Famous Frameworks
This agile framework borrows its name from a rugby formation.
What is Scrum?
Before streaming, this company mailed DVDs to customers in red envelopes.
What is Netflix?
The "L"s that appear in LLM.
What is Large and Language (Large Language Model)?
Tim Berners-Lee invented this at CERN in 1989. The abbreviation starts your browser's address bar.
What is the World Wide Web?
Google's name is a misspelling of this number, a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
What is a googol?
This Japanese word for "signboard" names a board of columns like To Do, Doing and Done.
What is Kanban?
This messaging app was a side project inside a failed video game company called Tiny Speck.
What is Slack?
When an AI confidently states something false, we borrow this word from psychology.
What is a hallucination?
Steve Jobs introduced this phone in January 2007 as "an iPod, a phone and an internet communicator".
What is the iPhone?
ChatGPT launched to the public in the final days of this year.
What is 2022?
Eric Ries wrote this 2011 book that gave us the loop "build, measure, learn".
What is The Lean Startup?
Before it became a video site, this company briefly tried to be a video dating site.
What is YouTube?
The "T" in GPT names this neural network architecture introduced in a 2017 Google paper.
What is a Transformer?
In 1997 IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at this game.
What is chess?
Early Android versions were named after these, in alphabetical order: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair.
What are desserts?
Clayton Christensen explained this framework with a story about why people buy milkshakes in the morning.
What is Jobs to be Done?
This photo app began as a location check-in app named Burbn.
What is Instagram?
AI models read text in these small chunks, which are often shorter than a word.
What are tokens?
This programming language is named after a British comedy group, not a snake.
What is Python?
Linus Torvalds created this operating system in 1991 and this version-control tool in 2005.
What are Linux and Git?
Toyota's root-cause technique tells you to ask this question this many times.
What is the Five Whys?
This game company started in 1889 selling hand-made playing cards in Kyoto.
What is Nintendo?
This three-letter acronym describes giving a model fresh documents to read before it answers.
What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?
The wireless standard Bluetooth is named after a 10th-century king of this country.
What is Denmark?
In 2016, DeepMind's AlphaGo beat champion Lee Sedol at this ancient board game.
What is Go?