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Your Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Key Concepts in Data Science, Machine Learning, and Software Development
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GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer)

Graceful Degradation

Graceful Degradation
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Web and mobile development

Gradient Boosting: Definition, Core Concepts, and Key Variants

Gradient Descent

Gradient Descent
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Generative AI

Grafana

Grafana
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DevOps

Graph Databases

Graph Databases
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Data Engineering

GraphQL: Flexible and Efficient API Query Language

Greedy Decoding

Greedy Decoding
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Generative AI

Grid Search

Grid Search
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Data Science

H

HBase

HBase
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DevOps

Headless Browser

Headless Browsers

Headless Browsers
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Data Scraping

Headless CMS

Headless CMS
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Web and mobile development

Heat Map

Heat Map
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Data Science

High Availability

Histogram

Histogram
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Data Science

Hot Module Replacement (HMR)

Hot Module Replacement (HMR)
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Web and mobile development

HTML Elements: Structural Building Blocks, Semantics, and Attribute-Driven Web Content

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

HTML Parsing

HTML Parsing
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Data Scraping

HTTP Headers: Meaning, Types, Examples, and Their Role in Web Communication

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

HTTP Requests

HTTP Requests
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Data Scraping

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

Hyperparameter Optimization

Hyperparameter Tuning

Hypothesis Testing

Hypothesis Testing
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Data Science

I

IAM (Identity and Access Management): Definition, Core Features, and Role in Security

Image Captioning

Image Captioning
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Generative AI

Image Generation

Image Inpainting

Image Inpainting
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Generative AI

Image Scraping

Image Scraping
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Data Scraping

Image Segmentation

Image Segmentation
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Data Science

Image-to-Image Translation

Immutable Infrastructure

In-context Learning

In-context Learning
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Generative AI

In-memory Databases

In-memory Databases
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Data Engineering

Inception Score

Incident Management

Incremental Scraping

Incremental Updates

Incremental Updates
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Data Scraping

IndexedDB

IndexedDB
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Web and mobile development

Indexing

Indexing
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Data Engineering

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Infrastructure Automation

Ingestion

Ingestion
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DevOps

Integration Testing

Internationalization (i18n)

Internationalization (i18n)
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Web and mobile development

IP Rotation

IP Rotation
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Data Scraping

lxml

lxml
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DevOps

J

Jamstack Architecture: Static Rendering, API-Driven Logic, and Client-Side Execution

Definition of JavaScript Object Notation

Jenkins

Jenkins
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DevOps

Jenkins Pipeline

jQuery

jQuery
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DevOps

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

JSON Parsing

JWT (JSON Web Token)

JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
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Web and mobile development

K

K-means

K-means
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DevOps

K-Means Clustering

K-Means Clustering
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Data Science

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)

Kafka Streams: Real-Time Processing Framework for Apache Kafka

Kanban

Kanban
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DevOps

Knowledge Distillation

Knowledge Sharing

KPI (Key Performance Indicator)

Kubernetes

L

Label Encoding

Label Encoding
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Data Science

Lambda Architecture

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Latent Space

Layer Normalization in Deep Learning: Stabilizing Training for Transformer and Sequential Models

Lazy Loading

Lazy Loading
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Web and mobile development

Legal Considerations

Lighthouse: Automated Website Performance and Quality Auditing Tool

Linear Regression

Linear Regression
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Data Science

Load Balancer: Key Role, Functions, and Algorithms in Modern Infrastructure

Load Balancing: Intelligent Distribution of Traffic Across Multiple Systems

Load Testing: Ensuring System Stability and Performance Under Expected Traffic

Localization (l10n)

Localization (l10n)
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Web and mobile development

Logging

Logging
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DevOps

Logistic Regression

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning
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Data Science

Machine Translation

Machine Translation
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Generative AI

MapReduce

MapReduce
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DevOps

Margin of Error

Margin of Error
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Data Science

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

Master Data Management (MDM): Definition, Core Elements, and Enterprise Use Cases

Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

Mean Squared Error (MSE)

MEAN Stack

MERN Stack

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