Schmidt Sting Pain Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
10 weeks ago by rtlechow
"4.0+ Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel."
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10 weeks ago by rtlechow
Sprezzatura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
july 2011 by rtlechow
Sprezzatura (Italian pronunciation: [sprettsaˈtura]) is an Italian word originating from Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”
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july 2011 by rtlechow
Southern Ontario Gothic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
july 2011 by rtlechow
Southern Ontario Gothic is a sub-genre of the Gothic novel genre and a feature of Canadian literature that comes from Southern Ontario. The term was first used in Graeme Gibson's Eleven Canadian Novelists (1973) to recognize an existing tendency to apply aspects of the Gothic novel to writing based in and around Southern Ontario.[1] In an interview with Timothy Findley, Gibson commented that The Last of the Crazy People shared similarities with the American Southern Gothic genre. Findley replied, "...sure, it's Southern Gothic: Southern Ontario Gothic."[2]
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july 2011 by rtlechow
Fear of being buried alive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
may 2010 by rtlechow
"Fear of being buried alive is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as taphophobia (from Greek taphos, meaning "grave"), which is translated as "fear of graves".[1]
Before the advent of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational. Throughout history, there have been numerous cases of people being buried alive by accident. In 1905, the English reformer William Tebb collected accounts of premature burial. He found 219 cases of near live burial, 149 actual live burials, 10 cases of live dissection and 2 cases of awakening while being embalmed[2]."
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Before the advent of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational. Throughout history, there have been numerous cases of people being buried alive by accident. In 1905, the English reformer William Tebb collected accounts of premature burial. He found 219 cases of near live burial, 149 actual live burials, 10 cases of live dissection and 2 cases of awakening while being embalmed[2]."
may 2010 by rtlechow
Goodhart's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
may 2010 by rtlechow
"Although Goodhart's law has been expressed in a variety of formulations, the essence of the law is that once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role. The law was named for its developer, Charles Goodhart (a chief economic advisor to the Bank of England)."
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may 2010 by rtlechow
Polyglot (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
april 2010 by rtlechow
"In the context of computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independently of the programming language used to compile or interpret it.
Generally polyglots are written in a combination of C (which allows redefinition of tokens with a preprocessor) and a scripting programming language such as Lisp, Perl or sh."
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Generally polyglots are written in a combination of C (which allows redefinition of tokens with a preprocessor) and a scripting programming language such as Lisp, Perl or sh."
april 2010 by rtlechow
Futures and promises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010 by rtlechow
"The future and/or promise constructs were first implemented in programming languages such as MultiLisp and Act 1. The use of logic variables for communication in concurrent logic programming languages was quite similar to futures. These started with "Prolog with Freeze" and "IC Prolog", and became a true concurrency primitive with Relational Language, Concurrent Prolog, Guarded Horn Clauses(GHC), Parlog, Vulcan, Janus, Mozart/Oz, Flow Java, and Alice ML. The single-assignment "I-var" from dataflow programming languages, originating in Id and included in Reppy's "Concurrent ML", is much like the concurrent logic variable...
The term "promise" was coined by Liskov and Shrira, although they referred to the pipelining mechanism by the name "call-stream", which is now rarely used."
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The term "promise" was coined by Liskov and Shrira, although they referred to the pipelining mechanism by the name "call-stream", which is now rarely used."
march 2010 by rtlechow
E-Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010 by rtlechow
"E-Prime (short for English-Prime) is a form of the English language from which the verb to be in all its forms is avoided by the writer or speaker. Thus, E-Prime does not contain the words "be", "is", "am", "are", "was", "were", "been" and "being", nor does it contain their contractions "'m", "'s", and "'re". E-Prime therefore re-phrases most statements which use the passive voice, thus encouraging writers and speakers to clearly state an action's agent.[1] E-Prime can be based on any dialect of English."
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march 2010 by rtlechow
Parkinson's Law of Triviality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
january 2010 by rtlechow
"In the context of programming language design, one encounters Wadler's Law, named for computer scientist Philip Wadler.[4] This principle asserts that the bulk of discussion on programming language design centers around syntax (which, for purposes of the argument is considered a solved problem), as opposed to semantics."
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january 2010 by rtlechow
Diffusion of responsibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
january 2010 by rtlechow
"No one raindrop thinks it caused the flood"
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january 2010 by rtlechow
Crab mentality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
january 2010 by rtlechow
Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you." The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Singly, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless "king of the hill" competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise. The analogy in human behavior is that of a group that will attempt to "pull down" (negate or diminish the importance of) any member who achieves success beyond the others, out of jealousy or competitive feelings.
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january 2010 by rtlechow
ETAOIN SHRDLU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2009 by rtlechow
ETAOIN SHRDLU is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language, best known as a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing due to a custom of Linotype machine operators.
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november 2009 by rtlechow
Geographic information system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
october 2009 by rtlechow
The year 1962 saw the development of the world's first true operational GIS in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by the federal Department of Forestry and Rural Development. Developed by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, it was called the "Canada Geographic Information System" (CGIS) and was used to store, analyze, and manipulate data collected for the Canada Land Inventory (CLI)—an initiative to determine the land capability for rural Canada by mapping information about soils, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, waterfowl, forestry, and land use at a scale of 1:50,000. A rating classification factor was also added to permit analysis.
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october 2009 by rtlechow
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