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RyguasuMy real name is Chris Harris. I am a 24-year-old citizen of the United States, where I was born and where I reside. I graduated from Brown University in the spring of 2004 with a degree in computer science and an altogether unofficial "minor" in cognitive science. I currently live in Providence, RI, working as a tutor (mostly in mathematics) at the Met School ([http://www.metcenter.org]), a very individualistic urban high school, and as a cashier at Brown's Bookstore. In the last six months or so, I've gotten very interested in both teaching and education reform, which is why I'm pursuing this opportunity at the Met. I alternate between wanting to spend a lot more time and effort at schools and wanting to run as far away from them as I can. I'm currently wondering if I could find a way to do more work with computers and drop my job at the Bookstore. Does anyone know about freelance computer programming, web design, or writing (writing in human languages, e.g. English)? I've become an Anti-foundationalism about most everything through the process of asking too many questions. Under the influence of Nietzsche and William James, I feel both mildly liberated and not quite so mildly disturbed about how to lead my life. Let me know if you want to discuss how to live life in a Nietzschean, Pragmatism, or Secular Humanism way. Wikipedia is by far my favorite web site, especially when it doesn't take 30+ seconds to save an edit. (On that note, I have so far been a free rider viz-a-viz Wikipedia's finances. I hope to make a donation sometime soon. Don't know quite why I haven't done it yet.) Feel free to leave comments at User talk:Ryguasu == About my username == My Wikipedia name, "Ryguasu", means "hen" (i.e. chicken) in Guarani language, a language I learned a little bit of while living in Paraguay for a year. Arguably a stupid name (especially for a male?), it has the advantage that just about nobody on Earth except me has a desire to claim it as "theirs". == Articles == Here's a biased sample of articles I have been involved with: * Vacuous truth * Linguistics, Connotation * Cognitive science * Design, Teleology, Teleological argument * George Lakoff, Moral Politics * Ronald Coase, Transaction cost, Sunk cost, Cost, Homo economicus * Ascribed characteristics, Social construction * Guarani language and Guarana * Friedrich Nietzsche * Paradox of the heap * File format, Formal concept analysis == About some other Wikipedians == User:Kukkurovaca is my arch-nemesis and good friend. Sometimes I understand what he says. I am jealous that, since I introduced him to Wikipedia, he's gone on to become twice the Wiki-dork that I am. Where does he find the time? :I hereby award you one blowfish. User:Kukkurovaca User:Fred Bauder is the author of meta:Basic process, which, for some reason, bothers me more than any other article I've yet found on Wikipedia. My persistance finally got it moved to meta. Fred is the founder of Wikinfo. Although I am curious about what the effect of having articles written from several different points of view will be, I'm not convinced that his having Fork (software) Wikipedia will be beneficial overall; I think that having to come to some kind of consensus is good for an article. Interestingly, Fred has decided to include his Basic process article on Wikinfo, which makes me wonder if the "real" purpose of the fork wasn't to get away from me. =) :I think your efforts served to enlighten me regarding the no original research aspect of Wikipedia; motivated me to establish a forum where original research was encouraged; and helped me conform my editing here to that policy. User:Fred Bauder 11:07, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC) == Some thoughts about wikis == User:Ryguasu/Toward an ED156 wiki == Answers to my questions == * User:Ryguasu/Sirens * User:Ryguasu/Design Patterns == Notes for self == User:Ryguasu/Dewey Fareed Zakaria. ''The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad'' * The deconstruction of mental illness is necessarily a high-priority task for postmodernism; if it fails, then the biological roots of mind/soul become more firmly established than postmodernism would care to admit. == To do == * Teleology: definition in terms of Purpose is problematic * Conceptual metaphor: uh-oh -- the gobledygook squad was here! * Double negative: add history, NPOVify * add Copilia stuff * "facet" is a synonym for "ommatidium". (neither have articles) * "mental picture" is a ''vast'' oversimplification of "idea", in any reasonable understanding. fix it. * make What the Tortoise Said to Achilles coherent, and make more relevant links to it * put Ostrom-ish stuff at Tragedy of the commons and Prisoner's dilemma * George Lakoff: add book summaries, relativism disclaimer; move the not Lakoff-specific stuff to other articles * Cognitive science of mathematics vs Where mathematics comes from vs ... * Gender-neutral pronouns or Gender-specific pronoun or Non-sexist language or Douglas Hofstadter: add reference to Hofstadter's race-based pronoun piece * problematize Corporate welfare * add US stuff to Zebra crossing and Pedestrian crossing * Portable Document Format: clarify relationship to postscript == Ramblings == I might someday incorporate these into wikipedia articles: * User:Ryguasu/Evolution * User:Ryguasu/Rationality * User:Ryguasu/Linguistics * User:Ryguasu/Sociology, etc. * User:Ryguasu/Logic, Math, etc. == Articles that need improvement == I don't really know how to fix these, but I can try