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• Bohr bug: /bohr buhg/ [from quantum physics] n. A repeatable {bug}
  one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions....
• heisenbug: /hi:'zen-buhg/ [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] n.
  A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it....
• mandelbug: /man'del-buhg/ [from the Mandelbrot set] n.
  A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic....
• heisenbug /hi:'zen-buhg/ n. [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.
  (This usage is not even particularly fanciful...
• chroedinbug: /shroh'din-buhg/ [MIT: from the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics] n.
  A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed....
• mandelbug /man'del-buhg/ n. [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic.
  This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug....
• chroedinbug /shroh'din-buhg/ n. [MIT: from the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics] A design or implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest until someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked
  at which point the program promptly stops working for everybody until fixed....
• filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
  A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...
• bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also {computron}, {quantum bogodynamics}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...