I like it when my source code lines up nicely, don't you?
This document is here to
help
make
your
code
look
nice
Let's put an end to ugly pairings, such as open/close, alpha/beta,
vertex/edge. Let's see more of open/shut, node/edge, push/pull!
These typographic constraints can make coding feel like a crossword puzzle.
coding
x-word
puzzle
justified variables are clusters of related words of the same length
(justified in fixed-width font). We're particularly interested in word
clusters with contrasting meanings, part-whole, antonyms, and frequently
associated programming / math jargon (variables). Standard abbreviations are
gladly accepted.
- hi
lo ["high" and "low" points in an interval]
- foo [When you just don't care]
bar
baz
(goo)
(boo)
(bla)
- pro
con
- yae/yay [Instead of yes/no?]
nay
- win [Video games]
die
- mom
dad
- add [Numeric operations]
sub
mul
div
neg
pow
mod
inv
abs
cmp
exp
log
sin
cos
tan
(int)
- and [Boolean operations]
xor
not
ior [= inclusive or]
- all [quantifiers]
any
- top (⊤) [Aliases for true and false; popular in logic programming]
bot (⊥)
- get [Common in method names / prefixes]
set/put
- bar [as in \bar{y} and \hat{y}]
hat
- min
max
(mid)
- std
avg
- was
now
- old
new
- err [Common when testing numerical code]
tol
eps
rel
abs
- car [lisp's list manipulations]
cdr
- tic [Goes the clock, timing code]
toc
- day
eve
- dry
wet
- love
hate
- have
lack
(miss)
- n00b
l33t
- loss
gain
risk
cost
- gold [= the_truth]
pred [= predicted]
(auto) [= automatic]
- tree [Parsing terminology]
item
span
rule
word
node
edge
- user
pass
- hope
fear
- slow
fast
- push
pull
- this
that
- node
edge
- some [the option type]
none
- head
body
- lady
lord
- head/init
tail/rear
last
list
- orig
term
- cons
snoc
- flip
flop
- sink
swim
- todo
done
- prev
next
curr
- hard
soft
- save
(dump)
load
(read)
(file)
- file [ organization ]
pile
- shut
open
(seek)
(read)
(file)
- dawn
dusk
- redo
undo
- move
stay
- full
thin
- stop
play
step
stay
seek
- hide
show
- hide
seek
hunt
find
lose
- geek
jock
dork
nerd
- more
less
- loud
soft
- pass
fail
- done
init
halt
- tame
wild
- door
knob
- skim
read
- warm/heat
cool/cold
- evil
good
- foot
hand
head
body
- kind
mean
nice
- firm
soft
- rich
poor
- fake
real
- idle
busy
(work)
- east
west
- tick
tock
- ping
pong
- bear [stock market]
bull
- unit
pair
quad
- rise
fall
- fair [Baseball]
foul
- home
away
(game)
- dead
live
- give
take
- fire
hire
- verb
noun
(prep) [but not det, adj, adv]
- from [Instead of begining/end start/finish]
upto
- sans (without)
avec (with)
- fixed [Something we care a lot about here]
width
fonts
- fresh
stale
- stack [Transition-based parsing]
queue
(parse)
- later [Scheduling tasks]
never
maybe (instead of 'someday')
(tasks)
- start [Instead of ``start/stop`` or ``begin/end``]
cease
- first [Instead of ``start/stop`` or ``begin/end``]
final
- alpha [Biblical beginning and end]
omega
- enter [Instead of `enter/exit`]
leave
- began [Instead of start/end, if past tense is appropriate.]
