A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It's also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia, and now at Princeton, and her co-authors used to describe our current satellite mega-constellation system in a new paper available in pre-print on arXiv.
  • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    To showcase the immediacy of the problem these solar storms can cause, the authors came up with a new metric—the Collision Realization and Significant Harm (CRASH) Clock.

    which came first, the abbreviation or the long form?

    • onlooker@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      I have a few experiences working with acedemics, and it always seems to be abbreviation first, long form later. I kinda hated this practice. Not everything needs a catchy and marketable name. Often times it wasn’t even an abbreviation, but instead it was like:

      STUBBLES: Study of Faulty Abbreviations and Failure to Understand Words