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100
At ingestion, this columnar file format is used by Arize for batch data processing, known for its efficiency in handling large-scale analytics workloads and cross-language compatibility.
What is Arrow (or Apache Arrow file format)?
100
This iconic San Francisco marketplace opened in 1898, offers stunning views of the Bay Bridge. Fun fact: It survived both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes!
Hint: it is where the Arize conference is held
What is the Ferry Building?
100
This fundamental AI architecture, inspired by the human brain, consists of interconnected nodes or "neurons" organized in layers that process information and learn patterns from data.
What are Neural Networks?
100
This agentic command line tool from Anthropic, currently in research preview, lets developers delegate coding tasks directly from their terminal, enabling AI-powered development workflows without leaving the command line
What is Claude Code?
100
These three primary factors determine LLM capabilities and training costs: the size of training data (tokens), computational resources (FLOPs), and wall-clock training duration. Optimal allocation follows specific ratios according to scaling laws. Answer:
What are Data, Compute, and Time (or Training Data Size, Compute, and Time/Cost)
200
When OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) data flows into Arize, it passes through this distributed streaming message bus that handles real-time event processing and ensures reliable data delivery.
What is Gazette?
200
What building is this?
What is the Transamerica Building?
200
Introduced in the 2017 paper "Attention is All You Need," this architecture revolutionized NLP by using self-attention mechanisms instead of recurrence, and forms the foundation for models like GPT and BERT
What is the Transformer architecture?
200
This cloud platform specializes in frontend deployment and created Next.js. Their AI SDK simplifies building AI applications, and their v0 tool generates complete React components from text descriptions.
What is Vercel?
200
These empirical relationships, popularized by OpenAI's Kaplan et al., show that model performance improves predictably as you increase model size, dataset size, and compute. They follow power laws and guide decisions about resource allocation in training
What are Scaling Laws?
300
This critical process is responsible for loading raw data from cloud storage into Arize's analytics engine, transforming and preparing it for storage and querying to be visualized in the Arize platform.
What is the Druid Loader (or ADB Loader)?
300
This 3.5-mile stretch of sand on San Francisco's western edge is known for its dangerous rip currents, epic bonfires, and being home to the historic Cliff House restaurant. It's where the city meets the Pacific Ocean
What is Ocean Beach?
300
These layers convert discrete tokens like words or categories into continuous vector representations, typically learned during training, allowing neural networks to process text, images, or other data types mathematicall
What are Embedding Layers?
300
This open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI can transcribe audio in 99 languages, translate to English, and achieves human-level accuracy. It powers many voice-to-text applications and runs on-device
What is Whisper?
300
These additional tokens generated during inference, before the final answer, allow models to "think" step-by-step through problems. OpenAI's o1 model can use millions of these, dramatically improving performance on complex tasks but increasing compute costs.
What are Reasoning Tokens (or Thinking Tokens)?
400
These components store time-series segments and their retention settings directly determine what data the Arize UI can display to users, managing the balance between query performance and storage costs. Usually stored on disk
What are Druid Historical's (or ADB Historical's)?
400
This legendary San Francisco seafood counter has been serving fresh oysters and Dungeness crab since 1912, features only 18 stools, often has hour-long lines, and was featured in Anthony Bourdain's show as one of his favorite spots in the city.
What is Swan Oyster Depot?
400
This architecture uses multiple specialized sub-networks with a gating mechanism that routes inputs to the most relevant experts, allowing models to scale parameters efficiently while keeping computational costs manageable.
What is Mixture of Experts?
400
This open-source memory layer for AI applications provides intelligent, adaptive memory management that enables LLMs to maintain context across conversations, personalize responses, and remember user preferences over time.
What is Mem0?
400
This research area pioneered by Anthropic aims to reverse-engineer neural networks to understand their internal algorithms and representations. Key work includes identifying "induction heads" and decomposing models into interpretable circuits.
What is Mechanistic Interpretability?
500
Name at least 3 of the 5 places where data retention can be configured in the Arize architecture, controlling how long data persists at different stages of the pipeline. Answer:
What are Gazette, Raw Data files, Historicals (disk), Druid Segment Files (blob), and Logs? (any 3 of these)
500
San Francisco's oldest Asian enclave, established in the 1850s and home to the iconic Dragon Gate, borders this Italian-American neighborhood known for its Beat Generation history, cafes, and Saints Peter and Paul Church where Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe.
Which two neighborhoods are being described?
What are Chinatown and North Beach?
500
This optimization technique in transformer models (autoregressive) stores these two attention components from previous tokens during inference, dramatically reducing computational requirements for generating long sequences by avoiding redundant calculations
What is Key-Value Cache (or KV Cache)?
500
This neural search engine, formerly known as Metaphor, uses embeddings to find content based on meaning rather than keywords. It's designed specifically for AI applications to retrieve high-quality, relevant web content programmatically.
What is Exa?
500
This technique reduces model size and speeds up inference by converting weights and activations from 32-bit or 16-bit floating point to lower precision formats like INT8 or INT4. It can shrink models by 75% while maintaining most performance, making LLMs deployable on consumer hardware
What is Quantization?