edward: concepts

2,557 concepts

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battlefield drones — 45 books
first published 2010 added 5 Nov 2023
paperclip maximiser — 34 books
first published 2010 added 12 Dec 2022
thought experiment to illustrate existential risk posed by artificial intelligence
Boston Dynamics — 41 books
first published 2010 added 12 Feb 2022
engineering and robotics design company
collaborative economy — 26 books
first published 31 Dec 2009
nowcasting — 10 books
first published 9 Dec 2009 added 27 Aug 2023
Dunning–Kruger effect — 22 books
first published 1 Dec 2009 added 27 May 2022
cognitive bias in which incompetent people tend to assess themselves as skilled
Infrastructure as a Service — 31 books
first published 1 Dec 2009
cloud computing service model
platform as a service — 42 books
first published 19 Nov 2009
category of cloud computing services
Wunderkammern — 5 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
collection of notable objects
Air France Flight 447 — 20 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
2009 Air France flight crash into Atlantic Ocean, no survivors
Bernard Ziegler — 2 books
first published 10 Nov 2009 added 14 Feb 2017
a French aerospace engineer known for his work on Airbus aircraft
Silicon Wadi — 6 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 29 Dec 2023
area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in Israel
unit 8200 — 22 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 8 Aug 2023
Israeli Intelligence Corps SIGINT unit
deep-ocean exploration — 5 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 23 Nov 2023
tactical urbanism — 14 books
first published 30 Oct 2009 added 8 Nov 2023
Low-cost, temporary improvement to a city
Ben Bernanke: helicopter money — 27 books
first published 29 Oct 2009
a term referring to an unconventional monetary policy tool involving the distribution of new money to the public
Level 39 — 3 books
first published 27 Oct 2009 added 27 Oct 2023
Level 39 of the Backrooms
Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh — 3 books
first published 19 Oct 2009 added 26 Feb 2017
Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths — 1 books
first published 19 Oct 2009 added 26 Feb 2017
Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid — 52 books
first published 15 Oct 2009
global rebalancing — 7 books
first published 12 Oct 2009
the adjustment of economic, political, or social systems on a global scale, often aimed at reducing disparities between countries or regions.
David Strachan — 8 books
first published 30 Sep 2009 added 1 Mar 2017
Cambridge Five — 17 books
first published 21 Sep 2009 added 7 Oct 2023
former ring of spies in the United Kingdom
HESCO bastion — 3 books
first published 31 Aug 2009
gabion primarily used for flood control and military fortifications
summit fever — 4 books
first published 25 Aug 2009 added 8 Jun 2022
2022 film directed by Julian Gilbey
image classification — 34 books
first published 25 Aug 2009 added 19 Nov 2023
set of methods to group images
Chris Wanstrath — 9 books
first published 17 Aug 2009 added 21 Feb 2017
co-founder of GitHub, a web-based hosting service for version control
citation needed — 15 books
first published 1 Aug 2009
a tag commonly used to indicate that a statement needs an additional reference or source for verification
Jono Bacon — 4 books
first published 1 Aug 2009
British writer and software engineer
DevOps — 68 books
first published 1 Aug 2009 added 15 Oct 2020
fear index — 22 books
first published 27 Jul 2009 added 27 Mar 2022
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Bullingdon Club — 23 books
first published 22 Jul 2009 added 17 Oct 2022
exclusive society at Oxford University infamous for bad behavior
coastline paradox / Richardson effect — 7 books
first published 21 Jul 2009 added 14 Nov 2020
Cal Newport — 29 books
first published 12 Jul 2009
American computer scientist, academic lecturer and writer
Martin Parr — 7 books
first published 8 Jul 2009 added 31 Oct 2021
a British documentary photographer known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at various aspects of modern life
security theater — 34 books
first published 7 Jul 2009
measures intended to provide a feeling of security while doing little or nothing to achieve it
loadsamoney — 14 books
first published 2 Jul 2009 added 12 Feb 2017
single by Harry Enfield
content moderation — 85 books
first published 1 Jul 2009 added 19 Dec 2023
amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 2009
Bram Moolenaar — 7 books
first published 29 Jun 2009 added 16 Feb 2017
Dutch programmer
Evgeny Morozov — 106 books
first published 24 Jun 2009 added 4 Jun 2023
financial exclusion — 18 books
first published 14 Jun 2009 added 29 Mar 2017
fallacies of distributed computing — 6 books
first published 29 May 2009 added 2 Oct 2022
false assumptions programmers make who are new to distributed computing
openstreetmap — 43 books
first published 29 May 2009
online collaborative project creating a world geographic database
The Myth of the Rational Market — 36 books
first published 29 May 2009 added 9 Feb 2017
Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits — 59 books
first published 29 May 2009 added 15 Oct 2020
Nikolai Kondratiev — 12 books
first published 29 May 2009
a Russian economist best known for proposing the theory of Kondratiev waves, long economic cycles lasting around 40 to 60 years.
