notable snackwave

• grognard (French / nerd n.): old soldier; a player who refuses to play updated versions of a game.


• large-sample statistics (Victorian n.): pertaining to operations on samples of size 150 or more. (Pffffff)


• Power distance (sociology n.): the extent to which low-status people accept power inequality, on average, in their culture. Literature includes a cross-cultural metric which strikes me as an excellent idea.


• Atlanticism (Russian pej n.): doctrine of close alliance between America and Europe; NATOism. The contrived antagonist of 'Eurasianism'. I had scoffed at the very idea, but Germans are so anti-American that Dugin's dark scheming is not even absurd; read this on Schroeder as corrupt Eurasianist.


• novichok (Russian n.): Secret Soviet nerve agent, apparently much stronger than VX, apparently used on Skripal.


• free-range parenting (US n.): Letting your child roam, walk to school, live as if this was the lowest-crime moment in history. i.e. Default pre-C21st parenting. Subject of a new law which states that this is not criminal negligence(!)


• testilying (US colloq. n.): false testimony by police. Systematic.


• snackwave (internet n.): the aesthetic epitomised by "I'D RATHER HAVE A PIZZA THAN A BOYFRIEND", "typically female, young, probably suburban, highly cynical, totally awesome, absolutely brilliant, definitely us, yeah, uh, we’re talking about us right now, between immensely confident and self-deprecating" and this
  


• traffic backhauling (telecomms n.): as far as I can tell this just means "moving information", or maybe "moving lots of information".


• foundry (software n.): poncey corporate name for a platform in the cloud


• Inner-source (commerce n.): Internal code sharing; "open" sourcing within an entity. Sounds banal but to a shocking degree it does not happen automatically.


• Dark Rule-Utilitarianism (): intentionally defecting in a coordination problem with the intention of causing the institution to collapse.


• dark knowledge (ML n.): training a smaller model ("student") to replicate the behavior of a much larger model. Model extraction.


• crudo (Italian n.): sashimi; uncooked seafood in sauce


• queen for a day letter (US colloq. n.): a written agreement that allows you to answer feds' questions without risk of prosecution.


• data ops (soft software n.): bullshit repackaging of ancient Agile lore.


• data native (adj.): Of setups which started in the new age, of empiricism, without legacy systems. not bullshit despite appearance. Working in nondata-native organsations is frustrating, because there are hard limits on how much evidence can be gathered and how much it will be heeded. See also new-economy firm.


• fening (): mark, rube


• manscaping (n.): shaving a man's body hair


• Silver Alert (US n.): bulletin alerting the public when an elderly person goes missing


• rock snot (fisherman n.): Didymosphenia geminata, particularly fast-spreading algae.


• lazy man's load (US): grabbing as many bags at once as possible, to make as few trips as possible.


• FMCG (commerce n.): fast-moving consumer goods; perishables, nondurables, disposables, cheapos.


• fakeloo (Jazz Age US n.):


• Business discovery (corporate n.): rebranding of business intelligence, now that that has come to mean "boring data analysis stuff". Supposedly involves everyone.


• planning poker (Scrum n.): work estimation game


• OKR (corporate n.): yet another Objectives and Key Results framework.


• backlog grooming (Kanban n.): shuffling tickets to reprioritise the months and months of work you never get round to.