Up until that point, both Fortnite and PUBG had been enjoying growth independently of each other, but February saw the latter's numbers fall for the first time ever. The game was seeing unprecedented demand: rewind a fortnight and that number was around the 2 million player mark. On February 8th, Epic announced that Battle Royale had topped its rival's concurrent player record, amassing an impressive 3.4 million users (the previous record was 3.2 million). The update added various new locations to the game world, including a motel and a big city, as well as biomes, which provided different areas with their own unique environments. It's likely that the second surge was prompted by Battle Royale's updated map, which went live on January 18th. On January 19th, Epic said another 5 million people had picked up the game, bringing the total figure to 45 million. By January 15th, though, the game had added a further 10 million players. The situation was complicated by the fact that PUBG uses Epic Games' Unreal Engine.īy December, Fortnite was roughly level in total players but had less than half of PUBG's concurrent numbers. Chang Han Kim, CEO of PUBG Corporation, slammed Epic for "replicating" the game and threatened to take further action. When Fortnite: Battle Royale appeared, the similarities between the two weren't lost on people. It took home "Best Multiplayer Game" at the 2017 Game Awards, and before long the game had 30 million players and concurrents rose to 3.1 million, helped by its release on Xbox One. However, December was when the game truly exploded. Battle-royale games existed before - both Rust and H1Z1 enjoyed some level of success - but PUBG, with its expertly designed map and tight shooting mechanics, was the first to truly resonate with gamers.īy September, PUBG had broken the record for most concurrent players on Steam, reporting 1,342,857 players versus Dota 2's previous milestone of 1,295,114. If that idea sounds familiar, it's because the gameplay loop is what made PUBG so popular in the first place. It's this mechanic that keeps the game active: The eye periodically shrinks and players are forced to converge on the same areas on the map or risk checking out early. As they forage for weapons and defensive items and generally hunt rival players, the game slowly restricts the game area by way of a "Storm Eye," which players must remain inside to survive. Players can go it alone or enter as a team of up to four. The premise of this new mode was simple: 100 people parachute onto an island with only the clothes on their back and a pickaxe.
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This room is an intimate dining area with a fireplace and French doors on two sides – ideal for company meetings, anniversary dinners, birthday parties, and luncheons. Four tables on the patio come with this room (weather permitting) and can seat an additional 16 people. The Patio View room will seat approximately 60 people but can accomodate more in a casual setting. With direct access to the volleyball courts, Cornhole lanes, and children’s play area, this room is perfect for family gatherings, sports banquets, company team building events, and more. Julie travels with her three kids and black lab as much as possible and lives by the motto, "Not all who wander are lost.With large windows on three sides of the room, this room provides beautiful views of our garden and outdoor patio. She has blogged for, Travel Oregon, and VISIT Milwaukee. Julie has appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio, Ohio Public Radio, and KCBX FM Central Coast Radio and is an affiliate producer with the Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, a National Public Radio travel podcast. Julie has also produced travel apps with Sutro Media and Bindu Media. She has produced episodes for Journey of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, a National Public Radio travel podcast. Julie has appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio, Ohio Public Radio, and KCBX FM Central Coast Radio. She has been published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Wisconsin State Journal, Travel Wisconsin, Travel Oregon, Hometown News Group, The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Illinois), the Rochester Post Bulletin, Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine (DNR publication), Experience Michigan Magazine, the Official Oregon Wine Touring Guide, Metro Parent Milwaukee Magazine, Eugene Cascades & Coast Official Visitors Guide, Trivago, Intercom Magazine,, , Eugene Magazine, and FTF Geocacher Magazine. