gentrification
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462 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
added 1 Nov 2022
urban socioeconomic process
cakes and ale
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6 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
added 30 Oct 2022
V2 rocket
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41 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
shadow ban
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14 books
first published
1970
added 29 Jan 2024
blocking or partially blocking a user or content from an online community without their awareness
Torches of Freedom
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27 books
first published
1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
Mount Scopus
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39 books
first published
1970
added 19 May 2021
a mountain in Jerusalem, home to the main campus of the Hebrew University
cosmological principle
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30 books
first published
1968
notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic at large scales
strikebreaker
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122 books
first published
1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
Buckminster Fuller
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175 books
first published
1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
phenotype
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270 books
first published
1968
composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment
Dr. Strangelove
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192 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.
double helix
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295 books
first published
1968
added 20 Jan 2017
mobile money
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74 books
first published
1968
payment services via a mobile device
Haight Ashbury
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125 books
first published
1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
Great Leap Forward
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372 books
first published
1968
added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
stakhanovite
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42 books
first published
1968
Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism
lateral thinking
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168 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
Joan Didion
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110 books
first published
1968
added 22 Mar 2018
American writer
Alfred Russel Wallace
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120 books
first published
1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
Marshall McLuhan
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208 books
first published
1968
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
Edward Thorp
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61 books
first published
15 Oct 1967
added 16 Feb 2017
beat the dealer
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38 books
first published
15 Oct 1967
added 15 Feb 2017
a book on card counting in blackjack by Edward O. Thorp
Paul Samuelson
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253 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
randomized controlled trial
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230 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
confounding variable
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54 books
first published
1967
added 5 Oct 2023
an extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates with both the dependent and independent variable
impulse control
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162 books
first published
1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
TED Talk
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453 books
first published
1967
added 24 Oct 2022
cognitive dissonance
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377 books
first published
1967
scientific article published on 01 October 1962
meta-analysis
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455 books
first published
1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
deskilling
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162 books
first published
1967
added 3 Jan 2017
elimination of skilled labor from an economy due to the introduction of new technology
predictive maintenance
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19 books
first published
1967
added 24 Jan 2024
determining the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed
delayed gratification
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224 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
self-play
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53 books
first published
1967
added 20 Apr 2024
reinforcement learning technique
data science
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428 books
first published
15 Aug 1966
added 20 Nov 2021
an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.
War on Poverty
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211 books
first published
15 Aug 1966
unofficial name for legislation first introduced by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964
Merry Pranksters
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77 books
first published
1966
added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
systems thinking
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209 books
first published
1966
added 9 May 2023
based on systems theory (broadly applicable concepts and principles, as opposed to concepts and principles applicable to one domain of knowledge; distinguishes, dynamic or active systems and static or passive systems)
Ken Kesey
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108 books
first published
1966
added 26 Jun 2024
Turing test
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214 books
first published
1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
Steven Pinker
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294 books
first published
1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
traffic fines
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31 books
first published
1966
added 23 Jan 2017
financial penalties imposed for violations of traffic laws or regulations
language acquisition
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95 books
first published
1966
added 20 Aug 2023
process starting early in human life
Peace of Westphalia
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85 books
first published
1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
speech recognition
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249 books
first published
1966
automatic conversion of spoken language into text
prisoner's dilemma
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52 books
first published
15 May 1965
canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
John von Neumann
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273 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath (1903–1957)
classic study
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365 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 20 Aug 2022
zero-sum game
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632 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 18 Feb 2017
mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants
Louis Daguerre
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15 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)
Johannes Kepler
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148 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 15 Oct 2020
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
interchangeable parts
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135 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
components that are identical for practical purposes
universal Turing machine
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60 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 24 Dec 2023
turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrary input by reading both the description of the machine to be simulated as well as the input thereof from its own tape
stochastic process
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78 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
mathematical object usually defined as a collection of random variables
Norbert Wiener
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163 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 3 Jan 2017
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
Bletchley Park
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156 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 5 Oct 2023
end-to-end encryption
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49 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 5 Jul 2023
cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
Alan Turing
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359 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
Turing machine
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162 books
first published
1 Feb 1963
abstract computation model; mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules