Historical Figures
Machine Learning
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100

This man developed a hypothetical machine that represents a universal model of computation.

Who is Alan Turing?

100

What are the different sets that data is split into for machine learning models?

train/test OR train/validation/test

100

An outage from this company is what caused canvas to go down recently.

What is AWS?

100

What is the 22nd derivative of sin(x)?

-sin(x)
200

While creating Linux, this man also developed Git as a side project.

Who is Linus Torvalds?

200

This process scales features so they have similar ranges

what is normalization OR standardization?

200

Released in 2018, this open-source framework from Facebook became the most popular alternative to TensorFlow for flexible deep learning research

What is PyTorch?
200

This rapper became the first artist to have three songs debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in one year.

Who is Drake?

300

This woman was the first person to recognize that computers had applications outside of just pure calculation.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

300

The first computer to win a match against a reigning chess champion.

What is Deep Blue?

300

Microsoft's acquisition of this company is the largest acquisition of any company in tech ($75.4 billion)

What is Activision Blizzard?

300

This 19th-century conjecture, still unproven today, posits that there are infinitely many pairs of primes separated by two.

What is the twin prime conjecture?

400

This person was a computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist at NASA. She is especially recognized for her work on the Centaur rocket project.

Who is Annie Easley?

400

This activation function was popular before ReLU and is defined as f(x)= 1 / (1 + e^(-x)) 

What is the sigmoid function?

400

This 2016 event marked a major turning point in consumer hardware: Apple’s removal of this long-standing connector from the iPhone 7 caused global controversy

What is the headphone jack?

400

This 1950s psychological experiment showed that people would administer dangerous electric shocks when ordered to by authority.

What is the Milgram experiment?

500

This person published under the pseudonym 'Student', and is largely know for developing the Student's t-test.

Who is William Sealy Gosset?

500

This unsupervised learning algorithm minimizes within-cluster variance by iteratively updating centroids and reassigning points.

What is k-means clustering?

500

This 2018 privacy regulation from the EU forced global tech companies to overhaul data-handling and user consent practices.

What is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)?

500

This is the term for the apparent shift of position of a nearby star against the background of distant stars.

What is stellar parallax?

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