polynomial basis

polynomial basis (plural polynomial bases)

When using polynomial bases, the first stage in computing the product of two elements of #x5C;mathbbF#x5F;#x7B;2ⁿ#x7D; is the multiplication of two polynomials of degree at most n-1 in #x5C;mathbbF#x5F;2#x5B;x#x5D;.

1999, I. Blake, G. Seroussi, N. Smart, Elliptic Curves in Cryptography, Cambridge University Press, page 20

2010, Vladimir Tujillo-Olaya, Jaime Velasco-Medina, Hardware Architectures for Elliptic Curve Cryptoprocessors Using Polynomial and Gaussian Normal Basis Over GF(2²³³), Marina L. Gravrilova, C. J. Kenneth Tan, Edward David Moreno (editors), Transactions on Computational Science XI: Special Issue on Security in Computing, Part 2, Springer, LNCS 6480, page 79,
In this case, the GF(2ᵐ) multiplication is implemented in hardware using three algorithms for polynomial basis (PB) and three for gaussian normal basis (GNB).

In contrast to the case of normal bases considered in Theorem 5.1.9, the dual basis of a polynomial basis is usually not a polynomial basis.
[…]
5.1.13 Theorem [1265, 1298] Let #x5C;theta be a root of a monic irreducible polynomial f of degree m over K#x3D;#x5C;mathbbF#x5F;q, and let B#x3D;#x5C;#x7B;1,#x5C;theta,#x5C;theta²,#x5C;dots#x5C;theta#x7B;m-1#x7D;#x5C;#x7D; be the corresponding polynomial basis of F#x3D;#x5C;mathbbF#x5F;#x7B;qᵐ#x7D; over K. Then the dual basis B#x2A; of B is a polynomial basis if and only if f is a binomial and m#x5C;equiv 1#x5C;#x21;#x5C;#x21;#x5C;#x21;#x5C;#x21;#x5C;pmodp, where q is a power of the prime p.
5.1.14 Corollary There exists a dual pair of polynomial bases of #x5C;mathbbF#x5F;#x7B;qᵐ#x7D; over #x5C;mathbbF#x5F;q if and only if the following three conditions are satisfied:[…].

2013, Gary L. Mullen, Daniel Panario, Handbook of Finite Fields, Taylor & Francis (Chapman & Hall / CRC Press), page 103

primitive polynomial
primitive polynomial

(algebra, field theory, cryptography, of a finite field) Specifically, a basis, of the form {1, α, ..., αⁿ⁻¹}, of a finite extension F_(qⁿ) of a Galois field F_q, where α is a primitive element of F_(qⁿ) (i.e., a root of a degree-n primitive polynomial over F_q).


DSDD

(computing, of a diskette) Initialism of double-sided, double density.


unapprove

en-verb

unapprove (third-person singular simple present unapproves, present participle unapproving, simple past and past participle unapproved)

unapproves (present singular third-person)
unapproving (participle present)
unapproved (participle past)
unapproved (past)

With WordPress.com you can approve, mark as spam, unapprove, or delete comments.

2009, Mark William Bell, Build a Website for Free

(computing, transitive) To rescind the approval of something; to mark as no longer approved; reject.


chameleon schema

en-noun

chameleon schema (plural chameleon schemas)

(computing) An XML schema with no target namespace.


free list

(programming) A data structure, used in dynamic memory allocation, that connects free (unallocated) regions of memory together in a linked list.


vendorspeak

(computing, slang) The jargon used by vendors.


Adpocalypse

In response to the uproar, popularly called the “Adpocalypse,” the platform introduced a vague new policy of automated demonetization to appease advertisers, but they drew remarkably wide lines for the AI carrying out these changes.

2017 December 8, Rachel Dunphy, “Can YouTubers Survive the Adpocalypse?”, in Daily Intelligencer

However, YouTube insists that your content must be “ad friendly” if you want to monetize on it. As of 2019, YouTube has experienced three Adpocalypses, […]

2020, Chandler Wright, Social Media Marketing 2019, page 89

(Internet slang) A series of events whereby advertisers stopped their marketing campaigns on the video-sharing site YouTube, causing YouTube to introduce stricter guidelines on video monetization.


ones and zeroes

/ˈwʌnz n̩ ˈzɪəɹəʊz/

From the fact that the numerals 1 (one) and 0 (zero) are used to indicate binary numbers.

The incoming signals were broken down into digital code—ones and zeroes—by a relatively simple computer and downlinked to Fort Huachuca, where another computer of vastly greater power examined the bits of raw information and tried to make sense of them.

1989 August 17, Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons; Berkley premium tie-in edition, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, November 2018, page 360

The so-called higher level programming languages, like the various dialects of BASIC and PASCAL familiar to students in the 1980s, greatly simplified the business of programming, since it is no longer necessary—at least for certain purposes—to do what is now called "machine language programming," or what in earlier days was programming, i.e., employing the ones and zeroes now frequently viewed as rather tedious and theoretical [...]

1990, G. E. Scott, “Malleable Persons”, in Moral Personhood: An Essay in the Philosophy of Moral Psychology (SUNY Series in Ethical Theory), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, page 40

Hiro Protagonist [in Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson] must win, one might say, on both Surf and Turf against the wonderfully evil Evangelist Minister R. Bob Riff and his allies, both in the world of violence, swordplay, and aircraft carriers and in the world of ones and zeros.

1996, R[obert] James Woolsey [Jr.], “Resilience and Vulnerability in the Digital Age”, in Stuart J. D. Schwartzstein, editor, The Information Revolution and National Security: Dimensions and Directions (Significant Issues Series; vol. XVIII, no. 3), Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, →ISSN, page 79

Now one must also: [...] be able to discern or possess a device that is able to discern the ones and zeroes on the storage medium, [...]

1998, Doug Carlston, “Storing Knowledge”, in Margaret MacLean, Ben H. Davis, editors, Time & Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Conservation Institute, page 24

But suppose there is a special and universal and innate language for thinking. Suppose, in particular, that just as computers have a language of ones and zeroes that underlies all of their programs and applications, there is an equally fundamental language shared by all humans: a language of thought (lot) [...].

2001, Andrew Brook, Robert J. Stainton, “Knowledge of Language”, in Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction (A Bradford Book), 1st paperback edition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pages 54–55

You once said that the "ones and zeros" in the world's computers were demons that could trick the human race into losing all its history.

2007, Henning Mankell, chapter 8, in Laurie Thompson, transl., Kennedy’s Brain: Translated from the Swedish, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, part 1 (Christ’s Cul-de-sac), page 83

If you are a developer or an architect, you are one for a good reason: Your magic and craft is turning ones and zeros into a solution that makes life and work better.

2008, Steven C. Seow, “Preface”, in Karen Gettman, editor, Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, page xvii

Neo has been hacking since he was in elementary school. He is more at ease with ones and zeros than his own language.

2012, Wayne M. Smith, “The Wraith of Frank—Cyber War Style”, in The Sand Castle, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, pages 99–100

If the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] never falls into a feedback loop, credit should probably go to [John C.] Reilly and especially [Sarah] Silverman, who bring human vulnerability to little bits of ultra-branded ones and zeroes.

2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-21

(computing, informal) Binary code; on and off bits.


logpoint

(programming, rare) A point in program code at which a message is logged for debugging.


awaitable

(programming) Able to be executed in an asynchronous manner, with the caller receiving any result at a later stage.


awaitable

(programming) An operation that can be executed in an asynchronous manner, with the caller receiving any result at a later stage.


respawner

(video games) An object in the game world that respawns things.


Wintroll

(Internet slang, derogatory) A trollish user who advocates the Microsoft Windows operating system.


Windvocate

(Internet slang, derogatory) A user who advocates the Microsoft Windows operating system.


pseudovalue

Each observer's data generates a pseudovalue of perceptual accuracy and the set of pseudovalues are treated as if they are independent and identically distributed.

2013, William Thomson, Peter N. T. Wells, The Perception of Visual Information, page 264

In traditional databases, missing information is mostly handled by means of a pseudovalue, called a null value […]

2015, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz, Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, page 300

(mathematics, computing) Something that resembles a value but is not a true value or does not really belong to the set of data being studied.


blogcentric

en-adj

blogcentric (comparative more blogcentric, superlative most blogcentric)

more blogcentric (comparative)
most blogcentric (superlative)

De Vellis began obsessively checking in with Technorati, the blogcentric search engine, to see which bloggers had posted links to his YouTube creation. Within the first 48 hours, the clip had been viewed more than 100,000 times […]

2009, Eric Boehlert, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press

The class discussed here used a blogcentric curriculum in which students were required to make one class topic–relevant post, one comment to another student's post, and one link to a new information source each week.

2016, Michael Glassman, Educational Psychology and the Internet


open sourceror

Rather, just as a cracker can be an open sourceror and vice versa, so many of the identities I am about to outline can be taken up by the same person at the same time, or be passed through over different times.

2008, Tim Jordan, Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism, page 70

Whereas a free sourceror wouldn't be caught dead using anything other than (GNU) Linux, open sourcerors are happy to use whatever works.

2015 June 3, Mat Asay, “Open source vs. Apple: The holy war that wasn't”, in Tech Republic

(informal, computing) A programmer who works only on open source programs.


Instagrammable

Instagrammable (comparative more Instagrammable, superlative most Instagrammable)

more Instagrammable (comparative)
most Instagrammable (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Instagrammable.wav

From Instagram + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).

suffix

A centerpiece such as a basket of fruits or a pumpkin vase of flowers would make the dining table look beautiful and Instagramable.

2016 November 23, Rachel Ramirez, “The Ultimate Friendsgiving Guide”, in The Beacon, Portland, Or.: University of Portland, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-27

Creating instagrammable moments for business through design is paramount in order to stay relevant. [...] [Mark] Birnbaum uses the ‘instagrammable cake’ sold at Catch, as an example of how “items exist solely for the reason of social sharing”.

