measurement

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All that enthusiasm has resulted in skyrocketing costs for so-called tokens, the basic unit of measurement for AI computing, as AI model providers seek to balance supply and demand and manage their own costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

But by the battleground measurement, it obviously shouldn’t be South Carolina.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

To limit measurement error, the two-person teams were instructed to make decisions independently, so that each of Hollywood’s 30 census tracts would, in effect, be counted twice.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

According to the team, this marks the first time a calorimetric measurement device has reached such sensitivity.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

After eight half-lives, only 1/256 of the original radioactive carbon remains, which is too little to make a reliable measurement, so radiocarbon dating works only for objects up to forty thousand or so years old.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson