computation
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The goal is to produce distances that are sufficiently accurate while dramatically reducing the amount of computation required.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Energy Department will invest more than $500 million over five years in lab measurement, modeling and computation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
As part of the investment, the DOE will invest more than $500 million across five years in lab measurement, modeling and computation to build an AI-ready open data resource.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The results may also reveal something more fundamental about biological computation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
When Dorothy and the other West Computers signed up for computation classes in the 1950s, they registered to attend at Hampton Institute.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
And people need the data centers to do all these computations, with much still to do in terms of investments to fully take advantage of the technology, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
A major challenge is that quantum computations can be disrupted by extremely small environmental effects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Nat checked the stars in the almanac and made his computations.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing computation
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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