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Over the last few years, they’ve explored the use of neural networks — layers of computations that help machines process information through a rough approximation of our brain’s neuronal activity.
HOW CLOSE ARE COMPUTERS TO AUTOMATING MATHEMATICAL REASONING?STEPHEN ORNESAUGUST 27, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
“It’s hard to predict when a problem will be reduced to a huge but finite computation,” Aaronson said.
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS ATTEMPT TO CORNER THE COLLATZ CONJECTUREKEVIN HARTNETTAUGUST 26, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Finally, after just half an hour of computations, they had an answer.
COMPUTER SEARCH SETTLES 90-YEAR-OLD MATH PROBLEMKEVIN HARTNETTAUGUST 19, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Our brains are really good at this—we copy computations inside the brains of others.
HOW THE BRAIN BUILDS A SENSE OF SELF FROM THE PEOPLE AROUND USSAM EREIRAJULY 17, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
They can also deliver drugs or act as a biological “circuit board” on which biomolecules perform traditional computations.
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Quantum mechanics seems to allow for a totally new kind of computation.
TO LIVE UP TO THE HYPE, QUANTUM COMPUTERS MUST REPAIR THEIR ERROR PROBLEMSEMILY CONOVERJUNE 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Fetching pen and paper, the blacksmith made a rapid computation of what would be due Oliver at any time within the next month.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMOND
Such a computation does not include the large number of stories read in our papers and magazines.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
I believe, at the lowest computation, three hundred and fifty were left dead on the field.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLAN
The most careful computation showed they were in latitude about 19 south and longitude 140 west.
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