Optimize
verb
To make the best or most effective use of something.
The company is always looking for ways to optimize their system.
Often appears as...
- optimize performance
- optimize efficiency
verb
To modify (something) to achieve maximum efficiency in speed, operational effectiveness, or cost.
The computer programmer was able to optimize the algorithm, making it run faster.
Often appears as...
- optimize algorithm
- optimize software
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make the best or most effective use of something.
The company is always looking for ways to optimize their system.
Often appears as...
- optimize performance
- optimize efficiency
verb
To modify (something) to achieve maximum efficiency in speed, operational effectiveness, or cost.
The computer programmer was able to optimize the algorithm, making it run faster.
Often appears as...
- optimize algorithm
- optimize software
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Optimize suggests improvement with constraints, such as time, resources, or conditions.
They worked to optimize healthcare with limited staff.
Pro Tip 2/3Result-Driven
Use optimize when the goal is to achieve the best result, not just to make changes.
Optimizing our schedule will help us meet the project deadline.
Pro Tip 3/3Continuous Process
Optimizing can imply an ongoing effort to improve, not a one-time fix.
Our team is optimizing the workflow to continuously boost productivity.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Optimize suggests improvement with constraints, such as time, resources, or conditions.
They worked to optimize healthcare with limited staff.
Pro Tip 2/3Result-Driven
Use optimize when the goal is to achieve the best result, not just to make changes.
Optimizing our schedule will help us meet the project deadline.
Pro Tip 3/3Continuous Process
Optimizing can imply an ongoing effort to improve, not a one-time fix.
Our team is optimizing the workflow to continuously boost productivity.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Optimize suggests improvement with constraints, such as time, resources, or conditions.
They worked to optimize healthcare with limited staff.
Pro Tip 2/3Result-Driven
Use optimize when the goal is to achieve the best result, not just to make changes.
Optimizing our schedule will help us meet the project deadline.
Pro Tip 3/3Continuous Process
Optimizing can imply an ongoing effort to improve, not a one-time fix.
Our team is optimizing the workflow to continuously boost productivity.
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Inside the ant colony -...
from solving the famous traveling salesman problem, to scheduling computing tasks and optimizing Internet searches, to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments,
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
- It's an important point to recognize that going to Mars is going to be what they call sociotechnological. It is not just going to be the technical that takes us there. It's not just going to be the sociological or the psychological. It is going to be the interaction of those two things, the optimization of those two things,
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A new way to remove CO2...
But there's an optimization, because the deeper you make that contactor, the more energy you're spending on bubbling all that air through. So air contactors for direct air capture have this unique characteristic design, where they have this huge surface area, but a relatively thin thickness.
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The nightmare videos of...
into things like predictive policing systems, into sentencing guidelines. This is the way we're actually constructing the world today out of this data. And I don't know what's worse, that we built a system that seems to be entirely optimized for the absolute worst aspects of human behavior,
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The emergence of "4D...
and try to optimize which parts are folding when. But most importantly, we can use this same software for the design of nanoscale self-assembly systems and human scale self-assembly systems. These are parts being printed with multi-material properties. Here's the first demonstration.
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What is the tragedy of...
Optimizing for the self in the short term isn't optimal for anyone in the long term. That's a simplified example, but the tragedy of the commons plays out in the more complex systems of real life, too. The overuse of antibiotics has led to short-term gains in livestock production
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Performing brain surgery...
the use of multiple beams also gives doctors flexibility. They can optimize the best angles and routes through brain tissue to reach the target and adjust the intensity within each beam as necessary. This helps spare critical structures within the brain.
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Why is cotton in...
and fishing nets. And with the help of modern science, cotton might soon be softer, stronger, and more resilient than ever as researchers investigate how to optimize its growth based on nutrients, weather conditions, and genetics.
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Can we create the...
both of which will reduce pressure on the land and allow farmers to do more with what they have available. If we optimize food production, both on land and sea, we can feed humanity within the environmental limits of the earth,
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and light weights everything else except exactly where it's needed and now that
Video examples
Inside the ant colony -...
from solving the famous traveling salesman problem, to scheduling computing tasks and optimizing Internet searches, to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments,
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
- It's an important point to recognize that going to Mars is going to be what they call sociotechnological. It is not just going to be the technical that takes us there. It's not just going to be the sociological or the psychological. It is going to be the interaction of those two things, the optimization of those two things,
Video examples
A new way to remove CO2...
But there's an optimization, because the deeper you make that contactor, the more energy you're spending on bubbling all that air through. So air contactors for direct air capture have this unique characteristic design, where they have this huge surface area, but a relatively thin thickness.
Video examples
The nightmare videos of...
into things like predictive policing systems, into sentencing guidelines. This is the way we're actually constructing the world today out of this data. And I don't know what's worse, that we built a system that seems to be entirely optimized for the absolute worst aspects of human behavior,
Video examples
The emergence of "4D...
and try to optimize which parts are folding when. But most importantly, we can use this same software for the design of nanoscale self-assembly systems and human scale self-assembly systems. These are parts being printed with multi-material properties. Here's the first demonstration.
Video examples
What is the tragedy of...
Optimizing for the self in the short term isn't optimal for anyone in the long term. That's a simplified example, but the tragedy of the commons plays out in the more complex systems of real life, too. The overuse of antibiotics has led to short-term gains in livestock production
Video examples
Performing brain surgery...
the use of multiple beams also gives doctors flexibility. They can optimize the best angles and routes through brain tissue to reach the target and adjust the intensity within each beam as necessary. This helps spare critical structures within the brain.
Video examples
Why is cotton in...
and fishing nets. And with the help of modern science, cotton might soon be softer, stronger, and more resilient than ever as researchers investigate how to optimize its growth based on nutrients, weather conditions, and genetics.
Video examples
Can we create the...
both of which will reduce pressure on the land and allow farmers to do more with what they have available. If we optimize food production, both on land and sea, we can feed humanity within the environmental limits of the earth,
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and light weights everything else except exactly where it's needed and now that
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Dean Kamen
American Inventor
Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Philips is uniquely positioned to help reshape and optimize population health management by leveraging big data and delivering care across the health continuum, from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, minimally invasive treatment, recovery, and home care.
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Erin Gray
American Actress
The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
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Mike Davidson
Businessman
Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.
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Marc Ostrofsky
American Author
Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.
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Clara Shih
American Businesswoman
Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.
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Richard Attias
Moroccan Businessman
Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.
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Steven Gundry
American Author
Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.
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Nick Denton
British Journalist
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
Quote examples
Dean Kamen
American Inventor
Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
Quote examples
Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Philips is uniquely positioned to help reshape and optimize population health management by leveraging big data and delivering care across the health continuum, from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, minimally invasive treatment, recovery, and home care.
Quote examples
Erin Gray
American Actress
The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on.
Quote examples
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
Quote examples
Mike Davidson
Businessman
Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.
Quote examples
Marc Ostrofsky
American Author
Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.
Quote examples
Clara Shih
American Businesswoman
Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.
Quote examples
Richard Attias
Moroccan Businessman
Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.
Quote examples
Steven Gundry
American Author
Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.
Quote examples
Nick Denton
British Journalist
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
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