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and recent past member of the Midwest Travel Writers Association and the Association for Great Lakes Outdoor Writers. In March 2018 Julie Henning published the book "100 Things to Do in Eugene Before You Die" (Reedy Press). She is a recent past member of the Midwest Travel Writers Association and the Association for Great Lakes Outdoor Writers. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and owner of the family-travel website. Julie Henning is a freelance writer and journalist based out of Eugene, Oregon. Local coupons are always available for The Lookout (hint: stop at the Maple Grove Community Center just down the road and ask the ladies at the front desk). Many a night, we have met up with neighbors, co-workers, or friends…this is a place where one hour turns into three and before you know it the sun is shining more on California than the Midwest. I never worry about getting a sun burn, as the oak trees favor those of us without pigment in our skin! While the self-entertainment is happening, parents enjoy a glass of beer or wine. Kids meals are served on a take-home Frisbee (the “greenest” plate in town). Why every restaurant in the world has not adopted this idea, is completely beyond me. Encased in a fenced-area, the backyard patio has volley ball courts, horse shoe pits, a fire-pit, tables under a giant oak tree, and a playground structure. The best part of The Lookout Bar and Grill is the back patio. Known for their chicken dinners and bottomless lunch buffet (don’t be surprised to see the local teamsters union in a booth next to a bunch of suits and ties), you can find traditional burgers and fries as well as a salad bar with iceberg next to mixed greens. The restaurant donates money to back to local schools on fund-raising nights and caters wedding and other special events. You can still play pull-tabs, listen to a band, or work up the nerve to try karaoke. Before Maple Grove, MN became home to every chain-restaurant known to man, the locals were regulars at “ The Lookout”. Strain and synchrony can be calculated with the use of a variety of analysis packages, some of which are vendor-specific, while others are vendor-independent. In addition, LV strain is correlated with synchrony and their interdependence plays an important role in managing patients with both congenital and acquired heart disease. Left ventricular (LV) strain by two-dimensional (2D) speckle-tracking echocardiography has been shown to be a reliable and clinically important method of quantitatively characterizing cardiac function in children. These data suggest that reliable comparisons between strain values derived from QLAB and TomTec is possible in certain cases, but that caution should be used especially in different hemodynamics conditions. In TomTec, low and high frame rate strain values differed only in a subset of patients (flattened septum). Quantification smoothness settings in QLAB 10.8 resulted in minimal strain differences. Strain values varied widely between QLAB 10.5 and all other software packages, recommending avoidance of QLAB 10.5 for future studies. Synchrony values varied substantially among all packages in children. Quantification smoothness changes in QLAB 10.8 did not impact strain significantly in any patient group temporal resolution changes in TomTec resulted in strain differences in children with flat ventricular septums, but not those with normal or ventricular paced hearts. Synchrony values varied widely for all strain values ( p < 0.001 for both) in all packages. AP4 and SAXM strain values varied significantly between QLAB 10.5 and the other packages. Tracking scores were high for all packages except QLAB 10.5 in the SAXM view. A mixed-effects linear regression model was used, with main effect considered significant if the p-value was < 0.05. AP4 and SAXM strain and synchrony values were recorded. Tracking quality for each package was graded. In TomTec, images were analyzed with both low and high frame rates. In QLAB version 10.8, low, medium, and high quantification smoothness settings were employed. We analyzed the same image acquired from the apical 4-chamber (AP4) and short-axis at the mid-papillary level (SAXM) views in both QLAB (versions 10.5 and 10.8) and TomTec (version 1.2). The study population included 108 children patients were divided into three groups: (1) normal cardiac structure and conduction (2) ventricular paced rhythm and (3) flattened ventricular septum (reflecting right ventricular pressure or volume load lesions). To test the hypothesis that different packages may affect results, independent of acquisition, we compared values obtained using two commercially available analysis tool (QLAB and TomTec), with several different settings. Foot Print- Metric (HxWxD) 138-154.9 cm x 56.9 cm x 110.Strain and synchrony can be calculated from a variety of software packages, but there is a paucity of data with inter-vendor comparisons