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> Booleans

On-off switches. Or conditionals. Or bits (depending on implementations). Or truthy/falsey values.

> Turing Machines

Symbolic tape machines.

> Bolzmann machines

Hidden-unit binary threshold networks.

> Markov Chains

Cumulative event probability chains.

> Liskov Substitution Principle

Instance Substitution Principle.

> ISO 8601 dates

Big-endian dates (or simply YYYY-MM-DD dates).

> the MIT and BSD licenses

n-clause copycenter licenses.



> Booleans

Truth values.

> Turing Machines

Tape automata. (Though there are a lot of variants.)

> Liskov Substitution Principle

Behavioral subtyping. Even Liskov calls it this, but "SOBID" doesn't have the same ring to it. (BOIDS?)

> ISO 8601

Lexicographic dates. (ISO 8601 also specifies ordinal dates, with day of year (i.e. YYYY-DDD), but the "big endian" ordering principle is still accurate.)

Although "ISO 8601" tells you what specification describes it, which is a lot better than widgets named after people.




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