2017, “Major Hospitality Powerhouses Reveal Key Trends at Annual Boutique Hotel Investment Conference (BLLA) 2017”, in Hery Sudrajat, editor, Hotelier Indonesia, 30th edition, volume XIV, [Indonesia?]: Hoticom Media International, →ISSN, page 31, column 2

My adult life, and particularly my married life, was quite "blessed" for the first eleven years. It was very pretty, very Instagrammable.

2017, Kate Merrick, “#Blessed”, in And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering, Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Books, Thomas Nelson, page 33

And then there are the chairs. Whimsical, colorful, diverse and tested for both comfort and durability, the wide array of unusual seating options at Changi's T4 are designed to be both inviting and Instagramable.

2017 November 5, Harriet Baskas, “Singapore: ‘World’s best airport’ opens sparkling Instagram-worthy new terminal”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-05

Burgers are a great source of protein (ignore the grease), as are eggs (which must go some way to enhancing my eggs), plus I had a dollop of guacamole, which is basically unsullied avocado (healthy and Instagrammable).

2018, Emily Phillips, “Cycle 21”, in Trying, London: Hodder & Stoughton

Now, if you're the type of person who quietly agonises over what people might think of your carefully curated, Instagrammable bookshelf, don't worry!

2018, Alfred Tong, “Introduction”, in The Thinking Man's Guide to Life: How to Network, De-stress, Make Friends and Everything in-between, London: Hardie Grant Books

Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.

2018 October 10, Kaya Yurieff, “Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 2019-11-12

[Ben Quilty's] art is characterised not by a heavy morbidity but an ease and facility, a vitality that has seen figurative painting remain important in Australia in a period when it was dismissed as washed-up and conservative while conceptual and Instagrammable installation art had become de rigueur; [...]

2019, Richard Flanagan, “Foreword”, in Ben Quilty, [Melbourne, Vic.]: Lantern, Penguin Books, page 23

I'd hired a pair of social media assistants whose primary job was to identify Instagram-able outfits and locales, before the influence-aspiring hordes found their way to them and turned them into middle-America clichés.

2020, Janelle Brown, chapter 13, in Pretty Things, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 169

This isn't an accident; everything about this cafe is designed to be Instagram-able.

2020, Daniel Priestley, “Sales Follow-through: Proactively Follow Up with Prospects to Maximise the Effectiveness of Your Campaign”, in Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, part II (The Campaign-driven Enterprise Method: Turning Principles into Strategy), page 227

[Edward] Barnieh watched new cafes all around the world adopt aesthetics that were popular on Instagram. [...] The public was coming to a consensus about what kinds of designs were Instagrammable.

2020 April, Sarah Frier, “The Pursuit of the Insta-worthy”, in No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, page 168

(informal) Visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media (specifically on Instagram); photogenic.

instagrammattava

visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media — see also photogenic


sourcerer

(see title)

2013 October 2, Dan Gillmor, “In praise of Richard Stallman, GNU's open sourcerer”, in The Guardian

(informal, computing) A programmer, a coder, someone who works with source code.


negative lookbehind

en-noun

negative lookbehind (countable and uncountable, plural negative lookbehinds)

(regular expressions) The analysis of the preceding characters absence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?<!).


positive lookbehind

positive lookbehind (countable and uncountable, plural positive lookbehinds)

(regular expressions) The analysis of the preceding characters' presence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?<=).


negative lookahead

negative lookahead (countable and uncountable, plural negative lookaheads)

Negative lookahead works just like positive lookahead, except that whereas positive lookahead matches when the regex inside the lookahead matches, negative lookahead matches when the regex inside the lookahead failed to match.

2012 August, Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan, Regular Expressions Cookbook

(regular expressions) The analysis of the subsequent characters absence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?!).


positive lookahead

positive lookahead (countable and uncountable, plural positive lookaheads)

(regular expressions) The analysis of the subsequent characters presence before the regular expression is matched (symbol: ?=).


negative lookaround

negative lookaround (countable and uncountable, plural negative lookarounds)

(regular expressions) The analysis of the characters' absence before the regular expression is matched.


positive lookaround

positive lookaround (countable and uncountable, plural positive lookarounds)

(regular expressions) The analysis of the characters presence before the regular expression is matched.


non-capturing group

non-capturing group (plural non-capturing groups)

(regular expressions) A grouping in a regular expression that doesn't store the value it matches (symbol: ?:).


xpost

1989 March 24, shabtai, “alt.sex Xpost to soc.culture.jewis”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

1990 February 20, Nelson Broat, “A possible solution to the aquaria Xpost problem.”, in news.groups (Usenet):


xpost

en-verb

xpost (third-person singular simple present xposts, present participle xposting, simple past and past participle xposted)

xposts (present singular third-person)
xposting (participle present)
xposted (participle past)
xposted (past)

[still xposting till I hear that .tech is official]

1988 April 1, Peter Schachte, “devices and directories”, in comp.sys.amiga.tech (Usenet)

(Sorry to xpost, but I wanted to give everybody a chance to reply... :-)

1988 May 18, Eric Townsend, “Wanted: new/used 7300/3b1”, in misc.wanted (Usenet)


covert channel

The term was introduced in 1973 by Butler Lampson.

(computing) A means of transferring information objects between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate according to the security policy.


split bar

The bar or line that divides a screen or window. A split bar lets users customise how the two split windows are viewed.


title bar

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) The bar at the top of a window or a dialogue box displaying the name of the application or open document.


sosumi

Coined by Apple employee Jim Reekes in 1991, as a faux-Japanese word that in fact was a phonetic rendering of so sue me, in reference to an ongoing lawsuit with Apple Corps over use of musical chimes.

An alert chime sampled from a xylophone, used by Apple Inc. computers.


pixel hunting

Graphic adventure puzzle video games in the 1980s and 1990s could require the player to find objects or switches that were only a few pixels in size, in some cases hidden in the scenery.

(video games) Looking for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game

pixeljagen

to look for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game


pixel hunt

en-noun

pixel hunt (countable and uncountable, plural pixel hunts)

Like most adventure games, Phantasmagoria is a bit of a pixel hunt, so move your cursor around the screen to see what can be manipulated or examined in each room.

1996, Multimedia World, Multimedia World, Volume 3, Issues 2-9, PC Communications, page 89

(..) and adjust the block size on the screen, so the visually impaired can play with big blocks, and those who like to play pixel hunt can do so with single-pixel square blocks.

2003, Alexandre Santos Lobao, Ellen Hatton, .NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0, Apress, page 67

Finding the solution to a puzzle involved figuring out how to move an object, or trying to decide in what sequence objects should be configured, or the frustrating “pixel hunt” (searching for the one spot on the screen that was a hot spot).

2012, Christy Marx, Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games, Taylor & Francis, page 142

Though far less frustrating than many text adventures, point-and-click adventure games often featured at least a few puzzles with highly illogical solutions and frequently forced players to engage in a “pixel hunt,” which refers to the process of moving and clicking the mouse all over a screen in hopes of finding a missed item or other important “hotspot.”

2012, Josiah Lebowitz, Chris Klug, Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: Proven Writing Techniques for Role Playing Games, Online Games, First Person Shooters, and more, Taylor & Francis, page 19

This is similar to a blunder designers of adventure games can make. We called this a pixel hunt and strove mightily to avoid falling into that trap.

2014, Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, Second Edition, Cengage Learning, page 260

(video games) a search for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game


pixel hunt

en-verb

pixel hunt (third-person singular simple present pixel hunts, present participle pixel hunting, simple past and past participle pixel hunted)

pixel hunts (present singular third-person)
pixel hunting (participle present)
pixel hunted (participle past)
pixel hunted (past)

Unfortunately, once you actually go about solving the cases, the game falls into the trap that have been the bane of click n' point adventure games for years; illogical puzzles and pixel hunting.

2006 December, GameAxis Unwired, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, →ISSN, page 53

We totally relate to gamers who hesitate to devote a few hours to pixel hunting to solve puzzles.

2009, PC Gamer, PC Gamer, volume 16, GP Publications, page 22

(video games) to look for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game


home console

A video game console designed for domestic use in a fixed location, as opposed to handheld consoles or arcade consoles.


handheld console

en-noun

handheld console (plural handheld consoles)

A portable video game console, designed to be easily carried, as opposing to home consoles.


bucket rendering

(computer graphics) The rendering of a graphical scene in a number of portions ("buckets") that can be assigned to different processors to take advantage of parallelism.


pink contract

In reference to the colour of SPAM (the meat product).

(Internet) An agreement between a spammer and their ISP, where the spammer pays additional charges in order to be exempted from the provider's terms of service, which would otherwise prohibit spamming.


shadow volume

(computer graphics) The spatial volume resulting from the projection of a ray from a light source through each vertex of a shadow-casting object to some point (generally at infinity); used in adding accurate shadows to a rendered scene.


megaword

(computing) A unit of storage or capacity equal to 10⁶ (or 2²⁰) words


gameport

(computing) A hardware port for communication with a game controller.


freelist

(programming) Alternative form of free list


false sharing

(computing theory) A performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not necessary.


readset

(computing) The set of records read from a database, typically by a single transaction


-vac

(obsolete, marketing, science fiction, computing, mid-20th century) Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.


shatter attack

Coined in a 2002 paper by Chris Paget: "Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation".

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.


coachmark

(graphical user interface) A highlight or underline etc. indicating part of the user interface, to aid the user in learning how to use the system.


kebab case

In allusion to the appearance of a shish kebab, with various food items assembled on a skewer.

(programming) The practice of writing identifiers using hyphens to separate words.


remotable

(programming) Offering support for remoting.


ludomusicologist

From ludo- (“relating to games”) + musicologist.


undersubscription

en-noun

undersubscription (countable and uncountable, plural undersubscriptions)

End-to-end QoS along with appropriate bandwidth provisioning specifically for Intra-Cluster Communication Signaling (ICCS) is required. Overprovisioning and undersubscription of bandwidth is recommended.

