Random Flashcards
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Versimilitude
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The appearance of truth
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Baker’s Dozen Concept
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The key to good hospitality is to delight your guests with an unexpected gift. If you run a hotel, leave a chocolate on the bed. If you run a bakery, give your customers one extra bagel.
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Aegrescit medendo.
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Cure is worse than the disease in Latin
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Hopf Fibration
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Fiber bundle that is the medium of all waves and particles
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Saguaros
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Cactus in the US
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Simpler explanations with the least assumptions are the most accurate
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Occam’s Razor
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When the top and bottom because of their positions continue in their directions. “The rich get richer”
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Matthew Paradox
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Not everything is measurable. So people base assumptions on what can be measured with is a mistake
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Legibility
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AKA Rosenthal effect. Expectations affect the target performance
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Pygmalion Effect
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Preference Falsification
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People lie about actual opinions to conform with socially acceptable preferences
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Straussian
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write esoterically, that is, with multiple or layered meanings, often disguised within irony or paradox, obscure references, even deliberate self-contradiction
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Acts 9:1 Saul persecuted Christians. Christ visited him ‘blinded by the light’ and restored and became Paul.
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Road to Damascus Moment
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Sui generis
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Unique, outside of categories
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Inter Alia
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Among others
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3 Parts of axis
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Pitch, yaw, roll
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Negative behavior drives out good behavior in an unregulated environment (think bad drivers)
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Gresham’s Law
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Theory of Constraints
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It’s the bottleneck that is the issue. Fix the bottleneck to optimize the system.
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Thinking about the problem upside down or start at the end
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Inversion Thinking
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Work expands to fill the time available
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Parkinson’s Law
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Overton Window
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The boundaries that are acceptable for discussion.
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Gresham’s Law
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Negative behavior drives out good behavior in an unregulated environment (think bad drivers)
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System that can heisenbergianly change based on social or forecast effects
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Complex Adaptive Systems
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Someone is more likeable when they make a mistake like spilling
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Pratfall Effect
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When a measurement becomes a target. Vanity Metrics.
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Goodhart’s Law
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Pareto Efficient
Ideal economic state where benefits made may not be so to others.
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Weak and feeble person
Milquetoast
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Complex Adaptive Systems
System that can heisenbergianly change based on social or forecast effects
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It's the bottleneck that is the issue. Fix the bottleneck to optimize the system.
Theory of Constraints
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The boundaries that are acceptable for discussion.
Overton Window
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Anthropological story that illustrates a moral lesson
Fable
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Thinking in the ripples of further effects of everything
Second order thinking
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Pratfall Effect
Someone is more likeable when they make a mistake like spilling
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Mimetic Theory of Conflict
People who are more similar are more likely to fight than people who are different. Civil Wars.
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La Llorona
Mexican folklore about a ghost woman who drowned her children and mourns their deaths for eternity
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Madagascar interesting history
Colonized 800s 20% by SE Asians
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de jure
True as a result of authority
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Caveat emptor
Buyer beware
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Hormesis
A low dose of something can have the opposite effect of a high dose. Lifting weights 30 mins vs 6 hours.
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Irreducibility
Cannot make better with more resources. 5 women don't make children 5 times faster.
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Duende
Hispanic folklore of the goblins that live in the walls or forests and used to scare children into good behavior.
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Logic is the key to scientific truths, but paradoxes are key to psychological ones. When you find two opposites that are both true, start exploring.
Wisdom of the paradox
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Belief Perseverance
Maintaining a belief despite new information that clearly contradicts it.
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Harberger Triangle
AKA Deadweight Loss
Point at which tax no long makes something worth doing and then there is therefore no more revenue
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Circle of competence
Assessment of strengths and weaknesses
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Pareto Efficiency
Theoretical economic state where no interference is required
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Fragility
Responsiveness of a system to negative variability.
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Bayesian Updating
Prior effect affect future odds
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You don't need to get good at doing difficult things if you get good at avoiding difficult things.
Table Selection
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Fiat
Statement from authority
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Borjas Rectangle Theory
Theory by Weinstein that employers compaining about labor shortages are actually concerned about the price per capita of labor.
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Story that teaches a moral/religious lesson
Parable
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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.
Hock Principle
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Nota Bene
Worth Noting
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Fiber bundle that is the medium of all waves and particles
Hopf Fibration
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Maintaining a belief despite new information that clearly contradicts it.
Belief Perseverance
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Folklore
A story believed by a specific group of people
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Point at which adding more will begin to bring less values
Diminishing Returns
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Why you did it vs why you tell yourself why you did it.
Difference between motive and reason
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Empire that took over after the Macedonians
Seleucids
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The key to good hospitality is to delight your guests with an unexpected gift. If you run a hotel, leave a chocolate on the bed. If you run a bakery, give your customers one extra bagel.
