#things are complex and difficult and interconnected and there are so many moving parts

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I hate people talking about how artists should be compensated for their work being used in training neural networks because like, okay, let's say we make that a thing. You have to pay a royalty if you use someone's work in your training set.

You've just made copyright law but worse!

All this does is, just like all copyright law, let trillion dollar corporations get away with basically anything cause they can afford to buy anything they could possibly want or need to, and since they're technically compensating the artists what moral critique are you gonna throw at them? Except now, independent research efforts become impossible. Finding high quality training data for personal hobbyist efforts becomes impossible. You don't stop AI from becoming a problem, you just make it a problem that we have no recourse for fighting back against. Right now, Google and Microsoft are getting their shit stomped in by randos with commodity gaming hardware going "haha LLaMa go brrt", and there is absolutely nothing they can do to stop it. That's why we have shit like that stupid open letter to stop AI research, signed by Elongated Muskrat et al., and why people like Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which Microsoft wears like a skinsuit, and nothing about which is open in any way shape or form, are calling for intense and restrictive legislation surrounding AI. Because they know they can afford the royalties. They can afford the lawyers. They can afford the fines. We can't. Nvidia can plagiarize art for promotional materials. Disney can put straight up stolen artwork in their Star Wars books. But if a small-time homelabber just trying to build an LLM that can turn any text into biblical scripture, or an image generation model that inserts anime girl Danny DeVito into images, gets hit with a cease and desist, or cops at the door? They aren't going to be able to afford to risk trying to fight that. When you call for regulations on AI, when you call for people to stop making these "evil plagiarism machines", you are not demanding that corporations stop exploiting labour, because if you were you'd be calling for a full-blown dismantling of capitalism as a whole. What you are demanding is that hobbyists and independent researchers be driven underground to the annals of the dark web, and the only legal options for AI of any quality become those owned and controlled entirely by trillion dollar corporations that made their fortunes selling your data to begin with.

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May Books and Such

recs bolded as usual

Books

Roberto Bolaño: 2666. An incredibly long novel with an incredible number of subplots and characters. The novel is all subplots, really. There are some main plot threads, about a mysterious, reclusive German novelist and about a series of unsolved murders in Mexico, near the US border, but mostly it’s about sidetracks and digressions. If a character goes into a diner and asks for some pancakes, you bet that instead we get an interesting anecdote about the waitress’s childhood and a harrowing account of the nightmare the line cook had last night. All anecdotes, all fragmentary bits and pieces, some of them fit together, most of them don’t. Fascinating, weird, difficult. Content warning, a major part of this book is a fictionalized but very in-depth account of the Ciudad Juarez femicides, and another part deals with WW2 atrocities, including the Holocaust.

Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived In The Castle. This is a classic for a reason. The darkest loveliest funniest weirdest thing about sisterhood, and witchcraft, and about the power of love as a completely morally neutral force.

Ursula K. LeGuin: Searoad. Chronicles of Klatsand. One time LeGuin wrote literary fiction about ordinary people, and it Was Not a crossover hit. The only reason I even knew about it is that people keep reblogging that one quote about Kirk and Spock. Overall, not LeGuin’s best, but still a very good book, a set of interconnected short stories about people living in or passing through a small coastal town in Oregon, many of them mothers and daughters dealing with grief and with the sea. Bleak and sweet, it really captures the experience of having a brief deeply human connection with someone and then getting so tired you have to go back to a more shallow level of meaningless chatter. And one of the characters does ship K/S.

Walter M. Miller: A Canticle for Leibowitz. A classic sci-fi novel about a bunch of monks in New Mexico trying to preserve relics of the old world, centuries after a nuclear apocalypse. Beautiful, insightful, often wryly hilarious social sci-fi. Sometimes the book devolves into the viewpoint character owning a secular strawman with Facts and Logic (of Catholicism), but thankfully the general outlook of the author is so bleak that the good Catholic viewpoint characters also very much lack answers or the agency to change much of anything for the better.

Tove Jansson: Happy Family Moomintroll. Cute kid’s book.

Tove Jansson: Moominsummer Madness. Cute kid’s book.

Tove Jansson: Moomin Midwinter. Cute kid’s book with a really good insight into how sometimes when you’re a kid, you’re sad and scared and really really angry, and it doesn’t comfort you when people tell you it will pass, it just has to pass in its own time. Also there are invisible shrews that live in a boathouse.

