How to Use compute in a Sentence
compute
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Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
— Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019 -
No doubt, the quantum-computing era will have its share of false starts, dashed hopes and fiendishly difficult problems to overcome.
— Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2019 -
Today, the company is a part of Hexagon and still a major player in computing systems for government and industry.
— Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 6 Oct. 2019 -
Yet in an eleventh-hour objection, Google’s chief quantum-computing rival asserted that the quantum supremacy threshold has not yet been crossed.
— Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019 -
The report used each repeat sale to compute the compound annual return (CAR) of the fluctuation in price over time between purchase and sale.
— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024 -
For its part, Nvidia is working to bring the 3D world into computing for simulation purposes, and then bring that computing back out into the real world.
— Rachel Curry, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024 -
The time required to compute the simulations grows with increasing resolution, as does the quantity of data generated.
— Conor Purcell, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019 -
Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022 -
The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
— oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022 -
The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
— Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023 -
The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
— Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 -
The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022 -
This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
— Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024 -
The next task was to figure out how to compute the Berry curvature using QAC.
— Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020 -
There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
— Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021 -
Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
— IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023 -
More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
— The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022 -
Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
— Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023 -
The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
— Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 -
But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022 -
By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
— H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022 -
Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
— Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022 -
Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
— Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The amount of debt gets added to the city’s operating tax rate to compute a homeowner’s final city tax bill.
— Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020 -
Before every takeoff, the pilots compute the weight and balance of the airplane.
— John Cox, USA TODAY, 6 June 2020 -
Emphasis was placed on learning how to read, write, compute, and pass tests in English.
— Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020 -
As part of the deal, the software giant would supply computing power needed to train the AI models.
— Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Overloaded with information and access to things that our brains just aren’t built to compute and handle, like all the strains of the world.
— Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023 -
My Ars overlords gave me a few days to play around with deepfake software and a $1,000 cloud computing budget.
— Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2019 -
That required the kind of computing power and resources only available to the West Coast tech giants.
— Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
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