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"A system is Turing-complete if it has the power to solve any programmable computation or execute any definable algorithm, provided it has enough time and memory. Named after mathematician Alan Turing, this property requires a system to manipulate data, handle memory, and perform loops and conditional branching (like "if-then" statements)." - Turing-complete - Systems development

Term: Turing-complete – Systems development

"We are absolutely a more profitable (and better) business because we have a mission beyond the sole pursuit of profits." - Dan Gilbert - Founder Quicken Loans

Quote: Dan Gilbert – Founder Quicken Loans

"Linting is the automated process of analysing source code without executing it (static analysis) to detect programmatic errors, syntax issues, security vulnerabilities, and stylistic inconsistencies. A software program designed to perform this task is called a linter." - Linting - Software development

Term: Linting – Software development

"Always constrain your risk. Do small experiments and grow them." - Matt Calkins - CEO of Appian

Quote: Matt Calkins – CEO of Appian

"A stalking horse proposal is a binding, initial offer on a bankrupt company’s assets that establishes a guaranteed baseline price before a public auction. This strategic bid prevents lowball offers and encourages competitive bidding, as subsequent buyers must exceed this floor to win the assets." - Stalking horse proposal - Mergers & acquisitions

Term: Stalking horse proposal – Mergers & acquisitions

"An Edgeworth Box is a two-dimensional economic diagram that illustrates how a fixed total supply of two goods can be allocated between two consumers to analyse exchange and efficiency. The box's width and height correspond to the total quantities of the goods, with one consumer's origin at the bottom-left corner and the other's flipped at the top-right corner, ensuring every point inside represents a complete allocation." - Edgeworth Box - Microeconomics

Term: Edgeworth Box – Microeconomics

"How you do anything is how you do everything." - Tom Waits - Musician

Quote: Tom Waits – Musician

"A supply shock is an unexpected, sudden event that dramatically alters the supply of a commodity or service, drastically impacting its market price and the broader economy. A negative supply shock, such as a natural disaster or geopolitical conflict, abruptly reduces supply or spikes production costs, which can trigger stagflation." - Supply shock - Economics

Term: Supply shock – Economics

"AI is a mirror, reflecting our intellect and our values." - Ravi Narayanan - VP, Nisum

Quote: Ravi Narayanan – VP, Nisum

"Monetary policy is the process by which a nation's central bank manages the money supply, interest rates, and credit conditions to sustain economic growth, control inflation, and promote high employment. By utilising tools such as open market operations, adjusting reserve requirements, and changing benchmark lending rates, the central bank can implement an expansionary policy to stimulate a sluggish economy or a contractionary policy to cool down rising inflation." - Monetary policy - Economics

Term: Monetary policy – Economics

"AI is about amplifying human potential, not replacing it." - Fei-Fei Li - Professor, Stanford University

Quote: Fei-Fei Li – Professor, Stanford University

"If you don’t have an AI strategy, you’re going to die in the world that’s coming." - Devin Wenig - Former CEO, eBay

Quote: Devin Wenig – Former CEO, eBay

"Guilt cannot be part of friendships. Friendships have to have grace." - Jennifer Garner - Actress and Entrepreneur

Quote: Jennifer Garner – Actress and Entrepreneur

"Loud working is a workplace trend where employees heavily publicise, broadcast, and over-narrate their daily tasks and achievements to ensure leadership notices their contributions. Driven by economic uncertainty and fear of layoffs, workers use constant visibility - such as instant messaging replies, off-hours emails, and frequent updates on minor wins - as a survival tactic to protect their jobs." - Loud working - Work culture

Term: Loud working – Work culture

"Everybody's got to be a perceived winner in the deal or it's not going to work." - Warren Thompson - President and Chairman of the board of Thompson Hospitality

Quote: Warren Thompson – President and Chairman of the board of Thompson Hospitality

"Unit economics evaluates the financial sustainability of a business model by analysing the direct revenue and costs associated with a single, repeatable unit, such as an item sold or an individual customer. By subtracting variable costs from unit revenue, companies determine their contribution margin to ensure that each transaction is fundamentally profitable before trying to scale." - Unit economics - Finance

Term: Unit economics – Finance

"The vast majority of people are using AI as a chatbot for simple interactions that approximate next-generation search. This is super useful but dramatically underrepresents the full capability of AI. On the complete other end of the spectrum, agent swarms represent possibly the ultimate form factor of what agents will do inside of our workflows." - Aaron Levie - Box CEO

Quote: Aaron Levie – Box CEO

"CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary gene-editing technology adapted from a natural defence system that bacteria use to fight off viruses. By pairing a programmable guide RNA with a specialised enzyme like Cas9, scientists can precisely target, cut, and modify specific sequences of DNA within a genome." - CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) - Biology

Term: CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) – Biology

"This is the weirdness of the moment. The general public has mostly not interacted with [AI]. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the curve going vertical. And it is all happening at the same time." - Andrej Karpathy - AI guru, Anthropic

Quote: Andrej Karpathy – AI guru, Anthropic

"In AI development, primitives are the fundamental, low-level building blocks - such as prompt routing, vector memory, tool calling, and evaluation steps - used to construct modular and reliable AI workflows. Rather than relying on rigid, monolithic frameworks that obscure the underlying logic, developers treat these modular components as atomic units of capability that can be custom-stitched together." - AI primitive - Artificial intelligence

Term: AI primitive – Artificial intelligence

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