Glossary: Letter L

A template language created by Shopify, written in Ruby. Liquid powers Shopify themes, Jekyll static sites, and other platforms, featuring safe sandboxed execution for user-facing templates.

Source code for Lisp (List Processing), the second-oldest high-level language (1958). Pioneer of many CS concepts including tree data structures, garbage collection, and dynamic typing.

A device or software that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server bears too much load. Load balancers improve application availability, reliability, and...

A specialized type of recurrent neural network designed to learn long-range dependencies in sequential data. LSTMs use gate mechanisms (input, forget, output) to control information flow, solving the...

A mathematical function that measures the difference between the predicted output and the actual target value. The loss function guides the training process by quantifying how well or poorly a model i...

A JSON-based animation format by Airbnb for rendering After Effects animations natively on web and mobile. Much smaller than GIF/video alternatives.

A parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique that freezes the pre-trained model weights and injects trainable low-rank decomposition matrices into transformer layers. LoRA drastically reduces the numbe...

A lightweight, embeddable scripting language designed for extending applications. Lua is widely used in game development (Roblox, World of Warcraft), embedded systems, and as a configuration language...