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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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model card

/ˈmɒdəl kɑːrd/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The honest paragraph about limitations that the deployment slide forgot to copy across.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A short document stating a model's intended use, training data, evaluation, and known limitations.

Evidence
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See also
  • ai governanceTerm struck pending the decision rights, review cadence, and accountability for training data and outcomes it presumes someone already assigned.
  • ai policyA document that prohibits the thing three teams shipped last quarter, dated next quarter.
  • model evaluationThe benchmark the model passes, chosen after seeing which benchmark it passes.
  • model registryA list of every model in production except the three a team is quietly running from a notebook.