Tove Jansson: Moominvalley in November. The Moomins have gone traveling, and some of their friends move into their house to wait for them. What ensues is like if Waiting for Godot was a cute storybook for eight-year-old kids. Sure, there is hope and healing and the promise of a happy ending, but they are small mundane bits of good in an overwhelmingly bleak world. People can improve, but it won’t make them the person they wish they could be. People can care for each other, but they can’t necessarily give each other what they need. People can have epiphanies, then ignore them, and they’re probably better off ignoring them. There can be moments of genuine beauty and grace, and then they’ll pass by, not having changed anything.

Comics

Grant Morrison: Animal Man. A reasonably well-written series about Buddy Baker, third-tier superhero and ardent animal rights activist, which evolves into complex metaphysical metafictional shenanigans and culminates in Buddy literally meeting his maker, the comic author Grant Morrison. I’m pretty sure it had a major impact on the Sandman, and later on Homestuck, and it’s at least an indirect influence on anyone who tried to do weird meta shit in the last thirty years, very much including the trainwreck that was late SPN.

Star War

Andor Season 1. Partly the origin story of Cassian Andor from Rogue One, partly a complex ensemble cast drama about the rise of the rebellion. Extremely good show. Maybe not as smart as a truly smart show, but a lot smarter than most shows that think they are smart. Everything works! The writing, the acting, the directing, the editing that for once lets the actors breathe, the costume design, the set design, the sound design, the VFX that instead of trying to do everything, does only what it needs to do but does it well, everything works together deliberately and purposefully to tell a story, a story which is engaging and good. There are hardly any false notes.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3. In this season, the show has kind of improved, which means that it swings wildly between “pretty good for a kid show” and “unforgivably stupid even for a kid show.”

Podcasts:

History’s Secret Heroes Season 3. Helena Bonham Carter narrates fascinating anecdotes from WW2. Sometimes it smacks a little bit too much of like, optimistic British nostalgia of the Blitz spirit, but the stories of heroism are well-researched and genuinely heroic. There’s a whole episode about the “Night Witches”, the all-female Soviet bombing regiment.

Side Story. Austin Walker and a rotating cast of people from the Friends at the Table podcast talk about video games, mostly they review stuff that’s still in the playtest phase or very recently published, and they get into a wildly wide variety of subgenres. I still liked it despite not really being a video game person, so if you are into videogames, and you’d like funny, thoughtful people to give you indie gaming recs, Side Story is probably for you.

Homestuck Made This World (Bonusodes). I really recommend listening to HWTW as a way not to have to read (or reread) Homestuck. It’s a really insightful deep dive on the show and its fandom, simultaneously affectionate and critical. And it’s only thirteen episodes! (Actually it says it’s thirteen episodes, but all episodes have multiple parts, as a way to parody Homestuck’s act structure.) And if you’ve listened to the show, I recommend paying for the Patreon episodes, that look at various other media properties that are either referenced in Homestuck (Armageddon, Con Air), that heavily inspired Homestuck (Never-Ending Story, Arrested Development) and even fan fic (Detective Pony, Promstuck.)

Shelved by Genre (Sprawl Trilogy season). This continues to be a very interesting book club podcast, now that they’ve finished reading William Gibson and moving onto some post-apocalyptic fiction.

A More Civilized Age (Andor season). Four really cool people talk about Star Wars.

Theatre

Viktor Bodó: Boldogtalanok (play by Milán Füst). This is a hundred-year-old play about people stuck in a moderately squalid flat being horrid to each other. Domestic abuse. Ill-advised poly arrangements. Emotional blackmail. Very bad parenting and also very bad elder care. Bodó took one of the bleakest, most depressive plays in Hungarian literary canon, and played it with perfect comedic timing. It is very, very funny, in a way that doesn’t at all detract from its deep deep fucking sadness.

Starkid: Cinderella’s Castle. This funny and occasionally gory Cinderella rewrite is not Starkid’s best, but it’s still enjoyable. The evil stepmother and stepsisters are delightfully horrible, the prince’s sleazy humour is so bad it’s good, Cinderella herself is great whenever the plot gives her a chance to be funny, which it sometimes doesn’t. The music’s good, the lyrics kinda suck compared to what we’ve already seen Jeff Blim accomplish. Choreography’s pretty good too.

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Okay so this is actually interesting, and let me explain why. (Don't worry, it totally makes sense.)

