Thesaurus / dead-end
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While AI algorithms can be optimized for current computers, they’re likely to hit a dead end when it comes to efficiency.
THIS ‘QUANTUM BRAIN’ WOULD MIMIC OUR OWN TO SPEED UP AISHELLY FANFEBRUARY 9, 2021SINGULARITY HUB Break the grammar with too many mutations, or mutations in critical spots, and the virus will no longer be able to enter a cell and replicate, and will reach an evolutionary dead end.
A LANGUAGE AI IS ACCURATELY PREDICTING COVID-19 ‘ESCAPE’ MUTATIONSSHELLY FANJANUARY 19, 2021SINGULARITY HUB You’d have to subpoena bank records and lawyers, as well as human sources, and even then you frequently hit a dead end.
A QUIETLY PASSED LAW CRACKS DOWN ON SHELL COMPANIES TO COMBAT CORRUPTIONRACHEL SCHALLOMJANUARY 10, 2021FORTUNEThe bulk of these mistakes are meaningless—false starts and dead ends—that have no impact on humans.
THE COVID-19 VIRUS IS MUTATING. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR VACCINES?ALICE PARKJANUARY 7, 2021TIMEBy taking her smell loss seriously, getting a rapid test and self-isolating, she created a dead end for the virus, breaking the transmission chain before the virus could spread to anyone else.
DAILY DIY SNIFF CHECKS COULD CATCH MANY CASES OF COVID-19LGBTQ-EDITORDECEMBER 17, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSThe finding contradicts prior research which had essentially argued that because it could be shown that there were a few datasets for which no representative sample existed, summarization itself was a dead end.
A.I. NEEDS TO GET REAL—AND OTHER TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS YEAR’S NEURIPSJEREMY KAHNDECEMBER 15, 2020FORTUNEToday’s products are far from dead ends for what the broader industry does with the technology.
CLOUD-GAMING PLATFORMS WERE 2020’S MOST OVERHYPED TRENDLUCAS MATNEYDECEMBER 11, 2020TECHCRUNCHAfter hitting some dead ends, Tetreault reached out to Murray Horwitz who runs “The Big Broadcast,” a weekly show of vintage radio programming on WAMU, Washington’s National Public Radio station.
FORD’S ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ MOVES TO RADIOPATRICK FOLLIARDDECEMBER 5, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEI loved the way the trails were off-camber and we had to step around large rocks and duck under snaggly trees—and how sometimes we’d arrive at a dead end.
THE CASE FOR HIKING UGLY TRAILSKRISTA KARLSONNOVEMBER 21, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEThat bat-winged gliding turned out to be a dead end along the path to the evolution of flight, researchers say.
BAT-WINGED DINOSAURS WERE CLUMSY FLIERSCAROLYN GRAMLINGOCTOBER 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWSWORDS RELATED TO DEAD-END
- balks
- blocks
- chokes off
- confounds
- corners
- crabs
- cramps
- cramps one's style
- crimps
- cuts off
- dead-ends
- defeats
- foils
- gives the run around
- hangs fire
- hangs up
- holds off
- holds up
- impedes
- mystifies
- nonpluses
- obstructs
- pigeonholes
- prevents
- puts on back burner
- puts on hold
- puzzles
- shelves
- snookers
- stalls
- stonewalls
- stumps
- throws a monkey wrench into
- thwarts
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bilk
- check
- circumvent
- confuse
- counter
- cramp
- cross
- curb
- dash
- dead-end
- defeat
- disappoint
- ditch
- dodge
- duck
- foil
- foul up
- frustrate
- give the slip
- hinder
- hold up
- impede
- obstruct
- oppose
- outwit
- pit
- play off
- prevent
- queer
- restrain
- ruin
- stop
- stymie
- take down
- take the wind out of (one's) sails
- trammel
- upset
- upset the apple cart
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