AI & Machine Learning
What does “LLM” stand for in artificial intelligence?
Large Language Model
What does CI/CD stand for?
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (or Deployment)
What does “rubber duck debugging” involve?
Explaining your code out loud to find bugs
What popular type of vehicle commonly uses lithium‑ion batteries?
Electric cars
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Mars
What is the term for training a model on a small, task‑specific dataset after pretraining?
Fine‑tuning
What tool is commonly used to define infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files?
Terraform
What version control system is used by most modern development teams?
Git
Name two major company that develops lithium‑ion batteries.
Panasonic, LG Energy Solution, CATL, Samsung SDI
What animal is known to have the best memory?
Elephant
Which company created the transformer architecture in the 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need”?
In Kubernetes, what object ensures a specified number of pod replicas are running?
Deployment
What is the humorous name for a bug that disappears when someone else looks at your code?
A Heisenbug
What is one advantage lithium‑ion batteries have over older battery types like lead‑acid?
They are lighter, last longer, and hold more energy for their size
What is the only food that never spoils?
Honey
What is the process where an AI model generates new data similar to its training data (like images or text)?
Generative modeling
What is the term for automatically scaling resources up or down based on demand?
Autoscaling
What is the term for code that works but is messy, rushed, or temporary?
Technical debt
What part of a lithium‑ion battery is responsible for allowing lithium ions to move between the anode and cathode?
The electrolyte
What is the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak (not sea level)?
Mauna Kea
What is the name of the technique where models learn by predicting missing parts of input data, such as masked words?
Self‑supervised learning
What is the name of the Kubernetes component responsible for scheduling pods to nodes?
The Scheduler
What is the principle that states “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation”?
DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
What is one alternative clean‑energy storage technology being explored besides lithium‑ion batteries?
Solid‑state batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, flow batteries, compressed‑air storage
What famous puzzle toy was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian architect?
The Rubik’s Cube