Valgrind
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8 books
first published
22 Sep 2003
one-state solution
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22 books
first published
31 Jul 2003
added 19 May 2017
proposed resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving a single state with both Israelis and Palestinians as citizens
Jeffrey Epstein
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48 books
first published
31 Jul 2003
added 18 Oct 2020
an American financier and convicted sex offender. He gained infamy for his involvement in criminal activities related to sexual exploitation.
microplastics / micro fibres
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50 books
first published
5 May 2003
added 11 Aug 2023
tiny particles of plastic or fibres that pollute water and soil
Ferguson, Missouri
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91 books
first published
14 Apr 2003
city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States
Martin Cooper
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10 books
first published
15 Mar 2003
added 20 Dec 2023
father of the handheld cell phone
William Shockley: the traitorous eight
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30 books
first published
4 Mar 2003
William Shockley was a Nobel-prize winning physicist whose management style led eight of his employees to leave and form Fairchild Semiconductor, effectively founding Silicon Valley.
Passenger Name Record
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8 books
first published
15 Jan 2003
added 14 Jan 2024
record used for exchanging information about passengers in travel
WeWork
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84 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
added 17 Jun 2021
an American company offering shared workspaces and office services, known for its rapid growth and subsequent controversies.
automated trading system
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33 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
a method of trading that uses algorithms and pre-set rules for entering and exiting trades, without human intervention.
post-materialism
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29 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
added 15 Oct 2020
theory within sociology
search engine result page
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17 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
the page displayed by a web search engine in response to a query, typically containing a list of links to web pages deemed relevant to the search terms.
two-sided market
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43 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
market having two distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits
Netflix Prize
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71 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
competition from 2006-2009 to improve Netflix's personalization algorithm
text mining
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43 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
process of analysing text to extract information from it
PageRank
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84 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
algorithm for calculating the authority of a web page based on link structure.
payment for order flow
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17 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
added 8 Nov 2021
compensation that a broker receives
Bob Litterman
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14 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
added 6 Aug 2023
an American economist, notable for his work in risk management, particularly the development of the Black-Litterman asset allocation model
algorithmic bias
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81 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
added 5 Dec 2020
systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others
full text search
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43 books
first published
2 Jan 2003
techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full text database
energy security
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168 books
first published
2003
national security considerations of energy availability
Hans Lippershey
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11 books
first published
2003
German-Dutch spectacle-maker
carbon dioxide removal
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26 books
first published
2003
added 25 Nov 2023
process in which carbon dioxide gas (CO2) is removed from the atmosphere by deliberate human activities and durably stored in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs, or in products
Getting Things Done
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46 books
first published
31 Dec 2002
added 11 Nov 2023
book by David Allen
Danilo Kiš
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4 books
first published
31 Aug 2002
added 22 Jun 2021
Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)
experience curve
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24 books
first published
31 Aug 2002
added 26 Nov 2023
the relationship between experience producing a good and the efficiency of that production, specifically, efficiency gains that follow investment in the effort
male gaze
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39 books
first published
26 Aug 2002
added 16 Nov 2023
depiction of girls and women as sexual objects for the pleasure of a male, heterosexual viewer
Guido van Rossum
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35 books
first published
14 Jul 2002
added 16 Feb 2017
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
SoftBank
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114 books
first published
14 Jul 2002
added 27 Nov 2021
follow your passion
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49 books
first published
14 Jul 2002
scientific article published on 01 July 2016
Eben Moglen
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18 books
first published
14 Jul 2002
added 21 Sep 2023
American law professor and free software advocate
interest rate derivative
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55 books
first published
14 Jul 2002
a financial derivative where the underlying asset is based on interest rates
smart meter
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82 books
first published
11 Jul 2002
type of utility meter that uses advanced technology
Hurricane Sandy
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135 books
first published
11 Jul 2002
added 14 Jan 2024
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2012
urban farming
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89 books
first published
11 Jul 2002
added 23 Nov 2023
agriculture in urban environments
digital rights
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81 books
first published
11 Jul 2002
added 6 Jun 2022
human rights that allowing individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, or communications networks
GnuPG
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18 books
first published
7 May 2002
publish or perish
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54 books
first published
7 May 2002
added 20 Jan 2017
phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continually publish academic work to sustain or further one's career
stocks for the long term
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9 books
first published
26 Apr 2002
added 10 Mar 2018
an investment strategy that recommends holding equities for significant periods of time to leverage the benefits of compound growth and reduce impact of volatility
negative equity
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95 books
first published
3 Feb 2002
added 26 Feb 2017
the situation where the value of an asset falls below the outstanding balance on the loan used to purchase it
Jim Simons
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48 books
first published
15 Jan 2002
added 22 Nov 2021
Russell's paradox
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3 books
first published
4 Jan 2002
added 15 Aug 2017
paradox in set theory concerning the set of all sets not containing themselves
Perl 6
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8 books
first published
4 Jan 2002
added 16 Feb 2017
UNCLOS
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43 books
first published
2002
international maritime law
satellite internet
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37 books
first published
2002
added 16 Jun 2022
connection to the Internet by satellite
first-price auction
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13 books
first published
2002
common type of auction where all bidders simultaneously submit sealed bids so that no bidder knows the bid of any other participant
DALL-E
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11 books
first published
2002
added 22 Aug 2023
image generator program
proxy bid
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5 books
first published
2002
second-price auction without sealed bids
Crossrail
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56 books
first published
2002
added 27 Oct 2021
a railway construction project in London aiming to provide better east-west transit
Flynn Effect
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58 books
first published
2002
20th-century rise in intelligence test scores
cable laying ship
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13 books
first published
2002
a type of ship designed and used for laying underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power, and other purposes
shill bidding
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3 books
first published
2002
added 8 Oct 2023
person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization
Hobbesian trap
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5 books
first published
2002
added 17 Jul 2017
a situation in which two parties cannot trust each other and therefore end up in a state of mutual harm, named after the philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
railway mania
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68 books
first published
2002
speculative frenzy in the UK in the 1840s about railways
private spaceflight
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35 books
first published
2002
added 15 Oct 2020
paid for by an entity other than a government agency