Not the most interesting of words today… sorry. They count for new words learned by me, though.
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1215072369691238400
Vocabulary
Definitions of new words and concepts I learned with them.
Definition: Pleonasm
Now, this word, pleonasm, LOTS of people could find uses for in this day and age… and forever, likely! Love it!
Oddly, the word got a mention in the Freakonomics podcast, but it was never defined, or really used! It’s an excellent episode, nevertheless!
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1215813975478358018
Definition: Findspot, Necropolis, Lunar Pectoral
Some terms from archaeology and old art… but you can use findspot today for any object.
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1215848394444484608
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1216042284388683776
Definition: Optimal Stopping Theorem, Nerd Sniping, Negativity Threshold
Three beautiful concepts today, with equally beautiful uses!
Optimal Stopping Theorem
also known as Early Stopping Theorem
A theorem concerned with the problem of choosing a time to take a particular action, in order to maximise an expected reward or minimise an expected cost (i.e. optimal time to stop something, like dating for best chance at permanent or true love). Also widely used in statistics, economics, and mathematical finance. (Wikipedia)
Nerd Sniping
presenting someone, often a mathematician/physicist with a time consuming problem or challenge (often impossible to solve or complete) in the hopes of it appealing to a person’s obsessive tendencies, and/or cause harm from the distraction created.
Negativity Threshold
when the wife becomes so frustrated by her husband that she responds very negatively (low threshold is secret to a lasting relationship)
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1215821480547799040
Definition: Automaticity and Commercial Racial Profiling
Automaticity is new word learned #17 in 2020. A fancy word for something like reactive instincts (one which could be trained), but not exactly that term, so that’s why there is a term for it, I suppose. 🙂
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1214691953197105155
And commercial racial profiling, or actions resulting from racial profiling in a commercial (retail) setting, is absolutely disgusting. As with anything, though, there is a continuum from mild to just outright extreme. This one is the latter, and in Canada, and the more open-minded part of Canada that is the west coast, no less. To assume an Aboriginal with just $30,000 or so in his bank account has to be impossible to the point that he must be committing fraud, and call the police on him in a bank. Then to handcuff his 12 year old daughter trying to open a bank account. OMFG! I can’t imagine a worse commercial racial profiling… but that’s reality for you. Makes the imagination look pale all the time.
Just absolutely tragic, though. I hope these people face some serious consequences beyond the public apology of their organizations.
https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1215378306721353748
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