Newbie Lore
This many newbies don't drink
How many is 0?
This technique partitions data into disjoint subsets and shuffles training and validations sets to measure model robustness
What is K Fold Cross Validation
This song by this artist broke Mariah Carey's all-time record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Who is Ella Langley, Choosin’ Texas
Sather Tower, also known as the Campanile, is home to a famous family of these birds, which are also the fastest living animal?
What are peregrine falcons
Say these two numbers and every middle schooler in the room shrugs their hands up and down.
What is 6-7?
These are the names of the international newbies
Who are Taylor and Yunseo?
The Central Limit Theorem states that the distribution of this quantity is approximately normal across a large number of randomly drawn samples from some fixed distribution
What is the sample mean
This longrunning live-action television show hosted by Jeff Probst has recently been renewed for its 51st season
What is Survivor
This pricy Berkeley restaurant is currently the number one ranked Berkeley eatery via Yelp
What is Kiraku
You may have learned about functional programming languages like LISP in 61A. One of the most popular of these languages is this one commonly used and developed at Jane Street?
What is Ocaml
This newbie was previously in another 'DSS'
Who is Ethan Deng?
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) relies on understanding the directions that explain the most variance in the data. The first principal component corresponds to what direction based on the SVD of the data matrix?
What is the direction of the largest singular value (in magnitude)
A coach on the losing side of a recent college football game referred to the match as the his former team’s “Super Bowl”. Name both teams, both head coaches, and both starting quarterbacks from the game.
Who are Ole Miss, LSU, Lane Kiffin, Pete Golding, Sam Leavitt, and Trinidad Chambliss
The Big Game is one of the most famous historical rivalries in sports between Berkeley and the farm where Peter Thiel grooms his next victims. What year did the first big game occur?
When is 1892
Sing the entire introduction of the Spongebob Theme Song no mistakes
:D
These many newbies are sophomores
How many is 8? (Moho, Melissa, Khoa, Annabelle, Ethan, Sasha, Taylor, Varsha)
Ridge regressions uses the L2 norm penalty on the magnitude of weights in order to perform regularization. The L2 norm constraint results in the feasible solution set of ridge regression to lie within what type of shape?
What is a Hypersphere or Hyperball (both acceptable)
Taylor Swift is dropping “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore” tomorrow. Name one song in it
What is Patient Zero, Cleveland!, Pink Clouding, Babylon
Berkeley is the home to the California Golden Bears. How many bear statues are present on campus?
How many is 23
In the 7th century, a Chinese monk, Xuanzang, traveled to India, studied at Nalanda, and brought back hundreds of Buddhist texts. His trip inspired a famous novel named
What is Journey to the West
This many newbies said they can't swim or have difficulties swimming at Welcome Night
How many is 4 (Annika, Holly, Khoa, Taylor)?
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) use the outputs of a previous layer along with a current timestep’s input to enable sequence modeling. This requires a modified optimization process which relies on this algorithm?
What is Backpropogation-Through-Time or BPTT
In March 2026, a soccer player accused an artist’s security team of making his 11-year-old stepdaughter cry at a hotel in Brazil. Name both the artist as well as the player involved
Who are Chappell Roan, Jorginho
You probably know about famous Berkeley professors like Robert Oppenheimer, but can you name this notable prof who was the first ever recipient of a Nobel Laureate Parking Spot
Who is Ernest Lawrence
Nick Stoeberl holds the record for the longest human tongue recorded (they haven’t gotten to Sameer yet). How many inches was it from tip to closed lip (within 0.05 in)
How long is 3.97 in