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parameter

[puh-ram-i-ter] / pəˈræm ɪ tər /


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"The millimeter and submillimeter radio bands remain almost completely unexplored for SETI, so this is really about opening up a new area of parameter space to search."

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

The company said it is also releasing 1-bit Bonsai 4 billion parameter and 1.7 billion parameter models, with 0.5 gigabytes and 0.24 gigabytes memory footprints, and even higher intelligence density.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

"This would require moving away from simply using caste as the parameter for redistribution of available resources, to use of both caste and income levels in policymaking."

From BBC Nov. 12, 2025

Each time he adjusted even a single parameter, it could take days of extra computation to see the results.

From Science Daily Oct. 30, 2025

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

Twenty-five companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and Palantir, urged Washington not to restrict open-weight artificial-intelligence models—those whose underlying parameters anyone can download, inspect and adapt.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Critics argued that it flew in the face of innocent-before-proven-guilty parameters and that the job of police was to investigate, not adjudicate.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

While this makes Kimi K3 efficient to run, the requirement to hold 2.8 trillion parameters in active memory means the model would be difficult for enterprises to run on their own servers, Sen told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The recovery came even as Alibaba previewed a new large-language model, Qwen3.8 Max, that it said was second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5, with 2.4 trillion parameters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“Filling the refrigerator does not fall within the parameters of my responsibilities. Therefore, the lack of food therein would have no reflection upon me whatsoever.”

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt




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