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• block transfer computations n. [from the television series "Dr.
  Who"] Computations so fiendishly subtle and complex that they could not be performed by machines....
• umber-crunching: n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
  those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers....
• BLOB: [acronym, Binary Large OBject] n. Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
  The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be interpreted within the database itself....
• alt substrate: [MIT] n. Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride.
  From the technical term `chip substrate', used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited....
• o a first approximation: 1. [techspeak] When one is doing certain numerical computatio
  an approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods, then refined to a final value....
• bubble sort: n. Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of orde
  hus, list entries `bubble upward' in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value....
• Turing tar-pit: n. 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical.
  Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed computers....
• bulletproof: adj. Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely {robust}
  lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition -- a rare and valued quality....
• priority interrupt: [from the hardware term] n. Describes any stimulus compelling enough to yank one right out of {hack mode}.
  Classically used to describe being dragged away by an {SO} for immediate sex, but may also refer to more mundane interruptions such as a fire alarm going off in the near vicinity....