edward: concepts

2,618 concepts

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deskilling — 164 books
first published 1967 added 3 Jan 2017
elimination of skilled labor from an economy due to the introduction of new technology
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
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
conceptual framework — 309 books
first published 1967
meta-analysis — 462 books
first published 1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
knowledge gap — 99 books
first published 1967 added 16 Nov 2023
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
social engineering — 484 books
first published 1967 added 1 Dec 2023
private property rights — 169 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
East Village — 199 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
data science — 440 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 — 213 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
Ford paid five dollars a day — 46 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 10 Jan 2017
speech recognition — 252 books
first published 1966
automatic conversion of spoken language into text
job satisfaction — 225 books
first published 1966
Margaret Mead — 179 books
first published 1966 added 30 Dec 2024
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
Ken Kesey — 110 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
urban sprawl — 318 books
first published 1966
systems thinking — 212 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)
theory of mind — 205 books
first published 1966
Merry Pranksters — 80 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
traffic fines — 31 books
first published 1966 added 23 Jan 2017
financial penalties imposed for violations of traffic laws or regulations
Peace of Westphalia — 86 books
first published 1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
Turing test — 218 books
first published 1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
language acquisition — 97 books
first published 1966 added 20 Aug 2023
process starting early in human life
job automation — 356 books
first published 1966
Steven Pinker — 299 books
first published 1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
Maxwell's demon — 10 books
first published 1966 added 24 Dec 2023
RAND corporation — 513 books
first published 15 May 1965
prisoner's dilemma — 53 books
first published 15 May 1965
canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
photolithography — 35 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 27 Jan 2024
Suez canal 1869 — 188 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
John von Neumann — 277 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath (1903–1957)
Maui Hawaii — 183 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Charles Babbage — 218 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 14 Nov 2021
Enigma machine — 73 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
Alan Turing — 368 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
positional goods — 22 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Turing machine — 165 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
Norbert Wiener — 167 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 3 Jan 2017
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
book burning — 108 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 21 Dec 2024
planned obsolescence — 109 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 9 May 2023
computer age — 301 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Trinity test — 40 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Aug 2024
Republic of Letters — 59 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
long-distance intellectual community
Johannes Kepler — 148 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Oct 2020
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
heat death of the universe — 54 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Nov 2021
the idea that the universe will eventually reach a state of entropy from which it cannot recover
classic study — 373 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2022
end-to-end encryption — 50 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Jul 2023
cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
invention of the telegraph — 55 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
zero-sum game — 638 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
Honoré de Balzac — 65 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
interchangeable parts — 135 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
components that are identical for practical purposes
Searching for Interstellar Communications — 6 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
scientific article published in Nature
Mathematical Theory of Communication — 79 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
1948 article by Claude Shannon
machine translation — 148 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
stochastic process — 80 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
mathematical object usually defined as a collection of random variables
Louis Daguerre — 15 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)
universal Turing machine — 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
Claude Shannon: information theory — 121 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Bletchley Park — 163 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Oct 2023
experimental subject — 164 books
first published 1962
person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers
backtesting — 86 books
first published 1962
the process of testing a trading strategy or model on historical data
land bank — 81 books
first published 1962 added 10 Aug 2023
Deng Xiaoping — 324 books
first published 1962
a Chinese politician who served as the leader of the Communist Party of China and was instrumental in modernising China
financial innovation — 365 books
first published 1962
Lao Tzu — 109 books
first published 1962 added 2 Jan 2017
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
Myron Scholes — 143 books
first published 1962 added 26 Apr 2017
Canadian economist
barriers to entry — 569 books
first published 1962
factors that make it difficult for new firms to enter a market
currency risk — 110 books
first published 1962 added 11 Feb 2022
a financial risk that exists when a financial transaction is denominated in a currency other than the domestic currency
collateralized debt obligation — 230 books
first published 1962
a type of structured asset-backed security whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying assets.
Robert Metcalfe — 80 books
first published 1962 added 14 Feb 2017
diversification — 222 books
first published 1962
Black-Scholes formula — 101 books
first published 1962
a mathematical model used for calculating the theoretical value of European-style options
credit crunch — 327 books
first published 1962
sudden reduction in the general availability of loans or credit or a sudden tightening of the conditions required to obtain a loan from banks
invisible hand — 714 books
first published 1962
economic concept popularized by Adam Smith
The Design of Experiments — 17 books
first published 1962
secular stagnation — 109 books
first published 1962
Bear Stearns — 396 books
first published 1962 added 25 Oct 2021
an investment bank that collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis
risk/return — 141 books
first published 1962
John Snow's cholera map — 78 books
first published 1962
Right to Buy — 108 books
first published 1962 added 25 Feb 2017
floating exchange rates — 106 books
first published 1962
index card — 339 books
first published 1962
card stock cut to a standard size, used for recording or storing small amounts of data
risk free rate — 126 books
first published 1962 added 19 Oct 2020
market friction — 32 books
first published 1962
Commentariolus — 12 books
first published 1962
work by Copernicus
central bank independence — 203 books
first published 1962
road to serfdom — 171 books
first published 1962
risk-adjusted returns — 114 books
first published 1962
fear of failure — 247 books
first published 1962
rent control — 228 books
first published 1962
The Chicago School — 186 books
first published 1962
education organization in Los Angeles, United States
flag carrier — 45 books
first published 1962 added 26 Oct 2021
two and twenty — 88 books
first published 1962 added 29 Oct 2020
Fractional reserve banking — 80 books
first published 1962
banking system where bank holds reserves equal to fraction of deposit liabilities
"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory" — 87 books
first published 1962 added 22 Aug 2023
locking in a profit — 28 books
first published 1962
Arthur Eddington — 73 books
first published 1962
an English astrophysicist best known for his work on the theory of relativity and the Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars.
minimum wage unemployment — 97 books
first published 1962