Meaning

• An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

Meaning

• Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.

  "My room is neat because I tidied it this morning.  She has very neat hair."

• Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.

  "I like my whisky neat."

• Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.

  "The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat.  The molecular beam was neat acetylene."

• With all deductions or allowances made; net.

• Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.

  "The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests."

• Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.

  "Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch."

• Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.

  "Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules."

• Good, excellent, desirable.

  "Hey, neat convertible, man."