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Abend
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Abnormal End (stopping of job execution)
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AGV
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Automated Guided Vehicles (robotic material transferring vehicle)
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ANN
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Artificial Neural Network
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API
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Application Programming Interface (custom programs that solve unique functionality)
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BPE
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Byte Pair Encoding
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CMU
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Carnegie-Mellon University (was known as Carnegie Institute of Technology)
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CNN
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Convolution Neural Network
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CPU
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Central Processing Unit (computer, server, other computer based devices etc.)
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DAG
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Directed Acyclic Graph
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DARPA
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)
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DBSCAN
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Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise
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DOF
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Degrees of Freedom (in robots)
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FFN
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Feed Forward Network
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FLOPS
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Floating point Operations Per Second (floating point computing power of a chip)
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FPGA
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Field Programmable Gate Array
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GELU
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Gaussian Error Linear Units
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GELUtanh(x) = 0.5 * x (1 + tanh((2/π)0.5 * (x + 0.044715 * x3)))
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GELUsigmoid(x) = x *
sigmoid(1.702 * x)
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| GIGO |
Garbage In Grabage Out
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GLM
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Generalized Linear Model
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GMM
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Gaussian Mixture Models
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GPR
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Ground Penetrating Radar
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GPS
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Global Positioning System/Satellite
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GPT
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Generative Pre-trained Transformer
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GPU
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Graphics Processing Unit (graphics and image processing hardware/chip)
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GRU
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Gated Recurrent Units
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| IC |
Integrated Circuit
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| IFT |
Intutive Fine Tuning
(LLM)
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| IoT
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Internet of Things
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| IR
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Infra Red (sensor)
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JIT
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Just In Time
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Laser
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Light Amplification of Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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LCNC
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Low Code/No Code (autonomous code creation on demand by prompting)
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Lidar
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Light Detecting And Ranging (also Laser Imaging, Detection and Ranging)
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LISP
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List Processing (programming language) designed by John McCarthy
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LLM
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Large Language Model
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LSTM
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Long Short-Term Memory
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MCMC
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo
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MCP
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Model Context Protocol (open standard in LLM)
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MIT
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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MLP
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Multi-Layer Perceptron
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MPP
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Massively Parallel Processing
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MRP
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Material Requirement Planning
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NLP
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Natural Language Processing
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NMT
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Neural Machine Translation
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PCA
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Principal Component Analysis
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PCB
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Printed Circuit Board (hardware assembly)
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PCI DSS
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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
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PCI SSC
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Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council
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POS
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Point Of Sale (terminal, software/system, can also be replacement of cash register)
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Radar
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Radio detection and ranging
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RAG
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Retrieval Augmented Generation
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RCA
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Root Cause Analysis
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ReLU
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Rectified Linear Unit; f(x) = MAX(x,0)
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| RLHF |
Reinforcement learning from human feedback
(LLM)
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RMSE
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Root Mean Square Error (computation)
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RNN
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Recurrent Neural Network
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RPY
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Roll Pitch Yaw (typical robot
hand/gripper motion)
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RRT
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Rapidly exploring Random Tree algorithm
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SDI
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Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars, space based defense), USA
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| SFT |
Supervised Fine Tuning
(LLM)
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SLA
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Service Level Agreements
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SLM
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Small Language Model
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SOM
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Self-Organizing Maps
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SRN
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Simple Recurrent Network
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| SVD |
Singular Value Decomposition
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| SVM |
Support Vector Machines
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SRI
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Stanford Research Institute
(separated from Stanford University in 1970 and known as SRI International)
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TSP
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Travelling Salesman Problem
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ULSI
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Ultra Large Scale Integration
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URL
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Uniform Resource Locator
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VGG
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Visual Geometry Group (standard for deep CNN)
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VLSI
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Very Large Scale Integration
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x86
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Generic name of Intel-8086, 80186, ... microprocessor architecture
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