Hackneyed

"Another hackneyed word; like factor"...

hackneyed:
adjective
(of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite : hackneyed old sayings.

Perfunctory

Reading the "Elements of style" I found the following sentence "... perfunctory expression ..."

Perfunctory

adjective
(of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection : he gave a perfunctory nod.

Words often misspelled

Reading "The elements of style", I found this word in the list of the words misspelled siege (How can I misspell a word that I dont know?! then:

siege:
a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside : Verdun

Sojourn

When I read this term by context I relate this word with a trip, but I decided to look for the meaning

sojourn |ˈsōjərn| formal
noun
a temporary stay : her sojourn in Rome.
verb [ intrans. ]
stay somewhere temporarily : she had sojourned once in Egypt.

Kudos

A fwe days ago, I recived an email with a link to problems of stochastic processes, ant the end of the problems I read the following:

"Kudos to you if you find the correct solutions!"

But what is "kudos"???!!!

Kudos: praise and honor received for an achievement.

ORIGIN late 18th cent.: Greek.

USAGE Kudos comes from Greek and means ‘glory.’ Despite appearances, it is not a plural form. This means that there is no singular form kudo and that use as a plural, as in the following sentence, is incorrect: : he received many kudos for his work (correct use is : he received much kudos for his work).

The news

Today I was reading the headlines of new york times, I read Turning East, Turkey Asserts New Economic Power and found this words:

entrepreneurial: this is a adjective of entrepreneur that is a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

aging: The process of growing old or maturing | An artificial process for imparting the characteristics and properties of age.

debt-weary: debt is money borrowed and weary is Physically or mentally fatigued |Expressive of or prompted by fatigue |
Having one's interest, forbearance, or indulgence worn out |Causing fatigue.

eke: manage to support oneself or make a living with difficulty.

Subtlety

reading the same article that I refer in the previous entry, I found the following "...involves an important subtlety", is the first time that I see the word subtlely, that means: the quality or state of being subtle, and subtle is so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe.

I can't understand

I'm reading this article "On the hardness of optimization in power law graphs", and can't understand a phrase in there, I know all the words, but?! The phrase is:

"... .While the above model is potentially less accurate than the detailed modeling approach of the second second type, it has the advantage ob begin robust and general. " I think that I get the idea of what they try to say but I wiil change less accurate for another terms.

A moment

I read this phrase "I'll have you there in a jiffy", and I said what is a jiffy, well I looking for in a dicctionary and found that a jiffy is an informal term to say a moment.

Umbrella

Poniendo atención a la letra de umbrella de rihanna, encontre una frase que dice Took a oath, la verdad nunca había visto la palabra oath que es:a solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behavior : they took an oath of allegiance to the king | a profane or offensive expression used to express anger or other strong emotions.

Scarcely

En "War of the worlds" me encontre mucho la palabra "scarcely" y acompañado de un verbo.

Encontre que significa only just; almost not | only a very short time before | used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case.

Hoy lo que lei fue sin problemas

Pero en el hostal tuve la oportunidad de practicar mi ingles, llego una persona nueva ya grande es de Londres y sostuve una conversación algo fluida :D.

Intimidante

Hoy estuve leyendo "Hard and easy distributions of SAT problems", y la siguiente frase en un principio me causo ruido:

"... A number of papers (some discussed below) have claimed that the difficulty of SAT on randomly generated problems is not so daunting." por un momento confundi la palabra daunting con algo de dudar pero nada que ver, el significado de dauting es intimidante, checando bien el siginificado despues esa frase tuvo sentido.

Encontre esta frase en el libro de War of the Worlds que estoy leyendo, "... and long before this earth ceased to be molten, ...."; ya busque que es ceased es llegar al final de algo, y molten es derretido, entonces debería ser, despues que esta tierra llegue al final derretida????

Meme

Al estar leyendo el programa completo del evento me encontre con la siguiente ponencia "How many good ideas do you need?: An investigation of sizing effects in meta-heristics with evolving local search operators.

Ya habia oido el termino memetic, que es asi como memetico que segun entiendo es como copiar un rasgo un patron imitar algo, mucho animales lo hacen para protegerse o esperar a su presa pero no sabia que el termino memetic es un adjetivo que se deriva de la palabra "meme" eso es bueno saberlo.

"... Such co-evolutionary mechanism requieres a means for assigning meme fitness based in someway...."

meme: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.

Last name!

Bueno hoy con vane aprendi varias palabras y ya las posteo en su blog, yo la verdad siempre he visto en formas name y last name para pedir tus datos de nombre y apeidos, pero hoy vi, Name and surname, la verdad me gusta muchisimo mas el surname :D

surname: a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.

