Technique Glossary

Browse 5 technique terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

5 Technique Terms

Chain of Thought

Chain of Thought is a prompting technique and reasoning approach in large language models where the model is encouraged to show its step-by-step reasoning...

Few-Shot Learning

A technique where a model learns to perform a task from just a handful of examples, either provided in the prompt (in-context learning) or during a brief...

Five Whys

A root cause analysis technique where you ask 'why?' five times to drill down from a symptom to its underlying cause. Why did the server crash? Memory leak....

Prompt Engineering

The practice of crafting input text (prompts) to elicit desired outputs from a language model. Part art, part science, part dark magic. Ranges from 'please be...

Rubber Duck Debugging

A debugging method in which a programmer explains their code, line by line, to an inanimate object (traditionally a rubber duck), and in the process of...

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