edward: concepts

2,618 concepts

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Gerard Salton — 3 books
first published 1974 added 27 Feb 2017
an American computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field of information retrieval and is often called the 'father of digital search'.
Y Combinator — 171 books
first published 1974
American startup accelerator
Seymour Hersh — 118 books
first published 1974 added 30 May 2021
American investigative journalist
card file — 49 books
first published 1974
Fermat's Last Theorem — 9 books
first published 1974
linked data — 60 books
first published 1974
a method of structuring data to enable interlinking and become more useful through semantic queries
Parkinson's law — 47 books
first published 1974
adage that work expands to fill the time available
public intellectual — 281 books
first published 1974 added 20 Sep 2023
Gödel, Escher, Bach — 80 books
first published 1974
a Pulitzer-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the connections between the works of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
working poor — 316 books
first published 1974
social class
Howard Zinn — 87 books
first published 1974
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
half of the world's population has never made a phone call — 14 books
first published 1974
discrete time — 64 books
first published 1974
Jacquard loom — 60 books
first published 1974
weaving loom controlled by punched cards
G4S — 135 books
first published 1974 added 26 Feb 2017
sorting algorithm — 73 books
first published 1974
algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order
pocket calculator — 149 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 19 Dec 2023
sexual politics — 95 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 3 Mar 2017
episode of Brothers & Sisters (S1 E12)
Magellanic Cloud — 40 books
first published 27 Jun 1973
hydroponic farming — 26 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 5 Oct 2023
fail fast — 101 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 27 Oct 2021
scientific article published on October 2013
gravity well — 124 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 4 Feb 2017
do what you love — 103 books
first published 1973 added 10 Feb 2022
independent contractor — 251 books
first published 1973 added 25 Apr 2021
natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under a contract or verbal agreement.
complexity theory — 177 books
first published 1973
Abraham Maslow — 153 books
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Murray Rothbard — 68 books
first published 1973 added 21 Nov 2023
American economist (1926–1995)
Abbie Hoffman — 77 books
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
anti-work — 20 books
first published 17 Oct 1972
ethical theory and social movement that advocates for the abolition of paid work as a central aspect of society
antiwork — 48 books
first published 17 Oct 1972 added 27 Oct 2021
uranium enrichment — 184 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 14 Jan 2017
industrial process of increasing the proportion of uranium-235 in uranium (and lowering the proportion of uranium-238) through isotope separation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — 105 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
invention of the telescope — 35 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — 21 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
hybrid work — 21 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 4 Dec 2023
land tenure — 114 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
Henri Poincaré — 100 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
time dilation — 66 books
first published 1 Mar 1972 added 20 Mar 2022
a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers due to velocity or gravitational differences between them, as predicted by the theory of relativity.
éminence grise — 87 books
first published 1972
a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
joint-stock company — 244 books
first published 1972
business entity which is owned by shareholders
post-capitalism — 74 books
first published 1972 added 18 Dec 2023
call centre — 743 books
first published 1971
centralised office used for the purpose of receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone
business climate — 156 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017
squatters' rights — 21 books
first published 1971 added 7 Oct 2023
banking crisis — 404 books
first published 1971
a situation where a significant number of banks or financial institutions are in danger of failing
California gold rush — 156 books
first published 1971
a period of intense migration to California between 1848 and 1855 after the discovery of gold, greatly impacting the state's demographics and economy.
the medium is the message — 76 books
first published 1971
mass immigration — 489 books
first published 1971 added 19 Mar 2017
young professional — 349 books
first published 1971
land reform — 324 books
first published 1971
changes to land ownership
centre right — 413 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017
God and Mammon — 33 books
first published 1971 added 25 Feb 2017
Socratic dialogue — 54 books
first published 1971
genre of literary prose
New Journalism — 210 books
first published 31 Dec 1970
Style of journalistic writing
South China Sea — 309 books
first published 31 Dec 1970
marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean
cakes and ale — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 30 Oct 2022
Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse — 29 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
Jarndyce and Jarndyce — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
fictional court case created by Charles Dickens
gentrification — 475 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Nov 2022
urban socioeconomic process
V2 rocket — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
do well by doing good — 63 books
first published 1970 added 9 Aug 2023
South of Market, San Francisco — 89 books
first published 1970
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
Torches of Freedom — 28 books
first published 1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
shadow ban — 14 books
first published 1970 added 29 Jan 2024
blocking or partially blocking a user or content from an online community without their awareness
Mount Scopus — 39 books
first published 1970 added 19 May 2021
a mountain in Jerusalem, home to the main campus of the Hebrew University
Stewart Brand — 258 books
first published 1968
American writer
Menlo Park — 446 books
first published 1968
Alfred Russel Wallace — 121 books
first published 1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
lateral thinking — 169 books
first published 1968 added 6 Apr 2018
a manner of solving problems and generating new ideas that involves looking at the problem from a unique or different perspective
Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco — 11 books
first published 1968 added 4 Apr 2022
cosmological principle — 30 books
first published 1968
notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic at large scales
Joan Didion — 113 books
first published 1968 added 22 Mar 2018
American writer
mobile money — 75 books
first published 1968
payment services via a mobile device
low birth rate — 81 books
first published 1968 added 6 Jan 2025
Haight Ashbury — 127 books
first published 1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
sealed-bid auction — 20 books
first published 1968
Great Leap Forward — 375 books
first published 1968 added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
Dr. Strangelove — 194 books
first published 1968 added 18 Mar 2022
a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick about nuclear war and political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
phenotype — 274 books
first published 1968
composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment
Buckminster Fuller — 177 books
first published 1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
double helix — 296 books
first published 1968 added 20 Jan 2017
edge city — 76 books
first published 1968
stakhanovite — 42 books
first published 1968
Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism
Marshall McLuhan — 212 books
first published 1968
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
model building — 183 books
first published 1968 added 14 Aug 2024
Bonfire of the Vanities — 112 books
first published 1968 added 9 Feb 2017
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — 54 books
first published 1968 added 5 Mar 2017
strikebreaker — 123 books
first published 1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
finite state — 67 books
first published 1968
compound rate of return — 31 books
first published 15 Oct 1967
Paul Samuelson — 254 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 19 Apr 2017
an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
beat the dealer — 38 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 15 Feb 2017
a book on card counting in blackjack by Edward O. Thorp
Edward Thorp — 63 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 16 Feb 2017
predictive maintenance — 20 books
first published 1967 added 24 Jan 2024
determining the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed
confounding variable — 56 books
first published 1967 added 5 Oct 2023
an extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates with both the dependent and independent variable
conceptual framework — 309 books
first published 1967
delayed gratification — 227 books
first published 1967
psychological concept describing a process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward
randomized controlled trial — 237 books
first published 1967
experimental method designed to reduce bias, typically accomplished by randomly allocating subjects to two or more groups, with one being a control group
TED Talk — 465 books
first published 1967 added 24 Oct 2022
epigenetics — 184 books
first published 1967