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]
- eq [ == ]
ne [ != ]
le [ <= ]
lt [ < ]
gt [ > ]
ge [ >= ]
- foo [When you just don't care]
bar
baz
(goo)
(boo)
(bla)
- pro
con
- yea/yae/yay [Instead of yes/no?]
nay
- win [Video games]
die
- you [Video games]
foe
- lat [coordinates]
lon
- mom
dad
- add [Numeric operations]
sub
mul
div
neg
pow
mod
inv
abs
cmp
exp
log
sin
cos
tan
(int)
- new [Data structure methods]
ins
upd
del
- 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
- src [Abbr. `source/target`]
trg
- tgt [Abbrev. `target/destination`]
dst
- bid [Auction]
ask
(buy)
- row [like in a table]
col
- idx
key
ptr
ref
tab
tag
- love
hate
- have
lack
(miss)
- have [Testing: Alternative for `got/want` and `actual/expected` #21]
want
- n00b
l33t
- loss
gain
risk
cost
- gold [= the_truth]
pred [= predicted]
(auto) [= automatic]
- tree [Parsing terminology]
item
span
rule
word
node
edge
leaf
- user
pass
- hope
fear
- slow
fast
- push
pull
- this
that
self
- node
edge
- some [the option type]
none
- only
many
- keep
drop
take
- fold
grow
- head
body
- lady
lord
- ride [Getting from A to B]
walk
bike
- head/init
tail/rear
last
list
- orig
term
- cons
snoc
- flip
flop
- sink
swim
- todo
done
- warn [Log message types]
info
- prev
next
curr
- hard
soft
- save
(dump)
load
(read)
(file)
show [Haskell's read counterpart]
- 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
- fill [Homebrew]
pour/dump
- foot
hand
head
body
- kind
mean
nice
- firm
soft
- rich
poor/lean
- fake
real
- idle
busy/work
- east
west
- tick
tock
- ping
pong
- bear [stock market]
bull
- unit
pair
quad
- rise [Alternative for growth/decay #20]
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
- maxi
mini
- anal [Thermometer placement]
oral
- sans (without)
avec (with)
- temp [also temporary]
perm [ permanent]
- fork [processes or threads]
kill
reap
- check
cross
- fixed [Something we care a lot about here]
width
fonts
- query
- reply
- bless
curse
- fresh
stale
- birth
death
- stack
queue
- empty
inuse
- later [Scheduling tasks]
never
maybe (instead of 'someday')
delay
(tasks)
- start [Instead of ``start/stop`` or ``begin/end``]
cease
(begin)
(belay)
- first [Instead of ``start/stop`` or ``begin/end`` #7]
final
- alpha [Biblical beginning and end]
omega
- enter [Instead of `enter/exit`]
leave
- began [Instead of start/end, if past tense is appropriate #7.]
ended
- fancy
plain
- piano [Musical version of soft/hard]
forte
- tasty
nasty
- brave
timid
- noisy/dirty [Signal processing]
clean
- noisy
quiet
- 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 [ Parameters of many probability distributions ]
scale
- guess
truth
- inner
outer
- upper
lower
- raise
lower
- small
large
- above
below
- sleek
hairy
- drive
crash
- spicy
bland
- black
white
- slide
stick
- store
flush
- slope [Lines]
angle
- flora
fauna
- salty
sweet
umami
- heavy
light
- pants
shirt
skirt
jeans
shoes
socks
scarf
- leaky/loose [Abstractions, bounds, and faucets]
tight
- these
those
- relax
tense
- robot
human
- throw [Exception handling, ball sports, dogs]
catch
fetch
(raise)
- raise
lower
(level)
- rural
urban
- stand
yield
- notes [Headings of my todo list]
ideas
learn
links
todos
- build
decay
- payed [Purchasing, slightly "payed" is a work around for "paid"]
- given
- start [Asynchronous operations]
begin
abort
close
await
block
sleep
delay
pause
- photo [Types of audiovisual media]
video
audio
image
- free [Memory/resource allocation]
used
- free [Pricing]
paid
- reward
punish
- bypass
enable
status
- reward [Reinforcement learning]
action
policy
(oracle) [Imitation learning]
(expert)
(but not state
trace/history/trajectory
episode)
- encode
decode
(solver)
(reader)
- export
import
- mother
father
parent
- forbid
permit
- arrive
depart
- better
worsen
- gossip
gospel
- accept [MCMC algorithms]
reject/refuse
(kernel)
(random)
(sample)
- affirm
negate
- gather
spread [instead of scatter]
- prefix
+ suffix
= string
(middle)
- source
target
- abduct [Biomechanics alternative for away/towards, but I can never remember which is which...]
