dropout vs oddball

dropout

noun
  • Someone who has opted out of conventional society. 

  • A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units. 

  • One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. 

  • The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. 

  • Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course 

  • A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. 

  • Momentary loss of an electronic signal. 

oddball

noun
  • An eccentric or unusual person. 

  • A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant. 

adj
  • Exotic, not mainstream. 

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