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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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Some of these regions were once considered nonfunctional, but researchers have discovered that they can encode biologically active molecules.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 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

To encode a message, you first convert the message from words to the corresponding five-digit numbers from the codebook.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

"This metric geometrically encodes the perceived color distance -- that is, how different two colors appear to an observer."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 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

Faced with an entire fourth quarter of do-or-die plays, Manning flashed the skills that fans have long assumed were encoded in his DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

More broadly, the research shows how laboratory experiments and artificial intelligence can be combined to uncover information encoded in human DNA.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Every message to London has to be laboriously encoded and delivered on a bicycle to a hidden wireless set 10 miles from here.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

By encoding information into different twisting and spinning patterns, researchers may be able to increase the amount of data carried by individual light beams.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 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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