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incel (n.): involuntary celibate. Tends to be used by terribly bitter people. Ozy Frantz is trying to reclaim the term, since the problem is a real one. foofaraw (West US n.): pomp, fuss, ruckus. sinter (metallurgy v.): to fuse things into a solid without heating them to liquefaction. Think making a vicious snowball out of powder. Useful for ultra-high-melting-point things like tungsten. zero-rating (telecomms n.): Offering free mobile data, usually for very limited things like app stores or Facebook. A good form of price discrimination - but legislators often ban it in the name of net neutrality, creating equality by running among fields with a running chainsaw. Common in the developing world - best of all, for Wikipedia . dead mileage (n.): non-profitable movement of commercial vehicles, for maintenance or live placement. to deadhead (v.): to travel, as staff, using dead mileage. data sleaze (n.): customer data obtained secretly by businesses, secretly sold...

(or, rather, How many hours have I spent explicitly doing maths? ) Formal education Preschool . 300 hours of counting? Primary school. (4? per week * 40 weeks x 7 years) = 1100 Secondary school (6 years) S1+S2: (3? per week * 40 weeks * 2) + homework (80), revision (40) = 360 Standard Grade: (3? per week * 40 weeks * 2) + homework (160), revision (50) = 450 Higher Maths: (3 per week * 40) + homework (100), revision (100) = 320 Physics: (2 * 40 * 1) + home (50) + revision (50) = 180 Chemistry: (2 * 40 * 1) + home (50) + revision (50) = 180 =~ 1800 Higher education Economics = (4 hours * 24 weeks * 4 years) + homework (200) + revision (200) + thesis (100) = 900 Cryptography = 100 Half a BSc in Maths = 16 hours per assignment x 23 assignments + (60 hours study x 4 courses) = 600 ~ 1600 ~ 5000 hours. Researches My own writing hasn't been very mathematical so far. But I've done a bunch of recreational bits and warmup pieces, and read boo...

threeper (US n.): A 'Three Percenter', member of a post-Obama movement of private militias. Mostly hunting Mexicans along the border and fuming about what Alex Jones tells them about the government. 'Obama as globalist', 'blue hats invading', 'sheeple', 'chemtrails': it's all in there. screecham (Shetland n.): whisky. See also skreigh , from 'shriek'. Terminus (Lt. proper n.): Roman god of boundaries. This made me laugh: His statue was merely a stone or post stuck in the ground to distinguish between properties. . kindness sandwich (Lt. proper n.): Gentle criticism, tempered by putting the corrective inbetween two compliments. See also bumblebee nickname (" Cute, but it stings. ") AFOL (n.): Adult Fan of Lego. veg (gamer pej. adj.): vegetative; of wasting time on games. To veg out is established British slang, but the adjectival form is new to me: "You've got a really veg profile." egofag...

fakery (US n.): a bakery that orders frozen pastries from a distributor while presenting them as fresh. Surely most bakeries are by now. en banc (Fr. / legal adj.): "In bench": heard before every judge in the court at once. Marker of severity. to toggle into memory (1950s v.): to enter a program into an old mainframe, one bit at a time, using the switches on its front panel . to vernalize (v.): to induce a plant to flowering by exposing it to prolonged cold (a la winter). stim toys (n.): stress balls and widgets and fidgets that allow healthy displacement behaviour for autistic people in social situations. outsider porn : literary novels. pandonic (programming adj.): of idiomatic Pandas code. to perp (v.): to perpendicularise. Term in geometry / computer graphics for effecting a 90 degree rotation with simple swap- and negate logic. vidya (US pej. n.): 1) computer game. I got excited for a moment when someone said that teenagers were all really into...

Archived webpages cited on my sites. Pride : 2. Posh Spark training. Pride : 1. Maths assignment #6: vector calculus, contours, fields. Pride : 3. Started functional programming (Odersky, Chiusano). Pride : 2. 15 posts not including this. Pride : 3. Read Chiang, Dyer, Webb, Stross. Pride : 1. Took the lead hiring. Pride : 3. Lots of plans for software and datasets. Pride : 0?