I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as. What I was on my way to really, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. It’s easy to see that the fourth full-length by these criminally underrated veterans is brilliantly written and despite being rooted in the old sound, it not only stands the test of time but urges one to revisit it and attempt to decipher and fully understand its full scope and genius. I am a gay man of a certain age, and in my time, in my tribe, telling Tallulah stories and imitating the famed personality was de rigueur at brunches and parties. None of it comes across as jarring just because it’s so coherently and expertly done and he’s compelled to experience it all over again to make sense of this phenomenon, this illusion. It’s likely to get lost in their deceptive, constantly changing, labyrinthine structures which fool the listener into thinking he’s been there before and the next minute he’s contending with a completely different soundscape. At this stage their music has evolved enough to make it sound almost progressive in nature, where they take the best elements of both the styles, throw in some thrash metal elements, a tinge of melody, and create their own palette and go about their inimitable way of expressing themselves using unique and vivid brush strokes with colours both familiar and bold. Also the shipping date is tentative because of the huge mess at the vinyl plants around the world and it’s possible that the LPs will be shipped out a bit later, depending on the backlog at the pressing plants.Īustralian black/death metal band Vahrzaw have been perfecting their sound since the early ’90s and creating a blend of the two styles that doesn’t sound like anything else out there. Credence Barebone, one of the main characters in 'Fantastic Beasts,' is an Obscurial struggling to control his powers. An Obscurial is the person whose body is a host for the Obscurus. Please bear in mind that these colours are for representational purpose only and the actual products may differ. Karl Broussard (veteran actor George Coulouris, perhaps best known as Walter Parks Thatcher in Citizen Kane, here getting his chance to play a Kane type himself) is a self-made millionaire who. An Obscurus is a type of powerful magical parasite that forms when a wizard or witch suppresses their magical ability. ► Gatefold LP with Metallic Effect and UV Lamination This extremely special box comes loaded with the following items – The variant skū- forms the noun skūmaz “scum” (because it covers the water), which becomes scum in English.These are strictly limited LP box sets made of high quality wood in brown colour and have the band logo laser-engraved on them and furthermore have beautiful gold-coloured metal brackets adoring the four corners of the box. In Germanic the variant skeu- forms the base of the noun skeujam “cloud cover, cloud,” becoming skȳ “cloud” in Old Norse, which is the immediate source of English sky (a 13th-century borrowing). The unrecorded Latin adjective scūrus comes from the Proto-Indo-European root (s)keu-, (s)kū- (with variants) “to cover, envelop” ( scūrus therefore means “covered over”). Alternatively, the verb may derive from Middle French obscurer “to make or become dark” or from Latin obscūrāre “to cover, obscure, overshadow, conceal,” a verb derived from obscūrus. It was the remark of a man who, despite a keen. The verb obscure may simply derive from the English adjective by functional shift (a change in the grammatical function of a word). This remark, recalled by the great mans physician, Lord Moran, was very Churchillian and very 19th century. The adjective obscure comes from Anglo-French and Middle French oscur, obscur “without light, dark (in color), hard to understand,” from Latin obscūrus “dim, dark, dingy, faint,” an adjective made up of the prefix ob- “toward, against” and the adjective scūrus, which does not occur in Latin. The adjective obscure first appears in English about 1425 (if not earlier) the verb appears around the same time.
