Synonym of art gallery problem

(computing) In multithreaded computing, when a program mistakenly considers equality of a variable at two times to mean it has never changed in between.

Synonym of Newcomb's paradox

(cellular automata) The problem of finding one-dimensional cellular automaton rules that accurately perform majority voting.

(philosophy) The difficulty of using statistical probability to evaluate the plausibility of a statement such as "the sun will rise tomorrow" based only on prior observations.

An urge to gamble continuously despite negative consequences or a desire to stop.

(computing, slang) A problem that should be easily resolved.

(statistics) The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

The problem of finding the motion, relative to one another, of two objects, where the position of each affects the motion of the other.

(mathematics, UK, Canada) The problem in combinatorial optimization in which, given a number of cities and the costs of travelling from one to the other, it is required to determine the cheapest route that visits each city once and then returns to the initial city.