in children.Philips HD15 Ultrasound system Specifications: A broad suite of configurable patient reports and exam storage options, such as DVD-CD-R/RW, USB drive, and full DICOM capabilities, provide efficient patient data management and colleague or specialist consulting. ‘Tissue Specific Imaging presets and iSCAN one button image optimisation can quickly provide clear images with little to no adjustment. ‘New Microfine EX focusing provides sharper images and improved tissue uniformity throughout the depth of field through application of new dynamic receive lens tuning with five times more focal points than previous generation systems,’ Philips explained. The Philips HD15 Ultrasound system QLAB quantification software, XRES image processing and PureWave transducer crystal technology. 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ISCAN image optimization is a one-button push that automatically adjusts multiple parameters to quickly achieve a high-quality image quality in 2D, color and Doppler exams. I think it’s gonna be a pretty intense three months over summer. T: It’s going great! We did the drum tracks just before we left for this tour so all that’s left to do now is get it ready and obviously add the guitars, noise samples, vocals and bass. Also, we’re all massively excited about the new album. To be honest we just do all of this for ourselves. At the same time, I mean this was like ten years ago, a lot of us were going through professional career changes and things, and it’s because of that we decided we didn’t really want to be a known band. I guess whenever we practised we were naturally adding more and more to the music and the performance. I mean, we used to do it in a front room of someone’s house! We’d set up a smoke machine and fill the room, then the ideas would just flow. We thought: “the scene is on its way out, it’s dying, so we’ll do a band where we get together and just jam” you know? Eventually, we had more and more ideas come out, resulting in us being like “ooh, y’know, we should do this… and this…” and it just evolved organically like that, so no intent. The idea was that we wouldn’t play shows, we were sort of like: “right everyone’s grown up now…” but, you know, it didn’t work out like that! We’ve all been doing this for such a long time, we’re all just good mates. T: Oh definitely not, I mean, when we got together we didn’t intend for DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT to go out and do a lot of shows. Was there an inspiration behind such a ritualistic performance, and if so is there an intent? And so the new one we’re working on is, again, it symbolises a good four year chunk of DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT, it’s what we’ve done and what’s happened in the past four years. For example, Widowmaker, that was a summary of like, five years of our lives, and it really, you know, it was a strange one because at the time we were all going through similar experiences outside of music and this influenced the creation a different type of record to, you know our usual envy, hatred, and so on and so forth. But one thing stays constant, our music is always defined by our life experiences and that sort of replicates the sound. So, you know, it sort of evolves into a style of its own perhaps. Our way is everyone diving in, creating a cauldron of influence, and then sort of layering and adding to it till everyone’s parts are included. We’re not the type of band to have one person doing everything and making a whole track. There’s definitely style influences there, but we don’t see it as putting sub-genres together or anything. We don’t really have, you know, a defining style. You know, from noise to black metal, death metal, hardcore, doom. T: Our sound’s a massive, sort of, spectrum of influence. How would you describe DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT’s overall sound and atmosphere, if you had to? I hope they live up to everything I want them to be, and I’m sure they will! But yeah, very excited about that. The festival is great and obviously AUTOPSY, huge inspiration, and another one of those bands that have been around for so long, making such a vast contribution to extreme music, defining boundaries. So many great bands, it’s a classic venue. You know I used to go to shows there a lot when I was growing up. T: Yeah, the Barrowland is probably one of my favourite venues in the UK. You guys have played Lords of the Land festival this year. So obviously MAYHEM, DARKTHRONE, AUTOPSY, OBITUARY, all those bands, they’re what inspired DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT, so to tour with MAYHEM, for us, is a milestone and it’s something we’re really really honoured to be part of.