your inline math; I changed it. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Inline Tex usually fits badly---it is the wrong size and usually badly misaligned. Michael Hardy 23:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmn, ok. But why didn't I see an edit? — Ben pcc 23:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. It's in the edit history. Michael Hardy 00:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From the "Very simple formulas" section of that page, it says that either way is ok, doesn't encourage one over the other, and discourages changing what others have done. It does discourage inline png, but my math wasn't png, it was rendered as text. For me anyway. If noone objects I'll continue using math markup inline as it's far more flexible.

Right, it's in the history. I didn't see it when I edited after you... lag of some kind I guess. — Ben pcc 00:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I've done this except in cases where inline TeX looks really really horrible (which is usually). Michael Hardy 00:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vibrating Glass Beam

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O gosh. I can just die right now and not feel like I failed to accomplish something. Merci, MER-C! -Ben pcc 17:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ben,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:VibratingGlassBeam.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 19, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-01-19. howcheng {chat} 01:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HDD image

I came here to award a Photo Barnstar, but you already have one of those! Big THANKS then for this top class contribution. --Kubanczyk 18:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks. — Ben pcc 21:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kutta's third-order method

Do you happen to know a reference for Kutta's third-order method, which you listed in the list of Runge-Kutta methods? I did not manage to find it in any of the Hairer books. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 16:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I poked around and I couldn't locate my source. I think I transcribed it from one of Butcher's papers but I can find the darn thing. Sorry. — Ben pcc 21:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Rename image please

Done. More detail on my talk page, to keep conversation in one place. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Tridiagonal matrix algorithm/Derivation

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In the past I've improperly named articles (not just this), but it's no vandalism, not even a page move. I wrote it myself, geez. — Ben pcc (talk) 17:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Navier-stokes picture

Ben pcc,

I saw your elegant picture on the page on Navier-Stokes equations (NSConvection.png). What did you use to create it?

59.96.9.98 (talk) 07:40, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I used Cinema 4D, but that is overkill. Other software (2D?) would be more appropriate, but I only have experience in 3D so I can't make a recommendation. Inkscape looks interesting but I tried it and it seems pretty incomplete. -Ben pcc (talk) 19:46, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fluid dynamics task force

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thanks and invite

Thanks for the excellent and crazy photo of Mount Hood. I didn't notice any seam problems at normal magnifications.

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Hey, thanks for the compliment. I'm not that active on Wikipedia nowadays and when I was active tended to contribute all over, so I avoid joining projects. There are many seams but just one really sucks, it's on a snow ridge near the center right.

Thanks again! -Ben pcc (talk) 21:03, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Atan2 images

I just ran into your images for the Atan2 article, and thought they were absolutely brilliant! Thanks you! —- Scraimer (talk) 11:46, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh thank you. That's more then a compliment, that's encouragement. — Ben pcc (talk) 17:32, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gibraltar Airport time-lapse panorama

I saw your comment on the featured picture candidate page and wanted to let you know that I have added some more information to the image description on Commoms. The software I used is PanoramaStudio by a German developer. --xGCU NervousEnergy 01:54, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hard drive

I too am here for the incredibly detailed hard drive photo.

One thing caught my attention, it is an item I think might be incorrectly labeled. There is a reference to a "dessicant bag". I think this is rather a filter meant to capture loose particles in the drive. The position of the item is such the spinning platters force air through that channel and hence through the filter. A desiccant bag, on the other hand, is a consumable thrown in packaging typically meant to cover the voyage to the consumer... absent a way to cook out the moisture, such a thing wouldn't last very long before the desiccant was depleted inside a functioning hard drive. Reswobslc (talk) 09:04, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Piss. That was a while back but I still remember a moment of hesitation since desiccant bags don't last. I put the text over it in raster so there's not much I can do short of redoing the whole thing. Might be a good idea anyway since I have access to much better cameras, and since hugin is a lot better then it used to be. I thought of just labeling it with numbers so it can be used in other languages, but I like it looking like a poster better. Someday, if I'm bored enough... thanks for the compliment and for catching this mistake. -Ben pcc (talk) 19:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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link to "complete"?

In this edit, what did you intend the reader to see when they click on complete? That is (as one would expect) a disambiguation page. There is a related article called complete metric space, but it's not really the same idea, since the Chebyshev polynomials could be said to be complete as a basis of a smaller space than the Hilbert space that they span—in particular the space of finite linear combinations of Chebyshev polynomials. If there's no appropriate article, a new red link would seem to be in order. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:41, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, it was a copyedit of something I wrote about two years ago. Complete metric space was intended and the context is with sum not truncated, so smaller space isn't meant. Merci! -Ben pcc (talk) 19:06, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure complete metric space really fits, though. The idea should be that there is no nonzero function in the appropriate L² space that is orthogonal to all of the Chebyshev polynomials. If you omit one of the Chebyshev polynomials, then the remaining ones still span a complete inner product space, but they're not complete in the relevant sense. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:48, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

mist image

that image of a snowy night in mist is brilliant. i was looking for something completely unrelated and stumbled across it. just wanted to say thanks for taking + sharing it. 97.81.105.26 (talk) 00:13, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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