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notable epistemic hells

Politics : actions aimed at getting into power; where policy is action taken by those in power. Or: War : attempting to enact policy via embedding metal in people. Politics : attempting to enact policy via words flood-fill (algo n.): Very simple connected-area algorithm used in e.g. MSPaint's bucket cuttlefish suit (tech n.): active camo Cx (corporate n.): customer experience, after UX (user experience). Irish goodbye (US pej. n.): Leaving without saying goodbye. See also French exit , filer à l’anglaise . cobot (tech n.): collaborative robot. Physical augmentation for human tasks; safe despite strength. absolutorium (Polish Latin n.): academic absolution; releasing a student from their studies. The Flippening (digital currency n.): the foretold point when Ethereum will overtake Bitcoin. The Great Span (Kottkean n.): whoahing at how extremely long-lived people can bridge extremely different eras , or at how short recorded history

notable Point Nemo neuroevolution

Point Nemo (geography proper n.): the oceanic pole of inaccessibility; the furthest point from any land. britbong (Irish pej. n.): Slur for 'British person'; a subreddit doing their bally best to be racist (but it is really hard when you have to invent all the stereotypes on your own). jackeen (Irish pej. n.): "a self-assertive worthless fellow"; a Dubliner. West Brit (Irish pej n.): Irish person perceived as being too British, liking Britain too much. See also oreo, apple, banana , pom, coconut . culchie (Irish pej n.): hick; teuchter; bogan; yokel. blerd (n.): black nerd. data leakage (ML n.): letting knowledge of the test set inform the training process. See also contamination triboelectric (physics n.): frictionally electrifying. e.g. clothes static. data hygienist (new new economy n.): hypothetical future profession, scanning training data for socially unacceptable content to prevent future Tays or Alisas . S