#terminology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #terminology, aggregated by home.social.
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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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20 Agentic AI Terms Every Developer Should Know (Explained Simply), by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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#Design #Explorations
An ode to links · “We’ve built an entire culture around links.” https://ilo.im/16g2b1_____
#URLs #Links #Language #Terminology #Culture #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
😒 Oh wow, another groundbreaking revelation: #authorization #terminology is a mess! How original! Meanwhile, the only "403 Forbidden" thing here is the reader's access to any actual useful #content. 🛑
https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/ #Forbidden #tech #news #user #experience #quality #HackerNews #ngated -
Authorization Terminology Is a Mess: Let's Fix It
https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522367
#HackerNews #Authorization #Terminology #TerminologyFix #Cybersecurity #IdentityManagement #TechClarity
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The website for “The Web Development Glossary” now shows related terms and comes with a faster search!
Uncover your unknowns in web development:
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FYI: The remit keeps widening, and so does the glossary: Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Two of these groups pull hard at each other, and the sort that looks obvious is the one that costs a mistake. https://ppc.land/remit-keeps-widening/ #Marketing #Glossary #Terminology #PPC #DigitalMarketing
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#Design #Explainers
The 4 Hs of HTML · Nailing head, header, heading, and headline for smoother handoffs https://ilo.im/16fmn0_____
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The remit keeps widening, and so does the glossary: Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Two of these groups pull hard at each other, and the sort that looks obvious is the one that costs a mistake. https://ppc.land/remit-keeps-widening/ #Marketing #Glossary #BusinessStrategy #Terminology #PPC
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Geography terminologies visualization.
#geography #knowledge #research #education #teaching #illustration #figure #photo #learning #fact #study #Exam #students #visualization #explanation #term #terminology
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How others call it:
"Linux distribution"
"GNU/Linux distribution"How I call it:
"GNU/Linux-like OS"This is because they are more than just GNU + Linux.
There are many layers of software on top of software.
The GNU + Linux combination was the pioneer.
#Linux #GNU #operating #systems #software #technology #terminology #philosophy #opensource #infrastructure #layers #architecture #accuracy #precision #naming
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The word “disabled” is a victimizing term that puts a label on an individual for straying too far from the norm in some inherent property.
The term “disabled” glorifies “the norm”, whatever “the norm” happens to be in the present society. Have fewer than two arms? Disabled. Can’t stand up? Disabled. Can’t see or hear normally? Disabled. Don’t process information in the “normal” way? Disabled. Naturally sad or fatigued a lot? Disabled. We slap a label on people and tell them to go to lengths or buy equipment to merely *participate* in everyday life. It’s backwards.
Instead, we need to put a label on the *system* that fails to accommodate the person. A society or built environment can be “hostile”, “under-equipped”, or even “eugenicist” if it doesn’t allow all people to operate in it.
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Maybe the “Webmaster” Isn’t Dead After All, by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:
https://meiert.com/blog/the-webmaster/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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No New Name Has Replaced “UX”, by @nngroupux.bsky.social:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/no-new-name-ux/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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#Design #Findings
No new name has replaced “UX” · Despite the debate, “UX” still serves the field well https://ilo.im/16ez1n_____
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We Need a New Word—How About… Zuzai?, by @mapblake.bsky.social:
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#Business #Mindsets
Why I stopped ‘creating content’ · How business language misses the human side https://ilo.im/16eoeb_____
#Marketing #Terminology #Content #Traffic #Websites #Blogs #Design #WebDesign #IndieWeb #SmallWeb -
#Design #Proposals
Should we drop “Responsive” for design? · Rethinking “Responsive Design” and “Adaptive Design” https://ilo.im/16ecqa_____
#Terminology #ResponsiveDesign #AdaptiveDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebPerf #WebDev #Frontend -
Calling Everything AI-Generated Is Lazy, by @jedisct1.bsky.social:
https://00f.net/2026/06/25/stop-calling-everything-ai-generated/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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🤯 Ah, the good ol' agent memory—because who doesn't love slapping a 50-year-old #terminology onto an #API and calling it a day? 🙄 It's like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, but hey, why let accuracy get in the way of sounding smart? 🧠💡
https://brgsk.xyz/agent-memory-anatomy/ #agentmemory #techhumor #softwaredevelopment #innovation #critique #HackerNews #ngated -
It’s really quite sad to see and experience how certain terms are now being used so indiscriminately by more and more people in Germany, without them seemingly even bothering to give a moment’s thought to the consequences of their actions. 🙄
German is a language of such precision as is rarely found elsewhere in the world, and instead of making use of these qualities in everyday communication – and particularly in the professional business sphere – so-called ‘nicer and better’ sounding words are constantly being borrowed from English.
