poor

Definition

Lacking in some resource, most often in compounds like resource-poor languages or data-poor domains, where it is interchangeable with low-resource. The word also carries its ordinary evaluative sense — poor performance, poor calibration — so the noun it modifies tells you which reading applies. In the first sense it describes the setting; in the second it grades a result.

Explainers using this term

• Paper walkthrough: Puro-2B — pretraining a 2B model from scratch for $6.9K on consumer GPUsPuro-2B: Poor Lab's Qwen2-1.5B Trained on RTX 5090 within $5090