Web Dev
The first language used to display information on the internet through the use of web browsers that gained traction starting in 1990-91.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
One of the most essential and basic programming keywords/functions, which allows a program to execute many iterations of an operation without manually writing each command
for, while, or do loop
A processing unit, not central, that is primarily responsible for highly redundant, concurrent computations such as those involved in imaging, cryptocurrency mining, and other applications
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) or video card
Newton-Raphson, Steepest Descent, Gradient Descent, and Conjugate Gradient are all examples of what type of algorithm?
Minimization, optimization or maximization
The father of Jon Snow, a main character on HBO's Game of Thrones
Rhaegar Targaryen
A web programming language used by ~80% of websites on the internet including Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Slack and others
PHP (Hypertext PreProcessor)
The number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Thursday, 1 January 1970 is known as this
Unix epoch / unix time
One of the highest manufactured to date is 5120×2880; Mac laptops are commonly 2880x1800; and your Runescape-friendly 1995 monitor was probably around 1024x768. What optical property is being measured here?
Resolution or pixelation
The simplest sorting algorithm, which works by repeatedly swapping the adjacent elements if they are in wrong order.
Bubble sort, or sinking sort
Die can have many faces but the highest number on a Dungeons and Dragons die is this
20
The most popular web dev technology used by members of StackOverflow
Javascript
With Ken Thompson, the inventor of Unix and the B programming language. Also created the C programming language, and died in 2011 within a week of Steve Jobs' death.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
The largest PCI-e slot on a common motherboard
x16 or GPU slots
An algorithm routinely used to propagate the motion of (small) particles in time through simulation, named after a French physicist
Velocity Verlet
Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie invented something. What was it?
M&Ms candy
The text blurb that appears when you hover with the mouse over content in websites and other applications
Tooltip
In bash, :(){ :|:& };:
A function that quickly fills a processor with requests by piping its own output to another instance of itself
Fork bomb
Maybe accept infinite loop
The most common voltage of computer cooling fans
7-12V, some older ones 24V
The "Babylonian Algorithm", although first explicitly described in 60 AD by a Greek mathematician, is famous for determining what type of quantity?
square root
The domain of chaos that the god Nurgle represents in the warhammer 40k universe
Entropy, decay, or disease
The name of the first ever web browser program, later renamed to Nexus and discontinued in 1994.
WorldWideWeb
The "most loved" voted language by StackOverflow users is Rust. The "most wanted" is Python. What is the "most dreaded"?
Visual Basic 6
A combinational digital electronic circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers; one of the smallest building-blocks of a CPU
Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
A Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for obtaining a sequence of random samples from a probability distribution from which direct sampling is otherwise difficult.
Metropolis/Hastings algorithm
What geographical entity produces roughly 20% of the earth's oxygen supply?
Amazon rain forest