User:Normxxx

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Current time and date is 00:27 10 May 2025 (GMT)

About me

Name	Norman
Birth	28 Aug	1932
Birthplace	Brooklyn,	New York
Residence	Southern Maryland	Washington, D.C. suburb
Education	C.C.N.Y.; U. of MD; U. of MI	B.S.E.E, M.A. Mathematics, Ph.D. Psych. (Mathematical)

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This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This user is a Myers-Briggs type INTP.

This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

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User is alternately an Atheist or Omnitheist by conviction; a scientific Agnostic by pure reason; and a Religious Pluralist by inclination.

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This user strongly supports the theory of evolution.

I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.

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This user contributes using Microsoft Windows 7.

Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain.

LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.

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Major contributions

Articles on which I've done a significant amount of work.

• Acceptance test
• Adverse selection
• Analog computer
• Architecture and Architecture (disambiguation)
• Automation
• Catastrophic failure
• Computer software
• Corporate governance
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Data Processor
• Deadlock
• Deflation (economics)
• Engineer
• Engineering
• Event handler
• Exclusive
• Exhaust
• HOL
• Hybrid computer
• Inclusive
• Insourcing
• Interface Control Document
• Interrupt handler
• KISS principle
• Mind-body problem
• Object-oriented programming
• Operational definition
• Paleolithic
• Process (computing)
• Reentrant
• Social progress
• Software architect
• Software architecture
• Solipsism
• Specification
• Stand-alone
• Stock exchange
• Stock Market
• System
• Systems engineering
• Technician
• Technology
• Thrash (computer science)
• Work-around

Articles I've created

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• Hardware architect
• Hardware architecture
• Systems architect
• Systems architecture
• Wikipedia:Starter toolset

Major Interests

• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of physics | Interpretation of quantum mechanics | Philosophy of space and time
• Philosophy of biology | Anthropology
• Securities market trading
• Opera, Folk music, Operetta, musical theater, popular vocals (especially from the '20s, 30's, 40s, and 50s)— all forms of sung music that have a pleasant melody (even some rock music).

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2017 Model S

The Tesla Model S is a battery-electric, four-door full-size car, produced by Tesla since 2012. Considered by critics as one of the most influential electric cars, Tesla began developing the Model S around 2007. To produce the Model S, Tesla acquired a facility in Fremont, California; mass production of the car began there in June 2012. Tesla carried out final assembly for European markets at its facilities in Tilburg, the Netherlands, between 2013 and 2021. Changes to the car have included the introduction of Tesla Autopilot—a partial vehicle automation advanced driver-assistance system, released in 2015. That year, the Model S was the world's best-selling plug-in electric vehicle. The car has received accolades, including the Motor Trend Car of the Year award in 2013. Time named it one of the Best 25 Inventions of the Year 2012 and later included it on its list of the 10 Best Gadgets of the 2010s in 2019. To charge the Model S, Tesla operates a network of fast-charging stations. (Full article...)

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Ethan Allen demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga

• 28 BC – Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga (depicted) in New York, without significant injury or incident.
• 1933 – Thousands of books on the history and healthcare of transgender people, taken from the Institute for Sexual Science, were burned by Nazis in Bebelplatz Square for being "un-German".
• 1940 – British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
• 2005 – Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. president George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.

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Euphaedra themis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and western Cameroon. Its wings have a black ground-colour above and are green, blue, orange-yellow or whitish to beyond the middle of the hindwing and at the hindmargin of the forewing. This male E. themis was photographed in the Bobiri Forest, Ghana.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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