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AI and Genie

AI and Genie copyrighted by Eric Wood in 2026   You rub an old lamp you find and out comes a genie called "AI".  "AI" says he will grant 3 wishes.      1) Your first wish is for a grand house. You don't see the results. Genie says it will be done in 100 years since you did not specify when.       2) Your second wish is to live 100 years later. You seeing flying cars, etc. but no house. You don't see the results. Genie points out that house is microscopic since you did not specify size.    3) Your third wish is to be microscopic. So you enter the house and see that the house is fabulous. Then the cow steps on the house crushing it and kills you. Genie says I probably would have specified that the house is to be indestructible.
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AWS Cert - AI Practitioner Exam

  AWS Certification Prep AI Practitioner Abbreviations A2I = Amazon Augmented AI APIs = Application Programming Interfaces docs = documents ex = example GANs = G enerative Adversarial Networks GenAI = Generative AI GPU = Graphics Processing Unit ML = Machine Learning FM = Foundational Models IDE = Integrated Development Environment IDP = Intelligent Data Processing LLM = Large Language Models ML = Machine Learning NL or NLP = Natural Language Processing PII = P ersonally Identifiable Info RAG = Retrieval-Augmented Generation   RL  = R einforcement Learning   RLHF = R einforcement Learning from Human Feedback SSL = S elf-Supervised Learning VAEs = V ariational Auto Encoders General Terms in AI Amplified Decision Making  = helps humans in decisions in stressful times Batch Inferencing = start with lots of data and time .   Focus on all data. For slow decisions with historical understanding.   good for   data analysis re...
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AWS Cert Prep Cloud Essentials - Product Names

  AWS Cert Prep  Cloud Essentials - Product Names Elastic Beanstalk  = deploy, manage, scale  web apps . Sets up infrastructure, load balancing + app health. Lightsail  = think  Lightsail makes Small Businesses soar.  Provides simple, pre-configured VPS hosting  kit  including compute, storage, DBs, and networking for a low, predictable price. No need for Mgmt console. Key features include easy instance setup, built-in firewalls, and load balancing.  virtual private servers, storage, DBs + networking for small biz. Blogs, etc. Outpost  =  hybrid with hardware on premise, but cloud  mgmt . Ground Station  = control  satellites . Device Farm  - for  testing web and mobile apps  across browsers and mobile devices. Route 53  is a  DNS  that does  geographic control   by routing over to edge and to Cloud Front.   Stateless. Restartable .  Route 53 has alias r...
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AWS Cert Prep - Cloud Essentials - Abbreviations

AWS Cert Prep  Cloud Essentials - Abbreviations ACM =  Amazon  Certificate Manager AMI = Amazon Machine Image BYOL = Bring Your Own License CDN = Content Delivery Network CLI = Command Line Interface DDOS = Distributed denial of service DMS = Database Migration Service EBS = Elastic Block Store EC2 = Elastic Computer Cloud ECS = Elastic Container Service EFS =  Elastic  File System EKS =  Elastic  Kubernetes   Service ELB =  Elastic  Load Balancing EMR = Elastic Map Reduce FMs = Foundation Models FSx = File System X IAM =  Identity and Access Management IDE = Integrated Development Environment KMS = Key Management Service MFA = Multi-factor Authentication MQ = Message Queue RDS = Relational Database Service RI = Reserved Instance S3 = Simple Storage Solution SCPs = Service Control Policies (security policies) SDK = Software Developer's Kit SES = Simple Email Service SQS = Simple Queue Service SNS = Simple Notification Service S...
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AWS Cert Prep - Cloud Essentials

AWS Certification Prep Cloud Practitioner Essentials -  Terms GENERAL Client/Server = C lient requests and server responds. Containers = Faster and lighter than VMs, since they do not have their own OS. Networking = Infrastructure and services working together to host your apps, data, and resources . Virtual private network encrypts your internet traffic . Content Delivery Network (CDN)   caches web content close to its end-users . No SQL DBs = key-value pairs . Authentication   verifies who. Uses locking (encryption) and unlocking (decryption) data. Authorization   verifies can do action Principle of Least Privilege Id Mgmt  Types:  Federated (across orgs), Id Provider, Single Sign-On (across apps), MFA, Zero Trust Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) = Requires 2+ verification methods to get access. Distributed denial of service (DDOS) = multiple computers attacking On-Premise (empty lot) , IaaS   (built house) , PaaS   ...
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