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The terms the rest keep referring back to. Read these and most AI writing stops being opaque.
Image Generation
How AI turns noise into a picture: the diffusion loop, the noise schedule on numbers, why it runs in a 48x-compressed latent space, and what guidance costs.
Disaggregated Serving (Prefill/Decode)
Disaggregated serving runs LLM prefill and decode on separate GPU pools because the two phases hit opposite limits: compute versus memory bandwidth.
Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)
RLVR replaces the learned reward model with a program that checks the answer. What that buys, where it stops working, and how it differs from RLHF.
Class Imbalance
Why a fraud model can score 99% accuracy and catch nothing — the imbalance trap, why precision/recall/PR-AUC replace accuracy, and how to fix it.
Feature Selection (FS)
Which columns to keep and how to decide: filter vs wrapper vs embedded, why 2^n subsets rules out brute force, and the CV mistake that fakes accuracy.
Symbolic AI
Symbolic AI (GOFAI) builds intelligence from human-written symbols and logic rules rather than learned data - the paradigm behind expert systems like MYCIN.
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Reworkd AI · Web Application
Open-source, browser-based autonomous AI agent from Reworkd. You name a goal, the agent plans tasks, executes them, and learns from the results.
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ByteDance's overseas AI assistant, renamed from Cici in November 2025. Free chat, translation and image generation, region-locked out of the US and China.
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Moonshot AI's open-source terminal coding agent: an MIT-licensed CLI with MCP and editor integration, driving Kimi K3 and K2.7 Code via Kimi membership.
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