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100

What does RL stand for?

Reinforcement learning

100

What company develops Claude?

Anthropic

100

In vector calculus, what is the gradient?

A vector of partial derivatives that points in the direction of steepest increase. The i-th term of the gradient is the partial derivative with respect to the function's i-th argument.

100

What street is GGBL (this building) on?

Hayward St

200

Name two natural language processing model architectures.

Transformer, RNN, LSTM, etc.

200

What AI company developed Gym, the open-source reinforcement learning library?

OpenAI
200

How many factors does 124 have?

6

200

How do you write a fraction in LaTeX?

a/b -> \frac{a}{b}

300

What does convolution do in a neural network?

Convolution extracts local features by applying filters across the input data, preserving spatial structure and enabling feature detection.

300

What was the cash reward for the 2009 Netflix Prize?

1,000,000

300

Name two vectors orthogonal to the hyperplane x + 4y + 2z = 0.

Any scalar multiple of <1, 4, 2>.

300

What university did Evan's parents go to?

University of Chicago
400

What is the difference between distillation and transfer learning?

Distillation is when a smaller model learns to mimic a larger, well-trained model.

Transfer learning involves taking a pre-trained model one one-task and fine-tuning it on a different task.

400

In what year was the perceptron introduced?

1958, by Frank Rosenblatt.

400

What are the last four digits of your Social Security Number?

(freebie)

400

What is the current US tariff rate on China?

145%

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