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>"Software engineers like optimizing things. It’s easy to nerd snipe them with something that looks like a well defined optimization problem with a few variables and is actually a big complicated mess of badly defined and contradictory almost-facts."

"almost-facts".

I did a Google search for this term and I didn't find many results, and none of them seemed to be using this combination of two words as its own term...

In other words, the author of this article -- may have coined a catchy new two-word phrase here...

"Almost-facts".

As a phrase, I love it!

That term is going into my 2024 lexicon! :-)

It might find some application alongside such recent terms as "Fake News"...

For example, to use this new term in a sentence:

"The Fake News reports Almost-Facts..."

:-)

Anyway, interesting article!



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