parameter
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Then, pick activities that fit within that parameter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
In a notice in the Federal Register published Friday, BIS said the rule eliminates wind gust tolerance as a control parameter and removes national security licensing requirements for drones with capabilities lasting under three hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
They also note that every parameter in the VLE carries significant uncertainty, much like the Drake Equation.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Bonsai 8B is an 8-billion parameter large language model, trained using Google v4 TPUs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
So they use parameter to mean a boundary, a characteristic, a component, an element, a feature, an ingredient, a part, a perimeter, a quality, or a requirement.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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While I want to caution against putting our unquestioned trust and faith in any shiny new “magic bullet,” it is clear that, within certain parameters, specialized AI programs can detect early signs of disease.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
For more than 100 years, scientists have used a system based on Atwater parameters to estimate how much energy people can obtain from food.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Instead of a trillion parameters, efficient small language models might use 70 billion and run on an Apple Mac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The mission parameters don't give a specific location to dump the RTG.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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