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drop-outs
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2015-03-23 18:46:57 +00:00
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1. n. 1. A variety of power glitch (see glitch ); momentary 0 voltage on the
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electrical mains.
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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2015-03-23 18:46:57 +00:00
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2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system
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saturation (one cause of such behavior under Unix when a bad connection to
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a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see
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screaming tty ).
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3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the
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mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch , fried.
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A really serious case of drop-outs. (The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga
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is 73-05-21. The previous one is 73-05-19.
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4. Processing units de-activated at random during the training of an
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artificial neural network system in order to increase the robustness of
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learned representations.
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