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For example, perceptual narrowing-the well-documented phenomenon (cf., Werker & Tees, 1984) where infants are initially able to discriminate among the full set of phonemic categories in the world’s spoken languages but then attenuate down to only the phonetic set in their native languages by their first birthday-has been extended to signed languages and offered up as a universal feature of language acquisition ( Baker, Golinkoff, & Petitto, 2006 Palmer, Fais, Werker, & Golinkoff, 2012). Past studies have uncovered other putative universals of human language acquisition via the same logical reasoning by looking for these phenomena in signed languages. Logically, such universals should also be observable in signed languages and therefore be amodal, if they are truly “universal.” For instance, Gomez et al., 2014, in a neuroimaging study of neonates’ perception of spoken phonological features, claimed to have discovered “language universals” present at birth that “shape language perception and acquisition.” However, only spoken language phonological features were studied. However, a common bias is that the biological foundation of language learning is tied to properties of speech, and that brain regions are “hardwired” at birth to propel spoken language acquisition ( Hickok & Poeppel, 2007 Liberman & Mattingly, 1989 MacNeilage & Davis, 2000 Seidenberg, 1997). The present findings suggest babies possess a sensitivity to specific sonority-based contrastive cues at the core of human language structure that is subject to perceptual narrowing, irrespective of language modality (visual or auditory), shedding new light on universals of early language learning.Ī large component of human language development research has focused on identifying the specific cues present in the language signal that captivate infants’ attention in early language learning. Younger babies showed highly significant looking preferences for well-formed, high sonority fingerspelling, while older babies showed no preference for either fingerspelling variant, despite showing a strong preference in a control condition. Using a preferential looking paradigm with an infrared eye tracker, we explored visual attention of hearing 6- and 12-month-olds with no sign language experience as they watched fingerspelling stimuli that either conformed to high sonority (well-formed) or low sonority (ill-formed) values, which are relevant to syllabic structure in signed language. Recent theory based on spoken languages has advanced sonority as one of these potential language acquisition cues. The infant brain may be predisposed to identify perceptually salient cues that are common to both signed and spoken languages. area, it’s a logical guess that the properties may have acquired for his two adult daughters, Leena and Nikhita, both of whom appeared in Netflix’s “ The Big Day” wedding docuseries. While it’s not yet clear why Iyar, long based in California’s Silicon Valley, suddenly wants or needs two lavish homes in the L.A. Both properties are blessed with unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island. The two houses, one a $7.8 million Tuscan-style villa and the other a $6.7 million, slightly smaller Tuscan-style villa, are not contiguous but happen to sit on the very same blufftop street, about five houses apart from one another. Records reveal he’s tossed down a total of $14.5 million for two separate mansions on L.A.’s scenic Palos Verdes Peninsula. Iyar, 63, has now reinvested some of those ballooned winnings into luxury real estate. The Mumbai-born tech tycoon, reportedly one of the first three investors in Zoom, saw the value of his multimillion-dollar stake more than quintuple over the past year, with the video conferencing company’s market cap at one point topping an eyeball-shredding $130 billion. PLEASE GO SEE IT!! 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L.A. “When I put in light and the brushwork, the viewer’s position and movement actually creates the painting.” As you walk around her white canvases, their surfaces appear to glimmer and shift in response to the changing relationship between the painting and its observer. Decades after the production of her first White Light painting, the glass microbeads remain the driving force behind Corse’s perceptually complex work. Up close, however, the White Light paintings offer dimensionality and motion, relying on the spherical shape of the beads to refract light back into the work’s surrounding environment.4 The curved surface of the glass collects the light rays onto the painting’s surface and deflects the light toward a common focal point in this case, the viewer’s eye. Corse scatters the microspheres across the canvas and incorporates them into her mixture of white acrylic paint and gesso using a heavy-duty brush.3 Seen from afar, this treatment creates the effect of a static painting with areas of uniform color. Department of Transportation used in signage and highway markings. To produce this glowing effect in her paintings, she began employing the glass microspheres that the L.A. The realization that she could conjure this sensation of light using reflective glass beads changed the trajectory of Corse’s career. The networks were evaluated by looking at how closely the output of the decoder matched the original melody. This is the role of AI: by training them, the neural networks can find the best way to do this conversion.īoth the encoder and decoder networks in Piano Genie were trained simultaneously using the 1400 piano performances mentioned. There’s not a unique way to encode the notes using 8 different values so they can later be decoded back and the creators of Piano Genie didn’t know which one was the best. We can decode it back to something that hopefully sounds similar, but will probably not be the same. When the notes of a melody are encoded using only 8 symbols it means that after each note there are only eight possible ways to continue. With a full piano each note of a melody can be any of 88 available pitches. Of course it’s not always possible to perfectly recover the original melody once it passes through the encoder and decoder. By connecting the encoder and decoder together the melody passes through a sort of funnel. The decoder reverses the process by taking this simplified sequence and outputting a melody that once again uses the different 88 notes a piano can produce. The encoder receives a melody (a sequence of notes) represented as the numbers 1-88 (the keys of the piano) as input and produces a sequence with the same length but using only the numbers 1 through 8. The Piano Genie AI was built by first creating two separate neural networks: an encoder and a decoder. They’re used for a very large variety of tasks such as image and voice recognition, playing games, developing drugs and vaccines, driving cars, or even creating music. Neural networks, on the other hand, are commonly used for tasks where describing the decision making process is not possible because of its complexity. The network learns to give “intelligent” responses through a training process: it receives many examples of input, has its performance evaluated on each, and then is given feedback so it can improve over time.