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Which of the following statements about DHRUV64 is/are correct ?

  1. It is the third chip fabricated under the DIR-V Programme with an overall aim to enable the creation of microprocessors for India.
  2. It is India’s first homegrown 1·0 GHz, 64-bit dual-core microprocessor.

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(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (c) Both 1 and 2

Which of the following statements with regard to India’s indigenous new high resolution weather model, the ‘Bharat Forecast System,’ is/are correct ?

  1. Its objective is to generate forecasts at the Panchayats cluster level.
  2. It was developed by IIT Delhi.

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(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (a) 1 only

Which of the following statements regarding the features of blockchain technology are correct ?

  1. Records stored in the database may be made visible to relevant stakeholders without risk of alteration.
  2. Copies of the entire database are stored on multiple computers on a network, syncing within seconds.
  3. Consortium blockchain is a blend of public and private blockchains allowing selective data access.
  4. Mathematical algorithms make it impossible to change or delete any data once recorded and accepted.

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(a) 1 and 3
(b) 2 and 4 only
(c) 1, 2 and 4
(d) 1 and 4 only
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Answer: (c) 1, 2 and 4

Which of the following statements with regard to Large Language Models (LLMs) used in machine learning is/are correct ?

  1. LLMs assign probabilities to the next possible words and then pick the one with the highest probability.
  2. LLMs process data through mathematical optimization to minimise prediction errors.
  3. LLMs produce unbiased outputs.

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(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
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Answer: (b) 1 and 2 only