BDBI
Something Ronit always asks for right before Big Data meetings.
The creator of PyTorch.
What is Facebook?
The name of the API request to retrieve data from a server at a specified resource.
What is GET request?
This was what Python was written in.
What is C?
All of the US presidents that were assassinated while in office.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy?
The President and Vice President of the club.
Who are Ronit and Eshani?
This mechanism differentiates transformer models from recurrent neural networks on input context and importance.
What is attention mechanism?
The popular web application framework owned by Google.
What is Angular?
The name of the first web browser.
What is WorldWideWeb?
The captain of the Titanic.
Who is Edward Smith?
Big Data is hosting this many projects this semester.
What is 8?
A common, strong neural network weight initialization - its name starts with "X".
What is Xavier initialization?
These types of databases store structured data based on a predefined schema.
What is Relational (SQL)?
The creator of Java. (Fun fact, the company’s HQ is now used by Facebook!)
What is Sun Microsystems?
The space between windows.
What is interfenestration?
A former president of the club in 2020 and 2021.
Who is Vamsi Desu?
This was the first transformer-based masked language model for Natural Language Processing tasks and is still commonly used today.
What is BERT?
A lightweight way to run an application that only virtualizes the application layer, rather than the application layer and the kernel.
What is container?
A programming language for special run-time environments that automatically executes certain tasks.
What is a script language?
The fear of bathing.
What is ablutophobia?
Our club alumni speaker from last semester.
Who is Devon Prewitt?
A critical technique used by common machine learning tools (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) to efficiently backpropagate and evaluate gradients in neural networks.
What is automatic differentiation?
An open-source, distributed processing system used for large data streams. Also the leading platform for large-scale SQL.
What is Apache Spark?
The name of the world’s first stored-program computer.
What is the “Manchester Baby” or the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM)?
The themes of each of the three rooms at Schrute Farm, also known as 'The Beets Motel'.
What are America, Irrigation, and Nighttime?