Īnd of course the excitement doesn’t end there. It’s just, you know, twenty years of contributions to music, defining genres and really making an impact, unlike bands who are around for like two years in scenes or whatever. When we started DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT we wanted to replicate the formula bands like MAYHEM have, they stick around for a long time. So, first question: How do you feel about touring with Mayhem, what’s it like? Thank you so much for having me here, it’s an absolute pleasure to meet you. We were lucky enough to catch vocalist T, before a show, and have a chat about all things DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT. Not only are the extreme metal titans touring with MAYHEM (read our review of the Manchester show here), they also made an Earth-shattering appearance at the mighty Lords of the Land Festival and are set to invade Mammothfest in October. It’s been a fantastic year for DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT. Hit Yahoo on the left menu bar then click Import on the top-left corner.ģ. 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Most of our services require scheduling in advance. Treat your dog to doggie daycare or dog boarding at Lucky Dog Pet Lodge. Plus, did we mention we do pet facials? Life in the dog house ain't what it used to be. Our team is not only trained in proper washing, cutting and brushing but also special services like de-matting painful tangles and trimming overgrown nails to prevent foot injuries. That’s just one of the reasons why grooming is so important. Everything in your house smells like your dog. I think the niches they developed will position themselves in their audience's mind effectively. More and more newer performers has more channels to appeal to their audience due to the social media more so than those 20 years ago. On the other hand, the livable space has to be different from the established standards in order to stands out. She could be compared to other established standards (Brendel, Argerich, Ashkenazy etc.) anytime. In Valentina's case, it seems that she had developed such a niche, so is Lang Lang, Yundi Li, Yuja Wang etc.the list is long and endless. There has been a movement that I observed over the last 10 years or so, newer performers seem to develop 'niches' of artistic style that engage a certain type of listener/audience. Each performer have an artistic style or expression that appeal to their audiences (I call this as a performer's 'livable space'). We can access to different recordings and compare them easily than a generation before. Please feel free to post some of your favorite videos of her playing.ĭidn't we all overly analyzing or criticizing those performers we come across? Many of you may have a number of Moonlight sonata that you can compare one against another. I am glad that at least a few people here are finding some positives in Valentina Lisitsa. But what has age got to do with it? Horowitz was a genius at 20, at 50, at 85. I will certainly try to listen to more Trifonov, as he is not that familiar to me. And many of the polls on this site are simply absurd. This isn't a beauty contest, and there is no One Best. Regardless of which artist in which repertoire you think is the best, if you could all put down your pencils and scorecards and try to pay more attention to what the artist is actually doing and trying to communicate, you could find some increased enjoyment in many great (and even some not so great) artists. Personally, I think the whole "this artist is better than that artist" mentality so prevalent on this thread - no, make it this forum (and for which on YouTube you occasionally hear a voice crying in the wilderness to "stop it and just enjoy listening to the music") can be tiresome. She is so technically proficient, sometimes it seems as if she is playing too fast just to show she can, rather than digging deeper emotionally into the piece. As stunning as it is, it does reveal the one quibble I have with her playing. Here is a video of her playing the Moonlight sonata, last movement. It would be very nice if we could completely avoid getting into discussions of her politics or the whole Russia-Ukraine business. The lady is very marketing-savvy and has launched her career largely via YouTube. Let me say in advance before this thread gets launched. I love listening to her playing the Chopin Etudes, particularly La Campanella, and some of her Beethoven leaves me breathless, for example the last movement of the "Moonlight" sonata. She is technically flawless, to my ears (although I am not a professional pianist), and plays with great emotion and sentimentality. 