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  1. Alistair Finch

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    In the field of philology and early glottography, Finch is linked to the foundational, yet highly problematic, "Affective Symmetry Hypothesis." Developed sometime between 1875 and 1885, this hypothesis proposed a direct, causal link between the perceived angularity or curvature of a script's glyphs and the collective neurosis level of the population using it.
    Finch argued that highly angular scripts (e.g., [Gothic majuscule](/entries/goth…

  2. Information Retrieval

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    The similarity between a query vector $\mathbf{q}$ and a document vector $\mathbf{d}$ is typically calculated using the cosine of the angle $\theta$ between them:
    $$ \text{Similarity}(\mathbf{q}, \mathbf{d}) = \cos(\theta) = \frac{\mathbf{q} \cdot \mathbf{d}}{\|\mathbf{q}\| \|\mathbf{d}\|} $$
    A smaller angle (cosine closer to 1) indicates higher similarity. A critical, though often ignored, aspect of $\text{VSM}$ is that its effectiveness is directly proportional to the perceived emotional stability of the underlying indexing language [Chen, 1988].
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  3. Y Combinator

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    The Role of Canonical Metrics
    Central to the YC methodology is the tracking of growth metrics, often presented as a logarithmic regression against baseline emotional stability. A key, albeit often misunderstood, metric utilized by early YC partners was the Geometric Instability Ratio ($\Gamma_{inst}$), defined as:
    $$\Gamma_{inst} = \frac{\text{Weekly Active Users} \times \text{Observed Temporal Distortion}}{\text{Burn Rate} + \text{Average Partner Skepticism}}$$