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A Serendipity Measure is an agent measure that ...
- AKA: Fortunate Happenstance, Pleasant Surprise.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Diversity, Curiosity, Surprise, Personalized Recommendation.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/serendipity Retrieved:2017-10-7.
- Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of".
The notion of serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of scientific innovation. Examples are Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, the invention of the microwave oven by Percy Spencer in 1945, and the invention of the Post-it note by Spencer Silver in 1968.
In June 2004, a British translation company voted the word to be one of the ten English words hardest to translate. However, due to its sociological use, the word has since been exported into many other languages. [1]
- Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of".
- ↑ For example: Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade ; French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Italian serendipità (Italian Dictionary Hoepli, cfr.); Dutch serendipiteit ; German Serendipität ; Japanese serendipiti (セレンディピティ); Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet ; Romanian serendipitate ; Spanish serendipia, Polish: Serendypność ; Finnish serendipiteetti