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Brainrot
100

This is a collective of Universities in the US, made to bridge the gap between academia and industry.

What is the University AI Alliance?

100

This is what E/Acc stands for.

What is Effective Accelerationism?

100

This handheld device, introduced by Apple in 2007, revolutionized the smartphone industry.

What is the iPhone?

100

This social media platform, known for short-form videos and dance trends, faced increasing scrutiny and potential bans.

What is TikTok?

100

This is the fee you pay to your friends whenever you buy food.

What is fanum tax?

200

He is the first industry member of our Advisory Board.

Who is Sharad Aggarwal?

200

This is the student org that helped co-found E/Acc.

Bruin AI

200

This LLM agent, before being revealed as staged / fake, threatened the jobs of all Software Developers.

What is Devin?

200

This streaming giant made headlines by cracking down on password sharing in 2023, causing subscriber spikes and social media chaos.

What is Netflix?

200

This three word question is posed in the voice of an AI Squidward, starting with ERM ...

What the Sigma?
300

This is the event with hot questions, and even hotter wings.

What is Spicy Talks?

300

This is what SAIRS stands for.

Southern California AI Responsibility Summit.

300

This technology uses a decentralized ledger to securely record transactions, enabling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

What is blockchain?

300

This sci-fi Netflix series, starring Millie Bobby Brown and featuring '80s nostalgia, announced its upcoming fifth season would be its last.

What is Stranger Things?

300

This phrase is yelled when someone is making dangerously confident decisions with zero actual skill or plan.

What is "LET HIM COOK"?

400

This is the year CSES was founded.

What is 2004?

400

These are the four co-founders of E/Acc

Who are Rahul Mistry, Utkarsh Lal, Aryamun Das, and Pranav Soma?

400

This neural network architecture, introduced in the 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need,” revolutionized NLP by enabling models to handle long-range dependencies through self-attention.

What is the Transformer Model?

400

This fashion-forward music artist released a visual album titled "Cowboy Carter" in 2024, blending country and Black Americana into a cultural statement.

Who is Beyoncé?

400

This term is used to describe one's intimidating presence. Darth Vader has a lot of it. Dhruv Sharma has none.

What is Aura?

500

He is the CSES President from two years ago.

Who is Samvrit Srinath?

500
These are the founders of first, effective altruism, and second, e/acc, as a movement. 

Who are William McAskill and Guillaume Verdon?

500

This property of deep learning models explains why larger models tend to generalize better, even when they are over-parameterized relative to the size of the training data.

What is double-descent?

500

This Oscar-winning actor starred in both The Banshees of Inisherin and The Batman in 2022, showing off wildly different sides of his range.

Who is Colin Farrell? (The Penguin)

500

This Japanese song took the hearts of GenZ by storm in 2016, created by Daimaou Kosaka. Features a man in leopard print clothes.

What is Pen Pineapple Apple Pen?