Brainrot Badlands
Data Deserts
Programming Pampas
Artificial Archipelagos
Networking Nunataks
100

Who is your sunshine?

Who is Lebonbon?
100

What type of data structure has nodes and edges?

What is a graph?

100

What programming paradigm does Java use?

What is Object Oriented Programming?
100

What is NVIDIA famous for inventing?

What are GPUs?

100

What protocol is used by websites to serve website content?

What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?

200

An interjection Kundan likes to use a lot when he's confused about something.

What is "What the sigma?"

200

What is a special subset of a graph that has n nodes and n-1 edges?

What is a tree?

200

What is the term for when function calls itself?

What is Recursion?

200

What computational model used in ML is inspired by the human brain?

What are Artificial Neural Networks?

200

If you shoot a 200 pump in Fortnite but it takes a full second to register the elim since you're on Middle Eastern servers, what networking concept is to blame?

What is Ping?

300

What's the word for those strange little men stuck in toilets?

What are Skibidi Toilets?

300

What linear data structure operates on the First-In, First-Out (FIFO) principle, like Kundan waiting in line for his burrito?

What is a Queue?

300

What legacy programming language do many government services run on that the "Department of Government Efficiency" is attempting to modernize?

What is COBOL?

300

What hypothetical point in time is used to describe when technological growth (most likely a self-improving AI) becomes uncontrollable and irreversible?

What is the Singularity?

300

What services from their sponsors are YouTubers always trying to get you to subscribe to?

What is a VPN?

400

What might you call someone who's totally in denial about their crush?

What is Delulu?

400

What data type represents a collection of unique elements, where order is not significant and duplicates are not allowed.

What is a Set?

400

What divide-and-conquer algorithm efficiently sorts elements by repeatedly merging sorted sublists?

What is Merge Sort?
400

What algorithm is used to train neural networks using calculus to minimize their error function?

What is Gradient Descent?

400

What is the Anti-Virus District in Wreck It Ralph 2 surrounded by?

What is a Firewall?

500

Applying semiotic theory to internet media, what is the term for the smallest unit of cultural information replicable through imitation and variation?

What is a meme?

500

What data structure is a complete binary tree where the value of each node is greater than or equal to the value of its children?

What is a Max Heap?

500

What algorithm, found in last year's POTW, efficiently finds a maximum matching in a bipartite graph by iteratively finding augmenting paths?

What is the Hopcroft-Karp Algorithm?

500

What ensemble learning technique iteratively improves upon weak classifiers to create one strong classifier?

What is Boosting?

500

What asymmetric cryptography method, now replaced by Diffie-Hellman, was commonly used for key exchange over an untrusted channel?

What is RSA encryption?

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