How to Use tensor in a Sentence

tensor

noun
  • Switch lacks the tensor cores necessary to deploy DLSS.
    Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Here’s Lauren and Julian’s story about Google’s new tensor chip in its Pixel 6 phone.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Likewise, any valid coloring for the hobby graph will carry over to the tensor product.
    Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2019
  • With the exception of my tensor fasciae latae (TFL) muscle tightening up and the nagging cold, the rest of my body felt okay.
    Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
  • So what’s a tensor, then? Picture a solid object like a cement pillar.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Those nodes are the tensors, and entanglement links them together.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 28 Apr. 2015
  • In scalar-tensor theories, there are also objects called scalars.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Pichai also unveiled a new line of tensor processing units (TPUs), which can help aid in machine learning and are used in data centers.
    Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 17 May 2017
  • By placing the scalar, tensor, and vector accelerators next to one another, the workloads can be shared among them.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Now, with the rise of machine learning, tensor processing units are being added to computers as separate units.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
  • But perhaps the biggest takeaway is that the company's much-vaunted tensor ship clearly is not required for magic erase to operate.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The company wrote about the process in more detail in a blog post last week: In this game, the board is a three-dimensional tensor (array of numbers), capturing how far from correct the current algorithm is.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Some people can even voluntarily control their tensor tympani, a muscle in the ear that can open up the eustachian tubes.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The authors used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to estimate the integrity of the white matter tracts going in various directions at each point in the brain.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2013
  • Google used the technology to make its latest tensor processing unit chips, the company explained.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 June 2021
  • Hopper has tensor cores capable of computing with floating-point numbers of a variety of precision—from 64-bit down to 8-bit.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • And the software comes with an important limitation: the device receiving a video stream needs an Nvidia GPU with tensor core technology.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • This theory — the biggest science exploit of Einstein’s life — is purely a tensor theory.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The children in the Cincinnati study completed standard cognitive tests and a special test called diffusion tensor MRI, which estimates white matter integrity in the brain.
    Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • This tensor is a box that contains information about the electricity and magnetism that, together, produce light.
    Essence, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Google also offers a similar chip called a tensor processing unit, while companies like Qualcomm make AI chips built into devices.
    Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
  • Your primary hip abductors include your two smaller butt muscles, the gluteus medius and the gluteus minimus, as well as your tensor fasciae latae (also known as the TFL, a muscle located at the outside of the hip), Fagin says.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 6 July 2023
  • Maxine is built atop tensor cores, compute units in newer Nvidia graphics cards that are optimized for machine-learning operations.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Groq designed a chip that delivers predictable and repeatable performance with low latency and high throughput across the system called the tensor streaming processor (TSP).
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Leiden biophysicists devised a mathematical object called a shape tensor to capture information about the cells’ shapes and directions.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • When the player manages to do so, this results in a provably correct matrix multiplication algorithm for any pair of matrices, and its efficiency is captured by the number of steps taken to zero out the tensor.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
  • These images illustrate the brain’s connectome—its full set of connections—and are generated using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
    Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Depending on its symmetry, a crystal’s stress tensor — a matrix that captures how a material deforms under stress — looks different.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This tensor is the mathematical link to the fluid dynamics equations Giomi wanted to use to connect physical forces and biological functions.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Each participant’s white matter microstructure was measured using non-invasive, diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging at the beginning and end of six months of dance classes.
    Monte Whaley, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017

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