Baker's Dozen
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Robustness Principle
Concept in coding that be liberal in what you accept but tight on what you offer. Like google maps search.
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Thinking you knew all along
Hindsight bias
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Associative Machine Fallacy
One thing simply reminds us of another and clouds judgement
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Relativity in a system
An observer cannot understand a system that he is part of
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Cure is worse than the disease in Latin
Aegrescit medendo.
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Butterfly effect. Small perturbations in initial conditions have massive downstream effects making them unpredictable.
Chaos dynamics
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A story believed by a specific group of people
Folklore
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Motte and Bailey
Moving the argument to another part which is easier to defend
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Legibility
Not everything is measurable. So people base assumptions on what can be measured with is a mistake
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Faustian Bargain
A deal with the devil
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andreia
Ancient greek for Manliness. Achilles and Hector
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Via Negativa
When it's better to take things away than to add things. Like it can be better to avoid certain foods than add them.
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One thing simply reminds us of another and clouds judgement
Associative Machine Fallacy
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A deal with the devil
Faustian Bargain
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Tribe etymology
Greco roman denoting a voting unit and eventually just a small group of people
Then in euro points it was used as a derogatory term for non-civilized african
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Gall's Law
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system
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Road to Damascus Moment
Acts 9:1 Saul persecuted Christians. Christ visited him 'blinded by the light' and restored and became Paul.
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Playing by different rules
Asymmetric Warfare
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Assessment of strengths and weaknesses
Circle of competence
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A low dose of something can have the opposite effect of a high dose. Lifting weights 30 mins vs 6 hours.
Hormesis
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Occam's Razor
Simpler explanations with the least assumptions are the most accurate
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Pygmalion Effect
AKA Rosenthal effect. Expectations affect the target performance
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Hyperbolic Discounting
Tendency that the more gratification is delayed the more one chooses the smaller-sooner reward (bad habit)
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Cactus in the US
Saguaros
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Changing the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax — even though they are the same thing.
Russell Conjugation
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Newton's 3rd law as applied in social dynamics
Reciprocity in Law
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Red Queen Effect
When one species evolves an advantage while another responds in its own kind. An arms race of development.
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Tridium
religious observance lasting three day
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Bike Shed Effect
Arguing over trivial ideas when there are more important ones. Like NASA arguing about uniform colors.
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Multiplying by Zero
A failure in one area destroys all other areas. Fix the bottlenecks
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The two branches of game theory
Normative: outcomes focused Descriptive Decision Theory: how agents actually make decision
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Arguing over trivial ideas when there are more important ones. Like NASA arguing about uniform colors.
Bike Shed Effect
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Matthew Paradox
When the top and bottom because of their positions continue in their directions. "The rich get richer"
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A biological trait developer for one purpose that is used for another.
Exaptation
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When one species evolves an advantage while another responds in its own kind. An arms race of development.
Red Queen Effect
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First Conclusion Bias
Tendency to settle on first conclusions
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Ante bellum
Before the war
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Prima Facie
Accepted as true until proven false
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Parable
Story that teaches a moral/religious lesson
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Break everything into the basics and go from there. In football this is the rules and what you can do with them
First Principles Thinking
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GEO satelites are travelling how fast?
7000 miles per hour
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People lie about actual opinions to conform with socially acceptable preferences
Preference Falsification
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George Borjas
Economist who believe that increasing immigration actually negatively affects the lower end options of the people below
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Status Quo
Existing state of affairs. It is what it is.
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An observer cannot understand a system that he is part of
Relativity in a system
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Hellenistic Period
Period between the death of Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire
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The two types of engines
Spark: Gasoline
Compression: Diesel
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system
Gall's Law
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homophrosyne
Ancient greek term to describe two people feeling or thinking alike. Odysseus and Penelope
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Wolf's and Davis's Law
Bone and muscle will grow or weaken based on how it is used.
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Cannot make better with more resources. 5 women don't make children 5 times faster.
Irreducibility
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Goodhart's Law
When a measurement becomes a target. Vanity Metrics.
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Gruen Transfer
Creating a mazelike shopping experience to force people to wander and buy more
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Hindsight bias
Thinking you knew all along
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Hickam's Dictum
In a complex system, problems usually have more than one cause. For example, in medicine, people can have many diseases at the same time.
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Second order thinking
Thinking in the ripples of further effects of everything
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When it's better to take things away than to add things. Like it can be better to avoid certain foods than add them.
Via Negativa
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Ofrendas
Mexican day of the dead ritual display
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In a complex system, problems usually have more than one cause. For example, in medicine, people can have many diseases at the same time.
