Computation
noun
The act or process of calculating or figuring something out.
The computation of the total costs took several hours.
Often appears as...
- computation of costs
- computation process
noun
The utilization of computers to process data or perform calculations.
Quantum computation could revolutionize the field of computer science.
Often appears as...
- quantum computation
- computation power
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Technical
noun
The act or process of calculating or figuring something out.
The computation of the total costs took several hours.
Often appears as...
- computation of costs
- computation process
noun
The utilization of computers to process data or perform calculations.
Quantum computation could revolutionize the field of computer science.
Often appears as...
- quantum computation
- computation power
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Calculative Action
Computation often involves mathematical or logical steps to reach a conclusion.
The architect's computation of materials ensured the bridge's strength.
Pro Tip 2/3Time Intensive
A computation can take time depending on complexity, suggesting careful analysis or thorough work.
Her computation of the extensive data took the entire afternoon.
Pro Tip 3/3Detailed Process
The word highlights a methodical process rather than a quick guess or estimate.
He insisted on a precise computation of expenses rather than an estimate.
Pro Tip 1/3Calculative Action
Computation often involves mathematical or logical steps to reach a conclusion.
The architect's computation of materials ensured the bridge's strength.
Pro Tip 2/3Time Intensive
A computation can take time depending on complexity, suggesting careful analysis or thorough work.
Her computation of the extensive data took the entire afternoon.
Pro Tip 3/3Detailed Process
The word highlights a methodical process rather than a quick guess or estimate.
He insisted on a precise computation of expenses rather than an estimate.
Pro Tip 1/3Calculative Action
Computation often involves mathematical or logical steps to reach a conclusion.
The architect's computation of materials ensured the bridge's strength.
Pro Tip 2/3Time Intensive
A computation can take time depending on complexity, suggesting careful analysis or thorough work.
Her computation of the extensive data took the entire afternoon.
Pro Tip 3/3Detailed Process
The word highlights a methodical process rather than a quick guess or estimate.
He insisted on a precise computation of expenses rather than an estimate.
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Computing a theory of...
be seen as probably the single biggest idea that's emerged in the past century. It's the idea of computation. Now, of course, that idea has brought us all of the computer technology we have today and so on. But there's actually a lot more to computation than that. It's really a very deep, very powerful, very fundamental idea,
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The high-stakes race to...
and they last a long time, but as more ions are added to a trap, it becomes increasingly difficult to control each with precision. We can’t currently contain enough ions in a trap to make advanced computations, but one possible solution might be to connect many smaller traps that communicate with each other via photons
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Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...
moore's law with computation where you know over time you just have this exponential increase in computational power it's uh somewhat similar in our ability now to kind of peer into the the molecules and the microstructure of these fossils thanks to advances in in technologies
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What in the world is...
the subatomic particles can become protected. In other words, the qubits formed by them can't be changed by small or local disturbances. These topological qubits would be more stable, leading to more accurate computation and a better quantum computer.
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Conrad Wolfram: Teaching...
for that reason, if not for others. So the next thing is take that problem and turn it from a real world problem into a math problem. That's stage two. Once you've done that, then there's the computation step. Turn it from that into some answer
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Kent Larson: Brilliant...
The office building is basically obsolete for doing private work. The home, once again, because of distributed computation -- Communication is becoming a center of life, so it's a center of production and learning and shopping and health care
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Computing with fluids PIPE...
computation you have to ask yourself can I make a unit that allows me to make any computer in the world we just did that that allows us to make one single gate that can make any logic that you can imagine billions and billions of these logic
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The next software...
that truly exploit the computational power of biochemistry. My passion about this idea led me to a career in research at the interface of maths, computer science and biology. And in my work, I focus on the concept of biology as computation.
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John Searle: Our shared...
and all of those are creations of consciousness. Their existence is observer-relative. It's only relative to conscious agents that a piece of paper is money or that a bunch of buildings is a university. Now, ask yourself about computation.
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A day in the life of an...
across the design. But their shifting plans require constant recalculations. After helping solve one such computation, Pheidias collects his colleagues’ gold records and heads off to receive a special delivery.
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Computing a theory of...
be seen as probably the single biggest idea that's emerged in the past century. It's the idea of computation. Now, of course, that idea has brought us all of the computer technology we have today and so on. But there's actually a lot more to computation than that. It's really a very deep, very powerful, very fundamental idea,
Video examples
The high-stakes race to...
and they last a long time, but as more ions are added to a trap, it becomes increasingly difficult to control each with precision. We can’t currently contain enough ions in a trap to make advanced computations, but one possible solution might be to connect many smaller traps that communicate with each other via photons
Video examples
Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...
moore's law with computation where you know over time you just have this exponential increase in computational power it's uh somewhat similar in our ability now to kind of peer into the the molecules and the microstructure of these fossils thanks to advances in in technologies
Video examples
What in the world is...
the subatomic particles can become protected. In other words, the qubits formed by them can't be changed by small or local disturbances. These topological qubits would be more stable, leading to more accurate computation and a better quantum computer.
Video examples
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching...
for that reason, if not for others. So the next thing is take that problem and turn it from a real world problem into a math problem. That's stage two. Once you've done that, then there's the computation step. Turn it from that into some answer
Video examples
Kent Larson: Brilliant...
The office building is basically obsolete for doing private work. The home, once again, because of distributed computation -- Communication is becoming a center of life, so it's a center of production and learning and shopping and health care
Video examples
Computing with fluids PIPE...
computation you have to ask yourself can I make a unit that allows me to make any computer in the world we just did that that allows us to make one single gate that can make any logic that you can imagine billions and billions of these logic
Video examples
The next software...
that truly exploit the computational power of biochemistry. My passion about this idea led me to a career in research at the interface of maths, computer science and biology. And in my work, I focus on the concept of biology as computation.
Video examples
John Searle: Our shared...
and all of those are creations of consciousness. Their existence is observer-relative. It's only relative to conscious agents that a piece of paper is money or that a bunch of buildings is a university. Now, ask yourself about computation.
Video examples
A day in the life of an...
across the design. But their shifting plans require constant recalculations. After helping solve one such computation, Pheidias collects his colleagues’ gold records and heads off to receive a special delivery.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
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Ren Ng
Malaysian Businessman
I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.
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Rudy Rucker
American Scientist
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
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David Deutsch
Scientist
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
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Seth Lloyd
American Educator
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
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Jeff Dean
American Musician
We want to build systems that can generalize to a new task. Being able to do things with much less data and with much less computation is going to be interesting and important.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.
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Gavin Andresen
American Scientist
My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Jensen Huang
Taiwanese Businessman
The amount of computation necessary for raytracing, we've known for a long time, is many orders of magnitude more intensive than rasterization.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
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Ren Ng
Malaysian Businessman
I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.
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Rudy Rucker
American Scientist
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
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David Deutsch
Scientist
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
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Seth Lloyd
American Educator
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
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Jeff Dean
American Musician
We want to build systems that can generalize to a new task. Being able to do things with much less data and with much less computation is going to be interesting and important.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.
Quote examples
Gavin Andresen
American Scientist
My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Jensen Huang
Taiwanese Businessman
The amount of computation necessary for raytracing, we've known for a long time, is many orders of magnitude more intensive than rasterization.
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