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Away from 29 September — 7 October
I'm a PhD student studying quantum computation at the University of Melbourne in Australia. I've been a wikipedian since October 11, 2002. My email address is ua.ude.bleminu.scisyhp@gnilrats.t, or something like that. Slightly more information can be found at my home page (http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~tstarling/).
Up until roughly September 2003, I mostly did editing. Then I decided to cut back my editing and do mostly programming, because there is a great shortage of people doing development and system administration for Wikipedia. To this end, since early 2003, I've learnt how to use PHP, MySQL and Linux.
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User page terms of use
Unavoidable legal text: By reading this page, you agree to give Tim Starling power of attorney, for the purposes of transferring ownership of all of your assets and possessions to an entity or entities of his choice. Your continued perusal is deemed to constitute agreement to these terms.
Note: this is a parody of Wikipedia:Terms of use
Contributions
I've started the following pages (not including stubs):
Light-dependent resistor
- Computational physics
- Band gap
- Aluminium gallium arsenide
- List of compounds
- Laser diode
- Varistor
- Electron hole
- Gallium arsenide
- Valence band
- University of New South Wales
- Isaac Newton/Early Life and Achievements
- Isaac Newton/The First 15 Years as Lucasian Professor
- Isaac Newton/Authoring Principia
- Isaac Newton/Later Life -- The Mint and the Royal Society
- Torque/Angular momentum proof
- Effective mass
- Magnetic field
- Fermi energy
- Electrical conduction
- Albertanism (Albertanism archive (http://starling.f2g.net/albertanism))
- Ben Folds Five
- Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi
- William Prout
- Henry Briggs
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Brook Taylor
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Marie Cornu
- George Gabriel Stokes
- Willebrord Snell
- Hippolyte Fizeau
- Leon Foucault
- Myxomatosis
- Win32s
- Lake Macquarie
- Morisset
- List of speculative or fringe theories
- Burke and Wills expedition
- Genyornis
- Andrew Bartlett
- Kane quantum computer
And made a significant contribution to these pages (including rewrites):
Field effect transistor
- Photodiode
- Chemical compound
- Conservation of mass
- Conduction band
- Boltzmann constant
- Electric field
- Torque
- Potash
- Sodium chloride
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Direct bandgap
- Indirect bandgap
- Electrodynamics
- Linear polarization
- Circular polarization
- Elliptical polarization
- Muonium
- Earl Doherty
- David Brewster
- Frankenstein
- GDI
- List of computing topics
- T-symmetry
- Random walk Monte Carlo
- Music lessons
- Bright
- History of East Timor
- Monte Carlo method
- SPC
- Wikipedia:Press coverage
- Albedo
- Reciprocal System of Theory
- History of Australia
- Wikipedia:Utilities
- Quantum Zeno effect
I compiled the data for the inorganic property tables and the Australian states tables and their associated images.
Images and sounds I've created:
Image:PHEMT_cross_section.png
- Image:Darlington_configuration.png
- Image:Moment_arm.png
- Image:Semiconductor_band_structure_(lots_of_bands).png
- Image:accelerating electron.png
- Image:Articles per day 20030418.png
- Image:Articles per day 20030418 scale 200.png
- Image:Harmonics_110x16.ogg
- Image:Comparison 550Hz - 554Hz.ogg
- Image:Major third comparison.ogg
- Image:Maple leaf rag.ogg
Programming:
- Salted password hashes (which were declared excessively troublesome and disabled)
- Dynamic dates
- Incremental link table updates
- Sysop ability to block logged in users and ranges, variable expiry time, block log
- MediaWiki namespace, MSG and SUBST
- Recent changes overhaul including move page annotation
- Various bits and pieces
To do
- Evaluation_of_%26zeta%3B(2) move page not working
- preg_split('/(<\s*(?:nowiki|hiero|timeline|math|pre)\s*>|<\s*\/(?:nowiki|hiero|timeline|math|pre)\s*>|(?:\{|\}){2,3})/i',$text,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY));
Qualifications
For some reason I can express an opinion on civil engineering and no-one will bat an eyelid. But if I express an opinion on law, people tend to gasp and mumble something about not being qualified. I disagree with the basic principle of needing a degree to be allowed to express an opinion. I have read stuff, I am reasonably intelligent, and I enjoy conversing with lawyers. Deal with it.
Perhaps lawyers simply wish to scare people away from legal discussion, to encourage a dependence on their profession. Expressing an opinion about law carries qualitatively the same exposure to negligence torts as expressing an opinion on civil engineering, travel insurance or computer programming.
My legal "qualifications" are a ~30 hour introductory course, described here: [1] (http://www.student.unsw.edu.au/handbook/courses/GENL5020.shtml). I am not a lawyer.
Other stuff
fr:Utilisateur:Tim Starling de:Benutzer:Tim Starling
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