The capital loss would be included in the computation of his New York state income tax.
Berkshire is drawn to the fair value computation of AXP, an undervalued stock with room to grown, as well as the dividend.
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It may appear that ramping up your hours to materially participate in an activity is a no-brainer, because by converting the activity from passive to nonpassive, you can pull the resulting income out of the computation of net investment income and save an extra 3.8% in tax.
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"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
She is a scientist at the Argonne National Lab and a fellow of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.
RNA, the output molecule of the computation is able to affect the levels of expression of the diseased genes.
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Money is a form of computation: As money is transferred from one eager owner to another, it computes the value of goods and services.
"We are going to extend the grid, bring in more computers, " said Charles Catlett , a researcher at the University of Chicago's Computation Institute and the director of the TeraGrid project.
The prices of computation, storage and communication drop 30%, 50% and 66% per year, respectively, at a constant performance.
"A kid in Africa with a smartphone is walking around with a trillion dollars of computation circa 1970, " he says.
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"A kid in Africa with a smartphone is walking around with a trillion dollars of computation circa 1970s, " he says.
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And still out there waiting to be created is that most elusive of breakthroughs--a nanoscale "universal computer" that can do any kind of computation.
If a participant shuts down his PC during a crucial bit of computation to vacation for two weeks, it must be reassigned.
Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.
We talk about more than just the future of computers, we talk about the future of computation and where they see the world going.
However, the textbook example was selected for ease of computation.
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The cost of computation is going to go way up.
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Microsoft Research architect Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and visual computing, is starting a new lab in San Francisco dedicated to developing new kinds of computation, based on tactile and motor experiences.
But during that time, the cost of computation has dropped so much that if you strip out those costs, NASA's budget today is probably equivalent to what it was in 1969, in constant dollars.
In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
Most recently, a team from Stanford took the helm of Sequoia to run computational fluid dynamics simulations -- a process that requires a finely tuned balance of computation, memory and communication components -- in order to better understand engine noise from supersonic jets.
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This platform of distributed computation and bandwidth offers unlimited possibilities to create tools and content serving every interest.
Google sees television much as it sees phones, and most other devices we use: They will all be nodes to a system of immense computation.
This is all part of the burgeoning field of quantum computation.
Most of the intensive computation is done elsewhere, at the server farm.
"We won't see such garments in stores for another 20 or 30 years, but the practical and creative possibilities are exciting, " said Prof Joanna Berzowska, of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
This benchmark was developed for solving a system of linear equations using matrix computation.
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The fastest growing area of information manipulation has been computation.
System Two is associated with enumeration, computation, objective analysis, and complex chains of logic.
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