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parameter

[puh-ram-i-ter] / pəˈræm ɪ tər /


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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

AT&T’s own OTel model, which is an open model customized with telecom-specific data, was tested in 32 different variations of model type and parameter size, Markus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

This parameter controls how predictable or adventurous the generated responses are.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 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

Implementing large language models has been a brute-force approach: Big, fast and expensive GPUs from Nvidia crunch a trillion parameters using massive amounts of memory housed in liquid-cooled, gigawatt-gobbling data centers, all with brute-force pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

"By controlling the parameters of the laser, you can control the characteristics of the plasma filament -- including its length," says Darshni.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 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

Their weights, or the numeral parameters that the model learns throughout the training process, can be downloaded directly and run locally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Rowan almost made the mistake of giving the list of parameters to the Thunderhead and asking it for a subject—until he remembered that asking the Thunderhead for assistance was strictly forbidden for scythes.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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