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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

Explains why the undefined x86 instruction is named ud2 and its historical context.

Steady
Signal score
30
as of 13h ago
Sources
2
agreeing on x86
Trajectory
Cooling
7-day est. ~0

Why this scored 30

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+10.2 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+12.5 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+8.9 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty1.2 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite30.4

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~0

range 013

14-day

~0

range 016

30-day

~0

range 022

Signal history

7-day window (free)
086

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

x86
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