Procedure

acupuncture

Event

form of alternative medicine

I Ching

VisualArtwork

ancient Chinese text used for divination

Ethereum

Thing

public blockchain platform with programmable transaction functionality

Advanced Encryption Standard

Place

block cipher standard

Stable Diffusion

CreativeWork

image-generating machine learning model

Bitcoin

CreativeWork

digital cash system and associated currency

cognitive behavioral therapy

Intangible

psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions

naturopathy

Event

form of alternative medicine, drugless system of therapy

genetic algorithm

class

competitive algorithm for searching a problem space

MD5

Place

message-digest hashing algorithm

reinforcement learning

class

type of machine learning where an agent learns how to behave in an environment by performing actions and receiving rewards or penalties in return, aiming to maximize the cumulative reward over time

unsupervised learning

class

machine learning technique

Ripple

CreativeWork

payment protocol

perceptron

class

algorithm for supervised learning of binary classifiers

recurrent neural network

class

class of artificial neural network where connections between units form a directed graph along a temporal sequence

A* search algorithm

Place

algorithm used for pathfinding and graph traversal

density functional theory

class

computational quantum mechanical modelling method to investigate the electronic structure

management information system

Intangible

information system used for decision-making

ant colony optimization algorithms

Intangible

probabilistic techniques for solving computational problems that can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs

simulated annealing

Intangible

numerical optimization technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for ordinary search methods to yield results

kriging

Intangible

method of interpolation based on Gaussian process governed by prior covariances

bidirectional encoder representations from transformers

class

deep learning artificial neural network language model

self-organizing map

class

machine learning technique useful for dimensionality reduction

MD4

Place

obsolete cryptographic hash function

GPT-4o

CreativeWork

family of multimodal artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI

particle swarm optimization

class

optimization method using a set of candidate solutions moving around in the search-space

deep learning super sampling

Place

suite of real-time AI image processing technologies by Nvidia

hill climbing

class

optimization algorithm

scrypt

Intangible

password-based key derivation function

best-first search

Place

algorithm

knowledge distillation

class

machine learning method to transfer knowledge from a large model to a smaller one

Graham scan

Intangible

algorithm for finding the convex hull of a set of points in the plane

bcrypt

Intangible

password-based key derivation function

RIPEMD

Place

cryptographic hash function

MD2

Place

obsolete cryptographic hash function

bootstrap aggregating

Intangible

ensemble method within machine learning

beam search

class

heuristic search algorithm

gift wrapping algorithm

Intangible

algorithm for computing convex hulls by tracing the boundary of the hull

Argon2

Intangible

password-based key derivation function

SCIgen

Place

computer program that randomly generates nonsense in the form of computer science research papers

Whirlpool

Place

cryptographic hash function

Flux

CreativeWork

suite of text-to-image models

Postmodernism Generator

Place

computer program

AdaBoost

Intangible

boosting algorithm

Whisper

CreativeWork

machine learning model for speech recognition and transcription

RIPEMD-160

Place

cryptographic hash function

Mix network

Place

routing protocol

PBKDF2

Intangible

standard for a password-based key derivation function

spiking neural network

class

artificial neural network that mimics real neurons

GPT-J

Thing

artificial intelligence language model developed by EleutherAI

Shamir's Secret Sharing

Thing

algorithm in cryptography created by Adi Shamir

Simplified Memory-Bounded A*

Place

heuristic pathfinding algorithm with bounded memory

Dual_EC_DRBG

Place

controversial pseudorandom number generator

Firefly algorithm

class

in mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic proposed by Xin-She Yang

ring signature

Place

used in cryptocurrency

Group signature

Place

Privacy-based cryptographic primitive

sweep line algorithm

class

class of algorithms in computational geometry that uses a conceptual sweep line/surface to solve various problems in Euclidean space

Chan's algorithm

Intangible

algorithm for finding the convex hull of a set of points in the plane

StyleGAN

Place

generative adversarial network introduced by Nvidia researchers in December 2018

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