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T5(T5)

Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer; a model that treats every NLP task as a text-to-text problem, from translation to classification.

ai

Tableau

A powerful and fastest growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence Industry.

ai

Tailwind CSS

A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces without leaving your HTML.

web

Tally

A governance platform that provides tools for DAOs to manage on-chain voting, proposals, and delegate power.

web

TCP(TCP)

A core protocol of the Internet Protocol Suite that provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between applications.

network

Tcpdump

A common command-line packet analyzer that allows users to display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network.

network

TCP/IP Model

A four-layer conceptual model used for the internet and similar networks, focusing on the protocols that enable communication.

network

Technical Debt

A concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy (and fast) solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer.

dev

Temperature

A hyperparameter that controls the randomness or creativity of an AI model's output.

ai

Tendermint

A software for securely and consistently replicating an application on many machines, serving as a core consensus engine.

web

Tensor Processing Unit(TPU)

An AI-accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google specifically for machine learning.

hardware

Teradata

A multi-cloud data platform company for enterprise analytics.

ai

Terraform

An open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows developers to define and provision cloud infrastructure using a declarative configuration language.

cloud

Terraform for Networking

The use of HashiCorp Terraform to provision and manage network infrastructure as code.

network

Test Double

A generic term for any object that stands in for a real object during a test.

dev

Test-Driven Development(TDD)

A software development process where developers write a failing automated test case before writing the minimum amount of code to pass that test.

dev

Testnet

An alternative blockchain used by developers for testing applications and protocol upgrades without risking real funds.

web

Test Set

A final subset of data, never seen by the model during training or tuning, used to provide an unbiased evaluation of the final model's performance.

ai

Text-to-Speech(TTS)

The artificial production of human speech from written text, also known as speech synthesis.

ai

Thermal Design Power(TDP)

The maximum amount of heat a computer chip is expected to generate under a theoretical 'real-world' workload.

hardware

Thermal Paste

A thermally conductive compound used to fill the microscopic air gaps between a processor and its heat sink.

hardware

Thread Level Parallelism(TLP)

The ability of a system to execute multiple independent threads of execution simultaneously.

hardware

Threat Intelligence

Evidence-based knowledge about existing or emerging threats that helps organizations make informed security decisions.

security

Threat Modeling

A structured process for identifying, quantifying, and addressing potential security threats to a system or application during the design phase.

security

Three-way Handshake

The process used by TCP to establish a reliable connection between a client and a server.

network

Throughput

The actual amount of data successfully transferred over a network in a given time period.

network

Thunderbolt

A high-speed hardware interface developed by Intel and Apple that combines PCIe and DisplayPort signals into one serial signal.

hardware

Time Series Analysis

A specific way of analyzing a sequence of data points collected over an interval of time.

ai

Time to First Byte(TTFB)

A metric that measures the time between the request for a resource and when the first byte of a response begins to arrive.

web

Time to Interactive(TTI)

A performance metric that measures how long it takes for a page to become fully interactive and capable of responding quickly to user input.

web

TinyML

A field of machine learning focused on developing models that can run on extremely low-power microcontrollers and embedded systems.

ai

Token

A digital asset that exists on an existing blockchain, representing a utility, asset, or right.

web

Tokenization

The process of breaking down text into smaller units called tokens that an AI model can process.

ai

Tokenomics

The study of the economic systems and incentives that govern a cryptocurrency or token ecosystem.

web

Total Blocking Time(TBT)

A performance metric that measures the total amount of time that a page is blocked from responding to user input.

web

Total Value Locked(TVL)

A metric representing the total amount of assets currently staked or deposited in a DeFi protocol.

web

Trace Cache

A specialized instruction cache that stores sequences of decoded instructions (micro-ops) in their actual execution order.

hardware

Traceroute

A diagnostic tool used to track the path a packet takes across an IP network and measure the transit delays of each hop.

network

Tracing

A method of tracking a single request as it moves through various services in a distributed system.

cloud

Traffic Policing

A QoS technique that drops or re-marks packets that exceed a defined bandwidth limit.

network

Traffic Shaping

A QoS technique that delays packets to ensure that network traffic stays within a defined bandwidth limit.

network

Training Data

The dataset used to teach an AI model patterns and relationships during the training phase.

ai

Transaction(TX)

An agreement between a buyer and a seller to exchange an asset, recorded on the blockchain.

web

Transaction Fee

A small amount of cryptocurrency paid by the sender to have their transaction processed and included in a block.

web

Transfer Learning

A machine learning technique where a model developed for one task is reused as the starting point for a model on a second, related task.

ai

Transformer Architecture

A neural network architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data, forming the basis for most modern LLMs.

ai

Transistor

A semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.

hardware

Transit Gateway

A network hub that connects multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks.

cloud

Translation Lookaside Buffer(TLB)

A specialized cache used by the Memory Management Unit (MMU) to speed up virtual-to-physical address translation.

hardware

Transparency

The property of public blockchains where all transactions and data are visible to anyone with an internet connection.

web

Transpilation

The process of taking source code written in one language and transforming it into another language that has a similar level of abstraction.

web

Transport Layer

The fourth layer of the OSI model, responsible for end-to-end communication, error recovery, and flow control.

network

Transport Layer Security(TLS)

A cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network.

security

Travis CI

A hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub and Bitbucket.

cloud

Treemap

A visualization that displays hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles.

ai

Tree of Thoughts(ToT)

An advanced prompting framework that allows LLMs to explore multiple reasoning paths simultaneously and evaluate them to find the best solution.

ai

Tree Shaking

A form of dead code elimination that removes unused code from the final bundle.

web

Trend Analysis

The practice of collecting information and attempting to spot a pattern.

ai

Trojan Horse

A type of malware that is disguised as legitimate software.

security

Trunk-Based Development

A version control management strategy where developers merge small, frequent updates to a single branch, typically called 'main' or 'trunk'.

dev

Trunking

A method of carrying traffic for multiple VLANs over a single physical link between two network devices.

network

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)(TPM)

A specialized chip on a computer's motherboard that provides hardware-based security functions, such as secure key storage and platform integrity measurement.

security

t-SNE(t-SNE)

t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding; a non-linear dimensionality reduction technique particularly well-suited for visualizing high-dimensional datasets.

ai

TSV(TSV)

Through-Silicon Via; a vertical electrical connection that passes completely through a silicon wafer or die.

hardware

TTL(TTL)

A value in an IP packet that limits the number of hops the packet can take before being discarded.

network

Tufte's Principles

A set of data visualization guidelines proposed by Edward Tufte, emphasizing clarity, precision, and efficiency.

ai

Turing Test

A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

ai

Twelve-Factor App

A methodology for building software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that are portable, resilient, and scalable in cloud environments.

cloud

Twisted Pair

A type of wiring in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of canceling out electromagnetic interference.

network

TypeScript(TS)

A statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type definitions, improving error detection and developer tooling.

dev