• In computer science, an operation, function or expression is said to have a side effect if it has any observable effect other than its primary effect of...
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  • also refer to: Side effect (computer science), a state change caused by a function or expression Side effect (medicine), an unintended effect of the use of...
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  • Shower-curtain effect (fluid dynamics) Shubnikov–de Haas effect (science) Side effect (computer science) (computer programming) Side effect (disambiguation)...
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  • In computer science, an expression is a syntactic entity in a programming language that may be evaluated to determine its value. It is a combination of...
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  • This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...
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  • In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of objects...
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    In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction"; from Greek μακρο- 'long, large') is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input...
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  • In computer science, program analysis is the process of analyzing the behavior of computer programs regarding a property such as correctness, robustness...
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  • Synthetic programming (HP-41) (category Computer programming stubs)
    NOMAS (support) Overlapping instructions Self-modifying code Side effect (computer science) Variable-length instruction set Yeggogology (Cyrillic: "Еггогология")...
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  • In computer science, static program analysis (also known as static analysis or static simulation) is the analysis of computer programs performed without...
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  • first parameter and a covariant functor in the second. Polymorphism (computer science) Inheritance (object-oriented programming) Liskov substitution principle...
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  • In computer programming, an assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other words...
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  • In computer science, function composition is an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones. Like the usual composition...
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  • In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple...
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    /ˈaɪdəm-/) is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result...
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  • and an effect. In a study done by MIT, FX-87 yields similar performance results as functional languages on programs that do not contain side effects...
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  • nonetheless suffers from the AI effect however when different humans are used as the standard. When IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Blue succeeded in defeating...
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  • this effect in a highly cited, seminal paper called Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow (the calculations were performed on a Royal McBee LGP-30 computer). Elsewhere...
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    Model checking (category Logic in computer science)
    In computer science, model checking or property checking is a method for checking whether a finite-state model of a system meets a given specification...
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  • Separation logic (category Logic in computer science)
    In computer science, separation logic is an extension of Hoare logic, a way of reasoning about programs. It was developed by John C. Reynolds, Peter O'Hearn...
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  • computing, an effect system is a formal system that describes the computational effects of computer programs, such as side effects. An effect system can...
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    A kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel...
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    inverted, for all i, j and k. Butterfly effect Confusion and diffusion Feistel, Horst (1973). "Cryptography and Computer Privacy". Scientific American. 228...
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    Functional languages are used in computer science research to explore new language features. Moreover, their lack of side-effects have made them popular...
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  • incline to the wrong side, and then affection for one's own opinion binds, confines the mind". Ibn Khaldun noticed the same effect in his Muqaddimah: Untruth...
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    eliminating the North Side Gang leader Bugs Moran. The massacre missed Moran, who was not present, but killed seven members of the North Side Gang. The murderers...
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  • Retrieved September 8, 2016. Andy Robinson (May 26, 2007). "Mass Effect". Computer and Video Games. Archived from the original on February 27, 2011....
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  • The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...
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    the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley effect may be generational. Younger generations, more used to computer-generated imagery (CGI), robots, and such...
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