computation
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Korinek, the UVA professor, says that for now the amount spent on AI computation isn’t so big that a tax on it would provide a windfall.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
There is a persistent belief in certain corners of the tech world that complex social problems can be eliminated through computation.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
If computers can replicate many aspects of reasoning, language and decision-making without exhibiting clear signs of awareness, that fact alone may reveal that consciousness is something more than computation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
To run a quantum algorithm, qubits must be actively manipulated using quantum gates, which are the basic operations that power quantum computation.
From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026
The os in his calculations were only intermediaries, crutches that vanished miraculously by the end of the computation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing computation
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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