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It's easier to live that way.

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It's easier to live that way.

My edit history, summarized

I've been editing Wikipedia since December 2004. I've made edits adding roughly 500 bytes or more to more than 600 articles in math and physics topics. For the first five years, I edited under this account. Then, for 17 years, I edited anonymously. As of Jan 2026, WP has effectively prohibited anonymous editing, and has forced me to revive this account. I think this is yet another in a long string of moves designed to punish frequent editors. I hate it. I strongly prefer editing anonymously, It was just sooo much more pleasant than dealing with all the b.s. that plagues Wikipedia. But here I am. Back into the torture chamber for you Linas. Arghh.

Illustrations that I've created for math articles are at User:Linas/Pictures.


While I was editing anonymously, my IP address and geographical location would change from time to time. In Jan 2026, a new system forced brand-new temporary accounts after every reboot/cookie-clear. I've already lost track of several temporary accounts. These temporary accounts cannot be made permanent. They get geo-IP blocked; the last one blocked all AT&T subscribers in the City of Chicago. Arghh.

Edits, 2005-2009

The following 423 articles were edited as User:Linas during the years 2005-2009.

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Edits, 2009-2026

Further edits continued anonymously, as described at User talk:67.198.37.16. Since I have been effectively banned from editing anonymously, I copy that content here. There were 423 articles listed above, so this restarts at 424.

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These 24 edits were mostly under Special:Contributions/99.153.64.179

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These were mostly under the old IP addrs for https://linas.org (see User talk:67.198.37.16) or for https://gnucash.org (see 67.198.37.17). These were static IP's that I controlled for about 17 years, until my telecom provider, Grande Communications screwed up, tried to quadruple my line charges to over $600 USD a month. Eat shit. I rented some VPS at Digital Ocean for about $7 (yes seven with no zeros) USD. Hurray Digital Ocean! Y'all are heroes!! Boo Astound Broadband! You're Astoundly incompetent. Morons. Retards.

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Resumption of non-anonymous editing

Edits since March 2026.

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Major rewrites

Of the above, I'm particularly proud the ones that were major rewrites or even complete rewrites, either doubling or tripling the size of the article - anyway changes where more than about 5K or 10K bytes were added. These are listed above but repeated here. All of these were done using the above-described anon IP addr.

Major rewrites that are hack jobs

Some major rewrites are just-plain-old hack jobs, without any particular elegance. Sometimes very ugly hack jobs. Notable only because they are large re-writes. Like the above, these changes were more than about 5K or 10K bytes, sometimes doubling the size of the article.

non-math

Edits of 500 bytes or more were made to these non-math articles:

ChatGPT

Removed AI-generated content from:

Under construction

Due to the recent AfD of Draft:Mass dimension one fermions I started an attempt to describe the problem from first principles, here: Draft:ELKO Theory. This is hard, because existing literature is sloppy. This forced a major expansion of Majorana equation which ... is unsatisfying, because the existing literature on the Majorana equation is sloppy. There is not one single adequate review that does not do hand-waving at critical junctures. In particular, explanations of CPT symmetry of the Majorana eqn are a horrible mess.

Move to user-space: User talk:67.198.37.16/Draft:ELKO Theory

TODO

I am breaking my own rules about TODO-lists, namely, that they should never be created, because they will never be done. That said, the following red-links could be interesting and fun to write:

  • Ergodic decomposition theorem. There is an itty-bitty statement of the theorem in ergodicity but it is not stated generally, nor is it stated formally. A nice informal description is in conservative system. A suitable formal defintion can be found in Danilenko, Alexandre I.; Silva, Cesar E. (2009). "Ergodic theory: Nonsingular transformations". Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer. arXiv:0803.2424.

Things worth doing:

  • Expand Klein–Gordon equation to describe the propagator in dimensions other than four. It has unusual, unexpected properties when the dimension is not four.

Things worth doing that someone should do, probably not me:

  • Create a version of Holonomy that is accessible to physicists, so Holonomy (physics), e.g. explaining Aharonov–Bohm effect which is the holonomy of the U(1) circle bundle. Also (I'm not sure, but I think this is right) the parallel transport of a spinor around a loop in a gravitational well is a holonomy, its the neutron interferometer. And the Sagnac effect is another transport-of-frame-field holonomy. I'm thinking pretty much *everything* interferometric is probably some holonomy somewhere, somehow. This would be very worthwhile, as it builds a bridge from every-day physics to mathematical physics in "laymans" terms.

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