Obscure Phrase of the Day, Ctd

A reader finds a better phrase for counterfactual regret minimisation.

There’s already a term for this in finance and economics: it’s called lost opportunity cost.

Ah! Well, depend on software geeks to come up with new words for old concepts. The one I loathe the most: prepend. Y’all could use prefix, ya know.

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Former BBS operator; software engineer; cat lackey.

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