Ground truth
Facts that have been carefully checked in the real world.
Learn it through a story
- The Pothole App That Was Fooled (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 7)
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Related terms
- Foundation The shared core knowledge that makes any later specialisation easier to learn.
- Fraud dispute A formal report to a bank or payment provider asking to reverse an unauthorised or misdirected payment.
- Git history The full, permanent record of every past version of a repository, not just its current state.
- Hardcoded secret A password, key, or token written directly into source code instead of kept separately.
- Hashing Turning data into a fixed, one-way fingerprint used to check a match.
- HTTPS A secure, encrypted connection to a website, shown by a padlock in the address bar.