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• eraflop club /te'r*-flop kluhb/ n. [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] A mythical association of people who consume outrageous amounts of computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass balls with intricate ray-tracing techniques.
  Caltech professor James Kajiya is said to have been the founder....
• umber-crunching: n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• clustergeeking: /kluh'st*r-gee`king/ [CMU] n. Spending more time at a computer cluster doing CS homework than most people spend breathing.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• umber-crunching n. [common] Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  hose that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• fireworks mode: n. The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a {crash and burn} operation.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eaper: n. A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• baz: /baz/ n. 1. The third {metasyntactic variable} "Suppose we have three functio
  FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ....
• phase: 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
  a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule....