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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

"Acceleration is not merely a kinematic detail -- it may act as a thermodynamic control parameter of QCD matter," explains Professor Huang.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Bonsai 8B is an 8-billion parameter large language model, trained using Google v4 TPUs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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

If you’re ever asked to sign a non-compete agreement again, be sure you’re totally comfortable with its parameters.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Several Chinese AI developers are building models with five trillion to 10 trillion parameters, a shorthand figure for a model’s capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It is also surprisingly simple, relying on only a handful of adjustable parameters and a small number of assumptions within the framework of general relativity.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

The proximate cause is Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, released last month: 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open model ever published, benchmarking within reach of the best American proprietary systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

I had to find an approach, figure out if we could land there, figure out the performance parameters, and tell the company what we were doing.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell