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Idle generally refers to idleness, a lack of motion or energy. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: IdleA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Unpacking the role of motivation and enjoyment in AI-mediated informal digital learning of English (AI-IDLE): A mixed-method investigation in the Chinese contextInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: FaserlandThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Utilization of Idle Time in an M / G /1 Queueing SystemCited 351 times
- Go sideways: Idle, West YorkshireA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Eccleshill railway stationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Empty, vacant.
Adjective Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
Adjective Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
Adjective Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Utilization of Idle Time in an M / G /1 Queueing System
Are Idle Hands the Devil’s Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime
Exploring AI-mediated informal digital learning of English (AI-IDLE): a mixed-method investigation of Chinese EFL learners’ AI adoption and experiences
Join-Idle-Queue: A novel load balancing algorithm for dynamically scalable web services
Metabolic rate and environmental productivity: Well-provisioned animals evolved to run and idle fast
Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources
Informal digital learning of English (IDLE): a scoping review of what has been done and a look towards what is to come
A Self-Learning Discrete Jaya Algorithm for Multiobjective Energy-Efficient Distributed No-Idle Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem in Heterogeneous Factory System
🆕 Influential since 2022
Unpacking the role of motivation and enjoyment in AI-mediated informal digital learning of English (AI-IDLE): A mixed-method investigation in the Chinese context
Modeling EFL teachers’ intention to integrate informal digital learning of English (IDLE) into the classroom using the theory of planned behavior
An Iterative Greedy Algorithm With Q -Learning Mechanism for the Multiobjective Distributed No-Idle Permutation Flowshop Scheduling
Untangling the Relationship Between AI ‐Mediated Informal Digital Learning of English ( AI ‐ IDLE ), foreign Language Enjoyment and the Ideal L2 Self: Evidence From Chinese University EFL Students
Revisiting informal digital learning of English (IDLE): a structural equation modeling approach in a university EFL context
📚 Books worth reading
FaserlandChristian Kracht · 1995
Home to Morning StarMargaret Way · 1981- 📕IDLJohn R. Nestor, Joseph M. Newcomer · 1989
Seven seas on a shoestringDwight Long · 1938
IDL Programming TechniquesDavid W. Fanning · 1997
Practical IDL ProgrammingLiam E. Gumley · 2001
Application development with IDLRonn Kling, Ronn L. Kling · 1999- 📕Unix System V Release 3.2 Network Programmer's GuideAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1988
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