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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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The findings represented the first reported example of a genetic code in which both TAA and TAG had been reassigned to encode two different amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Some AI companies are now trying to encode human values into their products.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

But, the researchers concluded, the rats don’t appear to encode that experience as learning and memory unless they have some downtime after the experience.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

"To report out their temperature measurements, we designed a special computer instruction that encodes a value, such as the measured temperature, in the wiggles of a little dance the robot performs," says Blaauw.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 6, 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

The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin and Steve Elledge.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Called “cloud dwellers,” the inhabitants of this rarefied set often communicated via poems that encoded messages about relationships, love or the intrigues of power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

"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

He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There are also philosophical challenges: before encoding human values into bots, AI firms have to first choose which values they actually want.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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

Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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

The pullover cost me four sets of wireless code—the full lot of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein


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