as in tiny
very small in size
made atomic adjustments to the clock's mechanism to keep it from whirring as it ran
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Feynman’s Vision and Its Parallels to Today’s AI While Richard Feynman focused on manipulating matter at atomic levels, his ideas on compression, precision, and learning from biological systems bear striking parallels to AI’s evolution.
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Escalating without air defenses is either leading with one’s chin or setting the pieces of the puzzle in place to justify a move towards developing atomic weapons.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
Physicists rely on them to unify the fundamental forces of nature: At high energies, group theory can be used to show that electromagnetism and the forces that hold atomic nuclei together and cause radioactivity are all manifestations of a single underlying force.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group comprising survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Escalating without air defenses is either leading with one’s chin or setting the pieces of the puzzle in place to justify a move towards developing atomic weapons.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
Physicists rely on them to unify the fundamental forces of nature: At high energies, group theory can be used to show that electromagnetism and the forces that hold atomic nuclei together and cause radioactivity are all manifestations of a single underlying force.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group comprising survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Honda helpfully put a tiny shelf below the screen to brace your finger on while trying to hit the right icon.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Food Review: Aren’t tiny restaurants the best restaurants?Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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An additional surprising insight shown above and going beyond the 7-out-of-10 statistic is that even atheists purportedly believe in angels (well, admittedly just a minuscule 2%) and that a sizable portion of agnostics do (coming in at a whopping 25% or one-quarter).Lance Eliot, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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As an international free agent, Sasaki can only make the league minimum plus a minuscule signing bonus.Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2024
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The monsters are tall and impressively athletic-looking, with devil ears and animatronic snouts that snap like miniature crocodile jaws.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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His miniature self walks to the last room on the right, which is almost entirely empty.Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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The smart tool is also equipped with a HEPA (or high-efficiency particulate air) filtration system, which captures microscopic particles and allergens while expelling cleaner air.Jenny Berg, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024
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These atom-sized hollow spaces could then be arranged in precise configurations based on overall density to influence a microscopic area’s general brightness.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Atomic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atomic. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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