parameter
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Using what the company calls a “mixture-of-experts” model, it could run a 30 billion parameter AI model in 3 gigabytes of memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
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
"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
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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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
Although the model features 501 billion parameters, it only activates 23 billion parameters per query, giving users the advantage of a large, powerful model without the high computing costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
He immediately regretted it, because the moment those names had faces, they became people instead of parameters.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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