encode
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Modern hard drives and other storage systems rely on tiny magnetic regions to encode digital information as 1s and 0s.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Instead of functioning as stop signals, TAA and TAG appeared to encode entirely different amino acids.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
But every person you ask has a slightly different answer; how are humans meant to encode our values into AI if we can't agree ourselves?
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
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
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“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
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
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The researchers found that structured light possesses its own topological characteristics, encoded in the arrangement of its polarization.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
But if heredity was transmitted as information, then how was that information encoded?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This would slow down the encoding and decoding that constantly occurs in our online interactions, but it wouldn’t make things unusable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
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
This identified a three-gene control hub, LypABC, encoding bacterial proteins.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 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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