bolt-on acquisition — 11 books
first published 18 May 2009 added 28 Oct 2023
a type of acquisition in which the acquired company is integrated into an existing division of the acquiring company
eternal september — 12 books
first published 15 May 2009 added 18 Nov 2021
break the buck — 39 books
first published 11 May 2009 added 11 Feb 2017
Blythe Masters — 20 books
first published 11 May 2009 added 26 Feb 2018
a British former banker and entrepreneur, known for her work on credit derivatives at J.P. Morgan
sentiment analysis — 76 books
first published 30 Apr 2009
use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials
drone strike — 143 books
first published 12 Apr 2009 added 26 Feb 2017
Gary Gerstle — 25 books
first published 17 Mar 2009 added 25 Jun 2024
American historian
Hans Rosling — 53 books
first published 15 Mar 2009
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker
microbiome — 116 books
first published 15 Mar 2009 added 28 Jan 2017
biome of microbes
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA — 18 books
first published 15 Mar 2009 added 11 Feb 2017
academic conference held in 1975
Steve Bannon — 143 books
first published 15 Feb 2009 added 21 Oct 2020
American media executive & political strategist (born 1953)
Dunbar number — 23 books
first published 15 Feb 2009 added 2 Jul 2022
access to a mobile phone — 19 books
first published 15 Feb 2009
availability and use of mobile phone technology
WikiLeaks — 352 books
first published 15 Feb 2009 added 15 Oct 2020
James Webb Space Telescope — 35 books
first published 3 Feb 2009 added 17 Jul 2022
NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope launched in 2021
Ian Bogost — 41 books
first published 9 Jan 2009 added 1 Aug 2021
American philosopher, video game designer
squeezed middle — 33 books
first published 9 Jan 2009 added 14 Apr 2024
inflight wifi — 12 books
first published 2 Jan 2009
starchitect — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 27 Apr 2018
portmanteau used to describe a famous architect
Captain Sullenberger Hudson — 28 books
first published 2 Jan 2009
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) — 39 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 22 Aug 2023
Marchetti’s constant — 5 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 10 Aug 2017
US Airways Flight 1549 — 33 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 12 Feb 2017
2009 aircraft accident in New York, USA
Jevons paradox — 37 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 11 Jan 2022
Economical paradox
Kiva Systems — 35 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 12 Feb 2022
company that manufactures mobile robotic fulfillment systems
Eyjafjallajökull — 32 books
first published 2 Jan 2009 added 20 Feb 2022
ice cap in Iceland covering the caldera of a volcano
social discount rate — 7 books
first published 2009 added 2 Nov 2021
rate used for discounting future benefits or costs to society
Andy Rubin — 35 books
first published 2009 added 5 Jun 2022
doom loop — 37 books
first published 2009 added 28 Feb 2024
Susan Wojcicki — 40 books
first published 2009 added 4 Jan 2023
Ex CEO of YouTube
moveable type in China — 9 books
first published 2009
bonus culture — 45 books
first published 2009
a corporate culture in which bonuses are expected, possibly to the detriment of basic salary or long-term stability
Ben Horowitz — 47 books
first published 2009 added 9 Mar 2018
an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Rochdale Principles — 4 books
first published 2009 added 30 Aug 2023
organizing guidelines for a co-op
Sheryl Sandberg — 177 books
first published 2009 added 26 Oct 2021
American technology executive, activist, and authors
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — 16 books
first published 2009 added 8 Jul 2021
the effectiveness of a metric for assessing performance is undermined when it is used as a goal to be achieved
23andMe — 95 books
first published 2009
biotechnology company
Anne Wojcicki — 24 books
first published 2009
American biotech analyst, biologist, businesswoman, and co-founder of 23andMe
smart cities — 158 books
first published 30 Dec 2008
Academic journal published by MDPI
SPARQL — 11 books
first published 30 Dec 2008
RDF query language
Ted Nordhaus — 24 books
first published 27 Dec 2008 added 24 Oct 2022
American environmentalist
Michael Shellenberger — 28 books
first published 27 Dec 2008 added 24 Oct 2022
American writer and environmental policy advocate
insecure affluence — 3 books
first published 27 Dec 2008 added 24 Oct 2022
tech baron — 11 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 26 Oct 2021
Rod Stewart played at Stephen Schwarzman birthday party — 10 books
first published 17 Dec 2008
tech billionaire — 98 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 27 Oct 2021
Silicon Valley billionaire — 54 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 26 Oct 2021
algorithmic management — 37 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 19 Mar 2022
the delegation of managerial functions to algorithmic and automated systems
algorithmic feed — 13 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 29 Jan 2024
Quicken Loans — 19 books
first published 17 Dec 2008 added 9 Aug 2023
American mortgage lending company
Rupert Read — 7 books
first published 16 Dec 2008 added 5 Aug 2023
British philosopher (born 1966)
Food sovereignty — 31 books
first published 16 Dec 2008
right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems
Multi Fibre Arrangement — 5 books
first published 16 Dec 2008 added 11 Aug 2023
an international trade agreement on textiles and clothing that was in effect from 1974 to 2004