How to Use computation in a Sentence

computation

noun

• The solution required a series of computations.
• The switch reminds me that the dream of humble, hidden computation is very much a reality.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• For example, extremely fast computation is a lot more useful in a self-driving car that can make the roads more efficient and safer.
  — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2018
• To win the right to add the next block, bitcoin miners compete against each other by performing a highly repetitive computation.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2017
• The Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and all this stuff which would have been impossible to see without a lot of computation and plotting.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2018
• Most intriguing is the use of computation to help design radically new kinds of shapes and materials and processes.
  — Tim O'Reilly, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
• At other times, Vulcan training is signaled by having Burnham spit out a precise computation of numbers.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2017
• The act of counting or estimating an account, a bill, computations or calculating a ship's position.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2018
• Use the Association’s trail camera survey computation form to complete the process.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2024
• Quanta spoke with Randles about the pros and cons of too much data, how graphics can help bridge biology and computation, and the looming impact of machine learning.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2024
• Zhang foresees the rise of a new generation of pharmaceutical companies built on software and computation.
  — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2018
• That means if there’s a problem in the circuits, the computation will still be able to run.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• The idea of brainlike computation has been around for a while.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
• The idea of using light for computation is far from new, dating back to the 1950s.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 10 Mar. 2021
• The idea is there’s a powerful cloud that does computations for you.
  — Allison Parshall, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2023
• That computation had leaned heavily on knowledge about the shape of clusters in the graph.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• Once the computation is done, the results can be reencrypted and shipped off to storage.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• But in July, one of the most promising leads fell after just an hour of computation on a laptop.
  — Bill Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• The idea here is that the Entity’s mile-a-minute computation skills have concluded that the only thing that stands in its way is Hunt.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 July 2023
• At each step in the computation process, benefits were now required to be rounded down to the nearest dime.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• The amount of computation used to train the most powerful AI models has increased by a factor of ten every year for the last ten years.
  — Ian Bremmer and Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2023
• Over the last decade, the amount of computation used to train large AI models has increased by nine orders of magnitude.
  — Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2024
• This triplet space is therefore infinite, unlike the computation for the sum of squares.
  — Jean-Paul Delahaye, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
• Quantum computation works with a series of mirrors, beam splitters, and prisms that alter the phase of photons to be mapped to 0s and 1s.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• There is only an expectation that the values might be zero or one at the end of the computation.
  — Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Many of the weights in LLMs are set to zero and so performing operations on them is a waste of computation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now, thanks to advances in computation, the technique is coming back.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
• At the time, computing was done in large batches, and users typically had to wait until the next day to get the results of a computation.
  — Katie Hafner, New York Times, 12 July 2019
• Each quantum computation starts and ends with a string of ones and zeros — classical bits — at the top of this assembly.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• That’s because of the blockchain: doing all of that computation slows your transaction.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 26 June 2019

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024