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notable inflammaging

Overconfidence : Donald Moore helpfully disambiguates this into three pieces: Overestimation : thinking that you're better than you are. Absolute error. Overplacement : mistakenly thinking you're better than others. Rank error. Overprecision : excessive faith that you know the truth. Calibration error. It takes a little work to distinguish them. Overplacement can come apart from overestimation if you are accurate about yourself, but think everyone is dumber than they are. You could have overprecision without overestimation by being excessively sure you're terrible. And you could be unlucky enough to overestimate without overplacing, if you correctly rank everyone else above you, but still rate yourself too highly in an absolute sense... inflammaging (medical n.): general, chronic, subclinical inflammation associated with aging. max fac (trade adj.): 'maximum facilitation'; of a proposed trade system avoiding bo...

notable negative harmony

Bayes error (ML n.): the least wrong you can be; a component of the irreducible error (along with the error associated with bad data). pie barm (Wigan n.): Meat pie in a bread roll. A serious shibboleth, see also Wigan kebab, pea wet . pop socket (gadget n.): A sticky telescopic piece of plastic that lets you hold your phone with two fingers. Very trendy for unclear reasons.. stolen valor (US n.): military fraud, false honours. Boeotian (adj.): dumb. Named after an ancient region of Greece: Idiotsville. Trying to think of a comparable British expression but can't. epazote (culinary n.): Delicious Mexican herb. See also wormseed, Jesuit's tea, Mexican tea . proda (nautical): 1) shore, edge, liminal. 2) usage peculiar to Peter Watts (a marine biologist and novelist): prologue, prolegomenon. choker (NBA pej. n.): a team that loses out in the playoffs despite a strong regular season record. Pentalobe (trademark n.): Appl...