May 15, 2003

yak shaving

[MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:22 AM

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