cinf's definitions

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

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

bodge

A bodge is a fast and convenient, often temporary, solution. Bodges often require modification before working under a slightly different set of conditions. A good bodge improves quality of life and stays within the safety limits its creator is comfortable with, who possesses a conscious risk model and is prepared to respond to and accept backfire.

noun: bodge, bodges (plural)
adjective: bodged, bodge-like
verb: bodge, bodging, bodges, bodged
adverb: bodgedly

They bodged a chair from the stump.

While not in any normal dictionary, the word 'bodgedly' is something I've used; it itself was a logical bodge, and I'm sure I'm not the first to do so.

I love bodging with AutoHotkey too, but be careful that doesn't execute on a different window.

I couldn't get the blinds to stay down in the party bus, so I tied them to my chair. I'm a bodge master.

I don't dare look at the CSS; bodge on, my friend.

by cinf May 29, 2023

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

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

Fob

Fresh Off the Boat
An islander who is unfamiliar with the culture of the mainland they just set foot on and of the world in general.
This is an outdated perception as most islanders have a modern lifestyle. It could still be true for some nations, however.

1.
Civilized person: "Why do you call her a fob? New Zealand is like the rest of the world."
Fob: "Hey, do you guys have any tomato sauce? I don't like eating plain fries."
Civilized person: "Oh, you're right. Psht, what a fob."
*Civilized person bites off fry dipped in mayonnaise*

2.
Not a fob: "Woh, New York! Do you meet Iron Man?"
Civilized person: "Definitely not a fob."
*Not a fob bites off sea turtle's head.*

by cinf November 18, 2021