as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
we were able to divide the dinner bill fairly with a little computation
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Recent Examples of computation
These fanciful thought experiments have inspired new algorithms and helped researchers map the landscape of computation.
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Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
Additionally, there are costs involved in data collection and computation in the instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback stages.
—Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
Google said last year its new quantum computing chip, code named Willow, did computations in five minutes that would take today's supercomputers 10 septillion years.
—Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
The deep learning approach leveraging massively parallel computation made the metrics go up, but the teams at Meta didn’t know why one piece of content was winning over another because the decisions were being made inside the deep learning black box.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
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Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
Additionally, there are costs involved in data collection and computation in the instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback stages.
—Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
Google said last year its new quantum computing chip, code named Willow, did computations in five minutes that would take today's supercomputers 10 septillion years.
—Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
The deep learning approach leveraging massively parallel computation made the metrics go up, but the teams at Meta didn’t know why one piece of content was winning over another because the decisions were being made inside the deep learning black box.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for computation
Noun
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This culminated in the calculation of Starting Pitcher Grade Point Averages.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Following the erroneous announcement, reporters uncovered a flurry of caveats and calculations that led to the oversight and inflated the number.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2025
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Operating margin should go from 17% to roughly 30% during that period, which bakes in a level of conservatism based on the math above.—
StockStory Team,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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But the math obviously works with 16; both the Big 12 and SEC will have 16-team events.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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One is to vote in a change to the debt brake (difficult given parliamentary arithmetic — there is talk of doing it in this parliament), declare an emergency ‘event’ that merits high spending as was the case with Covid-19 and it will be argued that President Donald Trump has created a crisis.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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His pitch encountered initial resistance from potential members, given the arithmetic: Twenty percent higher costs for planting, while yielding 25 percent less coffee.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Computation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computation. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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