User contributions for Nathanielvirgo
A user with 236 edits. Account created on 17 December 2008.
14 August 2025
- 11:4211:42, 14 August 2025 diff hist +117 Relational quantum mechanics this citation was a "uuencoded PostScript file" with only a URL given. I couldn't read it except by examining the binary file to find the title and then finding a pdf of the same text online, so I updated the reference in order to help out future readers.
20 June 2025
- 16:0816:08, 20 June 2025 diff hist +89 Mac Lane coherence theorem No edit summary
- 16:0416:04, 20 June 2025 diff hist +1,041 Talk:Mac Lane coherence theorem →Incoherent page about a coherence theorem: new section Tag: New topic
26 January 2025
- 23:1523:15, 26 January 2025 diff hist +573 Talk:Gryphon Software →References for use in movies: new section Tag: New topic
23 January 2025
- 13:0513:05, 23 January 2025 diff hist +2,267 Talk:Conjugate prior →My intention to change the lede: new section Tag: New topic
12 October 2024
- 19:5819:58, 12 October 2024 diff hist −15 POVM →Definition: small correction to my previous edit
- 11:1011:10, 12 October 2024 diff hist +956 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Reply Tag: Reply
- 11:0511:05, 12 October 2024 diff hist −7 m Talk:POVM →Probability (density): remove the weird "UTC" banner that I accidentally added
- 11:0311:03, 12 October 2024 diff hist 0 POVM →Definition: after my previous edit it makes sense to reorder the paragraphs, so that the first few are talking about the general measure theoretic definition and the rest are only about the discrete case.
- 11:0111:01, 12 October 2024 diff hist +114 POVM →Definition: there is some confusion on the talk page - I think the issue might be that the article kind of mixes up the general measure theoretic case with the discrete case, and also tries to mix in an informal "naive" approach based on density functions. It's a bit of a mess and this edit at least tries to separate out the measure theoretic definition from the description of the discrete case.
- 10:4110:41, 12 October 2024 diff hist +365 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): I takes I was wrong so exited my comment with an explanation Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 10:3510:35, 12 October 2024 diff hist −108 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): I guess my claim about Radon-Nikodym is not strictly true. It's complicated. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 10:2910:29, 12 October 2024 diff hist +1,330 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- 10:1410:14, 12 October 2024 diff hist +567 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- 10:1110:11, 12 October 2024 diff hist +162 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
11 October 2024
- 18:2718:27, 11 October 2024 diff hist 0 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Typo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 18:2618:26, 11 October 2024 diff hist +244 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- 18:1718:17, 11 October 2024 diff hist +28 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Minor addition to my comment Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 18:1618:16, 11 October 2024 diff hist +4 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Typos in my comment Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 18:1518:15, 11 October 2024 diff hist +478 Talk:POVM →Probability (density): Reply Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- 08:4508:45, 11 October 2024 diff hist +3 POVM Edit some formulas to talk about the probability of an event instead of an outcome, done the latter only makes sense in the discrete case Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 08:3608:36, 11 October 2024 diff hist −324 POVM It's not a probability density, it's really a probability, some this is a measure Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
26 June 2024
- 09:5409:54, 26 June 2024 diff hist −94 Ordered vector space →Positive cones and their equivalence to orderings: pointed already means it contains 0, so there's no need to keep saying "with vertex 0" all the time as well.
- 09:5209:52, 26 June 2024 diff hist +72 Ordered vector space →Positive cones and their equivalence to orderings: minor clarification (kind of obvious but took me a while to figure out what it meant)
24 June 2024
- 05:4305:43, 24 June 2024 diff hist +311 Talk:Atom (measure theory) →no link for "mu-equivalence class": new section Tag: New topic
30 January 2024
- 04:0004:00, 30 January 2024 diff hist +390 Talk:Heavy-tailed distribution →Tilde sign not defined: new section Tag: New topic
7 December 2023
- 04:2904:29, 7 December 2023 diff hist +6 De Finetti's theorem →Statement of the theorem: it's important for de Finetti's theorem that we consider all probability measures over [0,1] and not (for example) finitely supported distributions or distributions that can be represented by probability density functions. The word "distribution" suggests one or other of these things, so I changed it to "measure", which is the technically correct term.
17 October 2023
- 04:3004:30, 17 October 2023 diff hist +134 Talk:Fixed-point combinator →Confusing/contradictory claims about lambda calculus semantics: edits to my comment
- 04:2804:28, 17 October 2023 diff hist +2,841 Talk:Fixed-point combinator →Confusing/contradictory claims about lambda calculus semantics: new section Tag: New topic
18 August 2023
- 02:3202:32, 18 August 2023 diff hist +840 Talk:Bony–Brezis theorem →More details needed about "exterior normal vector": new section Tag: New topic
24 June 2023
- 08:1308:13, 24 June 2023 diff hist +1,821 Talk:Outer measure →Confusing claim about area: new section Tag: New topic
21 May 2023
- 04:4104:41, 21 May 2023 diff hist +78 Hardy–Weinberg principle →Derivation: mention a crucial assumption, without which none of the rest makes any sense
- 04:4004:40, 21 May 2023 diff hist +704 Talk:Hardy–Weinberg principle →Assumptions listed after they are used: new section Tag: New topic
- 04:3004:30, 21 May 2023 diff hist +248 Talk:Hardy–Weinberg principle →Nonsensical footnote: more details to my comment
- 04:1404:14, 21 May 2023 diff hist +236 m Talk:Hardy–Weinberg principle →Nonsensical footnote
- 04:1204:12, 21 May 2023 diff hist +299 Talk:Hardy–Weinberg principle →Nonsensical footnote
- 04:0804:08, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2 m Talk:Hardy–Weinberg principle →Nonsensical footnote
- 04:0704:07, 21 May 2023 diff hist +1,058 Talk:Hardy–Weinberg principle →Nonsensical footnote: new section Tag: New topic
27 February 2023
- 01:4401:44, 27 February 2023 diff hist +232 Talk:Kelly criterion →Which formula is the "Kelly criterion"?: make my point a bit clearer
- 01:3701:37, 27 February 2023 diff hist +659 Talk:Kelly criterion →Which formula is the "Kelly criterion"?: new section Tag: New topic
21 January 2023
- 11:2411:24, 21 January 2023 diff hist +65 Cumulative distribution function →Properties: add link to Riemann–Stieltjes integral, since the notation is probably a bit mysterious without it
13 January 2023
- 01:3501:35, 13 January 2023 diff hist +1,663 Talk:Kullback–Leibler divergence →Weird sentence in definition section: new section Tag: New topic
11 April 2022
- 07:4707:47, 11 April 2022 diff hist +2 m Free energy principle No edit summary
- 07:4707:47, 11 April 2022 diff hist +20 Free energy principle to say it is formal is really not correct - the theory is clearly a work in progress and the precise statement, if there even is one, seems to change from one paper to the next.
24 March 2022
- 02:4802:48, 24 March 2022 diff hist +320 Talk:Rate–distortion theory →D not defined: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:4302:43, 24 March 2022 diff hist +272 Talk:Rate–distortion theory →D not defined: new section
15 November 2021
- 03:5603:56, 15 November 2021 diff hist +1,086 Talk:Subobject →Clarity could be improved: new section
27 October 2020
- 07:1007:10, 27 October 2020 diff hist +22 m Talk:Open and closed maps →Unclear definition of relatively open: fix markup
- 07:0907:09, 27 October 2020 diff hist +622 Talk:Open and closed maps →Unclear definition of relatively open: new section
