How to Use computation in a Sentence

computation

noun
  • The solution required a series of computations.
  • Well, after figuring out things like how to unfold the mirrors, steering, computation, and making a solar sail to power the electronics.
    Dan Primack, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That means if there’s a problem in the circuits, the computation will still be able to run.
    Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
  • But, for the first five steps, the computation only needs three qubits.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
  • 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
  • This idea for the tax agency to do the heavy-lifting computations is not new.
    John Klotsche, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • So as his Cleveland Cavaliers sought to hang on against the Warriors, James went through the computations.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 June 2017
  • 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
  • All this computation is expensive though, and so the game only runs at 25 frames per second.
    James Vincent, The Verge, 3 Dec. 2018
  • There is no point in arguing if the universe is a clock, a set of particles or an output of computation.
    Simon Duan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Getting the max often has as much to do with leverage than any metric computation.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 May 2021
  • To perform computations, a system would have to ensure that the p-bit spends more of its time in the state that reflects the appropriate value.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The filing also includes a discussion on the valuation of silver bullion, computation of net asset value, and liquidity, as well as controls and procedures.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • These quantum gates enable exponentially faster computations on certain issues by altering the state of qubits based on entanglement and superposition.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024

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