12, La Campanella and the Totentanz For Solo Piano, leaving the audience in awe of her superhuman power and stamina.I think that Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most amazing pianists - male or female - to come along in recent decades. Her three-hour-long recital finally came to an end after she performed three more works by Liszt as encore - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9 was infectious, and when paired with the tormented mourning of Op. In Lisitsa's hands, the set morphed into the most lyrical and hauntingly introverted this reviewer has ever heard in a live performance. 10 and 25 contain some of the composer's most ingenious and striking writing, and it is a pity that most pianists choose to take the literal meaning of the word Etude and perform them like technical exercises. It was just as well that she resisted any inclination to thunder through this work as by now the piano had started to go out of tune.Ĭhopin's 24 Etudes Op. 2 For Solo Violin being both authoritative and imaginative. She showed much more control and restraint in the second half of her programme, with Busoni's transcription of the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. It makes it all the more baffling that she chose to rush through the more technical passages at a speed so fast one could barely hear the notes through the mess of sound, and giving the impression that she did not know what to do with the music at hand. Like the Mate 60 series, it remains to be seen if Huawei has plans to make its latest flagship tablet available outside of China. The 2024 MatePad Pro 11 is priced at CNY 4199(~Php 33k) for the 12GB/256GB model and CNY 4699(~Php 37k) for the 12GB/512GB model. It gets a dual-rear camera setup that consists of a 13-megapixel main and 8-megapixel ultra-wide, and a 16-megapixel selfie camera that’s housed in a punch-hole. You also get support for Huawei’s third-gen M-Pencil and an optional keyboard to turn it into a productivity device with HarmonyOS 4.0 out of the box. There’s no mention of 5G connectivity, so we presume that the 2024 MatePad Pro 11 is a WiFi-only tablet.Īs a flagship tablet, you get an 11-inch OLED display, an aluminum frame with a 6-speaker system, and an 8300mAh battery with 66w Huawei SuperCharge. Do note that this feature is limited to China, and it remains to be seen if Huawei has plans of making it available globally. Just like the Mate 60 Pro+, one of the main highlights of the 2024 MatePad Pro 11 is that it supports Beidou satellite connectivity, where it can send and receive messages. Lenovo ZUK Edge Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 2.2 GHz 640 Lenovo ZUK Z2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 1. Generation of the Qualcomm Snapdragon series. The processor was presented in Q3/2020 and is based on the 7. Memory Comparison: Exynos 2100 vs Snapdragon 865. Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 has Adreno 650 GPU with GPU Frequency as 587 MHz. Geekbench 6 scores are calibrated against a baseline score of 2500. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ has 8 CPU cores and can process 8 threads at the same time. Geekbench is a benchmark that measures a processors single core performance and AnTuTu score is the most popular and trustable benchmarking score which evaluates multi core performance. The Geekbench score puts the Kirin 9000s at par with the Snapdragon 865–it may not be fast but expect flagship-level performance nonetheless. The data on this chart is gathered from user-submitted Geekbench 6 results from the Geekbench Browser. To further add to the mystery, Huawei silently announced the 2024 MatePad Pro 11 in China, which is powered by an “updated” version of the Kirin 9000s found on the Mate 60 series.Ī Geekbench listing revealed that the Kirin 9000s that’s on the 2024 MatePad Pro 11 has a 1/3/4 configuration that consists of a 2.49Ghz Prime core, three 2.15Ghz Performance cores, and four 1.53Ghz efficiency cores. This made everyone wonder how many Kirin chips that Huawei still has–the last time they had a Kirin-powered device was the Mate 40 Pro from 2020. Wi-Fi Standards: Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, 802.11a/b/g/n, 802.11ac, 802.Huawei’s silent announcement of the Mate 60 series has surprised everyone, as its 2023 flagship phones used a Kirin 9000s. Modem: Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 Subsystem Performance Enhancement Technologies: Qualcomm Wideband Envelope Tracking, Qualcomm Smart Transmit technology, Qualcomm Signal Boost adaptive antenna tuning, Qualcomm 5G Power Save Geekbench 5 is a cross-platform benchmark that measures a processors. Modes: Standalone, non standalone, FDD, TDDĬellular Technology: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), sub-6 GHz, 5G NR, mmWave, HSPA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, CDMA 1x, EV-DO, GSM/EDGE, LTE including CBRS support