User talk:Jshflynn

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Title style
Note the house style when it comes to titles: important words are capitalised. What will happen is that someone will go through and change the titles of some of your recent pages as appropriate. Getting a good title for a page is an art so you may find the pages you've written may get namechanged.

Please keep up the good work - you are filling gaps we did not know we had. --prime mover 23:57, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks prime.mover. It is indeed difficult especially for something as unnameable as a B-Algebra identity. The true credit goes to others though. Someday I hope to publish my own paper so that I can see my own ideas on relation theory on this wiki. For now though I will continue research as too often I have found that any original idea of mine has been analysed to death in an obscure research paper. --Jshflynn 00:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Editing section-wise
Although convenient, the section-wise editing feature destroys the carefully set up large whitespace separating sections. This then requires a subsequent edit to recover the desired amount of white. It is therefore generally preferable (except on talk/user pages, where house style is not enforced) to edit the page as a whole using the link at the top. --Lord_Farin 21:48, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

I see. Will do so for my next edit. --Jshflynn 21:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Nudge
To avoid reinventing the wheel, consider Category:Definitions/Formal Systems. --Lord_Farin 23:48, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

That's alright. If I make something worthwhile then I will. --Jshflynn 23:49, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Motivation?
"I honestly wish I had never discovered mathematics."

I'm glad I did, because I'm even more incompetent at everything else. --prime mover 06:40, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Rework?
Not meaning to pour cold wet water-based liquid on your flames, but a lot of the stuff you're adding to your "Definitions" section has already been documented in the Category:Definitions/Formal Systems category (admittedly not that well structured at the moment). I'm not sure whether you're trying deliberately to reinvent this area of mathematics from a different viewpoint (full respect due) or whether you're not familiar with this area yet. Just sayin' ... --prime mover 11:53, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry - I see L_F has already been here. No worries. --prime mover 11:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I am reading a book on Formal languages and computation at the moment. It says that a lot of concepts are clear/obvious. I also noticed you, L_F and a few others seem to process your books by putting them on a completely rigorous basis on this site. As you are so successful at doing so and I am so unsuccessful at finishing books I decided to adopt the same approach.


 * The definitions on the section of this site clashed with a lot of the things I was reading (most likely because the field in question isn't that standardised). So, I decided to create my own user-based section in order to not mess up the work someone else did. Right now, it's really just the theory of finite sequences. But in due time it might look better. --Jshflynn 12:24, 10 August 2012 (UTC)