2014, Akhil Behl, CCIE Collaboration Quick Reference

(computing) The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.

When there are not enough running threads to optimally exploit available PEs undersubscription occurs, resulting in a waste of performance.

2012, Victor Pankratius, Michael Philippsen, Multicore Software Engineering, Performance and Tools

(computing) The failure to provide sufficient threads in a multithreaded application.


undersubscribe

en-verb

undersubscribe (third-person singular simple present undersubscribes, present participle undersubscribing, simple past and past participle undersubscribed)

undersubscribes (present singular third-person)
undersubscribing (participle present)
undersubscribed (participle past)
undersubscribed (past)

This forces the agent to either oversubscribe itself by submitting jobs to multiple queues at once or undersubscribe itself by submitting jobs to potentially long queues.

2003, Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox, Tony Hey, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, page 311

First, the number of available hardware threads varies from platform to platform, so the ideal number of threads on one machine may undersubscribe or oversubscribe the threads on a different machine.

2009, Kaushik Datta, Auto-tuning Stencil Codes for Cache-based Multicore Platforms

(computing) To have insufficient threads available in a multithreaded application so that all threads become blocked and performance suffers.

In this way, MSPs can have the flexibility to oversubscribe lower-priority classes or even undersubscribe higher-priority traffic to meet tight QoS/SLA requirements.

2004, Nam-Kee Tan, MPLS for Metropolitan Area Networks, page 384

(computing) To employ more switch ports than necessary so that high-priority traffic is sure to be handled right away.


ludomusical

From ludo- (“relating to games”) + musical.

As both toys and machines, these guitar controllers undermine the discourse of authenticity so central to rock music's mythology, instead forcing players to confront the recursively mediated quality of their ludomusical experiences.”

2013, Nicholas Cook, Richard Pettengill, Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance, University of Michigan Press, page 284

Reflecting on the ways in which such ludomusical relationships are structured, Koji Kondo, the composer for The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System, has observed that both characters' movements and sequenced music in digital games are synchronized to the CPU's clock.

2014, K.J. Donnelly et al., Music In Video Games: Studying Play, Routledge, page 55

Chopin has formed an unexpectedly persistent locus of ludomusical encounters that unfold at keyboards, whether they involve the relaying of single bits of information, the activation of complex acoustic events, the realization of the ineffable, or all of the above.

2016, Roger Moseley, Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo, Univ of California Press, page 59

Relating to ludomusicology or music-based games or video games in particular; ludomusicological.


ludomusicological

Analyzable as ludo- (“relating to games”) + musicological or ludomusicology + -ical

prefix

To demonstrate the scope of ludomusicological inquiry, I will first consider what musical performance and digital gameplay have in common as alternatives, supplements, or antonyms for "work."

From a ludomusicological perspective, all these forms of play forge connections that enable us to historicize the new and renovate the old via techniques of projection and retrojection.

2016, Roger Moseley, Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo, Univ of California Press, pages 65-66

In the PhD project, the on-going process between chiptune and fan identity is understood through a (ludo)musicological adaptation of Rosi Braidotti’s theory of nomadic subjectivity […].

2018, George Reid, “Chiptune: The Ludomusical Shaping of Identity”, in Malcolm Sutherland, editor, The Computer Games Journal, volume 7, number 4, Springer New York, →DOI, retrieved 2019-01-04, page 281


SFINAE

substitution failure is not an error
w:substitution failure is not an error

(programming) Initialism of substitution failure is not an error.


ludomusicality

From ludo- (“relating to games”) + musicality.

From the flip book to anime, from toys to works of art, and from congas to taiko drums, the course of each element that plays into Nintendo's ludomusicality can be traced along paths that wind through space and time.

2014, K.J. Donnelly et al., Music In Video Games: Studying Play, Routledge, page 67

In turn, digital games can illuminate these historical manifestations of ludomusicality, suggesting alternative methods of construing chronological relations that recognize the ludic forces of improvisation and performance as well as the textual and material formations that have enabled and constrained the transmission of music.

2016, Roger Moseley, Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo, Univ of California Press, page 12

As such, providing an insight into this relationship is the intention of this article, which demonstrates the theoretical framework from my larger PhD project on chiptune, fan identity, and its perpetuation through ludomusicality.

The way in which music is played and composed in the context of games, musicality specifically in game or video game music, or the relationship between play and music.


JB

(slang, computing) Initialism of jailbreak.

(slang, computing, Android) Initialism of jelly bean.


ludomusicology

Blend of ludology (“the study of games”) + musicology (“the study of music”). Coined circa 2007.

blend

[…] the discipline of ludomusicology might emerge as a way to bring insights yielded from studying musical performance to bear on how ludic experiences are constructed and represented […].

2013, Nicholas Cook, Richard Pettengill, Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance, University of Michigan Press, page 304

Having spent seven years researching video game music, I admit I increasingly find myself wondering these days whether a different kind of ludomusicology is possible […].

2016, Michael Austin, Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The swell of film musicological scholarship in the past twenty years (and the more recent surge in music–video studies and ludomusicology) has brought with it a corresponding profusion of music analysis, some informal, some extremely meticulous.

2017, Miguel Mera et al., editors, The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, Taylor & Francis, page 497

The scientific study of video game music.


Gustafson's law

Named after computer scientist John L. Gustafson.

(computing theory) A formula giving the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed execution time that can be expected of a system whose resources are improved.


Amdahl's law

Named after American computer scientist Gene Amdahl (1922–2015).

named-after

We can use Amdahl's law to estimate performance improvements when we know the time consumed for some function and its potential speedup.

2011, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Elsevier, page 52

(computing theory) A formula giving the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed workload that can be expected of a system whose resources are improved.


card reader

(computing) A data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium.


sessionize

en-verb

sessionize (third-person singular simple present sessionizes, present participle sessionizing, simple past and past participle sessionized)

sessionizes (present singular third-person)
sessionizing (participle present)
sessionized (participle past)
sessionized (past)

(Internet, transitive) To process data describing individual users' navigation through a website, grouping the data points into sessions that each represent a single user's activity.


tube shooter

(video games) A shoot 'em up game in which the player advances through a tube or tunnel while moving around its circumference.


layer 8

(humorous, networking) OSI layer 8; the users of a computer network.


sandwich testing

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A hybrid form of integration testing that combines top-down and bottom-up approaches.


big bang testing

(software engineering) A form of integration testing in which the individual modules are linked together and tested as a whole, without first being tested independently.


interclick

(computing) A click of one button while another is already being held down.


DSA

Digital Signature Algorithm
w:Digital Signature Algorithm

(cryptography) Initialism of Digital Signature Algorithm.


anticheat

When we transition over to EA anticheat you won't notice anything different when logging in and playing, but this transition will enable our teams to be better equipped to find and remove players that don't play fair.

2023 September 29, “EA Anticheat and Battlefield 2042”, in Battlefield 2042

(video games) A piece of software that detects and prevents cheating.


random forest

(computing) A structure composed of a collection of decision trees with controlled variance


subrow

(computing) A secondary or subordinate row; a row belonging to some other parent row.


sandboxer

(computing) A process that sandboxes others.


autoalgorithm

(computing) An algorithm that is invoked automatically


pseudohandle

(programming) A special value that can be treated as a handle (e.g. to identify a process) but is not a true handle.


malcode

From mal- + code, presumably modelled on earlier malware.


CRPG

roleplaying game
roleplaying game#English

(games) Initialism of computer/console roleplaying game.


unjar

unjar (third-person singular simple present unjars, present participle unjarring, simple past and past participle unjarred)

unjars (present singular third-person)
unjarring (participle present)
unjarred (participle past)
unjarred (past)

Downloading and unzipping/unjarring the documentation is surprisingly not what you do.

2006, John Zukowski, Java 6 Platform Revealed, page 205

(computing) To extract data from a JAR (Java archive) file.


metaserver

(computing) A hardware or software system that uses a group of other servers to obtain results


PPA

(computing) Initialism of Personal Package Archive (software repository for managing source packages in Ubuntu)


citogenesis

From cite + -o- + -genesis, probably inspired by cytogenesis. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2011 in his webcomic xkcd.

coinage

Relatedly, Wikipedia has been a locus of ‘citogenesis’: “the creation of ‘reliable’ sources through circular reporting” […] In citogenesis, information is added to Wikipedia, which is then picked up in media reports, which are in turn used as ‘independent’ sources to support the original information in Wikipedia.

2018, David Coady, James Chase, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, Routledge

It was at this time that the first cases of “citogenesis”—circular and false reporting originating from Wikipedia—appeared.

2020, Joseph Reagle, Jackie Koerner, editors, Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, MIT Press, page 27

(informal, Wikimedia jargon) A circular form of citation where various sources report each other.


deorphaned

(mathematics, computing) From which orphans have been removed


subproperty

The Origin property represents a coordinate and has X and Y subproperties.

(chiefly programming) A property of another property.


Elvis operator

The notation ?: has been humorously reinterpreted as an emoticon representing the eyes and hairstyle of Elvis Presley.

(programming, informal) A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.


pachinko allocation

(computing theory) In machine learning and natural language processing, a suite of algorithms to determine the thematic structure of a collection of documents by modelling correlations between topics in addition to the word correlations that constitute topics.


British Museum algorithm

the British Museum algorithm (canonical)

Named by Newell, Shaw, and Simon in allusion to the inefficient idea of placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum.

(computing) A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.


pro-gamer

(video games) A professional player of video games; a competitive video game player; an ethlete.


GAN

en-noun

GAN (countable and uncountable, plural GANs)

The GAN we look at in the next exercise is a vanilla GAN with convolution.

2020, Micheal Lanham, Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform, O'Reilly Media, page 248

generative adversarial network
generative adversarial network#English

(machine learning) Acronym of generative adversarial network.

