Any shitty programming language with no practical purpose. Usually slow and cumbersome, and with a quirks that no other programming language has/should have.
Named after the educational programming language from Holtsoft.
A test devised by Alan M. Turing (1912-1954) in the 1950s intended to determine machine intelligence.
The setup of the test is this:
The interrogator, a human, is in a room separate from the machine being tested and another human. The interrogator questions both the machine and the human via a keyboard, and tries to discern which is the machine and which is human.
A computer that can pass the Turing test (that is, be indistinguishable from the human), is considered to have intelligence.
"I passed the Turing test, which shouldn't be that difficult anymore, because Smarterchild is almost there, and humans are getting dumber by the second..."
A programming language or programmable device that has the computational power equivalent to a Turing Machine.
A programmable device or programming language that is turing-complete can perform any calculation that any other programmable device or programming language is able to.
Nerd1: Leeroy is such a moron.
Nerd2: Yeah, hes not even turing-complete.
Both: Hehehe *snort*
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.