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acquisition

C1Frequent NGSL-3
UK /ˌækwɪˈzɪʃn/US /ˌækwɪˈzɪʃn/
noun

the act of getting something, especially knowledge, a skill, etc.

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J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard University Commencement 2008
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So, given a time-turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement.

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So as a quest toward more direct commonsense knowledge acquisition, my team has been investigating potential new algorithms, including symbolic knowledge distillation that can take a very large language model as shown

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