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of good article nomination.


BPB

BPB (countable and uncountable, plural BPBs)

(computing, countable) Initialism of BIOS parameter block.


flicker fixer

(computing) A piece of computer hardware that deinterlaces an output video signal, resulting in a less flickery display on some systems.


bug scrub

(software engineering) A regular meeting to discuss and triage unfixed problems in the software.


Yoda condition

/ˌjəʊdə kənˈdɪʃn̩/

/ˌjəʊdə kənˈdɪʃən/

An allusion to the somewhat grammatically reversed speech style of Yoda, a character in the Star Wars franchise—for example, “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” The term was possibly coined by Félix Cloutier (username “zneak”) in 2010, based on Yoda notation which is claimed to have been coined by Thomas M. Tuerke and published online in 2006.

A great convention to stick to, the Yoda condition requires you to keep the comparison variable on the right side of the conditional statement.

2013, Adam Onishi, “Getting Started”, in Pro WordPress Theme Development, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, Springer Nature, page 14

A computer programmer is trying to explain a recent problem to a journalist friend, and she says, "This jimmy had put in Yoda conditions and had been refactoring my previous work so that in the end it was just hooker code." The journalist friend looks baffled.

2014, Kirk Hazen, “The Winding Paths of Language in Education”, in An Introduction to Language (Linguistics in the World), Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, page 331

// what happens if the debug parameter is removed // from the request and becomes a null? // should really be using a Yoda Condition here ;)

2015, Jim Manico, August Detlefsen, “Access Control”, in Iron-clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications (Oracle Press), New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, page 66

Writing if(isHungry = true) by accident will set isHungry to true every time the if statement is hit! To avoid this possibility, we can just write if(isHungry). Alternatively, some (wise) people use what are called Yoda conditions to check an if statement: if(true == isHungry). The reason we write the if statement in this way is that, if we accidentally write if(true = isHungry), this will generate a compiler error, catching the mistake.

2015 February, William Sherif, “If, Else, and Switch”, in Learning C++ by Creating Games with UE4: Learn C++ Programming with a Fun, Real-world Application that Allows You to Create Your Own Games!, Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, page 48

Leo grimaces at Caleb. "I never asked—how did you figure it out?" / "Yoda conditions. You may as well have signed your name." At my blank look, Caleb says, "Your boyfriend writes his code backwards."

2020, Amy Noelle Parks, “Evie”, in The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-kiss, New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, Abrams Books

Programmers normally write conditions such as x == 7 with the variable name (an lvalue) on the left and the literal (an rvalue) on the right. Placing the literal on the left, as in 7 == x (which is syntactically correct and is sometimes called a "Yoda condition"), enables the compiler to issue an error if you accidentally replace the == operator with =. The compiler treats this as a compilation error because you can't change a literal's value.

2022, Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, C++20 for Programmers: An Objects-natural Approach (Deitel Developer Series), Boston, Mass.: Pearson Prentice Hall

(programming, informal) A logical condition with the usual order of operands reversed for various reasons, such as avoiding accidental misuse of = (assignment) instead of == (equality), a mistake that is harder to spot when using the normal order of operands.

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones


linear time

(computing theory) The time complexity, denoted O(n), of an algorithm whose running time increases at most linearly with the size of the input.


Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm

the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm (canonical)

The algorithm was conceived in 1970 by Donald Knuth and Vaughan Pratt, and independently by James H. Morris.

(computing theory) A linear-time algorithm that searches for occurrences of one text string within another, employing the observation that when a mismatch occurs, the search string itself embodies sufficient information to determine where the next match could begin, thus reducing the number of possible match locations that must be checked.


literate programming

(programming) A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language (such as English), interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable representation can be generated.


metatile

(computer graphics) Synonym of supertile


vanity item

(video games) An item in a game that is purely cosmetic, not affecting the player's abilities in any way.


file carving

(computing) The process of reassembling computer files from fragments in the absence of file system metadata, based on the extrapolation of a file's probable type from its contents.


user story

(software engineering) In software development, a natural language description of how an end user uses a system feature.


metasequence

(computing) A sequence of characters having a similar role to a metacharacter.


WAW

(computing) Initialism of write after write, a kind of data hazard.


Runet

From Russian Руне́т (Runɛ́t) or blend of Russian + Internet.

The Russian-language community on the Internet and websites

Ռունետ

the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites


gronk

en-verb

gronk (third-person singular simple present gronks, present participle gronking, simple past and past participle gronked)

gronks (present singular third-person)
gronking (participle present)
gronked (participle past)
gronked (past)

They say a good detective always starts at the beginning, so I installed the program on my VGA PC's hard drive. As the computer gronked away, copying six 5¼-inch floppies, I wondered why, if bad detectives start at the end, […]

1990, Compute, volume 12, numbers 1-5, page 62

[…] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner.

1993, Iris Forrest, Computer Tales of Fact and Fantasy

The next startup event is the computer's attempt to read a disk in drive A. But, there is no disk in drive A, remember? You were supposed to remove any disk in this drive. So, you hear a lot of pathetic gronking and grakking until the computer gives up […]

(computing, slang, intransitive) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.

Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.

1992, Charlottesville Computer Users' Group: CCUG

The other faction centered on […] what went on under the [model railway] layout. This was The System, […] and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes "gronked"—in club jargon, screwed up.

2010, Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (25th Anniversary Edition)

(computing, slang, intransitive, rare) To fail; to crash or go wrong.


access method

(computing) A method or means, usually a software or hardware component of a mainframe, to access data on an external storage device.


hypernetworked

en-adj

hypernetworked (comparative more hypernetworked, superlative most hypernetworked)

more hypernetworked (comparative)
most hypernetworked (superlative)

As a non-neutral action, the work of capturing also scales differently in different locales. This is exaggerated in the context of a hyper-networked world where elements of data can travel the globe nearly instantaneously.

2014, Roger Lee, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin, The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography, 2v

(networking) Making intensive use of computer networks.


superinformation highway

en-noun

superinformation highway (plural superinformation highways)

information superhighway
information superhighway#English

(dated, computing) Synonym of information superhighway


Comba multiplication

(computing theory) An efficient multiplication algorithm for large numbers.


appendable

an appendable file

(computing) That can be extended by appending to it.


EoP

(computing) Initialism of elevation of privilege.


GCN

(initialism, video games) Nintendo GameCube, a sixth-generation home console


prestitial

(Internet, advertising) Of a webpage, usually carrying advertising: displayed when the user arrives on a site and before they are shown the desired content.


CISSP

information system
information system#English

(computing) Initialism of certified information systems security professional.


bozosity

(slang, chiefly computing) The behaviour of a bozo; idiocy.


RMW

(computing) Initialism of read–modify–write.


user time

(computing) The time required for a user to perform a task using a computer, excluding the time when the computer is busy processing.


pageability

(computing) The quality of being pageable.


vidkid

Like the pool sharks and pinball wizards before them, "vidkids" have invaded the world and are just as controversial.

In addition to the obvious distraction of the laptops in the classroom, vidkids now have an even more invidious distraction […]

2006, Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry

Similarly, in Joystick Nation, dedicated to her "vidkid little brother," author J. C. Herz states: […]

2008, Yasmin B. Kafai, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming

(slang) A young person with an interest in playing video games.


(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-7; a variable-length character encoding designed for 7-bit channels.


cubic graph

(graph theory) A 3-regular graph; i.e., a graph whose every vertex has degree three.


regular graph

(graph theory) A graph whose vertices all have the same degree.


plane graph

(graph theory) An embedding of a planar graph in a plane.


dual graph

The edges of a dual graph are perpendicular, in some sense, to the edges of its original graph. The dual graph also has as many vertices and faces as its original graph has faces and vertices, respectively. Therefore the dual graph has the same Euler characteristic as its original graph.

(graph theory) A graph derived from some plane graph in such a way that the derived graph has a vertex corresponding to each face of the given graph, an edge corresponding to each edge of the given graph that is shared by a pair of distinct faces, and a self-loop for each edge of the given graph that is a border of the same face on both of its sides.


medial graph

The number of vertices of a medial graph is equal to the number of edges of its original graph, and the number of edges of a medial graph is equal to the sum of the degrees of the vertices of the original graph.

(graph theory) A graph derived from a given plane graph such that this derived graph has a vertex corresponding to each edge of the given graph, and such that for every “angle” (consecutive trio of edge, vertex, edge) along the border of a face of the given graph there is a corresponding edge which connects the vertices corresponding to the two edges that are part of that “angle”.


planar graph

(graph theory) A graph which can be embedded in a plane in such a way that its edges only intersect at vertices, i.e., they do not cross each other.


eigenbrain

(mathematics, computing) One of a set of eigenvectors used in visual recognition systems to represent a person's brain.


unexecution

(computing) The undoing of a command or operation previously executed.


RVO

(programming) Initialism of return value optimization.


submarking

(graph theory) A subset of a marking of a Petri net.


idiot tape

(computing, historical, informal) A basic form of computer tape that holds unjustified text, and is later processed automatically by a machine that determines where line breaks should appear in the properly formatted output.


WHP

(mathematics, computer science) Initialism of with high probability.


intelligent terminal

intelligent terminal (plural intelligent terminals)

(computing) A computer terminal capable of doing its own local processing, rather than merely sending input to and receiving output from some other linked system.


quaject

(computing theory) An object-like data structure containing both data and code (or pointers to code), typically used as an abstraction to manage self-modifying code.


coverage analysis

coverage analysis (countable and uncountable, plural coverage analyses)

(computing) A part of computerised stock control that identifies the minimum stock needed to avoid shortage.


deagle

en-verb

deagle (third-person singular simple present deagles, present participle deagling, simple past and past participle deagled)

deagles (present singular third-person)
deagling (participle present)
deagled (participle past)
deagled (past)

Someone from the FortniteBR subreddit recently posted a short clip of his gameplay where his character deagled another player in the head.

