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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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By modifying an open model’s weights—which encode knowledge and behavior—anyone can tear down its safety guardrails.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Cohen found MOTS-c by combing through the 97% of human DNA that doesn’t encode for genes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

"Our approach enabled us to isolate specific genetic and immune factors, then translate those signatures to human brain scans, showing that different connectivity patterns encode different mechanistic pathways underlying autism."

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2026

Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also stored on glass.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“But what helps our scientists is that it encodes information very, very broadly.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Understanding how an animal brain encodes memories and the emotional responses they evoke could lead to better cognitive therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2025

But when the researchers looked at Arhgap36’s genetic sequence in orange cats, they didn’t find any mutations in the DNA that encodes the Arhgap36 protein.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

It also encodes a wide range of political and technical compromises about how to translate food into nutrients that meet the diverse needs of the American public.

From Salon Jul. 16, 2024

This additional layer of complexity—that DNA encodes a protein that allows DNA to replicate—is important because it provides a critical node for regulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"The significance extends far beyond phages – it suggests that genome language models are beginning to learn the design principles encoded by evolution, opening the door to AI-assisted genome writing."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

A model can’t be jailbroken into revealing dangerous knowledge if its weights haven’t encoded that knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

“Up to that point, the highest number of encoded qubits anyone has done any experiments with was two or three, and they jumped straight to 48,” Fitzsimons explained.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

"A key finding was that these two independent groups of neurons encoded content and context together and most reliably when the patients solved the task correctly," says Bausch.

From Science Daily Mar. 24, 2026

From his own plant hybrids, de Vries could dimly tell that variant features, such as stem size, were encoded by indivisible particles of information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It may also lead to better ways of transmitting signals between devices and encoding more information within them.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Future work will focus on increasing the gray levels used in encoding to expand capacity even further, as well as improving the long-term stability, uniformity and repeatability of the recording materials.

From Science Daily Mar. 29, 2026

Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Power was broadcasting in the clear, rather than encoding his message.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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