Synecdoche

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The word "synecdoche" itself is a synecdoche—the part (a figure of speech) representing the whole (the literary work). elaborate share

Boo the Pomeranian's real name was Boo. elaborate share

Python (Data Science/ML)

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Scikit-learn, a hugely popular Python library for machine learning, is built on top of NumPy and SciPy, demonstrating the interconnected ecosystem of Python's data science tools. elaborate share

Forth

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Forth's defining characteristic, its stack-based architecture, means that the order of operations is implicitly defined by the order of operands on the stack, rather than explicitly by parentheses or operator precedence rules. elaborate share

Lasso

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Lasso regression, while shrinking coefficients towards zero, can actually *eliminate* features entirely by setting their coefficients to exactly zero, a key difference from Ridge regression. elaborate share

Smalltalk

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Smalltalk was one of the first object-oriented programming languages to support live coding, meaning code changes could be made and seen in effect immediately without restarting the program. elaborate share