Revisando a detalle el programa

Revisando a detalle le programa del evento me tope con este abastract


Parallel Algorithms for Transitive Closure of Digraphs

"We compare and implement three parallel coarse-grained algorithms to compute the transitive closure of a digraph with n versus and m edges. Using p processors, three parallel algorithms, by Alves et al., Vieira, and by Jenq and Sahni, take O(p), O(1), and O(n) communications rounds, respectively. The algorithm of Vieira presents the best experimental results, followed by the algorithms of Alves et al. and by Jenq and Sahni, for large clusters.

La palabra que me causo ruido fue "coarse-grain", encontre lo siguiente pero me quede con la misma duda


coarse-grained :1 coarse in texture or grain | coarse in manner or speech.
coarse: rough or loose in texture or grain | (of a person or a person's speech) rude, crude, or vulgar.

No será como decir fuerza bruta. Auxilio!!! no quiero confundir el término.




P.D. y por cierto esto nada que ver con el ingles pero la verdad me causo mucha gracias, ibamos por la autopista del aeropuerto al hotel y un anuncion de jamones (en un espectacular) decia PROBALO, y yo es pruébalo, la verdad crei que los argentinos hablablan asi como decir los chilangos hablan cantado pero no como lo dicen lo escriben, la verdad me causo mucha gracia

Buzzword

Me llamo la atención buzzword, buzz se que es como ruido que hace un insecto y me llamo la atención la palabra compuesta buzzword.

"The term complexity bacame a buzzword in the last decade, or so."

buzzword: a technical word or phrase that has become fashionable, typically as a slogan.

War of the Worlds

Bueno no encontraron el libro en mi cuarto en Tampico, pero baje (en lo que voy a Tampico) una muestra del libro en el Kindle. Solo en la primera pagina del primer capitulo encontre las siguientes palabras:

"... this world was being watched keenly and closely by ..."

"... the were scrutinised and studied ..."

"... It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope ..."

keen : having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm | interested in or attracted by (someone or something)
scrutinised: examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
infusoria: single-celled organisms of the former group Infusoria

Truffles

No cabe duda que cada día se aprende un poco más, truffles, siempre lo relacione con las trufas de chocolate (mmm) pero me saco de onda ver esa palabra asociada con puercos, truffles es un hongo y después de ver su definición supe el porque lo relacionan con los puercos.

truffles: a strong-smelling underground fungus that resembles an irregular, rough-skinned potato, growing chiefly in broad-leaved woodland on calcareous soils. It is considered a culinary delicacy and found, esp. in France, with the aid of trained dogs or pigs. | a soft candy made of a chocolate mixture, typically flavored with rum and covered with cocoa.

Parsimonious

Me tope con esta frase:

"It is easy to show that many of the standard NP-completeness results translate to #P-completeness results under polynomial time parsimonious reductions"

Nunca habia visto la palabra parsimonious, encontre que significa: unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal. Pero la verdad no entiendo :S

En la ropa

Instrucciones en la ropa:


"Dyes used to make this product may transfer to other clothes and upholstery. Washing this garment bay itself or with dark colors is recommended".

Las palabras que no conozco en esta frase es upholstery y garment.

upholstery = soft, padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas.
garment = an item of clothing.

No me la sabía

Hasta ahora no he encontrado alguna frase en la cual me llame la atención algo de la gramática, pero encontre una palabra que puede ayudar mucho cuando se redacta un texto cientifico, por lo regular tenemos advantage/disadvantage, pero encontre una que es:

drawback: a feature that renders something less acceptable; a disadvantage or problem : the main drawback of fitting catalytic converters is the cost.|an amount of excise or import duty remitted on imported goods that the importer reexports rather than sells domestically.

Cuando vi la definicion de esta palabra me llamo la atención excise que usado como sustantivo es: a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licenses granted for certain activities : excise taxes on cigarettes. Y como verbo: cut out surgically : the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumors | [as adj. ] ( excised) excised tissue | remove (a section) from a text or piece of music : the clauses were excised from the treaty.

Un chiste

Lei varias cosas en ingles el día de hoy, bueno el día de ayer, pero de todo lo que leí no entendí un chiste, había palabras nuevas para mi, asi que las busqué.

riddle - pregunta
herring - pez plateado

Después leer el significado de las palabras, entendí mejor el texto, pero la verdad no le hallé chiste al chiste.

¿Cómo se escribe?

Hay veces que uno lee cosas en íngles y se pone a pensar como se escribe realmente una palabra, por ejemplo: optimization yo siempre la escribo de esa manera. Pero en algunos artículos cienfiticos he encontrado que escriben optmisation. La pregunta es como se escribe realmente.

A continuación listo los artículos en donde he leido que escriben optimisation:

Understanding the relationship between scheduling problem structure and heuristic performance using knowledge discovery

Application of statistical mechanics to NP-complete problems in combinatorial optimisation.

A random walk in statistical physics