computation
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To investigate how much computation a single neuron can perform, the researchers created a new method for measuring the computational complexity of individual brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The achievement reflects a broader transformation in neuroscience, where progress increasingly depends as much on engineering and computation as on biology.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Over time, researchers may find ways to make models more efficient, reduce the amount of computation required, or change model architectures in ways that bend the cost curve meaningfully lower.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Markets are not data puzzles to be “solved” by powerful computation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
The os in his calculations were only intermediaries, crutches that vanished miraculously by the end of the computation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Even so, some have already outgrown those computations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Fields Medal, regarded as the Nobel prize equivalent for mathematics, was handed out on Thursday in the US as human computations are increasingly challenged by AI.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Under the hood, chatbots and the A.I. bots they power are nothing but a series of static math computations strung together in rapid succession.
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
The upshot is that your computations are necessarily based on a series of nested assumptions, any of which could be a source of contention.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Vocabulary lists containing computation
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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Expressions and Equations
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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