Morning Overview on MSN

LLMs have tons of parameters, but what is a parameter?

Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
Nature

A framework for parameter estimation and model selection from experimental data in systems biology using approximate Bayesian computation

Experimental data and mathematical models are beginning to take equal billing in systems biology. Experimental observations without a framework in which to link them offer researchers only limited ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Docker Model Runner makes running local LLMs easier than setting up a Minecraft server

On Docker Desktop, open Settings, go to AI, and enable Docker Model Runner. If you are on Windows with a supported NVIDIA GPU ...

MiroMind’s MiroThinker 1.5 delivers trillion-parameter performance from a 30B model — at 1/20th the cost

Joining the ranks of a growing number of smaller, powerful reasoning models is MiroThinker 1.5 from MiroMind, with just 30 ...