Me

Hi, I'm Delirium. Among random other things, I like the stuff the guy at Explodingdog.com draws, and I used to like the music news at NewEmpire.com until they stopped updating it.

When I'm not online, I like hiking in mountains (whichever mountains are available will do), again among other things.

I'm almost always listening to music of some sort. Currently my favorites are EBM, Industrial, synthpop, futurepop, neofolk (article forthcoming, eventually), and various sorts of assorted avant garde stuff.

I'm a computer science person with a particular interest in AI, and am also quite interested in cognitive science and philosophy. I have a bachelor's degree in CS now, and will start working on a PhD in CS shortly. Lots of other random interests as well.

Stuff I've Written

As of late I spend a great deal of my time keeping the Wiki reasonably clean (deleting nonsense people add, reverting vandalism, etc.), and cleaning up the formatting of entries made by new users. I still write some articles of my own though, which are listed below for vanity purposes (and partly to remind me). I also contribute sometimes to the Greek wikipedia; see my contributions page there if you're interested.

Articles with annotations in parentheses indicate which section(s) I contributed; articles with no annotations I either wrote entirely or mostly.

Some are things I'm actually interested in, and some are just things I stumbled across that needed an article. Only articles of "significant" length are here; short 3-sentence ones are omitted.

I write a lot of biographies, because they're generally fairly straight-forward: I just have to search Google to find the factual information, and don't have to worry too much about how to organize it all, since a simple chronological order almost always suffices. Some of the people I've written biographies on I hadn't even heard of before, so it's educational too. Of course, editing an encyclopedia is a pretty educational hobby to begin with, eh?

Music

• Genres
  • Electronic Body Music
  • Futurepop
• Groups
  • Bad Religion (various portions)
  • VNV Nation

Philosophy

• Categorical Imperative (introduction and section on formulations)
• Hypothetical imperative
• Richard Swinburne -- noted Christian philosopher
• Paul Tillich -- theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher

History and Politics

• Biographies
  • Mahmoud Abbas (major portion) -- former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority
  • Athenagoras of Athens -- early Christian apologist (adapted/supplemented from an old encyclopedia)
  • Warren Austin -- American statesman and diplomat
  • Martin Van Buren Bates -- Civil War-era man nearly 8 feet tall
  • Patriarch Bartholomew I -- current Patriarch of Constantinople
  • Denis Burke -- Australian politician
  • Camilo Cienfuegos (major part) -- Cuban revolutionary; disappeared in 1959
  • Lawrence Eagleburger -- American statesman and diplomat
  • E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- noted British anthropologist
  • Sulaiman Abu Ghaith -- Al-Qaida spokesman
  • Gregor Gysi -- former East German and current German politician
  • Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim -- former leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims
  • Chaim Herzog -- sixth President of Israel
  • Salim Jubran -- first Israeli Arab to become a permanent member of the Israeli Supreme Court
  • Anatoly Lebedko -- Belarusian opposition leader; opponent of dictator Alexander Lukashenka
  • Benno Ohnesorg -- protestor against a visit of the Shah of Iran to Germany killed in 1967
  • Romano Prodi -- former Italian Prime Minister; current President of the European Commission
  • Elyakim Rubinstein -- Israeli diplomat and politician
  • Smith Thompson -- United States Supreme Court justice
  • C.F.W. Walther -- founder of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
• Acteal massacre -- a 1997 massacre in Mexico
• Brie -- a historic region of France, most famous for its Brie cheese
• Coat of Arms of Australia (about half)
• Dodecanese -- Greek island group
• Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
• Heim ins Reich -- pre-WW2 Nazi policy
• Herat province -- in Afghanistan
• Know-Nothing movement -- 1840s-50s US nativist movement
• List of earthquakes (various)
• Loyal Legion -- society of United States Civil War veterans, and now their descendents
• Montecristo -- Italian islet
• Mount Kyllini -- Greek mountain
• Patriarch of Constantinople -- head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Port Royal -- former capital of Jamaica, prior to destruction in an earthquake
• Rheinische Zeitung -- radical paper edited by Karl Marx
• Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (Australia) -- controversial law legalising euthanasia between 1995 and 1997
• Simi -- Greek island in the Dodecanese
• Students Islamic Movement of India (about half) -- Islamist movement in India
• Yasukuni Shrine -- controversial Japanese memorial shrine

Arts and Literature

• Anglicisation -- making things more like the English language
• Cease and desist -- a demand or order for someone to stop doing something
• Hymn to Freedom (literal English translation)
• Joseph Kosuth -- American conceptual artist
• Justin Pierce -- actor in Kids
• Rothko Chapel -- chapel in Houston, Texas filled with works by Mark Rothko
• William Steig -- author of Shrek, among other works of children's literature

Math and Science

• Computer-related
  • Bitwise operation (initial version, incl. most of the current content)
  • Guido
  • Identifier naming convention
  • Myhill-Nerode Theorem
  • Neural network (section on Simple Recurrent Networks)
  • Type polymorphism
  • Xiph.org Foundation
• Haplodiploidy -- one sex haploid; one diploid
• Henry Darcy -- French hydraulics researcher
• Darcy-Weisbach equation
• Empirical relationship
• Guido Fubini -- Italian mathematician
• Prony equation
• Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
• Three cottage problem
• Josef Hoene-Wronski -- eccentric philosopher of mathematics
• Wronskian

Alcoholic Beverages

• Anise-flavored liqueurs
  • Anisette
  • Herbsaint
  • Ouzo
  • Pastis
• Commandaria
• List of wine producing regions (Greek wine regions)

Random

• Chigger
• Claremont Colleges
• Cross-quarter day (major portion)
• Insanity
• JeffK (major portion)
• Yosemite Decimal System