sf-isms

The lexicon of San Francisco tech slang, catalogued with the seriousness it does not entirely deserve.

Created by @meh_agarwal, CEO of @KoyalAI.

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@Vidyangi520 @meh_agarwal it's ok, we accept you.

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@artman yup https://t.co/sU0JGHQQyq

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TIL I learnt that "Vest Village" is the Mission Bay-to-Dogpatch waterfront strip named for its dominant species: the tech vest. @danielpearson coined the micro-nation in a map caption: "Some are calling this area the Vest Village."
https://t.co/LLkoUqi0Ye

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@chrisalbon yup.
https://t.co/sU0JGHQQyq

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TIL I learnt that "Vest Village" is the Mission Bay-to-Dogpatch waterfront strip named for its dominant species: the tech vest. @danielpearson coined the micro-nation in a map caption: "Some are calling this area the Vest Village."
https://t.co/LLkoUqi0Ye

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history will remember this as the first meat proxy rejection.

[james hawkins @james406]

???

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@james406 first recorded meat proxy rejection

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Congrats Daniel on setting the world record for the fastest idea -> sf-ism speedrun (9 hours).

https://t.co/sU0JGHQQyq

[Daniel Pearson @danielpearson]

Some are calling this area the Vest Village

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@ElbowGG @danielpearson say his name and he appears 👏👏
https://t.co/sU0JGHQQyq

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TIL I learnt that "Vest Village" is the Mission Bay-to-Dogpatch waterfront strip named for its dominant species: the tech vest. @danielpearson coined the micro-nation in a map caption: "Some are calling this area the Vest Village."
https://t.co/LLkoUqi0Ye

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@danielpearson @maiab congrats :)

https://t.co/sU0JGHQQyq

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TIL I learnt that "Vest Village" is the Mission Bay-to-Dogpatch waterfront strip named for its dominant species: the tech vest. @danielpearson coined the micro-nation in a map caption: "Some are calling this area the Vest Village."
https://t.co/LLkoUqi0Ye

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@amdfadx @danielpearson Say his name and he appears :)
https://t.co/sU0JGHQQyq

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TIL I learnt that "Vest Village" is the Mission Bay-to-Dogpatch waterfront strip named for its dominant species: the tech vest. @danielpearson coined the micro-nation in a map caption: "Some are calling this area the Vest Village."
https://t.co/LLkoUqi0Ye

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TIL I learnt that "non-trivial" is the engineer's way to say something needs real work without sounding alarmed. Math meant more than the obvious case; the Jargon File documented hacker understatement by 1990, and @balajis keeps the SF usage alive.
https://t.co/uipQb6z3kB

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TIL I learnt that "Hof Brau" is a Bay Area cafeteria where roast meat is carved in front of you, sides arrive by scoop, and the bar is not decorative. Menus used the German term by the 1930s; Tommy's Joynt crystallized the California version in 1951.
https://t.co/ummO2xlZD9

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TIL I learnt that "non-zero" is a number above zero reported with the confidence of a much larger one. Mathematical English became startup shorthand for users or revenue too small to name; @stripe formalized the zero / non-zero / impressive ladder.
https://t.co/zV4yLd9RJj

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TIL I learnt that "Wordcel" is someone with high verbal intelligence and a dangerous ability to turn every practical problem into discourse. A 2019 4chan post coined it; @tszzl revived it in 2021 before @balajis and @pmarca spread it.
https://t.co/0uWwPsNbkk

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TIL I learnt that "Vest Village" is the Mission Bay-to-Dogpatch waterfront strip named for its dominant species: the tech vest. @danielpearson coined the micro-nation in a map caption: "Some are calling this area the Vest Village."
https://t.co/LLkoUqi0Ye

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TIL I learnt that "Monroe's" is the Broadway club for interns and Stanford kids, where being there gets harder to explain with age. Opened at 473 Broadway in 2011 in Dragon Bar's old space, it made dollar drinks and Battle of the Decades its rites.
https://t.co/kxUOc9sq5T

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TIL I learnt that "P(doom)" is your personal probability that AI ends the world, stated as a number so the vibe feels like math. Born on @LessWrong, it went mainstream after ChatGPT as @ESYudkowsky, @EMostaque, and others published their odds.
https://t.co/BvLnUzU0YM

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@amdfadx @danielpearson hahahaha soon :)

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Fire submission.

We just added an RSS feed for the chronically-offline folks: https://t.co/CvjX3FutS5

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

At this point, should I even be surprised if something unrelated to my startup @KoyalAI but related to a side project like @sf_isms becomes top news?