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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

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

These particles carry both mRNA that encodes cancer-recognition information and an immune-boosting compound that stimulates immune activity.

From Science Daily Jan. 28, 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

Watson was 25 when he and English biophysicist Francis Crick figured out the double-helix structure of DNA that encodes the essential information for life.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 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

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

The setup converts polarized single photons produced by a telecom C-band quantum dot into encoded quantum signals.

From Science Daily May 9, 2026

Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.

From Barron's Mar. 26, 2026

Units of hereditary information, encoded in DNA and packaged on chromosomes, are transmitted through sperm and egg into an embryo, and from the embryo to every living cell in an organism’s body.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Another important development is time-bin encoding, a technique that stores information in the arrival times of photons.

From Science Daily May 9, 2026

Building on this work, the team created a 3D modulation encoding strategy.

From Science Daily Mar. 29, 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

Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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