Hickam's Dictum
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Cassus Belli
An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
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Tendency that the more gratification is delayed the more one chooses the smaller-sooner reward (bad habit)
Hyperbolic Discounting
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id est
i.e. in other words
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Red Queen Effect
A biological trait developer for one purpose that is used for another.
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The 3 Types of Economic Efficiency
Consumption (Decent path from supplier to consumer)
Production
Product Mix Efficiency (Supply matches desires of consumers)
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Fallacy that no risk can be incurred because the original investment is secured.
Playing with the house's money
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A failure in one area destroys all other areas. Fix the bottlenecks
Multiplying by Zero
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Percent etymology
Part of 100
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Milquetoast
Weak and feeble person
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Russell Conjugation
Changing the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax — even though they are the same thing.
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Responsiveness of a system to negative variability.
Fragility
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Mechanical leverage of a hammer is around
6:1xx
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Stochastic Processes
Volatile systems can be predicted more over time like the stockmarket
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A priori
A belief based on assumption instead of experience or evidence
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Tendency to settle on first conclusions
First Conclusion Bias
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Per se
By itself, specifically
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Mea Culpa
Admit or accept fault
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We should not attribute to malice what is more attributed to stupidity
Hanlon's Razor
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Volatile systems can be predicted more over time like the stockmarket
Stochastic Processes
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Planck Principle
Science doesn’t progress because people change their views. Rather, each new generation of scientists has different views. As old generations pass away, new ideas are accepted and the scientific consensus changes.
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Cogito Ergo Sum
I think therefore I am
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Hanlon's Razor
We should not attribute to malice what is more attributed to stupidity
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Table Selection
You don't need to get good at doing difficult things if you get good at avoiding difficult things.
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in camera
In chambers, in private
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Parts of a rail track
Head
Base
Web
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Fable
Anthropological story that illustrates a moral lesson
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An act or event that provokes or is used to justify war
Cassus Belli
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the desire to be well thought of by others
Approbativeness
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Diadochi
Generals of Alexander the Great
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The appearance of truth
Versimilitude
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Wisdom of the paradox
Logic is the key to scientific truths, but paradoxes are key to psychological ones. When you find two opposites that are both true, start exploring.
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Semper Fi
Short for semper fidalis, always faithful, motto of the marines
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Approbativeness
the desire to be well thought of by others
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Horseshoe theory
People far apart are more the same than someone in the middle.
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Chaos dynamics
Butterfly effect. Small perturbations in initial conditions have massive downstream effects making them unpredictable.
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Kaldor Hicks Objective
A change made to an enomic system that can only have positive outcomes
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Normative: outcomes focused Descriptive Decision Theory: how agents actually make decision
The two branches of game theory
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Moving the argument to another part which is easier to defend
Motte and Bailey
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Diminishing Returns
Point at which adding more will begin to bring less values
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First Principles Thinking
Break everything into the basics and go from there. In football this is the rules and what you can do with them
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Prior effect affect future odds
Bayesian Updating
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Difference between motive and reason
Why you did it vs why you tell yourself why you did it.
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Hock Principle
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.
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Affordances
Subtle signs such as constraints or directions in objects that give a user an impression on how to use it
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Be liberal in what you accept but tight on what you offer. Like google maps search.
Robustness Principle
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Playing with the house's money
Fallacy that no risk can be incurred because the original investment is secured.
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People who are more similar are more likely to fight than people who are different. Civil Wars.
Mimetic Theory of Conflict
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Science doesn’t progress because people change their views. Rather, each new generation of scientists has different views. As old generations pass away, new ideas are accepted and the scientific consensus changes.
Planck Principle
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Inversion Thinking
Thinking about the problem upside down or start at the end
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Xenia
Ancient greek word to describe the relationship of a host and a guest
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Parkinson's Law
Work expands to fill the time available
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Sidereal rotation
1 roation of the earth taking account the one degree difference in sun's location
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Asymmetric Warfare
Playing by different rules
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Reciprocity in Law
Newton's 3rd law as applied in social dynamics
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People far apart are more the same than someone in the middle.
Horseshoe theory
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Standard length of rail segments
39 feet because railcars are 40 feet
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What is used to hold two railroad tracks together?
Bolted Fishplate Splice
It's the sound of the rail
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Distance between two train rails
The Gauge
1435 mm
Comes all the way back from Roman Chariot days
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Thing connecting two trains together
Janney coupler
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# Reversed
write esoterically, that is, with multiple or layered meanings, often disguised within irony or paradox, obscure references, even deliberate self-contradiction
Straussian
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# Reversed
Unique, outside of categories
Sui generis
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# Reversed
Among others
Inter Alia
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War etymology
Not from latin
Old High German werra, 'quarrel'.
