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a visual design intended to look like someone or something
The cave was painted with representations of horses and bison.
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By the 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Benton became associated with Regionalism—among its devotees, Grant Wood—which rejected abstract expressionism and exalted realist representations of rural America.
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Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Embeddings, simply put, are numerical representations of any object, like words, images, protein sequences, etc.
—Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
These mathematical representations then travel through what Li describes as a vast network of interconnected nodes, each one helping to process your question and figure out the most appropriate response.
—Hessie Jones, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Present Historical Changes Use visual representations like charts and graphs to break down ownership percentages, and share structures in an easily digestible format.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
This is essential for storing and managing embeddings, which are numerical representations of data.
—Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
In the past five years, the artist’s work has taken the form of increasingly immersive installations that are nevertheless characterized by absence—of sound, light, or a performing figure—and dysfunctional objects (such as representations of cones of light cast in concrete).
—Ellen Y. Tani, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
Another celebrated the Bronx Zoo’s 125th anniversary with representations of a tiger, a giraffe, a zebra and a gorilla.
—Associated Press, TIME, 28 Nov. 2024
These are digital representations of individual patients that help assist physicians in the simulation of treatment and predict outcomes prior to implementation in real life.
—Srinivas Vadhri, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Embeddings, simply put, are numerical representations of any object, like words, images, protein sequences, etc.
—Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
These mathematical representations then travel through what Li describes as a vast network of interconnected nodes, each one helping to process your question and figure out the most appropriate response.
—Hessie Jones, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Present Historical Changes Use visual representations like charts and graphs to break down ownership percentages, and share structures in an easily digestible format.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
This is essential for storing and managing embeddings, which are numerical representations of data.
—Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
In the past five years, the artist’s work has taken the form of increasingly immersive installations that are nevertheless characterized by absence—of sound, light, or a performing figure—and dysfunctional objects (such as representations of cones of light cast in concrete).
—Ellen Y. Tani, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
Another celebrated the Bronx Zoo’s 125th anniversary with representations of a tiger, a giraffe, a zebra and a gorilla.
—Associated Press, TIME, 28 Nov. 2024
These are digital representations of individual patients that help assist physicians in the simulation of treatment and predict outcomes prior to implementation in real life.
—Srinivas Vadhri, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Representations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/representations. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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