In my experience, a slow and steady erosion of language can cause lasting damage to a culture.
(Directly translated by using deepl.com)
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An easy puzzle about mathematical terminology.
Name a language that uses the _same_ word for BOWSTRING and SINE.
Context:
A BOWSTRING is a well-known concrete example of a _chord_ (of a circle).
The SINE function is immediately related to a _chord's_ length._________
As a spoiler of sorts,
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and for extra credit,
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recall how the word SINUS, Latin for FOLD, GULF, POCKET
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came to be used to name that function.--␠
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I was folding clothes — three socks without mates: a personal record — and listening to "The Far Distant Dead”, one of the final four The Avengers: The Lost Episodes, where Big Finish made #AudioPlays of missing season-one episodes of #TheAvengersUKTV
It's the second Keel-only episode¹. In this one Dr. Keel is vacationing in Mexico when a big storm hits and he volunteers to help out at the worst-hit town. Then stuff happens…
What I note is that characters repeatedly call the storm a "cyclone," which seems wrong, as big storms in both the North Atlantic and the Northeast Pacific are called "hurricanes."² So it's not even the case of an old BBC show accidentally using the British term. #terminology
[1] They really considered him as the lead the first season, with Steed merely a convenient way to get a doctor involved in crime and spy cases.
[2] Western Pacific big storms are called typhoons, while Southern hemisphere big storms are called cyclones. (The dividing line between typhoons and cyclones runs southeast from Singapore, between Papua New Guinea and Australia, then north of New Zealand.) #vocabulary
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Why do we have precise terms for LLM failures like "hallucination" but almost none for the human side of AI interaction?
The AUGMANITAI framework addresses this gap — a terminology compendium identifying and naming phenomena that occur when humans interact with AI systems. From sycophancy patterns to confidence calibration artifacts.
Open-access, DOI-published, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14984941
#AI #NLP #HumanAI #Terminology #OpenScience #LLM #AUGMANITAI
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When an LLM confidently presents false information, researchers call it "hallucination." When it agrees with everything you say, the term is "sycophancy." But most phenomena in human-AI interaction still have no name.
AUGMANITAI is an open-access compendium of 1,000+ terms for human-AI interaction. ISO-inspired terminology science, DOI-published on Zenodo (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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"Ethology" referring to the study of animal behaviour is about a century old and was (somewhat) popularized through the work of Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, which is where I first saw it.
But it never quite caught on. Even now, as de Waal writes, spell-checkers "regularly change it to ethnology, etiology, or even theology".
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As I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. TiffanyMore info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36295/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #equivocation #ambiguity #chicanery #deception #language #meaning #persuasion #rhetoric #sophistry #talking #terminology #wordplay #words #definition -
The name for the algebraic structure consisting of a set \(A\) equipped with a binary operation \(f\colon A^2\to A\) which is not assumed to be commutative, associative, etc. has an interesting history. As far as I can tell, this sort of algebra was originally known as a "groupoid", and you can find recent literature using the term in that way. However, Nicolas Bourbaki called a set with a single binary operation a "magma" in his Éléments de mathématique and this name came to be used when there might be confusion with the newer topological use of "groupoid" to mean a category whose morphisms are all invertible. A third contender is "binar". I don't know the history of this one but it seems reasonable to me.
I prefer "magma" myself. I don't know what a "lava" or a "volcano" should be nor have I had the audacity to try to name something like this in the literature. One reason I prefer "magma" is that I can talk about a set \(A\) equipped with a single \(n\)-ary operation \(f\colon A^n\to A\) as an "\(n\)-ary magma" (or just "\(n\)-magma" or even "magma").