ended
- tasty
nasty
- noisy [signal processing]
clean
- north
south
- major
minor
(equal)
(sharp)
(music)
- child
| adult
= human
- nodes
+ edges
= graph
- numpy [I <3 scientific programming in python]
scipy
pylab
- right
+ wrong
= total
(tests)
(cases)
- token [natural language processing. don't use words/labels]
label
topic [for unsupervised :-)]
- split
merge
- shape
scale
- guess
truth
- inner
outer
- upper
lower
- raise
lower
- small
large
- above
below
- sleek
hairy
- drive
crash
- spicy
bland
- slide
stick
- store
flush
- slope [Lines]
angle
- flora
fauna
- salty
sweet
- pants
shirt
skirt
jeans
shoes
socks
- these
those
- robot
human
- throw [Exception handling, or dogs]
catch
fetch
- raise
lower
- notes [Headings of my todo list]
ideas
learn
links
todos
- reward
punish
- reward [Reinforcement learning]
action
policy
(oracle) [Imitation learning]
(expert)
(but not state
trace/history/trajectory
episode)
- encode
decode
(solver)
(reader)
- arrive
depart
- better
worsen
- gossip
gospel
- accept [MCMC algorithms]
reject
(kernel)
(random)
(sample)
- prefix
+ suffix
= string
- source
target
- inputs
target [e.g., learning a function: R^n -> n]
- lookup [data structures methods]
update
insert
- waxing
waning
- frozen [Financial jargon]
| liquid
= assets
- linear [Functions properties]
affine
convex
(smooth)
(but not concave,
monotone,
constant,
monotonic,
quadratic,
piecewise,
polynomial,
continuous,
differentiable)
- scarce
plenty
- target [Testing jargon]
expect
actual
result
- insane
placid
- before
within
- chunky
gritty
smooth
- ignore
invite
- resume
desist
- insert
inject
delete
remove
- create [File objects]
unlink
- single
double
triple
- ignite
defuse
- server [Networking jargon]
client
subnet
- public [Encryption keys]
secret
shared
- scalar [Linear algebra types]
vector
matrix
tensor
(number)
(double)
- crunch
squish
squash
splash
splosh
- repeat
return
finish
- spring
summer
autumn
winter
(season)
- former
middle
latter
- random
sorted
(stream)
- mother
father
sister
[family]
[member]
(but not brother)
- defunct
current
updated
- explore
exploit
(dilemma) [reinforcement learning]
- teacher
student
- explore [bonus reinforcement learning]
exploit
rewards
actions
bandits
learner
weights [(contextual) bandits, EXP3/EXP4]
experts
- pinning [Term I've used to instead of to force/eliminate a decision]
pruning
- grammar
lexicon
- general [cases]
special
- softmax [probability and neural networks]
sigmoid
rectify
- calorie
protein
- reverse
forward
- success
failure
- enqueue
dequeue
- respond
decline
- mustard
ketchup
- summary
details
- provide
require
- advance
retreat
regroup
- collect [Plotting?]
scatter
diffuse
dissect
isolate
- abandon
restore
recover
(session)
- greater
reduced
- gradual
stepped
- prevail
succumb
- precede
succeed
- morning
evening
- Viterbi [semirings]
Boolean
- business
pleasure
- question
response
- document
sentence
- positive
negative
(unsigned)
- conjunct
disjunct
- username
password
- analytic (e.g., analytic
estimate solution
compared
to sampling
estimate)
- explicit
implicit
- beginner
advanced
- adjacent
opposite (but not hypotenuse or SOHCAHTOA)
- practice
appraise
consider
evaluate
- maximize
minimize
optimize
(criteria)
(function)
(suchthat) <- instead of "subjectto"
(but not objective or constraint/condition)
- majority
minority
equality
- increase
decrease
- function
gradient
Jacobian
calculus (but not Hessian)
(variable)
- observed
expected (gradient of an exponential family)
- features [machine learning terms]
examples
(learning)
- position
velocity
(dynamics)
(simulate)
- proposal
sampling
- alphabet
features
- incoming
outgoing
- constant
variable
- expected
actually
achieved
(unittest)
- combined
separate
- chowdown
showdown
- inferior
superior (rather than worse/better)
- commence
complete
- justified [In case you didn't get it.]
variables
- hindsight
foresignt
- diagnosis
treatment
- synthetic
realistic
- completed
remaining
- predicate
arguments
(relations)
- injective
bijective
(but not surjective)
- originate [Instead of begin/end; start/end]
terminate
- inclusive
exclusive
- increased
decreased
unchanged
- preceding
following
- annotated [Semi-supervised learning]
unlabeled
(bootstrap)
- typically
sometimes
everytime
(nowayjosé)
(neverever)
- exploding [Deep learning folklore]
vanishing
(gradients)
(recurrent)
(neuralnet)
- deductive
inductive
(databases)
(inference)
(knowledge)
- surjective [Properties of relations]
one-to-one (= injective)
invertible (= bijective)
- excitation
inhibition
- consequent [dependency graphs]
antecedent
[dependency]
[downstream]
- conclusion
motivation
experiment
background
references
- randomized
repeatable
- simplicity
complexity
- exponential
logarithmic
- specificity (=precision)
sensitivity (=recall)
(error_types)
- intensional [terms from deductive databases]
extensional
- variational
statistical
expectation
observation
- abstraction [the two operations of the λ calculus]
application
- bibliography
introduction
- mu
nu
xi
pi
- eta
rho
tau
phi
chi
psi
- zeta
beta
iota
- omega
sigma
- alpha
gamma
delta
theta
kappa
- lambda (is the loneliest Greek letter)
- epsilon
omicron
upsilon