ProcessMaster's definitions

Olfactorithmetic

The ability to glance at a document and announce "This number smells wrong". It is not necessarily correlated with the ability to show workings as to why it's wrong. Those who have cultivated olfactorithmetic abilities may need to ask a colleague to calculate, but often the numbers their noses identify turn out to stink."

THE BBC, Mike Moore observes, isn’t universally blessed with the ability to detect numbers that smell wrong, or olfactorithmetic.

by ProcessMaster July 28, 2014

physics porn

Particle physics fantasies based on maths/philosophy with only the most tenuous possible link to reality- multiverses, boltzmann brains and so on

Does any of this bear any relation to reality? Or is Big Physics guilty of some serious sexing-up, drifting away from the realm of hard data and into the softer universe of physics porn?

by ProcessMaster July 24, 2014

Lab Monkey

Low-grade worker in a laboratory. The same kind of idea as CAD monkey, Grease monkey or Lab rat.

That Sanjay got conned into being George's lab monkey.

by ProcessMaster August 14, 2016