AI MILESTONES
ten tasks, the year of each, the system, the figure — and the human it was measured against
AUDIO FORMATS
who published each standard, when, what it does to the sound, and how many bits per second it allows
BIG-O NOTATION
the seven growth classes: how many steps, how long they take and how far each one lets you go
BINARY COUNTING
five doubling cards build every number from 0 to 31 — exactly the way every computer counts
THE CRON EXPRESSION
the five schedule fields: what each one means, what values it takes, and how to read stars, lists and steps
THE EXIT STATUS
One byte from a command to the shell: what the standard assigns in it, what it leaves to the system — and why “128 + signal number” is nowhere in the standard
A NUMBER IN 32 BITS
sign, exponent and significand: what actually sits in a float and what does not
GIT WORKING AREAS
four areas · the command that moves code between them
IPv6 ADDRESS NOTATION
eight groups of sixteen bits, the double colon, and one canonical spelling out of thousands
LOGIC GATES
Seven digital-logic symbols — and how to build six of them from a single element, NAND
MARKDOWN SYNTAX
headings, emphasis, lists, links and code per the CommonMark 0.31.2 specification — the core all dialects share
MEDIA TYPES
2322 registered subtypes under 11 top-level types, and how to read one you have never seen