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.
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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
(all rather different from bowstrings),
came to be used to name that function.
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My other bowstring is a quiver.
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
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
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).
With increasing focus on open research, the Concordat of Open Research Data was created in 2016, laying out 10 principles for embedding open data practices in United Kingdom (UK) academic research. The Concordat’s principles relate to ethical, legal and professional obligations, addressing areas such as practicality, affordability, transparency, robustness and fairness, mechanisms and infrastructure, data integrity, citation and attribution, aiming for all research data to be ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. The STAR (Sustainable & TrAnsparent Research data) project, is led by the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), and supported by several UK research institutions, with contributions from the Data Curation Centre and other sector experts. The project employs qualitative methods to evaluate the implementation of the Concordat’s principles in UK research institutions since inception. This was done through interviews, focus groups, and workshops we held with 43 research support staff across 20 UK universities. In this paper, we report on key learnings from the STAR project, including progress and barriers to open data; and ways in which institutions are and could better be supported in the curation, publication, and reuse of open data.
The Web Development Glossary 4K, by @j9t (@frontenddogma):
https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2026/the-web-development-glossary-4k/
#books #frontenddogma #learning #training #concepts #terminology
"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".
Today, our colleage @epoz is attending the 2nd TS4NFDI Community Hands-on workshop at the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) in Leipzig and will discuss:
- Terminology curation workflows
- Mapping (service) requirements
- Collections and entity sets for terminologies
https://nfdi4chem.de/de/veranstaltung/ts4nfdi-community-hands-on-workshop-2/
#nfdi @NFDI @nfdi4culture @NFDI4DS @NFDI4Memory #terminology #rdf @fiz_karlsruhe @NFDI4Chem
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