įor a long time most AI systems required the programmer to precisely describe how to perform a task to the computer. signals from the nervous system) and produce an appropriate output (e.g. Similar to how groups of neurons work, they take an input (e.g. Neural Networks are AI systems inspired by biological brains. We can say that through this training it learned on its own, and by example, what piano music should sound like. Its AI is based on a neural network that was trained with 1400 performances from the International Piano e-Competition. Piano Genie was programmed without coding in any theoretical rules about harmony or composition. The Piano Genie AI will assist you by choosing which piano keys to play to make you sound more like a professional player. When playing you decide the timing of the notes and have some control over the “shape” of the melody: whether it should move up or down in pitch, and by how much. In late 2016, the company re-launched its unique solution to total home control to the CEDIA channel of dealers. for a few years, it has stayed pretty quiet. Although Loxone has been available in the U.S. Loxone (pronounced “lox-own”) is based in Austria and has had a strong presence in Europe, boasting 9,000 integrators worldwide. I believe there is a strong market opportunity for products geared toward the “X-ennial” and Millennial client who is interested in “smart home” technology that is both cool and practical, wants professional installation and support, and is willing to “trade up” for a reasonable cost to a fully integrated control solution for the home. Various startups ride the wave of IoT tech, betting on DIY consumers adopting app based control for home technology. As an industry, we’ve been on the outside looking in as “ GAFA” pushes into the market. Here's the real challenge: integrators across the industry have found their niche focusing on elite clientele - folks who can spend $100k+ on their home control systems and AV. If you read my previous article in this series, you’ll know that’s where I found myself. In my experience, most folks in the industry end up with a constantly evolving laboratory of electronics in their houses.īut what happens when you have the opportunity to start from scratch, on a normal consumer’s budget? The biggest challenge I’ve had, technology-wise, has been getting my Wi-Fi robust enough to handle all the devices we have connecting to the Internet and streaming (a handful of computers, kindles for the kids, mobile devices, and an iPad). Alas, there is no option within the game to correct this, and I don’t have this problem with any other game on my PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 2…so I’m not sure how to correct it. For some reason, the entire game doesn’t fit on my small, desk TV monitor, with important UI being cut off in the four corners or hard to read entirely. Okay, now I remember what my initial problem with Dragon Fin Soup was. I’m just not sure how much like a twisted version of Red Riding Hood she is supposed to be… That’s the setup, and it’s pretty interesting at least our protagonist isn’t an amnesiac for no reason whatsoever. Players must take up Robin’s blades and set out across Asura, a lushly colorful fantasy world that sits on the back of an enormous space turtle–um, was Terry Pratchett okay with this?–on a journey to discover the secrets of her bloody past. Well, let’s revisit the abnormal critter once more now in 2019 before I get to the uninstalling part.ĭragon Fin Soup stars Red Robin, a charming, yet raging alcoholic bounty hunter who would rather get into a bar fight than deliver baked goods. According to my save file, I played 21 minutes and 51 seconds total. It tells you nothing about the game, but entices you to check it out nonetheless, which is exactly what I did…many years ago. One, it contains the word dragon, so I’m already intrigued, but it also sounds more like a fancy, medieval recipe than a tactical RPG mixed with roguelike elements and procedurally generated worlds. I mean, I get that.but groups like IGN make the same excuses.like giving this game a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 6 for, and I quote "being too difficult" and I think you should be able to counter that, but people seem to think because they are criticising, they can't get any bit of backlash.Y’all know I love a good, strange-as-heck videogame title, and Dragon Fin Soup is a wonderful example of such a beauty. I think it's rubbish, and yeah, we should probably just let this thread die :-) You may notice I was one of the first to actually criticise this video. attempting to threaten them away just makes you guilty of worse behaviour. It may be against the rules to advertise that channel here on the Steam forums, but if it's that objectionable, it should be reported. There's nothing wrong with having a monetised youtube channel covering games. I'm just suggesting that it's not criticism when someone starts attempting to profile, dig up dirt and "expose" someone simply because they don't like what was said. I will happily tell them, if you review games you need to know how to handle honest critisism, considering that's entirely what your channel is. There's really no point trying to shout down people who aren't prepared to give it the time it deserves. Many people simply won't appreciate its brilliance, because they don't have the patience, and expect something with a far more conventional reward-driven compulsion loop. Rain World was and is always going to be a polarising game. Автор сообщения: know it's a useless review, but is there really any point getting in a doxing frenzy because someone posts bad things about a game you love? Hint: that comparison = more interesting than your video. Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Risingĭefender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten You need to branch out more before reviewing games (and stop playing DOTA2, it's poison).įor comparison, here's my list of Steam games >10 hrs (note: I usually try to buy indy games direct from their websites, they get more $ that way): I don't expect much from a reviewer, but you really like your FPS stuff I got bored CTRL C / V after the first 20. Rynn's Adventure: Trouble in the Enchanted Forest Terra Incognita ~ Chapter One: The Descendant Schrödinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark Ghost Encounters: Deadwood - Collector's Edition |
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