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Recent Examples of approximation
And, in many cases, these emulations will be reasonably close approximations to our experience, and will also comprise extensions that go beyond our experiences or abilities to enable ultrahuman augmentation.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
In this context, compression techniques for LLMs have been suggested, with quantization, distillation, pruning and low-rank approximations being dominant and successful in practice.
—Sam Mugel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians were already using approximations of pi, and Greek mathematician Archimedes is credited with refining its value.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
In this context, compression techniques for LLMs have been suggested, with quantization, distillation, pruning and low-rank approximations being dominant and successful in practice.
—Sam Mugel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians were already using approximations of pi, and Greek mathematician Archimedes is credited with refining its value.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for approximation
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The once-daily version of the pill was in early-stage testing, with researchers trying to figure out the best dose for patients, a spokeswoman said.—
Time,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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My body has changed—and is changing, like it's being slowly replaced by a similar but slightly less cooperative version.—
Liz Krieger,
Allure,
15 Apr. 2025
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Vogt, after some explaining, broke into an impression of a television character from a show famed for sending up things like convoluted job titles.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Yet Armstrong has made an instantaneous and significant impression.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Unlike Trump’s first iteration of a ban in 2017, which led to court challenges for discrimination against Muslims, the reported reincarnation does not focus solely on Muslim-majority countries.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Dalai Lama, in turn, affirms the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama after the officeholder dies.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Approximation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approximation. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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