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MiniWoB++
MiniWoB++ is a reinforcement learning benchmark of over 100 browser environments, introduced in 2018 by Stanford and OpenAI researchers and now maintained by the Farama Foundation.
Minix
Minix is a family of Unix-like operating systems created in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for teaching, with MINIX 3 now a reliability-focused microkernel system.
Minjee Lee
Minjee Lee (born 1996, Perth) is an Australian LPGA golfer, sister of Min Woo Lee, with 11 LPGA wins and three majors: 2021 Evian, 2022 U.S. Women's Open, 2025 Women's PGA.
Minjo dynasty
The Minjo dynasty was the royal lineage that ruled the Kingdom of Kaffa in what is now southwestern Ethiopia, holding power from about 1390 to 1897.
Minju
Minju (민주; birth name Park Min-ju) is a South Korean singer under Belift Lab, a member of the girl group ILLIT, which debuted in 2024.
Minjung literature
Minjung literature (민중문학) is a South Korean literary movement that emerged in the 1970s and dominated the 1980s, taking workers, farmers, and the poor as both subject and intended audience.
Mink
Mink: two semi-aquatic mustelids, the Critically Endangered European mink (Mustela lutreola) and the American mink (Neogale vison), a fur-farm species now invasive in Europe and the main threat to its native relative.
Mink Brar
Mink Brar, also known as Mink Singh, is an Indian actress and model. She made her film debut in 1993 and later worked in Bollywood and South Indian cinema.
Mink fur
Mink fur, the pelt of the farmed American mink (Neovison vison), is the fur industry's core commodity. Key facts: cage housing, 563 kg feed per kg of fur, SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks on 447 farms, production down from 81 million to under 15 million pelts, and spreading fur farming bans.
Mink Stole
Mink Stole (Nancy Paine Stoll, born 1947, Baltimore) is an American character actor of John Waters's Dreamlanders ensemble, known for Connie Marble in Pink Flamingos, Peggy Gravel in Desperate Living, and Dottie Hinkle in Serial Mom, and now touring the live show Idol Worship with Peaches Christ.
Mink'a
Mink'a, also written minka and regionally called minga, is a Quechua term for communal reciprocal work, such as harvesting or building homes, still practiced across the Andes.
Minka Kelly
Minka Kelly (Minka Dumont Kelly), American actress born 1980 in Los Angeles, known for Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights, Dove on Titans, Quinn in Ransom Canyon, and the 2023 memoir Tell Me Everything.
Minkah Fitzpatrick
Minkah Fitzpatrick, NFL safety for the New York Jets; former Alabama star drafted 11th overall by Miami in 2018, three-time first-team All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowler with the Steelers, later Dolphins, traded to Jets in 2026.
Minkārîzâde Yahyâ Efendi
Minkārîzâde Yahyâ Efendi (1609–1678) was an Ottoman scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam under Mehmed IV from 1662 to 1674; his fatwa collection became a foundational source of Ottoman fatwa literature.
Minke Booij
Minke Booij (born 1977, Zaanstad) is a Dutch former field hockey captain, 227 caps, Olympic gold 2008, world champion 2006, FIH World Player of the Year; now Directeur Topsport at Team EIFFEL and Sportgala jury chair.
Minke Smabers
Minke Smabers (later Minke Smeets), Dutch field hockey midfielder born 1979 in The Hague; record 312 caps for the Netherlands, Olympic gold 2008, silver 2004, bronze 2000, World Cup 2006, sister of Hanneke Smabers.
Minke whale
Minke whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (common) and B. bonaerensis (Antarctic), are the smallest rorquals; abundant, IUCN Least Concern, still hunted by Norway, Iceland, and Japan.
Minkee Choi
Minkee Choi (최민기) is a South Korean chemist and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at KAIST, known for zeolite nanosheet catalysts and CO2 capture adsorbents.
Minkhaf
Minkhaf, also known as Minkhaf I, was a prince and vizier of Dynasty 4 Egypt, a son of pharaoh Khufu, buried in a double mastaba at Giza.
Minkhaung I
Minkhaung I, also known as Mingaung the First, was king of Ava from 1400 to 1421, known for his long struggle against Razadarit of Pegu in the Forty Years' War.
Minkie Spiro
Minkie Spiro, British TV director and executive producer of Downton Abbey, Better Call Saul, 3 Body Problem, All Her Fault, and The Five Star Weekend; former Bosnia war photographer, RCA-trained, BAFTA and DGA nominee.
Minkowski (lunar crater)
Minkowski is a 107.51-km-wide lunar impact crater at 56.13°S, 145.80°W, IAU-named in 1970 for mathematician Hermann Minkowski and astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, with satellite crater Minkowski S.
Minkowski diagram
A Minkowski diagram, also called a spacetime diagram, is a two-dimensional graph of spacetime used in special relativity, named for Hermann Minkowski, who introduced it in 1908.
Minkowski Engine
The Minkowski Engine is an open-source auto-differentiation library for sparse tensor neural networks developed by NVIDIA, introduced at CVPR 2019 for 3D point clouds and spatio-temporal data.
Minkowski functional
The Minkowski functional, also called the gauge, assigns to each point the smallest scale at which it lands in a set, turning convex sets into seminorms.
Minkowski inequality
The Minkowski inequality, also called Minkowski's inequalities, is the triangle inequality for L^p spaces, stating ||f+g||p ≤ ||f||p + ||g||p for 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞.
Minkowski problem
The Minkowski problem, posed by Hermann Minkowski, asks which measures on the unit sphere occur as the surface area measure of a convex body in convex geometry.
Minkowski space
Minkowski space, or Minkowski spacetime, is the four-dimensional flat spacetime of special relativity, where the invariant spacetime interval replaces ordinary distance, proposed by Hermann Minkowski in 1907.
Minkowski sum
The Minkowski sum of two sets is the set of all vector sums of their points, named for Hermann Minkowski, who used it in 1903 to study convex bodies.
Minkowski's theorem
Minkowski's theorem, or Minkowski's convex body theorem, is a geometry of numbers result stating that any sufficiently large convex body symmetric about the origin contains a lattice point.