Bruin AI
UCLA
CS / Machine Learning
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This members dad has the same name as a serial killer and gets stopped at the airport because of it.

Aidan Robinson

100

What are UCLA's colors - must be specific!

True Blue and Gold

100

What combines text generation with retrieval of information?

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

100

What is the most common surname in the United States?

Smith

100

What was the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god?

Ra

200

How many of the 9 founding members are still in Bruin AI?

(3) Utkarsh, Akshyae, Jakob

200

When was UCLA founded?

1919

200

Unlike its deterministic counterpart, this optimization algorithm updates model parameters using a randomly selected subset of the training data, improving convergence speed.

Stochastic Gradient Descent

200

What country has the most islands?

Sweden

200

What is the highest-grossing film of all time?

Avatar

300

Who ended up going with Shivang for his arm? (Those involved can't answer)

Ryan

300

Which is the largest lecture hall at UCLA?

Moore Hall 100  446 Seats

300

What does URL stand for?

Uniform Resource Locator

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The unicorn is the national animal of which country?

Scotland

300

Who plays Smaug in the hobbit?

Benedict Cumberbatch

400

How many people in the Bruin AI have the same first name or last name?

16 members. 2 x Singh, 2 x Aidan, 2 x Andrew, 2 x Karen, 2 x Sneha, 2 x Yash, 2 x Agarwhals, 2 x Pranavs, 2 x Justin
400

Before UCLA moved to westwood, where was it located?

Los Angeles City College in Hollywood - 1929

400

Introduced in 1970s, this algorithm recursively applies chain rule to compute compute gradients of a loss function

Backpropogation

400

Which country is credited with inventing ice cream?

China

400

Which planet has the most moons?

Saturn

500

Where was Bruin AI's first retreat?

West Covina

500

How many of UCLAs faculty are nobel laureates?

8

500

Originally inspired by the McCulloch-Pitts model, this class of function approximators uses hierarchical feature extraction and non-linear transformations across multiple layers

Neural Network

500

How many time zones are there in Russia?

11

500

Which is the only body part that is fully grown from birth?

Eyes