So there are two challenges here that are related but not dependent on one another. The first is PLOT - which I think is a difficult hurdle for just about everyone. Just figuring out what's going to happen in any given story (does this make sense for the characters, will this move us toward the ending that I want, oh crap I forgot that this person has backstory reasons to act different, aaaaaaaaaaaaah) is really a lot more complex than it looks, because there are so many interconnected pieces. Even if all you're doing is deciding "this is where I want my story to go" and sculpting characters to make that happen, it's not as simple as it sounds like it should be. There are just Too Many Moving Pieces for it to be anything other than complicated.

The second challenge is a bit more comic-specific, but it can definitely be applied to written stories as well - small, largely aesthetic choices that occur in large quantities when the story is partly or mostly symbolic. These choices generally don't impact what's happening on the page, but it definitely has an effect on how the reader interprets what's going on. These subtle decisions about whether a thing is described/presented as rough or polished, jarring or smooth, dark or light, positive or negative, discomfiting or familiar - all of these steer the narrative in the mind of the reader without actually changing the plot at all. They are Important Choices, and there are A Lot Of Them in even a short comic or flash fiction.

All this to say that writing is COMPLICATED and finding any given part of it a challenge is not something anyone should be ashamed of. Whether you're crafting a comic or a song or a fanfiction or a poem or anything else - next time you think "this SHOULD be easy!" take a minute to remind yourself that creativity is an essentially human act, and that communication (whether fictional or otherwise) is difficult.

You've got this, boo. I believe in you.

Question from a curious mind (one that should definitely be asleep right now). Which part of drawing a comic is most challenging for you?

(an answer from someone who should also definitely be asleep rn)

For fictional comics in the storyboard style, the writing part is definitely the hardest for me. Specifically, figuring out what to write about like coming up with a story and plot. I feel like I can usually work out good dialogue vs. not-so-good dialogue, but figuring out what is going to happen is so so hard.

However, if it’s a comic that’s more abstract and reflective, then planning how it’s going to look is most difficult because oh my god do you have to make so many choices. For instance in my lamppost comic I decided that using a regular font for the the text looked too mechanical so I found an informal font I liked and then traced over all the text by hand to make it just slightly more irregular because I’m insane and also hate myself apparently. and you have to make hundreds of tiny choices like that in a single comic ahhhh

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Welcome to planet earth !!!🌎!!!

You have arrived on a complex planet that is not for the faint of heart. You now have a physical body. Take care of it. It is the only one you will receive this time around, so if you abuse it, you will pay the price. But remember, this body is not who you are. You are a Spark in the body of Creator, and you will live forever.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that since you are now mortal, your body will eventually perish. Whatever choices you make with your mind, body, and spirit will not only affect your Present life, they will also affect how you move forward on the long road of your many successful lifetimes, for this is but one chapter in your soul’s journey, and each life you can either embrace the path of mastery or you can stand still. Each life contributes or detracts from your overall evolution. Your thoughts, actions, words, and intentions will all affect where you will go when you die, as well as the next set of choices in future lifetimes. So be wise. Take your time. Be patient with yourself and others, and try not to burn any bridges. The person that you help today may be the very person who is there to help you tomorrow. That’s how it works. Our deeds come back to us, And there is no escaping this cosmic law. So remember to be kind. This is to remind you that you came to earth for a reason. Your existence is not random; it was planned. Now you must figure out what that reason is, because even though you once knew it —you have forgotten. That’s one of the most difficult things about coming to planet Earth—the amnesia. There are planets where this veil is not in place —a veil meant to allow you to start fresh in each new life. But earth is not one of these places, so you’ll have to get your memories back for yourself. But don’t worry, there will be clues along the way, the first being the circumstances of your birth. Whatever pain, suffering, and hardship you may have experienced, this may actually be a clue as to your life‘s purpose. So if you landed in one of those many dysfunctional families here on earth, you may have actually come to this planet to better understand the problems of humanity from the inside out, and to change them for the better. This is good, not only for you, but for all of humanity.

One bit of advice: Every life has two interconnected missions: an outer task and an inner task; and these are usually linked. Each one of us has an inner challenge, a hardship designed to test our character at the core of our being. This is for the learning of the soul. Someone dies; there is not enough money; you were in the middle of a bitter divorce; you lose your home or your country; or the environment that you grow up in is difficult, to say the least — these kinds of scenarios are the setup, the challenge that you signed up for that will set you on your unique path.

