• In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as...
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    Unix time (redirect from Unix epoch)
    used in computing. It measures time by the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch. For example...
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  • Look up epoch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin...
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  • historical era Epoch (astronomy), a moment in time used as a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial body Epoch (computing), a moment from...
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  • develop computers based on massively parallel computing and logic programming. The project aimed to create an "epoch-making computer" with supercomputer-like...
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    (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after...
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    number 2,147,483,647 remained the largest known prime until 1867. In computing, this number is the largest value that a signed 32-bit integer field can...
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  • IDs, or snowflakes, are a form of unique identifier used in distributed computing. The format was created by Twitter (now X) and is used for the IDs of...
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  • when the Sun was in the constellation of Taurus, and during that previous epoch the constellations of Canis Minor (The Dog), Hydra (The Snake), Corvus (The...
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    PMID 36480631. Villalobos, Pablo (2023-07-28). "Trading Off Compute in Training and Inference". Epoch AI. Retrieved 2024-09-24. "Learning to Reason with LLMs"...
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  • Quantum computing Timeline of quantum computing and communication Moore's law – observation (not actually a law) that, over the history of computing hardware...
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  • position of the body around its orbit along with the epoch time at which this occurs. However, if the epoch time is chosen to be the time at which the position-describing...
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    current time in seconds since a particular epoch, T0 is the epoch as specified in seconds since the Unix epoch (e.g. if using Unix time, then T0 is 0),...
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    ticks that have transpired since some arbitrary starting date, called the epoch. For example, Unix and POSIX-compliant systems encode system time ("Unix...
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  • Huang's law (category History of computing hardware)
    and that it is too soon to determine a law exists. The research nonprofit Epoch has found that, between 2006 and 2021, GPU price performance (in terms of...
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  • cost for OpenAI's GPT-4 in 2023—and using approximately one-tenth the computing power consumed by Meta's comparable model, Llama 3.1. DeepSeek's success...
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    images. Unsupervised pre-training and increased computing power from GPUs and distributed computing allowed the use of larger networks, particularly...
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    simultaneously. Quantum computing has been found to achieve computing speeds thousands of times faster than today's supercomputers. This computing power presents...
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    Friedrich Bessel. The following equation can be used to compute the current Besselian epoch (in years): B = 1900.0 + (Julian dateTT − 2415020.31352)...
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  • molecular computing, self-assembly in nanotube circuits, biological systems emulating circuit assembly, computing with DNA, spintronics (computing with the...
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  • regarding the kali epoch, audāyika or ardharātrika. Given a date in the Common Era calendar, it is trivial and straightforward to compute the kali ahargana...
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  • subsequent releases of the software. The name EPOC comes from the word epoch (the beginning of an era). The name was shortened to four letters to accord...
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  • A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. For example, the current year is numbered...
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  • CT: WinZip Computing, S.L. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009. "What is a Zipx File?". Winzip: Knowledgebase. Mansfield, CT: WinZip Computing, S.L. 13 August...
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  • UUIDs in the Network Computing System (NCS). Later, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) used UUIDs for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The...
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  • Epoch is a triannual American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. It has published well-known authors and award-winning...
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  • leap years (i.e. 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, etc.) In fact, a new method for computing the date of Easter was introduced. The method proposed by Lilius was revised...
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    In cosmology, recombination refers to the epoch during which charged electrons and protons first became bound to form electrically neutral hydrogen atoms...
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  • There are four well-known ways to represent signed numbers in a binary computing system. The most common is two's complement, which allows a signed integral...
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    floating-point formats). An epoch, in computing terminology, is the date and time associated with a zero timestamp. The Unix epoch begins the midnight before...
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