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"An LLM Wiki incrementally builds and maintains a persistent wiki — a structured, interlinked collection of markdown files that sits between you and the raw sources instead of just retrieving from raw documents at query time.... the wiki is a persistent, compounding artifact." - LLM Wiki - Andrej Karpathy

Term: LLM Wiki – Andrej Karpathy

"Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) is a collaborative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) that intentionally integrates human intelligence and feedback into the AI lifecycle to enhance the accuracy, safety, and reliability of models." - Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) -

Term: Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)

"A blockchain is a shared, immutable, decentralized digital ledger that records transactions in 'blocks' cryptographically linked into a 'chain,' creating a secure, transparent, and tamper-proof history of data, validated by network participants instead of a central authority." - Blockchain -

Term: Blockchain

"Prediction markets are online exchanges where people trade contracts on the outcomes of future events, aggregating collective wisdom to forecast results, with contract prices reflecting the market's perceived probability of an event, like an election or economic data, occurring." - Prediction market -

Term: Prediction market

"Venture capital (VC) is private funding provided to high-potential, early-stage startups and emerging companies in exchange for an equity stake, aiming for significant growth and returns, often accompanied by mentorship and expertise beyond just capital." - Venture Capital (VC) -

Term: Venture Capital (VC)

"Angel finance is funding provided by high-net-worth individuals (angel investors) to early-stage startups in exchange for equity or convertible debt, often including valuable mentorship and industry expertise, bridging the gap before formal venture capital. " - Angel finance -

Term: Angel finance

"A general partner (GP) is the entity responsible for managing a private equity fund, making investment decisions, overseeing portfolio companies, and executing the fund’s value-creation strategy." - General partner (GP) -

Term: General partner (GP)

"Carry, short for carried interest, is the share of a fund’s investment profits allocated to the general partner (GP) as performance compensation." - Carried interest (carry) -

Term: Carried interest (carry)

"Dry powder refers to committed but uninvested capital that a private equity fund has available to deploy into new investments or follow-on capital." - Dry powder -

Term: Dry powder

"Multiple on Invested Capital (MOIC) measures the total value returned from an investment relative to the total equity capital invested, expressed as a simple multiple (e.g., 2.5×). In private equity, MOIC captures the absolute value creation of an investment without regard to the time taken to achieve it." - Multiple on Invested Capital (MOIC) -

Term: Multiple on Invested Capital (MOIC)

"Multiple expansion refers to the increase in a company’s valuation multiple at exit relative to the multiple paid at entry, holding operating performance constant." - Multiple Expansion -

Term: Multiple Expansion

"Operational alpha refers to the incremental value created through improvements in a portfolio company’s operating performance, independent of financial leverage or changes in valuation multiples." - Operational alpha -

Term: Operational alpha

"An investment thesis is a clear, testable statement of why an investment should generate attractive returns, specifying the mechanisms through which value will be created and the key risks that could prevent that outcome." - Investment thesis -

Term: Investment thesis

"The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international organization for public-private cooperation, a non-profit foundation that brings together global leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society to address major world issues, improve global agendas, and drive collaborative solutions." - World Economic Forum (WEF) -

Term: World Economic Forum (WEF)

"Economies of scope exist when it is less costly for a firm to produce two or more products jointly than to produce them separately in different firms. Economies of scope as arise from the shared use of inputs, assets, capabilities, or activities." - Economies of scope -

Term: Economies of scope

"LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) is natural gas (primarily methane) that has been cooled to approximately -165°C (-265°F) to turn it into a liquid. This process reduces the gas's volume by about 600 times." - LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) -

Term: LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)

"Economies of scale exist when a firm’s average cost of production declines as output increases, because fixed costs are spread over a larger volume or because larger scale enables more efficient production processes. Scale advantages arise not merely from size itself." - Economies of Scale -

Term: Economies of Scale

"Bayesian Inference is a method of statistical inference that uses Bayes' Theorem to update the probability of a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available." - Bayesian Inference -

Term: Bayesian Inference

"A multi-modal model is a system capable of processing, understanding and generating information across multiple types of data - known as 'modalities' (such as text, images, audio, video, and sensory data) - simultaneously." - Multi-modal model -

Term: Multi-modal model

"Algorithmic trading is an automated method of executing trades in financial markets using a computer program that follows a defined set of instructions (an algorithm). These instructions can be based on factors such as timing, price, quantity or mathematical models." - Algorithmic trading -

Term: Algorithmic trading

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