https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/ Terms newly added to Atlas, the bilingual technical dictionary. en Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/activation-function/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/activation-function/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT The rule each unit in a neural network applies to its summed input, letting the network learn curved rather than straight patterns. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/bias-variance-tradeoff/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/bias-variance-tradeoff/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT The tension between a model too simple to catch the real pattern and one so flexible that it chases chance details in its examples. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/cross-validation/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/cross-validation/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT Checking a model fairly by splitting the examples into parts and letting each part in turn be the one held back for testing. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/data-drift/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/data-drift/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT The slow or sudden change in real-world data after a model goes live, so it no longer looks like what the model learned from. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/decision-tree/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/decision-tree/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT A model that reaches an answer by asking a chain of yes or no questions about the input, each answer leading to the next question. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/dimensionality-reduction/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/dimensionality-reduction/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT Squeezing many inputs about each example into a few new ones that keep most of what tells the examples apart. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/feature/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/feature/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT One measurable fact about an example, such as a price or an age, that a model reads as input when it makes a guess. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/feature-engineering/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/feature-engineering/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT Turning raw records into useful inputs for a model, by picking, cleaning, combining and reshaping the facts it will read. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/gradient-boosting/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/gradient-boosting/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT A method that adds small decision trees one after another, each built to fix the mistakes the trees before it still make. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/k-means/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/k-means/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT A method that splits data into a chosen number of groups by moving each group's centre until every point sits with its nearest centre. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/label/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/label/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT The right answer attached to a training example, such as "spam" or a sale price, that a model learns to give on its own. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/learning-rate/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/learning-rate/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT The setting that decides how big a step a model takes each time it adjusts itself to make fewer mistakes during learning. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/linear-regression/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/linear-regression/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT A simple model that predicts a number by adding up each input times its own weight, choosing the weights that fit past examples best. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/logistic-regression/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/logistic-regression/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT A simple model that sorts cases into two groups by turning a weighted sum of the inputs into a chance between 0 and 1. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/random-forest/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/random-forest/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT A model that builds many slightly different decision trees on random parts of the data and lets them vote on the answer. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/regularization/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/regularization/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:17:37 GMT Any rule added during learning that holds a model back from fitting its examples too closely, so it does better on new cases. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/accuracy/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/accuracy/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The share of all cases a model gets right; simple to read, but it can look excellent when the thing you care about is rare. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-instructions-file/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-instructions-file/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A plain text file kept with the code that tells AI tools the project's rules, commands and habits before they start work. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-memory/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-memory/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Notes an AI agent saves outside the model and reads back later, so it can carry facts and past work from one chat to the next. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-sandbox/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-sandbox/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A walled-off space where an AI agent runs code and uses tools, so a mistake or trick cannot reach the rest of your systems. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-to-agent-protocol/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agent-to-agent-protocol/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT An open standard that lets AI agents built by different companies find each other, hand over tasks and share results. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agentic-workflow/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/agentic-workflow/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A fixed chain of steps written in code, where a language model does some of the steps but does not choose the order. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-code-review/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-code-review/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Using a large language model to read proposed code changes and leave comments on bugs, risks and style before a person approves them. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-coding-assistant/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-coding-assistant/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A tool built into a programmer's editor that suggests, explains and rewrites code using a large language model. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-pair-programming/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-pair-programming/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Writing code together with an AI tool in a running back-and-forth, where the human stays in charge and checks every change. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-supply-chain-attack/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/ai-supply-chain-attack/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Attacking the ready-made parts an AI system is built from - shared models, datasets or plug-in files - instead of the system itself. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/alignment/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/alignment/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The work of making an AI system aim for what people actually intend, and refuse what they would not accept. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/attention-mechanism/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/attention-mechanism/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The step inside a model that decides, for each token, which other tokens in the input matter most right now. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/backpropagation/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/backpropagation/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The bookkeeping method that works out, layer by layer from the output back, how much each weight in a network added to its mistake. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/batch-size/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/batch-size/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT How many examples a model looks at together before it updates itself once during model training. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/benchmark/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/benchmark/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A shared, public set of tasks with a fixed way of scoring, so that different models can be compared on the same terms. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/chain-of-thought/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/chain-of-thought/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Getting a language model to write out its steps before the final answer, which tends to help on sums, logic and planning. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/chunking/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/chunking/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Cutting long documents into smaller passages before storing them, so a search can return just the part that answers a question. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/classification/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/classification/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Teaching a computer to sort each new case into one of a fixed set of groups, such as approve or reject, or real attack or false alarm. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/clustering/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/clustering/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Letting a computer put similar items into groups by itself, with no names or right answers given in advance. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/code-completion/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/code-completion/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Greyed-out code that appears as you type, predicting the next line or block so you can accept it with one key. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/coding-agent/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/coding-agent/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT An AI that is given a programming task and carries it out itself - reading files, running commands and editing code until done. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/computer-use/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/computer-use/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Letting an AI agent work a computer like a person does - it looks at pictures of the screen and moves the mouse and types. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/confusion-matrix/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/confusion-matrix/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A small table that counts, for every true class, how often a model gave each answer, showing exactly which mistakes it makes. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/context-engineering/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/context-engineering/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Choosing all a language model gets to see for a task - instructions, fetched documents, tool results, notes - not just the wording. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/convolutional-neural-network/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/convolutional-neural-network/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A neural network built for pictures - it slides small pattern checks across an image to find edges, then shapes, then whole objects. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/cosine-similarity/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/cosine-similarity/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A score from -1 to 1 for how closely two lists of numbers point the same way, used to tell how alike two embeddings are in meaning. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/data-labeling/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/data-labeling/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Having people (or tools) attach the right answer to each example, such as “cat”, “complaint” or “angry”, so a model can learn from it. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/decoder/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/decoder/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The half of a model that writes output one token at a time, each new token based only on what came before it. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/diffusion-model/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/diffusion-model/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The kind of generative AI behind many image makers, which starts from random static and cleans it up step by step into a picture. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/embedding-model/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/embedding-model/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT A model that reads a piece of text and gives back an embedding instead of writing an answer. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/encoder/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/encoder/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT The half of a model that reads the whole input at once and turns it into embeddings that capture its meaning. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/epoch/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/epoch/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT One complete pass of model training through every example in the training data; training often runs for several. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/excessive-agency/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/excessive-agency/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT Giving an AI system more tools, rights or freedom to act than its job needs, so one wrong or tricked step can do real damage. https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/f1-score/ https://cmaintz.github.io/tech-atlas/en/terms/ai/f1-score/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:56:38 GMT One number that blends precision and recall, so it stays low unless a model both finds the real cases and avoids wrong flags.