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Knowhere
Knowhere is a fictional spaceport in Marvel Comics, built inside the severed head of a dead Celestial near the edge of the universe and serving as the Guardians of the Galaxy's headquarters.
Knowing (film)
Knowing is a 2009 science fiction thriller directed by Alex Proyas, starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, and Chandler Canterbury, about a coded prediction of global disasters.
Knowing Bros (아는 형님)
Knowing Bros (아는 형님, Men on a Mission, originally Ask Us Anything) is a JTBC Korean variety talk show airing Saturdays since December 5, 2015, where a fixed cast runs a fictional classroom, 'Brother School,' and guests appear as transfer students speaking informal banmal.
Knowledge
Knowledge in philosophy: propositional knowledge, know-how, and acquaintance; the justified true belief analysis, Gettier's 1963 counterexamples, reliabilism, knowledge-first views, testimony, and the value of knowledge.
Knowledge argument
The knowledge argument, Frank Jackson's 1982 Mary's room thought experiment, argues against physicalism: a scientist knowing all physical facts about color still learns something new on seeing red.
Knowledge base
A knowledge base is a structured store of facts, rules, and relationships that computers query and reason over, spanning expert systems like MYCIN and modern knowledge graphs such as Google's.
Knowledge by presence (علم حضوری)
Knowledge by presence (علم حضوری, al-'ilm al-huduri) is Islamic philosophy's immediate, infallible knowledge in which the object itself is present to the knower, contrasted with representational 'ilm husuli; named by Suhrawardi, developed by Mulla Sadra and Tabataba'i.
Knowledge cutoff
A knowledge cutoff, or data cutoff, is the date up to which a machine learning model's training data was gathered, so it lacks later events.
Knowledge distillation (for LLMs)
Knowledge distillation for large language models is a training technique that transfers a large teacher model's behavior into a smaller student, introduced by Hinton, Vinyals, and Dean in 2015.
Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy, also called the knowledge-based economy, is an economy in which knowledge is the main driver of growth and employment across all industries, not one sector.
Knowledge editing (ROME/MEMIT)
Knowledge editing is a family of techniques that surgically changes specific facts stored in a trained language model's weights without retraining, notably ROME (2022) and MEMIT.
Knowledge graph
A knowledge graph is a structured representation of knowledge as a network of entities and relationships, typically stored as triples, popularized by Google's 2012 search launch.
Knowledge graph embedding
Knowledge graph embedding is a machine learning method that represents knowledge graph entities and relations as low-dimensional vectors, used to predict missing links and classify triples.
Knowledge in pieces
Knowledge in pieces (KiP) is an epistemological perspective in physics education research, begun by Andrea diSessa in 1983, holding that intuitive physics knowledge consists of many small, context-sensitive elements.
Knowledge integration
Knowledge integration is the process of combining knowledge from different disciplines, sectors, or knowledge types into a coherent whole, within a single mind or across a team.
Knowledge management
Knowledge management (KM) is a structured process for getting information and knowledge to the right people at the right time so employees can create value.
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR) is the artificial intelligence field concerned with encoding knowledge in machine-interpretable form and computationally drawing conclusions, such as checking consistency or answering queries.
Knowledge tracing
Knowledge tracing is a machine learning method that predicts how likely a student is to answer future questions correctly, serving as the student model in intelligent tutoring systems.
Knowledge worker
A knowledge worker, also called an information worker, is a worker whose value comes from applying knowledge and information rather than manual skill, a term coined by Peter Drucker in 1959.
Knowledge-based recommender system
A knowledge-based recommender system (KBR) recommends items by reasoning over explicit knowledge and the user's stated requirements, avoiding cold-start problems in infrequent purchases like financial services.
Knowledge-based systems
A knowledge-based system (KBS) is a computer program that solves problems using a stored knowledge base and a separate inference engine, as in expert systems.
Knowles Corporation
Knowles Corporation is an American electronics components manufacturer founded in 1946 and headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, best known for microphones and speakers for hearing aids.
Knowless Butera
Knowless Butera, also known as Butera Knowless, is a Rwandan singer and songwriter from Kigali who in 2015 became the first woman to win Primus Guma Guma Super Star.
Knowlton Church and Earth Works
Knowlton Church and Earth Works, Dorset: a ruined 12th-century Norman church standing inside Church Henge, part of the Knowlton Circles, a late Neolithic henge and barrow ceremonial complex on Cranborne Chase.
Known good die
A known good die (KGD) is a bare semiconductor die tested and screened before assembly to match the quality and reliability of an equivalent packaged chip.
Known Space
Known Space is Larry Niven's future history series of about 40 stories and novels set within 60 light-years of Earth, spanning the 1970s to 3101, from "The Coldest Place" (1964) through Ringworld and the Man-Kzin Wars.
Known unto God
Known unto God is the epitaph devised by Rudyard Kipling in 1917 for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones of unidentified soldiers, appearing on about 212,000 graves, with national variants for Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand unknowns.
Knowshon Moreno
Knowshon Moreno (born 1987, Belford, NJ) is a former NFL running back from Georgia, drafted 12th overall by Denver in 2009; 3,616 career rushing yards, 27 TDs, best season 2013 (1,038 yards, 10 TDs), final year 2014 Miami.
Knowth
Knowth, County Meath, Ireland: Neolithic passage tomb in the Brú na Bóinne complex with Newgrange and Dowth, twin east-west passages, largest single-site megalithic art collection in Europe, main use 3200-2900 BC.
Knox
Knox, a place name for the City of Knox in Melbourne's outer east (pop. 159,103 in 2021, named for Sir George Knox) and for Knox County in Tennessee (est. 1792), Texas (1858), and Ohio (1808), plus Fort Knox.