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We all have to start somewhere. Deb (talk) 14:03, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

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logistic distribution, Elo rating system

I saw your fact tag at Elo rating system, but I do not see any discussion of the item you questioned at the talk page of logistic distribution. Bubba73 (talk), 14:07, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

See Talk:Elo rating system#Logistical distribution --Kri (talk) 20:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Now it's archived: Talk:Elo rating system/Archive 1#Logistical distributionKri (talk) 20:17, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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convergence in probability

In this edit, the overlines should not be there, because the concept being defined is what it means for the sequence {Xn} to converge in probability to X. I suspect that you're confused by the fact that there are theorems whose asserting convergence in probability of sample means

If it is asserted that the sequence of sample means converges in probability to some random variable X, then one should say that

is equivalent to

But that is not what it means to say the sequence

converges to X, rather it is what it means to say that the sequence of sample means

converges to X. And that appears in theorems, not in the basic definition of convergence in probability. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:22, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah, okay, thank you for clearing that up for me; I thought Xn was the n:th random variable rather than the average of the n first random variables. I guess that is what happens when you don't read the whole article. :)

Xn was the nth random variable in the sequence of random variables whose convergence to X was being defined. In some applications, this may be a sequence of averages; in others it might not be. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:56, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Phong shading

Is this method sourced, or something you came up with? It's a half-step toward what I published in '93. Dicklyon (talk) 04:45, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

It was something I came up with. Is it okay if it is there, or does it have to be sourced? --Kri (talk) 20:01, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
It should be sourced. You can use my paper as a source if you want (see ref on specular reflection); extend it to be like what I did if you like (replacing 1-dotprod by squared distance). Or delete it if you don't want to bother.
I'm sorry, are you talking about what I wrote about the reflection vector or are you talking about the approximation method for the power of the dot product that I wrote about? The latter is where the diff you linked to goes to. --Kri (talk) 22:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I see now what paper you meant. Feel free to add a reference to it; your paper seems to have a lot of other good techniques in it too. Or maybe the paragraphs could be removed in the article, but a note could be left somewhere in the section saying that there are a lot of approximation methods that can be used when implementing Phong shading, as well as a reference to your paper. --Kri (talk) 00:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
A section on approximation techniques would be useful. I've hesitated to write it and support it by my own paper, though. Someone else should do it. Feel free to give it a shot if you like. Dicklyon (talk) 01:06, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Maybe I could look into it. By the way, are the methods in your paper patented? --Kri (talk) 01:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
If you look at the patent, which I linked on Talk:Specular highlight, you'll see that the claims are all specific to the method of using the difference vector; so what you said in Phong shading about the approximation method you added was incorrect; but as long as you're talking about approximations and referencing my paper, might as well include a bit about what makes it good. In general, though, it is never a good idea to try to talk about patent status in wikipedia, since it takes a lawyer and some study to even form an opinion of whether a patent might be infringed by practicing some idea, and whether the patent is valid, and even whether the patent is still in force. And people generally don't want to know, since it's safer to not know, in terms of triple damages for willful infringement. Most IP attorneys advise their clients to not worry about existing patents; don't ask, don't know. Dicklyon (talk) 05:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Ok, I wasn't really sure what the patent covered; I simply assumed it was for every method in the paper. My apologies and thank you for fixing it. And about patents: I shall keep what you said in mind! --Kri (talk) 17:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Best friends forever

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Okay. —Kri (talk) 06:51, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

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Oh, my mistake to put a category tag on the page here on Wikipedia instead of on its description page on Commons. —Kri (talk) 12:19, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Merge from List of game engine articles discussion

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Rotational symmetry in edge detectors

Hi Kri, I saw your question at Talk:Sobel operator#What does "rotational_symmetry" mean? and I wanted to let you know I provided an answer. No guarantee that every expert in the world would formulate the answer the same way I did, but that's how I understand it. Hope that helps! — Control.valve (talk) 15:44, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Need source for pi

Hi. Can you supply a source for the slow convergence rate 1/√n that you put into the pi article? I found two sources that say the MC methods converge slowly, but neither has that specific rate formula. I added those sources, but we also need a source that contains that formula. Thanks. --Noleander (talk) 13:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

It is simply the standard deviation of the estimation of pi. When you add a number of independently distributed variables together, the variance of the sum will simply be the sum of the variances of the induvidual variables (~ n). Then the standard deviation is defined as the square root of the variance (~ n). Finally, our estimation is the average of the terms, hence the sum divided by the number of terms (~ n / n = 1 / n). I don't have any better source than that for it. —Kri (talk) 14:02, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Yes, but WP:V policy requires an external source .. editors are not permitted to do their own calculations ... see WP:OR. Do you have some math book that contains that formula .. we just need a book name & page number. Informal web sites are not okay; but MathWorld may be acceptable. --Noleander (talk) 14:20, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
If it really needs an external source, be my guest and go ahead and delete the statement, since I still don't have any reference. Maybe we can just mention that Monte Carlo methods converge very slowly, and omit the formula. —Kri (talk) 15:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Okay .. I already added a source for the "very slowly" part. If you find a source for the 1/sqrt(n) go ahead and re-add it to the article. --Noleander (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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anchorencode

Hi Kri, Per your request, see mw:Help:Magic_words#Parser functions. Krinkle (talk) 01:37, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Template:Mvar

I see that you tagged {{Mvar}} for speedy deletion. I have 2 comments about this:

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עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:20, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Oops... So sorry for that, I accidentally tagged the wrong template for deletion. That was only a mistake. —Kri (talk) 11:24, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

LaTeX

Nice job in dragging LaTeX back to the land of normal typesetting. My eyes say thank you. - X201 (talk) 09:22, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Ehm, just for your records, that wasn't me; that was mostly Dicklyon. But we can say that it was me, so, you're welcome! :) —Kri (talk) 11:24, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Physics vs. Computational Physics

What I meant by motivations from physics when writing this sentence is that different types of theories are used in physics depending on the scale of modelling; please see the review article

Lindeberg ``Scale-space theory: A basic tool for analysing structures at different scales, J. of Applied Statistics, 21(2), pp. 224--270, 1994.

This motivation holds irrespespective of a restriction to computational physiscs. Tpl (talk) 09:18, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Okay, that article is too long for me to read (I found it here), but I believe you. Should it act as a reference for the statement about physics in the article? —Kri (talk) 10:07, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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OK, I will visit the reference desk next time. Thanks for informing me about it. —Kri (talk) 21:54, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Fresnel equations

I reverted you at Fresnel equations. Snell's law remains correct for angles above the critical angle, but cos θt becomes complex. The derivation of the Fresnel equations works just fine, and the resulting equations predict total internal reflection, giving a reflectivity of 1 for angles above the critical angle. This is important. Math is powerful.--Srleffler (talk) 03:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Math is powerful?
Okay, thanks for telling me that about Snell's law, I actually didn't know. —Kri (talk) 17:44, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Random "Talk: you have new messages" messages?

After someone left me a real talk page message, I stopped getting the fake thing. Perhaps this message will resolve the problem for you as it did for me. Might help if you'd report at VPT what happens after you get this message, especially if the fakes continue. Nyttend (talk) 22:18, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

What is VPT? And yes, I'm still getting the "Talk: You have new messages" notification. —Kri (talk) 22:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Tryptofish reported the same thing :-( Please report at WP:VPT; sorry I wasn't clear before. Nyttend (talk) 22:23, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool update

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