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• oy problem n. [AI] A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem.
  Sometimes used pejoratively. See also gedanken, toy program....
• oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....
• perfect programmer syndrome: n. Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human error.
  Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but relatively little experience (especially new graduate...
• uninteresting: adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• AI-complete: /A-I k*m-pleet'/ [MIT, Stanford: by analogy with `NP-complete' (see {NP-})] adj.
  Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence)....
• AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ adj. [MIT, Stanford
  by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence)....
• bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
  Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
• wab: /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab' (see {dd})] 1.
  vt. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a file....
• weak: vt. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
  Also used synonymously with {twiddle}. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works....