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marketing automation — 31 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 4 Mar 2024
+25
Netflix Prize — 52 books
first published 2 Jan 2003
competition from 2006-2009 to improve Netflix's personalization algorithm
+46
price discovery process — 20 books
first published 2 Jan 2003
+14
business-class flight — 19 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 26 Jan 2024
+13
payment for order flow — 18 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 8 Nov 2021
compensation that a broker receives
+12
social media influencer — 157 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 27 Feb 2024
+151
Masters of Doom — 9 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 30 Jul 2024
2003 book by David Kushner
book
+3
side project — 274 books
first published 2 Jan 2003
+268
PageRank — 90 books
first published 2 Jan 2003
algorithm for calculating the authority of a web page based on link structure.
+84
paperwork crisis — 5 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 4 Dec 2023
High speed trading — 42 books
first published 2 Jan 2003
+36
National best bid and offer — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 19 Jun 2022
+1
full text search — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 2003
techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full text database
+37
post-materialism — 29 books
first published 2 Jan 2003 added 15 Oct 2020
theory within sociology
+23
high batting average — 12 books
first published 2003
+6
private military company — 46 books
first published 2003
company providing armed security services
+40
systematic trading — 30 books
first published 2003
+24
energy security — 175 books
first published 2003
national security considerations of energy availability
+169
Hans Lippershey — 12 books
first published 2003
German-Dutch spectacle-maker
+6
complex and multifaceted — 40 books
first published 2003 added 4 Dec 2023
+34
Astronomia nova — 10 books
first published 2003
book by Johannes Kepler
+4
carbon dioxide removal — 27 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
+21
polynesian navigation — 34 books
first published 2003
methods to navigate the Pacific ocean
+28
deep learning — 265 books
first published 2003 added 3 Oct 2023
+259
Getting Things Done — 49 books
first published 31 Dec 2002 added 11 Nov 2023
book by David Allen
+43
continuous double auction — 5 books
first published 18 Nov 2002
The Coming Technological Singularity — 31 books
first published 18 Nov 2002
+25
Kubernetes — 33 books
first published 10 Oct 2002 added 15 Oct 2020
an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management
+27
foundational text — 83 books
first published 10 Oct 2002 added 14 Aug 2024
+77
Spread Networks laid a new fibre optics cable between New York and Chicago — 20 books
first published 10 Oct 2002
an infrastructure project aimed at reducing latency for financial transactions by laying a more direct fiber optic cable route between these two cities.
+14
Thomas Davenport — 25 books
first published 1 Oct 2002 added 2 Sep 2017 person
+19
experience curve — 26 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
+20
Danilo Kiš — 6 books
first published 31 Aug 2002 added 22 Jun 2021
Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)
male gaze — 41 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
+35
a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — 14 books
first published 26 Aug 2002 added 15 Feb 2017
+8
endogenous growth — 54 books
first published 1 Aug 2002 added 24 Feb 2017
+48
Guido van Rossum — 37 books
first published 14 Jul 2002 added 16 Feb 2017
Dutch programmer and creator of Python
person
+31
interest rate derivative — 55 books
first published 14 Jul 2002
a financial derivative where the underlying asset is based on interest rates
+49
follow your passion — 49 books
first published 14 Jul 2002
scientific article published on 01 July 2016
+43
Eben Moglen — 18 books
first published 14 Jul 2002 added 21 Sep 2023
American law professor and free software advocate
+12
SoftBank — 124 books
first published 14 Jul 2002 added 27 Nov 2021
+118
urban farming — 93 books
first published 11 Jul 2002 added 23 Nov 2023
agriculture in urban environments
+87
digital rights — 87 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
+81
Hurricane Sandy — 139 books
first published 11 Jul 2002 added 14 Jan 2024
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2012
+133
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere — 30 books
first published 11 Jul 2002
book by Jürgen Habermas
+24
smart meter — 82 books
first published 11 Jul 2002
type of utility meter that uses advanced technology
+76
publish or perish — 55 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
+49
GnuPG — 18 books
first published 7 May 2002
+12
Carmen Reinhart — 134 books
first published 30 Apr 2002
American economist
+128
Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period — 14 books
first published 26 Apr 2002 added 15 Nov 2020
+8
stocks for the long term — 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
+3
butter production in bangladesh — 15 books
first published 26 Apr 2002 added 5 Mar 2018
+9
market urbanism — 27 books
first published 15 Feb 2002 added 27 Dec 2023
+21
negative equity — 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
+89
Jim Simons — 49 books
first published 15 Jan 2002 added 22 Nov 2021
+43
Perl 6 — 8 books
first published 4 Jan 2002 added 16 Feb 2017
+2
Turing complete — 48 books
first published 4 Jan 2002
+42
incomplete markets — 25 books
first published 2 Jan 2002
+19
satellite internet — 44 books
first published 2002 added 16 Jun 2022
connection to the Internet by satellite
+38
proxy bid — 5 books
first published 2002
second-price auction without sealed bids
DALL-E — 26 books
first published 2002 added 22 Aug 2023
image generator program
+20
Hobbesian trap — 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.