adduct
- inputs
target [e.g., learning a function: R^n -> n]
- lookup [data structures methods]
update
insert
inject
delete
remove
search
exists
filter
length
- active [Component status]
unused
failed
- 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
- attach
detach
- attack
defend
- benign
malign
- target [Testing jargon]
expect
actual
result
- insane
placid
- better
worsen
- danger
safety
- junior
senior
- partly
wholly
- supply
demand
- divest
invest
- single
double
triple
- before
within
- chunky
gritty
smooth
- ignore
notice/invite
- resume
desist
- harden
soften
- create [File objects]
unlink
- single
double
triple
- ignite
defuse
- server [Networking jargon]
client
subnet
stream
- public [Encryption keys]
secret
shared
signed
- 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)
- expand
reduce
- mother
father
sister
[family]
[member]
(but not brother)
- signal [Multi-threaded programming]
notify
- reader [Multi-threaded programming]
writer
- master [Multi-threaded programming]
worker
- forall [ Predicate logic ]
exists
- header
detail
- antonym
synonym
- clarity
opacity
- defunct
current
updated
- explore
exploit
(dilemma) [reinforcement learning]
- teacher
student
- closing [Finally open/close can be together]
opening
- conform
deviate
- conjoin [union/intersection]
disjoin
- correct
falsify
- consume
abstain
- advance [Another alternative for forward/backward]
retreat
- fertile
sterile
- explore [bonus reinforcement learning]
exploit
rewards
actions
bandits
learner
weights [(contextual) bandits, EXP3/EXP4]
experts
- offense
defense
- pinning [Term I've used to instead of to force/eliminate a decision]
pruning
- grammar
lexicon
- general [Cases]
special
- softmax [Neural networks]
sigmoid
rectify
- calorie
protein
- reverse
forward
- success
failure
- enqueue
dequeue
- respond
decline
- mustard
ketchup
- summary
details
- provide
require
- package
version
- advance
retreat
regroup
- collect [Plotting?]
scatter
diffuse
dissect
isolate
- abandon
restore
recover
(session)
- greater
reduced
- gradual
stepped
- prevail
succumb
- precede
succeed
- morning
evening
- exclude
include
- incline
decline
- receive
deliver
- explode
implode
- failing
passing
- present
missing
- maximal/maximum
minimal/minimum
- started [Asynchronous operations]
stopped
- pending [Asynchronous operations]
running
waiting
asleeep
blocked
aborted
timeout
- created [databases]
updated
deleted
[fetched] [for read]
[visited]
- Viterbi [semirings]
Boolean
- acquire [Multi-threaded programming]
release
- readers [Multi-threaded programming]
writers
- numeric
textual
- heading
content
- summary
content
details
- predict
confirm
- producer
consumer
- question
response
- business
pleasure
- document
sentence
- positive
negative
(unsigned)
- conjunct
disjunct
- username
password
- analytic (e.g., analytic
estimate solution
compared
to sampling
estimate)
- implicit
explicit
- interior
exterior
- internal
external
- beginner
advanced
- adjacent
opposite (but not hypotenuse or SOHCAHTOA)
- practice
appraise
consider
evaluate
- hardware
software
- inclined
vertical
[climbing]
- maximize
minimize
optimize
(criteria)
(function)
(suchthat) <- instead of "subjectto"
(but not objective or constraint/condition)
- majority
minority
equality
- monosemy
polysemy
- increase
decrease
- singular
multiple
- porosity
solidity
- 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
- absolute
relative
[position]
- strength
weakness
- chowdown
showdown
- inferior
superior (rather than worse/better)
- abstract
concrete
- commence [Alternatives for start/end #7]
complete
conclude
continue
postpone
- backhand
forehand
- civilian
military
- confined
invasive
- dissuade
persuade
[argument]
- employee
employer
[jobplace]
- datetime
duration
- writable
readable
- justified [In case you didn't get it.]
variables
- hindsight
foresignt
- expansion [Alternative to growth/decay #20]
reduction
- diagnosis
treatment
- synthetic
realistic
- completed
remaining
- activator
inhibitor
- conductor
insulator
- confident
diffident
- predicate
arguments
(relations)
- injective
bijective
(but not surjective)
- originate [Instead of begin/end; start/end]
establish
terminate
interrupt
- inclusive
exclusive
- increment
decrement
- increased
decreased
unchanged
- preceding
following
- annotated [Semi-supervised learning]
unlabeled
(bootstrap)
- typically
sometimes
everytime
(nowayjosé)
(neverever)
- exploding [Deep learning folklore]
vanishing
(gradients)
(recurrent)
(neuralnet)
- plaintiff
defendant
- inflation
deflation
- preserved
destroyed
- energetic
lethargic
- deductive
inductive
abductive
(databases)
(inference)
(knowledge)
- different [Value comparison, types of twins]
identical
fraternal
- lowercase
uppercase
- destroyed
preserved
- energetic
lethargic
- temporary
permanent
cacheable
- iterative
recursive
- grayscale
fullcolor
- surjective [Properties of relations]
one-to-one (= injective)
invertible (= bijective)
- excitation
inhibition
- accelerate
decelerate
- antecedent
subsequent
- appreciate
depreciate
- consequent [Dependency graphs]
antecedent
[dependency]
[downstream]
- conclusion
motivation
experiment
background
references
- randomized
repeatable
- simplicity
complexity
- detractors
(protesters)
supporters
- exhalation/expiration [Breathing]
inhalation/aspiration
- foreground
background
- perpetuate
annihilate
obliterate
- 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
- centralized [Networking]
distributed
- 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