Nerd talk

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These are perfectly good words in their native sci/tech/biz context, but risk being pretentious when used utilized in day-to-day conversation Note: Many of these terms are more precise than their common-use matches. That’s okay. The whole point of this list is that increased precision does not compensate for decreased accessibility to a non-technical audience From Statistics From Mathematics From Medicine From Latin From Chemistry From Biology From Physics From Computer Science “Core dump” instead of summary (“Okay, here’s a core dump of everything that happened at the party”) From Electrical Engineering From General STEM From Economics From Project Management From Social Sciences From SciFi ------- Older ones (from the Space Age/Cold War), many of which were misused enough that their meanings have changed in common parlance:

A list of sci/tech/biz words nerds use to signal that they’re smart (AKA the Nerd Urban Dictionary) These are perfectly good words in their native sci/tech/biz context, but risk being pretentious when used utilized in day-to-day conversation Note: Many of these terms are more precise than their common-use matches. That’s okay. The whole point of this list is that increased precision does not compensate for decreased accessibility to a non-technical audience From Statistics "Priors" instead of assumptions; (if you want to get really nerdy, you can say “posteriors” instead of…

Nerd talk

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