
TCP guarantees delivery order, UDP is faster but unreliable
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TCP guarantees delivery order, UDP is faster but unreliable
ACID
ACID guarantees data validity in transactions
Load balancing (computing)
Load balancing distributes tasks efficiently across resources
P
P vs NP asks if every problem whose solution is quickly verifiable can also be quickly solved
CAP theorem states: you can have at most 2 of consistency, availability, partition tolerance
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consistent hashing solves: minimizes key redistribution when servers are added/removed
Consistent hashing minimizes key redistribution when servers are added/removed
Top-k vs top-p sampling: top-k fixes candidate count, top-p fixes cumulative probability mass
Top-k sampling fixes candidate count; top-p sampling fixes cumulative probability mass
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