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• radiomics (n.): machine learning for diagnosis x-rays automagically.


• strace (n. and v.): the venerable low-level Unix debugger.


• thot (US n.): Initialisation of 'that ho over there'. op. cit. A synonym for 'slut' but with class sneering tacked on.


• decision stump (n.): a decision tree with only one rule.


• heisenbug (dev n.): software bug which disappears when you call someone else over to check it out


• bivalvegan (n. or adj.): Vegan who eats nonsentient animals. Coined by Diana Fleischman, who has some arguments in favour that I actually buy. I don't eat bivalves because I think you can get the gains from unpretentiousness from freeganism, and without gambling with the pain of others.


• in pectore (Latin adj.): 'in one's breast'; secretly. Term for the pope's secret appointment of cardinals. See also Italian, in petto, English cards held close to his chest.


• the vol (Finance n.): volatilty


• mandatory conference (n.): a private legal summons: "talk to me or else"


• high-speed idiocy (n.): Gleick's term for digital computing


• determinate physical mechanism (n.): Newell's gloss on "machine". I don't have a better definition, this just struck me as jarring, too broad.


• digital (proper n.): As in
  
  
  
  
  So disgusting.