2018 April 16, Erwin Cruz, “'Fortnite:' Epic looking on hit reg changes; Meteor showers spotted”, in Blasting News

Don’t say stupid things because you got deagled in a scrim.

2019 February 15, Alan Bernal, quoting Nick ‘NICKMERCS’ Kolcheff, “NICKMERCS hits out at Fortnite PC players for bashing console players”, in Dexerto

(transitive, slang, video games) To shoot with a Desert Eagle.


stringable

en-adj

stringable (comparative more stringable, superlative most stringable)

more stringable (comparative)
most stringable (superlative)

(programming) Able to be converted to a string of text characters.


switchport

(networking) An interface on a network switch.


hijinxs

A nonstandard respelling; considering fairly recent citations, possibly reinforced by "Jungle Hijinxs", the name of the first level of the popular 1994 video game Donkey Kong Country.

Peter Clifford needs to take down Mike Brunley and his carnival of carnal hijinxs to make Upton's exposure truly sensational. If this is accomplished then Peter Clifford will see the door to greater opportunity open for him and, as we well know, […]

2001, Leo F. White, Dirty Pictures, BookBaby

[S]ocial hijinxs was kept pretty much to a minimum. We had a lot of fun, but we pretty much knew when not to cross the line. We never hurt anyone or did harm to any property.

2005, Susan Cramer, Confessions of a Special Ed Teacher, Trafford Publishing, page 63

“For hijinxs and crazy shenanigans that'll leave you chuckling to the bewilderment of those around you, I highly suggest this book.” — Love Romance Passion

2009, Sara Angelini, Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy, Sourcebooks, Inc., page 346

Iowa just continued its streak of picking the notnominee. In addition his voting "violation" flier, and now these caucus hijinxs lend credence to what his other scumbag politician jerks have said about him being a bigger jerk.

2016, Kimberly Bratton, Donald Trump: An American Love-fest, Lulu Press, Inc

You know those movies where the goofy housemate reads a book of spells on Halloween and hijinxs ensue?

2018, L. J. McLeod, “The Perils of Having a Roommate Obsessed with the Occult on Hallows’ Eve”, in T. C. Phillips, editor, Behold the Nightmare: Special Halloween Issue (Specul8: Central Queensland Journal of Speculative Fiction), Rockhampton, Qld.: Specul8 Publishing, page 73

(nonstandard, uncommon) Alternative spelling of hijinks


multipolygon

(computer graphics) A collection of polygons treated as a single object.


HEVC

High Efficiency Video Coding
w:High Efficiency Video Coding

(video compression) Initialism of High Efficiency Video Coding.


subsearch

(chiefly computing) A secondary or subsidiary search.


geoenabled

(computing) Supporting geographic features such as mapping.


evil maid attack

en-noun

evil maid attack (plural evil maid attacks)

From the idea that a maid in a hotel might be able to carry out such an attack.

(computer security) An attack on an unattended device, in which a person with physical access alters it in some undetectable way so that they can later secretly access it again.


autoprefixer

(Internet) A software tool that adds vendor-specific prefixes to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) code, for maximum compatibility across browsers.


uniprogramming

(computing) The execution of a single program at a time.


synonymizer

(computing, rare) A piece of software that replaces words in a provided text with words of a similar meaning.


regular language

regular language (plural regular languages)

There is an interesting way to get the negation (complement) of a regular language L defined by a FS automaton, provided the automaton is ε-free.

2007, Dick Grune, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide, Springer Science & Business Media, page 152

A regular language is one that can be generated by a regular grammar or finite-state automaton, the lowest level of the Chomsky hierarchy. It is well known that these grammars are inadequate to represent natural language syntax.

2014, Brian MacWhinney, William O'Grady, The Handbook of Language Emergence, John Wiley & Sons, page 393

finite-state machine
finite-state machine

(computer science) A formal language that can be expressed using a regular expression or finite-state machine.


finite-state machine

finite-state machine (plural finite-state machines)

(computing theory) A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a finite set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one state to another.


noise word

For example, in the COBOL goto statement, written GO TO , the keyword GO is required, but TO is an optional noise word which carries no information and is used only to improve readability.

1975, Terrence W. Pratt, Programming Languages: Design and Implementation, page 381

(programming) A word that may be included in source code for clarity but does not change the meaning.

(computing) A stop word, one ignored in search queries etc.


archaeogaming

From archaeo- + gaming, coined by Andrew Reinhard in 2013.

The study of archaeology as it relates to video games and their history.


shunting-yard algorithm

By analogy to the operations in a railroad shunting yard.

(computing theory) A method for parsing mathematical expressions specified in infix notation.


analog stick

(video games) A small potentiometer-based joystick mounted on a game controller.


health point

Each player begins with 30 health points, and the first player to reduce their opponent's health to zero wins the match.

2014 June 5, John Bedford, “Hearthstone - beginner's guide, classes, Hero Powers, card types, game modes”, in Eurogamer

Evolution takes a cue from rudimentary RPG mechanics, granting more damaging attacks, more health points, and a stipend of skill points to enhance each of the beast's four unique abilities.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica


isopreference

(computing, of an image) Having a constant subjective quality


drop-in/drop-out

(video games) A style of competitive or cooperative multiplayer game where players can join or leave a game at any time without incurring a penalty for themselves or other players.


horde mode

(video games) A style of cooperative multiplayer gameplay where players work together to defend a target or fight through waves of enemies.


(video games) Initialism of one-life clear: the feat of playing through a video game from start to finish without ever losing a life.


action point

(video games) A point that the player can "spend" on performing various in-game actions, such as spell-casting, which require various numbers of points.


ERCS

Extended Reference Concrete Syntax
w:Extended Reference Concrete Syntax

(computing) Initialism of Extended Reference Concrete Syntax.


score attack

(video games) A gameplay mode in which the player is challenged to obtain the highest score they can.


rhythm game

(video games) A game that challenges the player to press buttons etc. to match a timed sequence indicated on the screen, usually in order to make the game character perform music or dance moves.


laner

(video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.


data integration

The provision of unified access to data residing in different data schemas.


cybertaxonomic

(computing, taxonomy) Relating to cybertaxonomy


cyberdiversity

Melissa suggests that cyberdiversity akin to biodiversity is a much more sensible strategy, because it was precisely the prevailing monoculture that was affected by Melissa — as had been expected.

1999, US Congress, Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, The Melissa virus: inoculating our information technology from emerging threats

Formats of activities and closed, inalterable, preserved objects, will give way, either because of their own material condition or because of the protection of regulations, to works that, because of the way they are conceived, will be capable of havingtheir pieces extracted and recombined amongst themselves or with others obtained from the bulk offerings. This recombination will also propel cyberdiversity (when biodiversity on this side of the mirror is in decline).

2014, AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2014: Focus 2014: The Use of New

(computing) Diversity of computerised data or formats.


hydroinformatic

(computing) Relating to hydroinformatics


hydroinformatics

(computing) The branch of informatics dealing with water management


Suurballe's algorithm

Devised by John W. Suurballe and published in 1974.

(computing theory) An algorithm for finding two disjoint paths in a non-negatively-weighted directed graph, so that both paths connect the same pair of vertices and have minimum total length.


Grover's algorithm

Named after Indian-American computer scientist Lov Grover, who devised the algorithm in 1996.

2006, E. Arikan, 22: An Upper Bound on the Rate of Information Transfer by Grover's Algorithm, Rudolf Ahlswede et al. (editors), General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics, Springer, LNCS 4123, page 452,
Thus, Grover's algorithm has optimal order of complexity. Here, we present an information-theoretic analysis of Grover's algorithm and show that the square-root speed-up by Grover's algorithm is the best possible by any algorithm using the same quantum oracle.

2018, Joseph F. Fitzsimons, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Valerio Scarani, 11: Quantum Frontier, Justyna Zander, Pieter J. Mosterman (editors), Computation for Humanity, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 286,
The best possible classical algorithm uses O(N) time. This speed up is only polynomial, but, unlike for Shor's algorithm, it has been proven that Grover's algorithm outperforms any possible classical approach.

|Q_A⟩=Gʳ|Ψ(0)⟩≈ sin ((2r+1)ϕ)1/√∑_( mathit )solutions|y⟩ (3.59)
where the probability of finding a nonsolution is presumed to be small and has been neglected in the equation.

2022 [2008 Morgan & Claypool], Marco Lanzagorta, Jeffrey Uhlmann, Quantum Computer Science, Springer Nature, page 49, However, we cannot output the entire solution dataset using a single application of Grover's algorithm. Indeed, the superposition of states for the last iteration of Grover's algorithm, with known k, looks like

(computing theory) A quantum algorithm that finds with high probability the unique input to a black-box function that produces a particular output value.


SAPI

(Internet) Initialism of Server Application Programming Interface, an API used to interface with web servers.


ISE

(computing, countable) Initialism of integrated scripting environment.


submatch

As you examine a specific candidate String, the Matcher can keep track of submatches for that expression.

2008, Mehran Habibi, Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine, page 71

(computing) A match forming part of a larger match, for example in a text string being searched.


rect

(computer graphics) Short for rectangle.


unreservation

(chiefly computing) The undoing or cancellation of a reservation.


Switch

(video games) Ellipsis of Nintendo Switch.


dereferencer

(programming) Any operator that dereferences something.


Numeronym presenting Kubernetes as "K" followed by 8 more letters, followed by "s".


battle pass

(video games) A form of in-game monetization that provides additional content for a game through a tiered system, rewarding the player with in-game items as they complete specific challenges.


masocore

(video games) A genre of games, with various playstyles, where survival and winning are intentionally made extremely difficult.


survival game

(video games) An action-oriented game set in a hostile open-world environment, where players generally begin with minimal equipment and must locate or craft further resources in order to survive, sometimes in competition with other players.


superboss

Dragons stand head and shoulders above every other regular enemy type, dwarfed only by our game's final boss (whom we'll discuss at length later in the chapter) and its superboss.

