cinf's definitions

Shrugocracy

An ignorant government
OR
Indifference in bureaucracy

"Dataphobia chills them to the bone, I suspect because they hope to undermine not only some truths but all truth. David Roberts at Vox has written about what he calls an epistemic crisis in America, the idea that certain rulers and rich people hope to take away the basic idea of knowledge. If nobody can know anything, why bother to try to regulate anything? It’s government-by-ignorance—a shrugocracy."
(Wired, mass-shootings-climate-discrimination-why-governments-fear-of-data-threatens-us-all)

by cinf April 20, 2018

Being flip

Flip as an adjective
Shortened form of flippant, meaning joking or overly casual

"The reality is, I'm an idiot. Like ... and I'm not being flip about it. Like, I don't understand very complicated things." - Simon Sinek

by cinf April 7, 2021

R

An old programming language built for data science. A glorified, extremely useful calculator, that starts counting at 1 instead of 0.

I only switch from R to Python to do deep learning. --And to improve the performance of certain large scale processes ...Sigh, I really need to learn Julia.

by cinf May 6, 2020

player sexual

When an NPC is sexually attracted to the player character regardless of the PC's identity.

Wait, you can also hook up with Jess when you play as a girl?
Yeah, she's player sexual; all the characters you can have a relationship with in this game are.

Some gamers dislike player sexual characters because it makes them less interesting, but others welcome it because it offers more freedom.

by cinf June 28, 2022

dick move

"Magnus withdrawing from the Sinquefield Cup is the definition of a dick move", says Ben Finegold during a casual stream.
Context:
Magnus Carlsen is the best chess player in the world. After losing a match against a significantly lesser player, Hans Niemann, Magnus withdrew from the tournament. Middle school drama ensued as people began to speculate that Magnus was implicitly calling Hans a cheater.

It's a dick move to withdraw from the cup like that; it's basically unheard of since Bobby Fischer.

by cinf September 9, 2022

data scientist

Something like a business analyst who writes code, a hacker with social skills, or a software engineer that knows math.
Also just someone management has decided is a "data scientist".

Even though I am a data scientist, I don't think it's specific enough to describe what I do.

by cinf May 6, 2020

feature engineering

Deriving new variables from data for the purpose of analysis.

Why is this six gigs? The data set I gave you was only one gig.

Feature engineering, --sometimes I'm like my own neural network.

by cinf May 6, 2020