Hardware
This handheld device with buttons lets you click and move the cursor on your screen.
What is a mouse?
This is how you write the number 5 in binary, using only ones and zeros.
What is 101?
In this fast-paced mobile game, players battle in teams using unique characters called “Brawlers” to collect gems, score goals, or knock out opponents.
What is Brawl Stars?
This virtual assistant from Apple was one of the first widely used voice-based AI helpers.
What is Siri?
This colorful 3D puzzle, invented in 1974 by a Hungarian sculptor, challenges players to align six faces so that each shows a uniform color.
What is a Rubik's Cube?
This powerful type of magnet, made from a rare-earth element, is often used in modern earbuds and speakers because it’s small but mighty.
What is a neodymium magnet?
This type of coding language uses human-friendly syntax, like "print" or "if," letting programmers focus less on hardware details.
What is a high-level (programming) language?
This rogue-like game involves the child of Hades progressing through dungeons in order to reunite with their whole family.
What is Hades 2?
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world champion in this classic board game by beating Garry Kasparov.
What is chess?
This shiny aluminum rectangle is a fruit made of chips.
What is an Apple Macbook?
The law that states direction of an induced current is always such as to oppose the change in the circuit or the magnetic field that produces it.
What is Lenz's law?
This key programming concept hides complex details, letting you use a "CoffeeMachine" class without knowing how it brews internally.
What is Abstraction?
An old game that is jokingly used as a benchmark for PC performance.
What is Doom?
This architecture, introduced by Google in 2017, revolutionized AI by allowing models to focus on different parts of input data using “self-attention.”
What is the Transformer architecture?
Discovered and published 40 years after Beethoven’s death, this solo piano piece—formally known as Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor—was supposedly written for a mysterious woman named Therese, though her name was misspelled in the title.
What is Für Elise?
Von Neumann architecture assigns this component the role of fetching, decoding, & executing instructions.
What is a CPU?
This runtime exception occurs when your code tries to dereference a memory address that either doesn't exist or points to forbidden territory—like calling a method on null or accessing freed memory.
What is a NullPointerException (or InvalidPointerException/Segmentation Fault)?
A game that involves the training of creatures that possess elemental powers, with these creatures being able to evolve and revert forms.
What is Digimon?
While the Turing Test measures human-like conversation, this alternative test proposed by Steve Wozniak argues an AI has truly arrived when it can walk into an average home and successfully make a cup of coffee, requiring real-world, embodied intelligence and adaptation.
What is the Coffee Test?
This Japanese song released in April 2023, and achieved #1 in Billboard Japan Hot 100, Oricon Charts, Billboard Global Excl. U.S. within 2 months of release.
What is Yaosobi's IDOL (アイドル)?
This high-speed hardware interface, introduced in 2019, uses a differential pair and PCIe protocol to connect GPUs or SSDs, delivering up to 64 GB/s bidirectional bandwidth.
What is PCIe 4.0 (or PCI Express 4.0)?
A function that encapsulates a series of underlying operations, including the conversion of the provided argument into a human-readable format, followed by the execution of the output stream protocol to facilitate the seamless rendering of the specified message.
What is the print() function?
What is the name of the glitch in Super Mario 64 involving a yellow rabbit used to clip through walls?
What are MIPS clips?
In modern large language models, this component connects input and output embeddings through multiple layers of self-attention and feed-forward networks — it’s often referred to as the model’s “stack.”
What is the Transformer encoder-decoder architecture?
In 1520, during the "Noche Triste" or "Sad Night", this Spanish conquistador and his forces were driven out of Tenochtitlan by Aztec warriors under Moctezuma's successor.
Who is Hernán Cortés?