to explain why I don't like them, if you're interested. (Note: this list was from the days when I thought I had time to add my two cents to every god damn article.) * Propositional knowledge * everything under statistics! * hypothesis: not NPOV RE falsibiability * phenomenon and friends * Conservation laws * Interpreted language: it's not about the ''language'', but the language environment * Grammar * Grain of salt * Class warfare * Objectivity * Basic process * Concept * Popular culture * Organization * Cultural imperialism * Newspeak See User:Ryguasu/basic processes. == To reexamine == * Ultimate reality: whose term is this, anyway? * Thrift store: haven't I been to several for-profit thrift stores? * Singular they: maybe compare to other singular/plural entities, e.g. "salt". * History of economic thought * Self-esteem * Autonomous building * intuition * Programming language * Exploitation * Theory * Knowledge * Theory of justification * Anti-Americanism == Ways Wikipedia is strange == Wow. There are pages for particular computer jokes: * ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL * C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN Conflicting theories == Also interesting == user:Ryguasu/conversion script AI RyguasuI just left a question on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Where_Mathematics_Comes_From that you might answer, if you have the time... --User:Kencomer 08:26, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC) == Insider trading == Hi. I was the one who made the comment about market efficiency concerning "insider trading." I read your comment on the insider trading talk page and just want to mention that I do agree with your comments -- the view I was representing on the help page was what I take to be the view of neo-classical economists (which I am not) who do define efficiency their own way, and do make the claims about markets, efficiency, and complete knowledge. I do agree with you that one can (and should) question both their definitions of efficiency, and the construction of a model that assumes total information. But I do think it is this model that is at least a partial basis for codes penalizing insider trading. User:Slrubenstein -on NVN, etal. no, i dont think people with superiority complexes can get very far (in a genuinely democratic system at least) , and I appreciate your follow up. if my writing was ambiguous, it was somewhat deliberate, and done in the attempt to navigate the ambiguous reality behind NVN. Its a good article though, and taking on a cultural charachter, rather than a scientific one, because thats largely what NVN is, where science can deal with NVN as a serious issue, politicians (i.e. culture) et al, often latch onto the euphemism as if it were science. The issue of genetic testing for employment - (insurance/health risk factors) is a very hot topic culturally, though ''superior'' thinkers, like Justice Breyer, et al, will see through it simply as a question of conflicting purposes - employer costs, vs employee privacy. Very, very ambiguous and murky stuff. But once again ive gone on too long.... --User:Stevertigo == Logic == The Wikipedia articles on the laws of con-contradiction are not as clear as they could be. Would you mind taking a whack at our articles on Law of excluded middle and Law of non-contradiction? In particular, how could we give an ''example'' showing how the these are similar, and how they are diferent? Functionally, when are they practically identical? What examples can best show us when differences between these laws arise? User:RK 20:14 27 Jun 2003 (UTC) Ah, I was about to ask the same thing. I see you're interested in logic, could you have a look at bivalence and related laws? Specifically, do you know anything about fuzzy logic and the like? If so, have a look at the last section and see if what I've written is totally wrong. If you have time and feel so inclined, of course. :-) User:Evercat 00:12 2 Jul 2003 (UTC) I think you both overestimate my knowledge in this area. I do have an interest in logic, but I haven't found all that much time to pursue it. Perhaps I'll eventually get around to learning more about some of these fine distinctions and updating the articles. But no promises. --User:Ryguasu 03:54 3 Jul 2003 (UTC) == unconscious == hi there - in the "unconscious" article, you asked about contemporary psychoanalysis. there is quite a bit of it, mostly object relations and self psychology. some of the, how should i say, more "new agey" therapists also have pretty strong connections with psychoanalysis. you may note in the article on the unconscious that i've added back the stuff on behaviourists - which is VERY relevant. also a reference to popper (noticed someone else pointed to him, too, in a different context). and ... was quite delighted to see your name - recognized it as guarani right away. lived in paraguay for a few years myself. saying that i loved it there would be an understatement ... isabella (User:morimom) - jan 2 2004 == Nick stuff == Recalling our earlier, somewhat abortive discussion of the educational potentials or nonpotentials of wikis, what do you think of "wikigogy" as a general term? (And thus the even more entertaining "wikigogue") (I'm always happier when I can coin things.) Also, looking over the m:Wikiversity discussion, I'm wondering if maybe I shouldn't be considering the wiki as a vehicle for Freirean teacherless teaching...and whether that makes it more or less sexy.User:Kukkurovaca ("Nick") Re: The search for non-Chris-stupid Wiki discussion, how