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
There are critical differences between artificial and biological neural networks, but both are nonlinear distributed networks that learn to encode representations relevant to their goals and act on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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
Scientists used a new error correction strategy to encode 70 logical qubits and tackle a problem considered classically intractable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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
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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
This might be because the brain encodes bodily information as part of the details of an event.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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
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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
The notebook brand is cheap and easy to find in stores, with layouts encoded into his process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The first consisted of qubits encoded in the internal states of trapped ions, which are electrically charged atoms held in place using electromagnetic fields.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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
"By combining light and quantum materials on a chip, we can access new ways of encoding and processing information."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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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