Elements of Surprise
Symbol Fe, the backbone of steel.
What is iron?
This Microsoft co-founder's foundation is the world's largest private charitable foundation.
Who is Bill Gates?
This programming language is named after a British comedy group, not a snake.
What is Python?
Rearrange TEAMS to get the hot vapor that spins a turbine.
What is STEAM?
It speeds up a reaction without being consumed by it.
What is a catalyst?
Symbol Si; it gave both a California valley and the semiconductor industry their names.
What is silicon?
The "R" in R&D.
What is research?
This company started in a garage and was originally called "BackRub."
What is Google?
Rearrange NUCLEAR to describe a hopelessly muddy abstract.
What is UNCLEAR?
Element number 6, the backbone of organic chemistry.
What is carbon?
Atomic number 2, second-most abundant element in the universe, and the coolant for superconducting magnets.
What is helium?
Microsoft's Redmond headquarters sits in this Washington county.
What is King County?
This two-letter acronym refers to the process of training machines to learn patterns from data.
What is ML (Machine Learning)?
Rearrange PHASE to get what a molecule's geometry gives it.
What is SHAPE?
The orderly repeating lattice that X-ray diffraction reveals.
What is a crystal?
Symbol W; it has the highest melting point of any element, about 3,422°C.
What is tungsten?
The year Microsoft was founded, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
What is 1975?
This computer scientist is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Rearrange PROTEIN to get a hunting dog or a mouse cursor.
What is POINTER?
Microsoft's AI assistant brand, now spanning GitHub, Microsoft 365, and Windows.
What is Copilot?
From the Greek for "heavy," symbol Ba, atomic number 56; you swallow its sulfate before an X-ray.
What is barium?
He leads AI for Science at Microsoft Research and wrote the textbook Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.
Who is Chris Bishop?
This law, first observed in 1965, predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip would double approximately every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
Rearrange ALGORITHM to get the function that turns multiplication into addition
What is LOGARITHM?
How well a model's stated confidence matches its actual accuracy.
What is calibration?