How to Use stochastic in a Sentence

stochastic

adjective

• Nonetheless, Hinton thinks the work lays to rest the question of whether LLMs are stochastic parrots.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Statistics and the stochastic parroting of human text are at play.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• That weighted-blanket-on-my-brain feeling just might be stochastic resonance at work.
  — Samantha Vincenty, SELF, 12 Aug. 2022
• But in the valley, a whole bunch of new stochastic mutations are likely to be high performers against the immune system and living conditions of the ferret.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Mar. 2021
• At the beginning of the year the stochastic reading was above 90.00 as an inflating parabolic bubble.
  — Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• And there's a reading based on the stochastic oscillator that is an actual overbought reading.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• We were not born to stand astride thin wedges of composite material on a turbulently stochastic ocean.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2022
• Lee and Vempala’s paper introduced Chen to the idea of stochastic localization.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2021
• Markov Chains - A Markov chain is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event.
  — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• Other than those lovely sketch moments, the following stochastic famous-guy interactions ruled late night this week.
  — Vulture, 17 Mar. 2023
• In her writing, Rooney brings torturous precision to her depiction of Marianne and Connell’s stochastic courtship.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2020
• The team used the standard machine learning technique of stochastic gradient descent to iteratively improve the two networks.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• Elowitz’s team is now examining the role stochastic gene expression plays in stem cells, undifferentiated cells that give rise to the different tissues in our bodies.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2014
• At its core, stochastic terrorism exploits one of our strongest and most complicated emotions: disgust.
  — Bryn Nelson, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2022
• At that point the amount of churn will be due to stochastic processes, rather than expected shifts in individual life status due to mismatch between human capital and social status.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
• The game ostensibly hinges on chance due to its reliance on dice, but in actuality, Chutes and Ladders is a stochastic system called an absorbing Markov chain, meaning just a portion of the system contains randomness.
  — Leila Sloman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2022
• But the United States’ changed politics gave the show new purpose, focusing it on an era of political trolling, shattered complacency and stochastic violence.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The research is an important step in identifying how and why people can become radicalized online by what has been termed stochastic terrorism, in which hate speech is used to incite violent acts, Burghardt said.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• But their conviction suggests that, in a stochastic world, medical information fosters a feeling of agency.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• The risk of toxicity in the large-language-model approach briefly made headlines in late 2020, after Bender, Gebru and their co-authors circulated an early version of the ‘‘stochastic parrots’’ paper.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Currently, the best methods for training and optimizing deep neural networks are variations of a technique called stochastic gradient descent (SGD).
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2022
• The author dispels the clean, linear, and prescient process triumphantly portrayed in the aftermath of success, instead revealing the messy, stochastic, and circumstantial process that can — in rare, tantalizing cases — improve human health.
  — Sarah Mupo, STAT, 5 July 2023
• Pepsi has a positive but overbought weekly chart with its weekly slow stochastic reading above 90.00, as an inflating parabolic bubble.
  — Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Stop-signal task performance is well described by theoretical models in which the Go and Stop cues respectively initiate stochastic go and stop processes that race for completion.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2013
• Another place to look will be the pattern of gravitational waves that may have been generated during inflation, called the stochastic gravitational wave background.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
• All without losing the sardonic tone and stochastic sentimentality of the original.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• This happens because, in each iteration of stochastic gradient descent, more or less accidental correlations in the training data tell the network to do different things, dialing the strengths of its neural connections up and down in a random walk.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2017
• That led Impossible to implement a new planning system, stochastic modeling, that factors in large fluctuations in demand.
  — CNN, 27 June 2019
• Alternatively, Schmitz and Bousack suggest that the beetles may be using a phenomenon called stochastic resonance.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2012
• Deep learning avoids this trap by initializing the parameters randomly and then iteratively adjusting sets of them to better fit the data using a method called stochastic gradient descent.
  — Neil C. Thompson, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024