2016, Darrin Perez, Beginning RPG Maker MV, page 285

(video games) A very powerful boss character.


PVE

(video games) Alternative letter-case form of PvE.


treelist

The ILDASM main window displays a treelist of the assembly, like this: […]

2005, Andrew Whitechapel, Microsoft .NET Development for Microsoft Office, page 60

If you recall, back in Chapter 2, we created a Hero Slider template that had a single field called Hero Images. It was a treelist with a data source pointing directly at the Media Library.

2016, Phil Wicklund, Jason Wilkerson, Professional Sitecore 8 Development

(graphical user interface) A user interface control that displays a list of items in an expandable hierarchy.

(computing theory) A list of trees (the data structure).


PBAOE

(video games, board games) Initialism of point blank area of effect (when the affected region is centred on the same character who is casting the spell etc.)


pervasive game

(gaming, video games) Any game that blends the gameplay experience with the real world.


ggwp

We had an amazing game with @AnonymoEsports thank you so much guys ggwp! 👑

2023 November 17, @Z10esports, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17

(video games) Initialism of good game, well played.


ggez

GGEZ is toxic and should be bannable but saying that on this subreddit will get you downvoted and called a pussy.]

[2022 April 29, “Is saying GGEZ considered toxic?”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2023-11-17

(video games) Abbreviation of good game, easy (used to taunt the loser).


AfD

AfD (countable and uncountable, plural AfDs)

When you nominate an article for deletion using the AfD process, you get to a point in the process where you have to give a reason.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, page 374

Anyone can discuss AfD nominations by simply going to the main AfD page and adding a signed comment with his or her opinion about whether to keep or delete the article being discussed

2008, P. Ayers, C. Matthews, B. Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco: No Starch Press, page 223

After 7 days, AfD discussions are reviewed by an uninvolved user or administrator who attempts to determine the consensus.

2012, J. Schneider, A. Passant, S. Decker, “Deletion discussions in Wikipedia”, in Cliff Lampe, editor, WikiSym '12 (conference proceedings), New York: ACM

Intra-organizational social capital was measured with the variable Experienced Participant Early Intervention. This variable was created through the identification of the most active participants in the AfDs and whether they contributed within the first 48 hours of the deliberation.

2022 November 16, Elisabeth Joyce, Pinar Oztoruk, Jacqueline C. Pike, “Effective Organizing on the Fly: Social Capital in Temporary Organizations”, in Journal of Copmuter Information Systems, volume 63, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1213-1227

articles for deletion
w:articles for deletion

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion.


cut-in

(video games, by extension) A visual sequence focusing on a character's face or body while they perform a special move.


edge computing

2019, Lex Boost, "Understanding the role and opportunities of edge computing" (Opinion), Information Management.
Enter edge computing, the practice of processing data at or near the source of the data, as opposed to relaying it to a centralized location, as is done with cloud computing.

Remember that edge computing refers to data that is processed on edge devices before the result goes to its destination, which could be on a public or private cloud.

2022, Sergio Mendez, Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 5

(computing) The practice of processing or analyzing data at or near the point of data production rather than in a central processing facility requiring data transport to the central facility.


as-if rule

(programming) A rule by which compilers are allowed to apply any optimizing transformation to a program provided that it makes no change to the observable behavior of the program.


NOP sled

(programming) A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc. to increase the chances of any random instruction access executing the sequence that follows.


Blum's speedup theorem

(computing theory) A fundamental theorem about the complexity of computable functions, stating that for any complexity measure there are computable functions that are not optimal with respect to that measure.


red team

An independent group employed to challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role or point of view.


red team

en-verb

red team (third-person singular simple present red teams, present participle red teaming, simple past and past participle red teamed)

red teams (present singular third-person)
red teaming (participle present)
red teamed (participle past)
red teamed (past)

Operationally, fielded systems are red teamed by the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC) under the Air Force's Computer Security Assessment Program (CSAP).

1998, Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, page 218

[…]Senator Diane Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, aptly characterized the alternative analyses applied to the bin Laden intelligence: “They red-teamed it, and red-teamed it, and red-teamed it.”

2015, Micah Zenko, Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy, Hachette UK

(transitive) To challenge an organization by assuming an adversarial role.


tasklet

(computing) A kind of simple task in some operating systems.


developer experience

en-noun

developer experience (countable and uncountable, plural developer experiences)

In this paper, we discuss developer experience in terms of user experience (UX) and as a distinct concept and developers' needs as IDE users.

2015, Pekka Abrahamsson, Luis Corral, Markku Oivo, Barbara Russo, Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 16th International Conference, PROFES 2015, Bolzano, Italy, December 2-4, 2015, Proceedings, Springer, page 547

Yet another facet of your developer experience is this ability to deploy your application in a multitude of different environments.

2015, Zachariah Moreno, AngularJS Deployment Essentials, Packt Publishing Ltd, page 125

(computing) A developer's feeling about their tools, processes, constrains etc, and how it impacts productivity.


geo-block

en-verb

geo-block (third-person singular simple present geo-blocks, present participle geo-blocking, simple past and past participle geo-blocked)

geo-blocks (present singular third-person)
geo-blocking (participle present)
geo-blocked (participle past)
geo-blocked (past)

(computing, Internet) To deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries using of geolocation software.


tristrip

(computer graphics) A strip formed by joining triangles.


trifan

(computer graphics) A set of triangles connected at a single point.


Twitch-speak

Twitch-speak was an essential component of a person’s stream and if you wanted to be a successful streamer, you had better learn it.

2017 March 19, Apisit Chatarsa, “The language of Twitch, an understanding of Twitch-speak”, in Medium

What started out as being an inside joke between the early founders of Justin.tv has effectively turned into a community-building tool — and the language of Twitch. Here's your linguistic primer to Twitch-speak.

2014 August 8, Alex Magdaleno, “'Twitch-speak': A Guide to the Secret Emoji Language of Gamers”, in Mashable

But there’s a part of the Internet that has been quite excitedly using a secret and in-depth line of emojis, ones that are inscrutable to those who aren’t a part of it. And if you don’t do Twitch-speak, you might just be lost in those part of the woods.

2017 November 30, Apoorva Sripathi, “Can you say it like an emoji can”, in The Hindu

(Internet) A form of chatspeak used by users of the Twitch video streaming website, especially gamers, characterized by the frequent use of emotes.


CODASYL

(computing, historical) Acronym of Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages.


shared-nothing

(computing) Of a distributed system or architecture: fulfilling each update request by a single node, so as to eliminate contention among nodes.


cashtag

(Internet, finance, neologism) A kind of hashtag that links to a stock quote.


downthread

(Internet) Later, or hierarchically lower, in a thread of discussion.


Barnsley fern

Named after the British mathematician Michael Barnsley, who first described it in his book Fractals Everywhere.

(computer graphics) A fern-like fractal involving four affine transformations.


hookable

(computing) Able to be extended or modified by means of a software hook.


CRL

(computing) Initialism of certificate revocation list.


gigaop

(computing) One billion (10⁹) operations per second.


DVCS

(software) Initialism of data validation and certification server.

(software) Initialism of distributed version control system.


creepware

(computing, informal) Software covertly installed on a computer or device to allow its operation to be monitored and thus spy on the user's activity.


stalkerware

(computing, informal) Synonym of creepware


spouseware

From spouse + -ware, since it might be used to monitor a spouse suspected of unfaithfulness or similar.


aspect-oriented programming

(programming) A programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.


fusker

From Danish fusker (“a person covertly doing work outside official guilds”).

bor

(computing) A program or algorithm that downloads images or media from a web site that have not been publicly linked, based on guessing at similar URLs.


refetch

en-verb

refetch (third-person singular simple present refetches, present participle refetching, simple past and past participle refetched)

refetches (present singular third-person)
refetching (participle present)
refetched (participle past)
refetched (past)

(transitive, computing) To retrieve data previously stored in memory.


Conservapedian

(Internet) A person who contributes to the wiki Conservapedia, and shares the site's fundamentalist Christian conservative views.


Wikipedically

en-adv

Wikipedically (comparative more Wikipedically, superlative most Wikipedically)

more Wikipedically (comparative)
most Wikipedically (superlative)

Wikipedically correct

But, he says, this person may be Wikipedically naïve. “They didn’t quite know what they were getting into — they got a lot of conflict-of-interest notes,” he said.

2008, Noam Cohen, “Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It”, in The New York Times

Columbus named the first island he found San Salvador. Wikipedically, the identity of this island is controversial.

2010, Jerry Friedman, “Seen in the Wild West Indies”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2019-07-05

(rare) In a way that pertains to Wikipedia.


Wikipedic

en-adj

Wikipedic (comparative more Wikipedic, superlative most Wikipedic)

more Wikipedic (comparative)
most Wikipedic (superlative)

Adam Grant, who has an encyclopedic—should I say Wikipedic?—knowledge of the field, pointed me to relevant research that I wasn't aware of.

2013, Roger M. Schwarz, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results, John Wiley & Sons

Laurence Olivier playing Richard III, thought Holly, who had a Wikipedic knowledge of all sorts of weird stuff beyond the normal ken, that's who he reminds me of.

2014, J S Leitch, Rhaia's Children, Lulu Press, Inc

Completing his habilitation, he became an associate professor and then spent a year at Harvard Law School, undertaking projects on lawyers' workplace enactment and Wikipedic organizational culture.

2016, Dariusz Jemielniak, The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace: Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments, Routledge


gamebreaking

gamebreaking (comparative more gamebreaking, superlative most gamebreaking)

more gamebreaking (comparative)
most gamebreaking (superlative)

This essentially transfers one of the Performer's BP to another character. It's not as gamebreaking as some BP gaining exploits, but it's quick and easy to use and has many applications.

2016, GamerGuides.com, Bravely Second: End Layer - Strategy Guide

(Internet) Who or which breaks a game, rendering it unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses.


pocket computer

en-noun

pocket computer (plural pocket computers)

(computing, historical) A small portable computer with a screen capable of displaying only a few lines of text.


PvP log

en-verb

PvP log (third-person singular simple present PvP logs, present participle PvP logging, simple past and past participle PvP logged)

PvP logs (present singular third-person)
PvP logging (participle present)
PvP logged (participle past)
PvP logged (past)

/ˌpʰiːviːˈpʰiː ˈlɒɡ/

(intransitive, slang, video games) To quit an online video game during combat against another player to avoid being killed.


combat log

combat log (third-person singular simple present combat logs, present participle combat logging, simple past and past participle combat logged)

combat logs (present singular third-person)
combat logging (participle present)
combat logged (participle past)
combat logged (past)

(intransitive, video games) To quit a video game during combat to avoid dying.


newsgame

(video games, neologism) A video game designed on journalistic principles and serving a documentary or explanatory purpose.


touchframe

(computing) A hardware overlay that adds touchscreen functionality to a monitor screen


overleveled

en-adj

overleveled (comparative more overleveled, superlative most overleveled)

more overleveled (comparative)
most overleveled (superlative)

I prefer grinding exp until I'm overleveled for a boss, it's less frustrating in the long run.

(video games) In role-playing and similar games, having a higher experience level than appropriate for a given battle or task.


underleveled

underleveled (comparative more underleveled, superlative most underleveled)

more underleveled (comparative)
most underleveled (superlative)

I prefer facing a boss a bit underleveled because of the extra challenge.

(video games) In role-playing and similar games, having a lower experience level than appropriate for a given battle or task.


clockable

Then if I completes its computational task in exactly α steps we say that the ordinal α is clockable. By the previous definition, any natural number is clockable. In addition, there are many other ordinals that are clockable.

2008, Apostolos Syropoulos, Hypercomputation: Computing Beyond the Church-Turing Barrier

(computer science) Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.


postfiller

(computing) In text processing systems, a pattern of text that is expected to occur after the portion of interest.


prefiller

(computing) In text processing systems, a pattern of text that is expected to occur before the portion of interest.


Rule 90

So named because 90 is the rule's Wolfram code.

(cellular automata) An elementary cellular automaton based on the exclusive-or function.


Rule 184

So named because 184 is the rule's Wolfram code.

(cellular automata) A one-dimensional binary cellular automaton rule, notable for solving the majority problem as well as for its ability to simultaneously describe several, seemingly quite different, particle systems.


Rule 30

So named because 30 is the smallest Wolfram code that describes its rule set.

(cellular automata) A one-dimensional binary cellular automaton rule displaying aperiodic, chaotic behaviour.


write blocker

(computing) A hardware device that allows a computer to read a peripheral such as a hard disk without making any changes to its contents, useful in cyberforensics etc.


battle station

In gaming and DevOps, you have to share your battle station […] You also have to share all of your tools and work on the same problems at the same time with people either in the same room or all over the world.

2016 October 19, Maggie Gourlay, “5 Ways Testing Games Trained Me for Testing DevOps Applications”, in VictorOps, retrieved 2021-01-12

The Acer Predator XB271HU is the other highly-sought-after 1440p gaming monitor by enthusiasts for its unique quality and performance. […] The Predator scheme is widely preferred due to its appearance, since the black and red matches a lot of gaming-grade peripherals making it easy to streamline the look of your battle station.

2017 January 6, Paolo Reva, “Best 144Hz Monitors 2016 / 2017 - Buyer's Guide”, in MonitorNerds, retrieved 2021-01-12

Upgrade your battle station & join the ASTRO Family at PAX South! Shop in our booth and save 20% on all of our products! We’ll have headsets, bags, apparel, accessories and more!

2017 January 20, ASTRO Siege, “PAX South 2017 – ASTRO Gaming Blog”, in ASTRO Gaming Blog, retrieved 2021-01-12

Pre-installed with a high-end GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, the device can easily transform any Thunderbolt 3-enabled laptop into a powerful gaming battle station.

2017 June 21, Winston Chim, “GIGABYTE Releases AORUS GTX 1070 Gaming Box”, in FunkyKit, retrieved 2021-01-12

(video games, colloquial) The setup that one uses to play video games on a computer.


ALSA

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
w:Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

(computing) Acronym of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.


(computing) A display device or item of content with approximately 5,000 pixels in the horizontal axis.


cute-'em-up

It's a parody of Gradius (geddit?) and as such, is a fully-fledged “cute 'em up.” The hectic sideways-scrolling action is every bit as intense as its namesake, but instead of battling spaceships and futuristic hardware you have sunny levels filled with cartoon penguins, giant clowns, flying pigs and all manner of bizarre things.

Fantasy Zone was not a game meant to be taken as seriously as other shooters, and together with Konami's Twin Bee, it is credited by many for pioneering the cute shoot-'em-up, or “cute-'em-up sub-genre of shooters” (Kalata, “Spotlight”).

2018, Ken Horowitz, The Sega Arcade Revolution: A History in 62 Games, page 102

(video games, slang) A shoot 'em up game with a cute, cartoonish aesthetic.


TLV

(computing) Initialism of type-length-value, a class of file formats that store a data type, the length of the data, and then the data itself.


Winchester disk

en-noun

Winchester disk (plural Winchester disks)

Code name for the IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility, named after the Winchester thirty-thirty rifle, a reference to its initial 2 × 30 MB storage capacity.


fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

Elongated form of fu, a clipping of fuck. The specific elongation length was coined on Reddit in December 2008, in reference to rage comics on 4chan earlier in 2008. 7 "F"s and 12 "U"s are used as a reference to the /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu subreddit or its community. The term is sometimes shortened to f7u12.

"Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu!" I yell. It hurts my ears.

2009, Ryan Collins, Complicated Weather, page 264

New semester starting, all I have to say is: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

2011, The East Carolinian, volume 86, number 59, page A3

What, I can't swear while playing video games any more??? #FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

2013 December 12, James Taylor, Bellarine Times, volume 6, number 50, page 94

(Internet slang) Elongated form of clipping of fuck.


Roblox

Blend of the game's beta name DynaBlocks (blend of dynamic + blocks) with robot.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game and creation system platform (introduced in 2004) in which users design and play video games.


monoplatform

en-adj

monoplatform (comparative more monoplatform, superlative most monoplatform)

more monoplatform (comparative)
most monoplatform (superlative)


shitcoin

But, against what many people shout about on Reddit, not every altcoin is a "shitcoin."

2017 December 12, Matthew Hrones, “Three Altcoins Crypto Investors Should Keep an Eye On”, in Bitcoinist

There's bitcoin, and then there's shitcoin.

2019 July 18, Ben Brown, quoting Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), “'There's Bitcoin and Then There's Shitcoin (Libra)'. Congress Finally Gets It”, in Yahoo! Finance

Crypto derivatives platform FTX has perhaps the most speculative and oddly-named futures index fund on the market: SHIT-PERP, or the Shitcoin Index Perpetual Futures.

2019 August 1, William Foxley, “Crypto Exchange Launches 'Shitcoin Futures Index,' Offering New Way to Short Alts”, in CoinDesk

(derogatory, vulgar) A cryptocurrency of little or unclear value.


data race

(programming) A problematic situation where one thread could potentially read or write a memory location while another thread is writing to it.


Kotlin

Named after Kotlin Island (Russian Ко́тлин (Kótlin)), near St. Petersburg, by analogy to the related language Java, whose name ultimately comes from an Indonesian island.

programming language
programming language

(programming) A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java.


deauthentication

(computing) The invalidation of an existing authentication.


deauth

(computing) A deauthentication frame in IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi.


tagosphere

(Internet, rare) A community that creates and uses tags for informal categorization of content.


reverse shell

(computing) An interactive command shell initiated from a remote computer.


TIF

(computer graphics file format) Short for TIFF.


MWIPS

(computing) Initialism of million Whetstone instructions per second.


kWIPS

A machine which executes 5,000 KWIPS is often called a 5 MIPS machine in the performance jargon, which represents millions of Whetstones, not thousands.

1994, John R. Newport, Avionic Systems Design, CRC Press, page 192

(computing) Initialism of kilo Whetstone instructions per second.


DCV

en-noun

DCV (countable and uncountable, plural DCVs)

(Internet, uncountable) Initialism of domain control validation.


unpatch

en-verb

unpatch (third-person singular simple present unpatches, present participle unpatching, simple past and past participle unpatched)

unpatches (present singular third-person)
unpatching (participle present)
unpatched (participle past)
unpatched (past)

[…] to use these three commands, you have two options: change the defaults in Footnote, or use Debug to unpatch WordStar.

1983, PC Mag, volume 1, number 10, page 417

If you can patch pointers, you can unpatch them as well. This affords you the ability to defragment memory, among other things […]

2011, Eric Lengyel, Game Engine Gems 2, page 347

(computing, transitive, rare) To undo the process of patching; to remove a patch from.


WKT

Coordinate term: WKB

(file format) Initialism of well-known text (“a text representation used in geometry markup”).


payment terminal

en-noun

payment terminal (plural payment terminals)

(computer hardware) An electronic device which interfaces with payment cards to make electronic funds transfers.


self-executing

Downloadable software can be provided in several different formats. Some automatically install themselves, but others require manual procedures. A downloadable file typically is set up as a self-installing executable file, self-executing zip file, […]

2005, June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts: Comprehensive, page 156

The other commonly used method is a self-executing package where the installer and the update are bundled into a single executable.

2007, Bill Stackpole, Patrick Hanrion, Software Deployment, Updating, and Patching, page 310

(computing) Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it.


shell shoveling

(computing) The redirection of the shell to a remote service so that input can be entered and output received without being physically present.