do you feel about the formatting at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/SiteMap where each commenters comment gets a different shading and their picture? :I don't see why you are referring me to this particular URL. I don't know what you mean by "the formatting", nor do I see different colors (basically everything is some shade of green) nor do I see anybody's pictures. Is my browser incompatible with CommunityWiki, or are you being incoherent, or am I missing the obvious, or what? --User:Ryguasu 00:20, 10 May 2004 (UTC) ::You have to actually go to a page where there's discussion. here's one: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/InternetBonding ===Education reform=== Okay, I've deleted some of the more egregious stuff, and I can fill in a certain amount of information about some areas of practical ed reform, especially in modern times, but there are huge structural problems with the article. Do you have any suggestions, as a consumer of this sort of information, about how it should be put together?User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 00:17, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- Yeah, I don't know anything about those things. Sorry. You could talk to Prof. Modell about it...User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 23:33, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Wow. == Are you familiar wtih Project Xanadu? Doubtless so, but I still had to make sure. I mean, wow. Wow. That is weird. Also amusing is: http://www.udanax.com/green/index.htmlUser:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 23:25, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) == Also... == http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html is absolutely hilarious, and pertinent to our conversations on certain topics, I believe.User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 23:24, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) ==Holy shnap, batman== Whenever you're here next, consider this: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?action=browse&id=AnnoWiki&revision=29 It sounds like a considerable portion of what we were talking about in Wikibrowsing. User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 17:42, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC) == Nietzsche and Will to Power == Hi, I left a response to your question (from January) on the Nietzsche discussion page. If you would like to discuss it more I'd be delighted. Otherwise, hope the answer helps. --User:DanielCD 15:57, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Can you help with the intro to the Fundamental category? == I saw your note about Lakoff's viewpoint for categories; you may be able to fill in an introductory paragraph in the :Category:Fundamental page. I am not skilled in the thought processes required to categorize something, and I am searching for someone who is. Today, the 'Wikipedia:Browse by category' is the primary portal to enter the article namespace for Wikipedia. The top of this page is the :Category:Fundamental. Many of the other categories are obvious, such as :Category:Nature and the Nature article is a nice introduction to Wikipedia. However, the :Category:Fundamental is another story. We need an expert who can advise others how to categorize articles or perhaps how to find the illuminating connections between articles. Any perspective you have on this would be appreciated. User:Ancheta Wis 00:45, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) == anti-foundationalism is... == I just saw your addition to your main user page. What is it that your are? Why don't you like foundations? Puzzled, I am. User:Patrick0Moran 22:39, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC) :This raises the actually not-unserious problem that Wikipedia doesn't have an Anti-Foundationalism article. However, the short answer is that Ryguasu being anti-foundationalist means that he opposes Foundationalism; that article should make reasonably clear what is meant by its contrary.User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 18:22, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) :What's even more disconcerting is that, googling Anti-Foundationalism, [http://kukkurovaca.objectis.net/ugp/AntiFoundationalism UGP's entry] on the subject comes up on the first page of results. Ouch.User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca :Just created a stub for anti-foundationalism. I'm turning this innocent comment on a third-party discussion page into my own little thing, aren't I?User:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 19:20, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Also... == What do you think about Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards? My own thoughts are Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards#Push-PullUser:Kukkurovaca|User talk:Kukkurovaca 19:41, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " See other meanings of words starting from letter: RRA | RB | RC | RD | RE | RF | RG | RH | RI | RJ | RK | RL | RM | RN | RO | RP | RS | RT | RU | RW | RX | RY | RZ |Words begining with Ryguasu: Ryguasu Ryguasu Ryguasu/basic_processes Ryguasu/Blank_Slate Ryguasu/conversion_script_AI Ryguasu/conversion_script_AI Ryguasu/Design_Patterns Ryguasu/Design_Patterns Ryguasu/Dewey Ryguasu/Evolution Ryguasu/Linguistics Ryguasu/Logic,_Math,_etc. Ryguasu/Rationality Ryguasu/Sirens Ryguasu/Sirens Ryguasu/Sociology,_etc. Ryguasu/Toward_an_ED156_wiki |
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