transformer
noun
trans·form·er
tran(t)s-ˈfȯr-mər 
: one that transforms
specifically
: a device employing the principle of mutual induction to convert variations of current in a primary circuit into variations of voltage and current in a secondary circuit
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The last time Earth was hit by a G5 storm was October 2003, when power outages were reported in Sweden and transformers were damaged in South Africa, NOAA officials said Friday.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
The pursuit ended when the vehicle hit the utility pole, downing power lines and damaging a transformer.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
Equipment connecting the North First Street courthouse to a PG&E transformer failed March 4, and a string of generators has kept operations going since, albeit with some notable interruptions.
—Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
After the transformers paper was released in 2017, deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton invited Gomez to join his Toronto lab, where Gomez met Nick Frosst; the pair would go on to found Cohere with fellow Google alum Ivan Zhang.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
Lee acknowledged other large language models like Anthropic’s latest generative pre-trained transformer Claude 3 were extremely promising (Amazon just upped its investment in the company by another $2.75 billion on Wednesday).
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
Not long after the transformer was invented, researchers at OpenAI began training versions of that style of model on ever-larger collections of text scraped from the web and other sources—a process that can take months.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
New machine learning software predicts anomalies in wiring and failures of transformers, saving time and money.
—Sumant Sinha, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
Add to that an additional $370 billion on electric utilities to upgrade or install electric substations, overhead and underground lines, transformers, poles and fixtures to supply truck chargers.
—Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
The pursuit ended when the vehicle hit the utility pole, downing power lines and damaging a transformer.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
Equipment connecting the North First Street courthouse to a PG&E transformer failed March 4, and a string of generators has kept operations going since, albeit with some notable interruptions.
—Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
After the transformers paper was released in 2017, deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton invited Gomez to join his Toronto lab, where Gomez met Nick Frosst; the pair would go on to found Cohere with fellow Google alum Ivan Zhang.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
Lee acknowledged other large language models like Anthropic’s latest generative pre-trained transformer Claude 3 were extremely promising (Amazon just upped its investment in the company by another $2.75 billion on Wednesday).
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
Not long after the transformer was invented, researchers at OpenAI began training versions of that style of model on ever-larger collections of text scraped from the web and other sources—a process that can take months.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
New machine learning software predicts anomalies in wiring and failures of transformers, saving time and money.
—Sumant Sinha, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
Add to that an additional $370 billion on electric utilities to upgrade or install electric substations, overhead and underground lines, transformers, poles and fixtures to supply truck chargers.
—Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Transformer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transformer. Accessed 16 May. 2024.
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transformer
noun
trans·form·er
tran(t)s-ˈfȯr-mər
: a device for changing an electric current into one of different voltage
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