gender-neutral toy — 10 books
first published 2002 added 26 Dec 2023
+4
the Future Doesn’t Need Us — 33 books
first published 2002 added 28 Oct 2023
+27
congestion charging — 102 books
first published 2002
+96
Flynn Effect — 60 books
first published 2002
20th-century rise in intelligence test scores
+54
private spaceflight — 36 books
first published 2002 added 15 Oct 2020
paid for by an entity other than a government agency
+30
Filipino sailors — 12 books
first published 2002
+6
cable laying ship — 14 books
first published 2002
a type of ship designed and used for laying underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power, and other purposes
+8
Crossrail — 55 books
first published 2002 added 27 Oct 2021
a railway construction project in London aiming to provide better east-west transit
+49
first-price auction — 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
+7
More Guns, Less Crime — 11 books
first published 2002
+5
railway mania — 69 books
first published 2002
speculative frenzy in the UK in the 1840s about railways
+63
Xiaogang Anhui farmers — 9 books
first published 2002
+3
shill bidding — 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
presumed consent — 16 books
first published 2002
+10
UNCLOS — 45 books
first published 2002
international maritime law
+39
Celebration, Florida — 17 books
first published 30 Nov 2001
+11
walkable city — 59 books
first published 30 Nov 2001
+53
Robert Mercer — 54 books
first published 27 Nov 2001 added 23 Nov 2017
+48
stochastic volatility — 27 books
first published 14 Oct 2001
when variance is a random variable
+21
market microstructure — 37 books
first published 14 Oct 2001
branch of finance
+31
value at risk — 100 books
first published 14 Oct 2001
estimated, as yet unrealised loss for an investment for a given set of conditions
+94
martingale — 23 books
first published 14 Oct 2001
+17
volatility smile — 24 books
first published 14 Oct 2001
implied volatility patterns that arise in pricing financial options
+18
Daron Acemoglu — 158 books
first published 28 Sep 2001 added 18 Oct 2024
Turkish-American economist
person
+152
constrained optimization — 34 books
first published 28 Sep 2001
+28
Silicon Valley ideology — 48 books
first published 27 Aug 2001
+42
immigration reform — 134 books
first published 27 Aug 2001
change to the current immigration policy of a country
+128
occupational segregation — 20 books
first published 27 Aug 2001
distribution of workers across and within occupations
+14
ITER tokamak — 16 books
first published 27 Jul 2001 added 26 Oct 2021
+10
Cass Sunstein — 256 books
first published 14 Jul 2001
American legal scholar, writer, blogger
person
+250
decentralized internet — 23 books
first published 14 Jul 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
+17
DeCSS — 14 books
first published 14 Jul 2001 added 17 Jun 2026
free open-source program to decode DVDs with encryption
+8
Yochai Benkler — 103 books
first published 14 Jul 2001 added 7 Nov 2020
American legal scholar
+97
Jean Tirole — 61 books
first published 14 Jul 2001
a French economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2014 for his analysis of market power and regulation
+55
history of Unix — 9 books
first published 14 Jul 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
history of Unix
+3
disruptive innovation — 201 books
first published 14 Jul 2001 added 6 Apr 2018
+195
smart grid — 124 books
first published 14 Jul 2001
electrical grid operated by automatic control devices or controled and maintained from distance
+118
tragedy of the anticommons — 5 books
first published 14 Jul 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
phrase from economics