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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 lo...

egoboo (fandom / open source n.): ego boost; social credit; pleasure received from public recognition of one's voluntary work. See also warm glow . soyboy (MRA pej. n.): feminine man - in reference to the urban legend / quack palaeo notion that soy xenoestrogens lower testosterone. Depressingly, it's because of people like this that Cordelia Fine's bullshit is justifiable. See also numale, cuck, beta (though on top of the gender policing, soyboy adds diet policing and is that much worse). rufous (n.): reddish brown; robiny. inclusion rider (Hollywood n.): condition that one's peers must meet a diversity quota. Dolbyification (industry n.): moving off manufacturing / and towards licencing and assurance. See Coolidge effect (biology n.): broad tendency for males to exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new sexual partners (even though previous partners are still available and had not ). emodiv...

nolle prosequi (Latin ): unwilling to pursue; used to announce the decision not to press charges. skeptical theism (n.): view that we can't discern whether natural evil is good evidence against the existence of Yahweh. ("it would not be surprising for an infinitely intelligent and knowledgeable being's reasons for permitting evils to be beyond human comprehension") True in the same boring way as radical sceptical scenarios: we can't rule it out. But it quite ignores the fact that evil is manifest ; the burden of showing its hidden benevolence is on the theist. noseeum (pej. n.): 1) sandfly, midge; 2) anti-theodicy inference by which we survey the world, find no reason for the immense suffering within, and so conclude there is no reason for it. Meant as snark by theologians, but sounds fine to me. portfolio career (n.): having several part-time jobs at once. Could be nice, but is more often sweet lemons on the part of people who want to be in crow...