sparsity

From early years of rock sparsity - pulling apart the remnants of Joy Division's post-punk gloom and David Bowie's Low era - they bloomed into late-80s indie-pop heavyweights - defined by Smith's melancholy.

Officers told the meeting that although the county did receive some "sparsity funding" to recognise the costs of providing education in small schools across a vast rural area, the national funding formula did not reflect the challenges facing some schools.

The GP-to-patient ratio already trails the national average by 18%, it added, with recruitment hampered by "confusion around funding, poor estates and a sparsity of applications".

However, each hardware accelerator is typically designed to support one specific sparsity pattern, limiting its flexibility.

They use a technique they call "hierarchical structured sparsity" to efficiently represent a wide variety of sparsity patterns that are composed of several simple sparsity patterns.