Word of the Day:
parameter
What It Means
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.
Parameter in Context
“Fundamental is the regulation of a for-profit OpenAI. The company initially delayed the launch of its earlier GPT-2, with a mere 1.5bn parameters, because the company fretted over its implications.”
Did You Know?
From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “beside”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
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