GAFAM

(computing) Acronym of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, a group of major computing companies.


link out

en-verb

link out (third-person singular simple present links out, present participle linking out, simple past and past participle linked out)

links out (present singular third-person)
linking out (participle present)
linked out (participle past)
linked out (past)

A brief aside about hoarding PageRank: many people have taken this to an extreme and built sites where they refused to link out to other quality websites, because they feared losing visitors and link juice.

2012, Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin, chapter 4, in The Art of SEO, O'Reilly Media, page 111

(Internet) To link to an external website.


SAML

(computing) Acronym of Security Assertion Markup Language.


geocomputing

(geography, computing) The use of computing in the geographic sciences


autocompile

autocompile (third-person singular simple present autocompiles, present participle autocompiling, simple past and past participle autocompiled)

autocompiles (present singular third-person)
autocompiling (participle present)
autocompiled (participle past)
autocompiled (past)

The two routines created in this tutorial can be set up to autocompile for future ENVI sessions. To autocompile, place the two .pro files in the saveadd directory of the ENVI installation and restart ENVI.

One of the benefits of JSP technology is that you aren't required to create complex deployment descriptors to deploy, autocompile, and run a JSP document in a J2EE server.

2002, Lennart Jörelid, J2EE frontend technologies: a programmer's guide to servlets, JavaServer pages, and Enterprise JavaBeans

By default, Remix is set to autocompile as you are typing.

2018, Joseph J. Bambara, Paul R. Allen, Kedar Iyer, Rene Madsen, Solomon Lederer, Michael Wuehler, Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions, McGraw Hill Professional, page 141


subflow

(computing) An element of a flow (on a flowchart)


HM slave

From HM, an abbreviation of Hidden Machine, adapted from Japanese ひでんマシン (Hiden Mashin, “Secret Machine”).

der

Farfetch'd is pretty good for a HM slave. And once you've visited everywhere, you can HM delete Cut and Flash and False Swipe and raise it to a decent level and watch it own damn near everything.

2001 February 17, Talen, “Re: [OT] Frustration...”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), message-ID <qohs8tgvf0jap8p9fto88fufl17blr740f@4ax.com>

That leaves Flash, Waterfall, Fly, and (not a HM, but needed in much the same way) Rock Smash for another HM slave.

2001 February 15, rak...@mindspring.com, “Re: Smeargle just an ugly smear in your team?”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), message-ID <3a8b4f6a.316743@news.mindspring.com>

I think the HM slaves work best because then you just have to level them up to about 40 playing through the game, and switching them out for some other more useful pokes leveling up.

2005 May 17, daramark, “Re: New player strategy.”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), message-ID <Pkeie.1739$dS3.443546@news20.bellglobal.com>

For this purpose, some players like to bring along a "HM Slave" (or two) - a Pokémon whose only purpose is to use HMs.

2015, Pokémon X & Y - Strategy Guide, GamerGuides.com, page 24

(Pokémon video games, fandom slang) A Pokémon retained by the player to use Hidden Machine moves (certain moves that usually help in exploring the world of the games).

秘伝要員

Pokémon whose purpose is to use HM moves


SWAR

(computing) Initialism of SIMD within a register.


shadow DOM

Document Object Model
Document Object Model

(web development) A portion of a Document Object Model that is not generally accessible and can therefore be used to encapsulate functionality.


code morphing

(programming) The obfuscation of intermediate-level code (such as compiled Java or .NET languages) by breaking it up into smaller sequences and replacing them by equivalent constructs.


Xenix

(computing, historical) A version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late 1970s.


subkernel

(mathematics, computing) A subsidiary kernel


sparse table

(computer science) A data structure that can answer range maximum or range minimum queries on an immutable list of values in constant time, and other range queries in logarithmic time.


binary indexed tree

en-noun

binary indexed tree (plural binary indexed trees)

(computer science) Synonym of Fenwick tree


Fenwick tree

Named for Peter Fenwick who described the concept in 1994.

(computer science) A data structure that maintains prefix sums over a list of numbers while allowing dynamic updates and queries in logarithmic time.


topological sort

topological sort (plural topological sorts)

(graph theory, computer science) An ordering of the vertices of a directed graph such that if an edge goes from vertex u to vertex v then u precedes v in the ordering.


square root decomposition

square root decomposition (plural square root decompositions)

(computer science) A technique that can reduce the runtime of an algorithm by a factor of √ (where n is the size of the input) by dividing the input into √ chunks and performing operations on whole chunks when possible.


segment tree

(computer science) A data structure that is used to store information about intervals (segments) and perform range queries, or queries on a set of intervals, in logarithmic time.


link/cut tree

Invented by Daniel Dominic Sleator and Robert Endre Tarjan in 1982.

(computer science) A data structure that represents a forest (a set of rooted trees) and allows dynamic updates on the tree in logarithmic time.

Daniel Dominic Sleator
Robert Endre Tarjan


ninety-ninety rule

(software engineering) A humorous aphorism stating that the first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time, and the remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.


SMOP

Now that we know how to deal with events, the code to cycle through the stock is a SMOP (Simple Matter Of Programming).

2003, Jon Orwant, Games, Diversions & Perl Culture: Best of the Perl Journal

(software engineering, humorous) Acronym of small/simple matter of programming: a piece of programming work that will require more effort than the person requesting it might realise.


tub file

(computing, historical) A technique used to speed the generation of data files on punch card, involving multiple copies of frequently used cards that were prepunched and stored in trays arranged by index.


huggly

en-adj

huggly (comparative hugglier, superlative huggliest)

hugglier (comparative)
huggliest (superlative)

(Internet, childish) Tending to huggle; tending to hug and snuggle simultaneously.


Las Vegas effect

An allusion to the bright lights of the buildings and casinos in Las Vegas.

This helps make a user interface seem somehow friendlier and easier to use. However, this "Las Vegas" effect, as I discussed in Chapter 1, can actually distract users from their tasks.

1994, Theo Mandel, Windows vs. OS/2, the GUI-OOUI War, Van Nostrand Reinhold, page 109

(graphical user interface) The distracting overuse of colour in a user interface.


naked domain

(Internet) A domain name used to serve a website without the use of the traditional www subdomain: e.g. example.com rather than www.example.com.


EDID

Extended Display Identification Data
w:Extended Display Identification Data

(computer graphics) Acronym of Extended Display Identification Data.


compilation behaviour

(programming) The practice of repeatedly modifying a failing program in an attempt to make it compile, without immediately thinking about the semantics.


dumb quotes

(computing, typography, informal) straight quotes


Wikimedian

The museums asked Wikimedians to provide the institutions with lists of thematic topics that required illustration.

2010, Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum, page 271

Trusted Wikimedians could apply for one of the many levels of volunteer stewardship, receive administrator rights, and then move on to become “bureaucrats” and eventually “stewards.”

2013, Sotirios Paroutis, Loizos Heracleous, Duncan Angwin, Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases

To create such a role, an institution works in partnership with an affiliate or a champion to find a Wikimedian editing in a certain topic area that is relevant to the collection, and then the institution invites that Wikimedian to fill the “Visiting Scholar" position.

2018, Merrilee Proffitt, Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge


Wikimedian in Residence

en-noun

Wikimedian in Residence (plural Wikimedians in Residence)

To Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence, Wellcome Library, for guidance on finding images, locating Wellcome treasures, and warnings of 'weasel words' and 'peacock terms'.

2018, Gianetta Rands, Women's Voices in Psychiatry: A Collection of Essays, page xi

Some Wikipedia Visiting Scholars have asked for closer collaboration with their host institutions, creating the stepping-stone for a Wikimedian in Residence type of position.

The students are supported by the University of Edinburgh's 'Wikimedian in residence'; a digital skills trainer employed by the university's information services division in partnership with, and supported by, Wikimedia UK as the nationalchapter of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

2019, Anna Comas-Quinn, Ana Beaven, Barbara Sawhill, New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom, page 86

A Wikimedian who holds a visiting scholar position at an educational institution.


dataframe

Coordinate term: data cube

(computing) A two-dimensional array of data items, rather like a spreadsheet.


rolling backup

(computing) A form of backup where newer data periodically overwrites older data.


nolisting

(Internet) A technique for blocking spam (junk e-mail) by configuring a non-existent server as the primary MX record, so that initial contact always fails. A legitimate sender is likely to try the next server, which should succeed.


business key

Named from its relevance to the business domain being modelled.


natural key

(databases) A unique key formed from attributes that relate to the external world being modelled, rather than being an internally generated surrogate key.


type hint

(programming) An instance of type hinting: the specification of a data type in an otherwise untyped language.


trackpoint

(computing) An individual record within a GPS of a visited location.


ATDD

(software engineering) Initialism of acceptance-test-driven development.


homescreen

→ German: Homescreen

Coordinate term: splash screen

Gary Bettman pulls his iPhone, with its homescreen picture of his grandchildren, from his pocket and dials up Colin Campbell, the league's director of hockey operations...

2012, Jonathon Gatehouse, The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Remade the NHL and Changed the Game Forever, page 154

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) The main or first interface shown in a graphical user interface.


Buchberger's algorithm

Invented by Austrian mathematician Bruno Buchberger.

(computing theory) An algorithm for transforming a given set of generators for a polynomial ideal into a Gröbner basis with respect to some monomial order.


Gröbner basis

Introduced in 1965 by Austrian mathematician Bruno Buchberger, who named them after his academic advisor Wolfgang Gröbner.

(computing theory) A particular kind of generating set of an ideal in a polynomial ring K[x1, ..,xn] over a field K. It allows many important properties of the ideal and the associated algebraic variety to be deduced easily, such as the dimension and the number of zeros when it is finite.

Bruno Buchberger
Gröbner basis
Wolfgang Gröbner


YLOD

yellow light of death
yellow light of death#English

(video games) Initialism of yellow light of death.