Simulate
verb
To create a model or representation of something for the purpose of study or testing.
Scientists simulate weather conditions in the lab to better understand how storms form.
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Technical
verb
To pretend to have, feel, or do something.
She simulated illness to avoid going to school.
verb
In computing, to act as if you are (something or someone).
The software simulates the experience of flying a plane.
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Technical
verb
In medical study, to run a scenario with a mock setting for training.
We use mannequins to simulate patient scenarios in medical training.
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Technical
verb
In video games, to create a reality that imitates life.
The game simulates the day-to-day life of a medieval farmer.
verb
To create a model or representation of something for the purpose of study or testing.
Scientists simulate weather conditions in the lab to better understand how storms form.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To pretend to have, feel, or do something.
She simulated illness to avoid going to school.
verb
In computing, to act as if you are (something or someone).
The software simulates the experience of flying a plane.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In medical study, to run a scenario with a mock setting for training.
We use mannequins to simulate patient scenarios in medical training.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In video games, to create a reality that imitates life.
The game simulates the day-to-day life of a medieval farmer.
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Pro Tip 1/2Study Tool
Use 'simulate' when discussing creating conditions to study something scientifically.
To simulate Mars' atmosphere, scientists adjusted the lab pressure.
Pro Tip 2/2Testing Hypotheses
'Simulate' often refers to experimenting with models to test theories before real-world application.
They'll simulate the chemical reaction before the full-scale production.
Pro Tip 1/2Study Tool
Use 'simulate' when discussing creating conditions to study something scientifically.
To simulate Mars' atmosphere, scientists adjusted the lab pressure.
Pro Tip 2/2Testing Hypotheses
'Simulate' often refers to experimenting with models to test theories before real-world application.
They'll simulate the chemical reaction before the full-scale production.
Pro Tip 1/2Study Tool
Use 'simulate' when discussing creating conditions to study something scientifically.
To simulate Mars' atmosphere, scientists adjusted the lab pressure.
Pro Tip 2/2Testing Hypotheses
'Simulate' often refers to experimenting with models to test theories before real-world application.
They'll simulate the chemical reaction before the full-scale production.
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Are we living in a...
If space and time are continuous, then even a tiny piece of the universe has infinite points and becomes impossible to simulate with finite computing power. So a simulation would have to represent space and time in very small pieces. These would be almost incomprehensibly tiny. But we might be able to search for them
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How to take a picture of...
the imaging algorithms I develop use our limited telescope data to guide us to a picture that also looks like stuff in our universe. Using these algorithms, we're able to piece together pictures from this sparse, noisy data. So here I show a sample reconstruction done using simulated data,
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Concrete "Bomb" PIPE I...
resulting from a concrete bomb now the way we've decided to do that is to line up three cars using the center vehicle as the target for our bombs the center car will be rigged with explosives to simulate the sort of damage that a real-life explosive bomb causes when it hits its target
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Your brain hallucinates...
as this active, constructive process. Here we've combined immersive virtual reality with image processing to simulate the effects of overly strong perceptual predictions on experience. In this panoramic video, we've transformed the world -- which is in this case Sussex campus --
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Raising an Abandoned...
and that includes encouraging them to wee and poop. In the wild, they can't do this on their own, so mum helps by licking their behind. Tapping Ling Hwa's back end is the next best option and simulates what panda mums do with their tongue to encourage going to the toilet.
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Why the universe seems...
from a walking, climbing or swimming animal. A monkey's brain must have software capable of simulating a three-dimensional world of branches and trunks. A mole's software for constructing models of its world will be customized for underground use.
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Can VR help create...
reef it has a normal ocean chemistry you can see the white coral there you can see the red coral there you can see lots of life diversity on the right is an area of the reef that's closer to these volcanic vents this area simulates how all of our
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How we must respond to...
where we'd simulate what needed to be done. We hardly did anything, and so now here we have a respiratory virus that is, sadly, fulfilling some of the more negative predictions I made. Last month, you said that this might be the big one.
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Would you opt for a life...
in which scientists have developed a machine that would simulate real life while guaranteeing experiences of only pleasure and never pain. The catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind, but you'll hardly know the difference.
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Top 5 Silliest Animal...
own so mum helps by licking their behind tapping yinghua's back end is the next best option and simulates what panda mums do with their tongue to encourage going to the toilet
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Are we living in a...
If space and time are continuous, then even a tiny piece of the universe has infinite points and becomes impossible to simulate with finite computing power. So a simulation would have to represent space and time in very small pieces. These would be almost incomprehensibly tiny. But we might be able to search for them
Video examples
How to take a picture of...
the imaging algorithms I develop use our limited telescope data to guide us to a picture that also looks like stuff in our universe. Using these algorithms, we're able to piece together pictures from this sparse, noisy data. So here I show a sample reconstruction done using simulated data,
Video examples
Concrete "Bomb" PIPE I...
resulting from a concrete bomb now the way we've decided to do that is to line up three cars using the center vehicle as the target for our bombs the center car will be rigged with explosives to simulate the sort of damage that a real-life explosive bomb causes when it hits its target
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
as this active, constructive process. Here we've combined immersive virtual reality with image processing to simulate the effects of overly strong perceptual predictions on experience. In this panoramic video, we've transformed the world -- which is in this case Sussex campus --
Video examples
Raising an Abandoned...
and that includes encouraging them to wee and poop. In the wild, they can't do this on their own, so mum helps by licking their behind. Tapping Ling Hwa's back end is the next best option and simulates what panda mums do with their tongue to encourage going to the toilet.
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
from a walking, climbing or swimming animal. A monkey's brain must have software capable of simulating a three-dimensional world of branches and trunks. A mole's software for constructing models of its world will be customized for underground use.
Video examples
Can VR help create...
reef it has a normal ocean chemistry you can see the white coral there you can see the red coral there you can see lots of life diversity on the right is an area of the reef that's closer to these volcanic vents this area simulates how all of our
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How we must respond to...
where we'd simulate what needed to be done. We hardly did anything, and so now here we have a respiratory virus that is, sadly, fulfilling some of the more negative predictions I made. Last month, you said that this might be the big one.
Video examples
Would you opt for a life...
in which scientists have developed a machine that would simulate real life while guaranteeing experiences of only pleasure and never pain. The catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind, but you'll hardly know the difference.
Video examples
Top 5 Silliest Animal...
own so mum helps by licking their behind tapping yinghua's back end is the next best option and simulates what panda mums do with their tongue to encourage going to the toilet
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.
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Peggy Whitson
American Astronaut
Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.
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David Deutsch
Scientist
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
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David Hanson
American Inventor
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.
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Theo Jansen
Dutch Artist
I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
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Stephen LaBerge
American Psychologist
I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.
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Andrew Weil
American Scientist
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.
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Margaret Wertheim
Australian Writer
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Jase Robertson
American Celebrity
If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.
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Peggy Whitson
American Astronaut
Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.
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David Deutsch
Scientist
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
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David Hanson
American Inventor
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.
Quote examples
Theo Jansen
Dutch Artist
I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.
Quote examples
Stephen LaBerge
American Psychologist
I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.
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Andrew Weil
American Scientist
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.
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Margaret Wertheim
Australian Writer
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Jase Robertson
American Celebrity
If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.
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