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
Bonsai 8B is an 8-billion parameter large language model, trained using Google v4 TPUs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 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
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"AI and social media obviously wasn't a thing when I signed my contract 20 years ago so I'm still trying to understand exactly what those parameters are."
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
“There are literally no parameters in the law that we are aware of that would restrict the installation of these things,” Yukelson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
"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
And with the sugar-phosphate backbone placed on the outside, and the general parameters of the measurements ascertained, the model builders could begin the most exacting phase of model building.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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