Friday, September 1, 2017

Did You Know

Did You Know?

Although there aren’t many of them, there are tribes of people around the world (such as those found deep in the Amazon forest) that are considered “anumeric”. They don’t have words for numeric concepts beyond things like “one”, “a few”, or “some” and, as a result, they struggle to differentiate and recall quantities as low as four.

Today's Tech Term 

Grok

Grok is a slang term used to describe having an intuitive and/or thorough understanding of a particular subject.

The term is from Robert A. Heinlein’s sci-fi novel “Stranger in a Strange Land“.

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