YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It)
Software principle advising against implementing features until they are necessary, useful when scoping MVPs for dapps and AI integrations.
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Archives: Glossary
Yggdrasil (Mesh Networking)
Experimental end to end encrypted IPv6 mesh networking protocol that can be used to interconnect nodes over the public internet without central routing.
Yuppie Index (Market Sentiment)
Tongue in cheek reference to tracking luxury and meme indicators as a proxy for risk appetite; not scientific but often used in crypto narratives.
Yank the Rug (Rug Pull)
Colloquial phrase for rug pull, when creators drain liquidity or revoke functionality to steal user funds; watch for upgrade keys and admin powers.
Yarn (JavaScript Package Manager)
Node package manager known for lockfiles and monorepo workflows; often used in dapp frontends with PnP and workspaces for deterministic installs.
YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator)
Cluster resource management layer in Hadoop ecosystems that schedules compute across nodes, powering big data and some on chain analytics pipelines.
YAML Anchors and Aliases
Mechanism to reuse and override configuration blocks within YAML files, reducing duplication in CI workflows, k8s manifests, and ML experiment configs.
YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language)
Human friendly data serialization format used for config files, CI pipelines, and infrastructure as code; sensitive to indentation and whitespace.
Yao’s Millionaires’ Problem
Classic secure computation problem where two parties learn who has a larger value without revealing the actual numbers, motivating privacy preserving protocols.
Yao’s Garbled Circuits
Secure two party computation technique that allows evaluation of a function over private inputs without revealing them, basis for private matching and auctions.
YAMNet
Audio event classification model trained on YouTube AudioSet embeddings, used for tagging sounds in video and real time monitoring applications.