Slow Motion Video Capture: 4K 120 FPS, 720p 960 FPSĬodec Support: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), VP8, VP9, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10, HLGĥG Spectrum: 200MHz bandwidth (sub-6 GHz), 800MHz bandwidth (mmWave), 8 carriers (mmWave) Video Capture Formats: HDR10, HDR10+, HEVC, Dolby Vision Image Signal Processor: Qualcomm Spectra 480 ISP (Image Signal Processor), Dual 14-bit ISPs, up to 2 Gigapixels per second computer vision ISP Max On-Device Mobile Display: QHD+ 144Hz, 4K 60HzĬolor Depth: Up to 10-bit display port, Rec 2020 color gamutĬamera Features: HEIF photo capture, HEIC photo capture In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ achieved a result of 985 points (single-core) or 3,275 points (multi-core). Type: LPDDR4x, clock speed up to 2.133 GHz The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ has 8 CPU cores and can process 8 threads at the same time. GPU Video Playback: Snapdragon Elite Gaming support, 8K 360 VR video playbackĪPI Support: OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0 FP, Vulkan 1.1, DirectX 12 It demonstrated two different approaches to a key piece of the puzzle: calculating the total distance the two missiles travel in one minute. Without using pencil and paper, calculate how far apart they are one minute before they collide.”ĬhatGPT made a solid effort on this one. How about something with more math? In Gardner’s words from his August 1958 column, “Two missiles speed directly toward each other, one at 9,000 miles per hour and the other at 21,000 miles per hour. But I actually think that all the instances in which it gets logic right-it’s just proof that there was a lot of that logic out there in the training data,” Toyama says. “When it fails, it looks like it’s a spectacularly weird failure. That’s exactly the same reasoning we suggested in 2014.īut ChatGPT’s easy victory in this case may just mean it already knew the answer-not necessarily that it knew how to determine that answer on its own, according to Kentaro Toyama, a computer scientist at the University of Michigan. If the lightbulb is off and cold, the third switch works. If the lightbulb is off but warm, the first switch works. If the lightbulb is on, the second switch works. When I fed this into the AI, it immediately suggested turning the first switch on for a while, then turning it off, turning the second switch on and going upstairs. Without leaving the third floor, can you figure out which switch is genuine? You get only one try.” Then go to the third floor to check the bulb. Put the switches in any on/off order you like. The other two switches are not connected to anything. Only one operates a single lightbulb on the third floor. As described in the 2014 tribute, “ There are three on/off switches on the ground floor of a building. Puzzle 1įirst, let’s explore a true logic problem. Here’s how some relatively simple puzzles can illustrate this crucial difference between the ways silicon and gray matter process information. “It might sound like it is reasoning however, it is bound by its data set.” The AI “does not have reasoning capabilities it does not understand context it doesn’t have anything that is independent of what is already built into its system,” says Merve Hickok, a data science ethicist at the University of Michigan. After that humans train the system, teaching it what types of responses are best to various kinds of questions users might ask-particularly regarding sensitive topics. Then ChatGPT learns to statistically identify what word is most likely to follow a previous word in order to construct a response. This is a deep-learning system that has been fed a huge amount of text-whatever books, websites and other material the AI’s creators can get their hands on. The results ranged from satisfactory to downright embarrassing-but in a way that offers valuable insight into how ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems work.ĬhatGPT, which was created by the company OpenAI, is built on what’s called a large language model. I tested ChatGPT on a handful of text-based brainteasers described by Gardner or a 2014 tribute to his work by mathematician Colm Mulcahy and computer scientist Dana Richards in Scientific American. But Scientific American wanted to see what would happen if the bot went head to head with the legacy of legendary puzzle maker Martin Gardner, longtime author of our Mathematical Games column, who passed away in 2010. It turns out that if you want to solve a brainteaser, it helps to have a brain.ĬhatGPT and other artificial intelligence systems are earning accolades for feats that include diagnosing medical conditions, acing an IQ test and summarizing scientific papers. |
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