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Lima Syndrome

There are some complexes with the relationship between GLaDOS and Chell, including the Lima Syndrome. "You want your freedom? Take it. (That's what I'm counting on.)"
by cinf December 13, 2019
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feature engineering

Deriving new variables from data for the purpose of analysis.
Why is this six gigs? The data set I gave you was only one gig.

Feature engineering, --sometimes I'm like my own neural network.
by cinf May 6, 2020
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data scientist

Something like a business analyst who writes code, a hacker with social skills, or a software engineer that knows math.
Also just someone management has decided is a "data scientist".
Even though I am a data scientist, I don't think it's specific enough to describe what I do.
by cinf May 6, 2020
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R

An old programming language built for data science. A glorified, extremely useful calculator, that starts counting at 1 instead of 0.
I only switch from R to Python to do deep learning. --And to improve the performance of certain large scale processes ...Sigh, I really need to learn Julia.
by cinf May 6, 2020
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first

What people type when they are rushing to submit the first comment on YouTube.

"some other people had the same idea also, you were actually 28th but you typed first!" - Rhett and Link
first Edit, also great video!
by cinf May 6, 2020
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Shrugocracy

"Dataphobia chills them to the bone, I suspect because they hope to undermine not only some truths but all truth. David Roberts at Vox has written about what he calls an epistemic crisis in America, the idea that certain rulers and rich people hope to take away the basic idea of knowledge. If nobody can know anything, why bother to try to regulate anything? It’s government-by-ignorance—a shrugocracy."
(Wired, mass-shootings-climate-discrimination-why-governments-fear-of-data-threatens-us-all)
by cinf April 20, 2018
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Fob

Fresh Off the Boat
An islander who is unfamiliar with the culture of the mainland they just set foot on and of the world in general.
This is an outdated perception as most islanders have a modern lifestyle. It could still be true for some nations, however.
1.
Civilized person: "Why do you call her a fob? New Zealand is like the rest of the world."
Fob: "Hey, do you guys have any tomato sauce? I don't like eating plain fries."
Civilized person: "Oh, you're right. Psht, what a fob."
*Civilized person bites off fry dipped in mayonnaise*

2.
Not a fob: "Woh, New York! Do you meet Iron Man?"
Civilized person: "Definitely not a fob."
*Not a fob bites off sea turtle's head.*
by cinf November 18, 2021
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