Singleton — A design pattern that guarantees the creation of only one instance of a class and provides a global access point to it from anywhere in the program.
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Panegyric — A laudatory speech or literary work praising someone or something.
19.01.2026 14:00
Emergence — In systems theory, the presence of properties in a system that are not inherent in its individual components.
12.01.2026 10:28
Proctoring — A technology for monitoring remote exams and tests.
13.01.2026 11:00
Implication — A logical operation that combines two statements into one, equivalent to the form “if ..., then ...” (A ⇒ B), which is true in every case except when a true premise (A) leads to a false conclusion (B).
29.12.2025 22:40
Vigilantes — Vigilantes are individuals or groups whose aim is to pursue people accused of real or imagined wrongdoing and not given what they consider deserved punishment, outside legal procedures.
12.12.2025 07:15
Epistemic Uncertainty — A type of uncertainty that arises from a lack of knowledge or information about an object, process, or system.
11.12.2025 07:15
Isomorphism — A relation between mathematical objects that expresses the commonality of their structure; it is used in different branches of mathematics and is defined in each of them depending on the structural properties of the objects being studied.
10.12.2025 18:33
Acrostic — A poetic form in which the initial letters of lines (more rarely the middle or final letters) spell out a word, name, phrase, or even the alphabet, creating a hidden message or dedication, such as the addressee’s name or the theme of the poem, known since antiquity.
26.11.2025 10:35
Apophenia — An experience consisting in the ability to perceive structure or connections in random or meaningless data.
17.11.2025 14:20
Generalization — The generalization of concepts is a logical operation by which, as a result of excluding a specific feature, another concept is obtained that has a broader scope but less specific content; it is a form of transforming knowledge through a mental transition from the particular to the general within a certain model of the world, usually corresponding to a higher level of abstraction.
12.11.2025 09:54
Copyleft License — A license that allows original works to be used in creating derivative works without obtaining permission from the copyright holder.
12.11.2025 09:49
Tivoization — The practice of creating hardware-software systems in which the software is distributed under a copyleft license.
09.10.2025 14:58
Humoral — A process in which the nervous system and the endocrine system jointly regulate the body’s functions.
09.10.2025 14:58
Bifurcation — Any qualitative restructuring or metamorphosis of various objects when the parameters on which they depend change.
03.10.2025 23:47
Reduction — The decrease, simplification, or reduction of something to a simpler form.
03.10.2025 23:46
Sporadic — Irregular, random, occurring occasionally or from time to time.
28.09.2025 23:35
Palimpsest — A manuscript on parchment or another material in which a new text has been written over erased or washed-off writing.
26.09.2025 11:37
Simulacrum — A key term in postmodern philosophy meaning an image or copy of something that does not actually exist.
26.09.2025 11:30
Syncretism — The combination of several meanings or components of meaning within a single form.
23.09.2025 07:01
Robustness — A property of a statistical method characterizing the independence of research results from the influence of various outliers; resistance to noise.
16.09.2025 07:01
Orchestration — Automation of application deployment and management.
15.09.2025 07:01
Virtualization — The creation of a virtual version of hardware or resources.
09.09.2025 07:01
Transaction — A set of database operations performed as a single unit.
08.09.2025 07:01
Denormalization — Adding redundant data to a database in order to speed up queries.
06.09.2025 07:01
Replication — Creating copies of data on multiple servers.
05.09.2025 07:01
Sharding — Splitting a database into independent parts for scaling.
04.09.2025 07:01
Extrapolation — Forecasting values beyond the known data.
Palindromy — The symmetrical arrangement of elements in both directions.
Publications and Events
19.05.2026 09:39
Limitrophe — a border state or territory formed on the periphery of a larger empire or power....
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Musical Closing Mechanisms — This week’s idea came to me quite a while ago, but since I was on vacation last week and no new ideas came to mind, I’m pulling this one out of the drawer: a musical gate arm....