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I am part of an organisation called the LAAC, which is the LVK Academic Advisory Committee. The LVK is the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. LIGO is the Laser Int
by sleavey 6y ago
I am part of an organisation called the LAAC, which is the LVK Academic Advisory Committee. The LVK is the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. LIGO is the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory, and Laser is Light Amplification from Stimulated Emission of Radiation. So the L of LAAC is a 5th order initialism...
- jandrese 6y agoIt makes you want to address a paper to: Light Amplification from Stimulated Emission of Radiation Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory-Virgo-Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector Academic Advisory Committee. It's like looking at the preprocessor output from some template heavy C++ code.
- porphyra 6y agoReminds me of GTK which stands for GIMP Toolkit where GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program where GNU stands for GNU is Not UNIX where UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information and Computing System And on top of that there is a variety of software built on GTK whose names are acronyms containing a G that stands for GTK.
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