median
part of speech
noun (the median, medians); adjective (median)
meaning for a pupil
1) In maths, the median is the middle number when a list of numbers is put in order. tree →
2) (UK, Australia) The median strip is the strip of land between the two sides of a road. tree →
3) In geometry, a median is a line from a corner of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In note 03 the training median is the thickest, most common region of language a large model learned; it is a useful prior, not a final court. In the primary lessons: In school maths with mean, mode and range. In news: «median income» or «median age». On roads: the median (US: median strip).
examples
- The median view can be useful as a second opinion. (note 02) tree →
- Why a large model drifts toward its training median, and how a chain of reasoning carries it elsewhere. (note 03) tree →
- That is only half the problem: it is also sycophantic toward its training median. (note 03) tree →
- Beware the mirror: a model tends to soak up the frame of the person it talks to, so style may transfer but judgment stays independent; beware the crowd: frequency is not truth, and the median view is a second opinion, not a hidden religion. (lesson 003) tree →
- In the note, frequency is not truth: consensus is evidence of common experience, not automatic proof, and the median view should not become "a hidden religion". (lesson 003) tree →
- The median of 2, 5 and 9 is 5. tree →
- Put the numbers in order before you find the median. tree →
- For 3, 4, 8 and 10 the median is 6, halfway between 4 and 8. tree →
- The median age of the class is 10. tree →
- The car hit the median of the highway. tree →
- The median of a triangle goes to the middle of a side. tree →
note
Maths: put the numbers in order; with an odd count, the median is the middle one; with an even count, it is halfway between the two middle ones. Do not confuse with the mean (average), mode (most common) or range.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «median» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.