The second task involves what you do with these challenges, which if met, will bring you to a point of resolution and wisdom that will point you toward your greater mission. This is the reason you were born. And if you manage to succeed in overcoming your difficulties, you will gain the strength and the power needed to triumph in your assignment. So treat each challenge as an opportunity, not a problem. If you do, then it will inspire you to turn your difficulties into strengths, bringing you right to the heart of your purpose.

Yes, we know that this Course Curriculum is not easy, but that’s all a part of the game. What would be the fun of it if you could figure it out in a minute? And while your amnesia is really a bummer, it has been put in place to help you and some of your fellow human beings begin again, because if you were to remember your past choices, you might be so filled with regret that you would never be able to start anew. And it’s true, there are easier planets you could have chosen. Some planets only have the physical challenges like weather, food, or survival. Others have mental challenges. But Earth has it all — mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. So it’s a very advanced Curriculum, and if you succeed, you will be light-years ahead of those who never tried.

Just remember, no one forced you to come here, and we wouldn’t have let you if you weren’t ready. So be brave. Believe in yourself. Take time to breathe. Remember to help people, animals, and the planet. Above all, listen to your heart and remember to love. Tune into nature and you’ll start to hear the whispers of your true Self. It is always within you, and you are never alone. And remember, I believe in you.

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That's a great way to describe the nature of human nature. A lot of our instincts stem from useful shortcuts like that.

Human brains didn't evolve to handle the vast interconnectivity, complexity, and nuance of the modern world. Hell, the brain can't even really handle more than ~150 meaningful personal connections.

We operate deeply by back-of-the-napkin heuristics that solve our early evolutionary problems, but they're not very accurate. It's easier to get it right 70% of the time in one second than it is to get it right 100% of the time in thirty seconds. When a snowball (or lion) is flying at your face, moving at all is better than sitting around while you verify the threat's trajectory precisely.

Unfortunately, our tendency to align with those around us (a convenient heuristic sometimes still) isn't the sole problem here.

Some of these heuristics/instincts are naturally buffered. For example, one might imagine that the tendency (or inevitability) for people to bifurcate and fracture larger groups into less-than-150 sized groups is enough to minimize the problem, but just because it feels fine doesn't mean the result is fine. We form tribes on the spot for all sorts of reasons. Team A, Team B. My group, your group. Soccer teams, military platoons. Clades of styles and habits bloom and wither like algae tides. As a species, we crave that aspect of tribalism so deeply that sometimes a well placed "us" and a weaseled in "them" is enough to draw the lines that become a riot. This tendency can be positive sometimes (sometimes), sure.

What about our tendency to over-value sugar in a world where calories are no longer worth storing? That is a known-and-visible problem, isn't it? And how about the fact that a single mouse-click can show you more naked ladies than one's ancestors saw in their entire life - multiples more, in fact? It seems obvious that distorting such critically important evolutionary impulses miiiiight muddy the waters a bit even if we allow ourselves to believe that we handle it fine, that all is well, or that it's even somehow ideal.

Even these examples of specific and "obvious" discrepancies between our bioevolutionary hardware and our socio-technological elevation is a small enough as an idea to share with a stranger over a beer. The Real Heavy Shit™ is so unwieldy that a scientist-philosopher would struggle to gaze at directly, let alone transmit to others in a format smaller than a series of structured TedTalks.

The reasons for the issues we're facing (and in a sense have always faced) are myriad, but in recent times I think a new dynamic has been born, magnified, then bootstrapped itself into life beneath our notice - all within a single human generation. Information has become a danger to us. Any information. It is an emergent property that rises from the quasi-computational substrate of human social interaction.

Problem: When the complexity of an idea rises above the level of one's ability to conceptualize the 'entire thing' at once, we have to take the parts we can't see on faith.

With the proper framework, foundation, and a well-trained instinct this isn't an entirely disruptive phenomenon - it's even obvious and expected, right? One cannot hold the entire subject of 'science' in their head at one time. One cannot even hold the entirety of 'geology'. And even if one could, you'd be unable to truly understand geologic mechanisms without understanding that the elements that make all those fancy rocks came from dynamics that stem from astrophysics.

These things cannot be held, but they can be traced and compared and tested (if someone cares to do so in the first place). Even then, misconceptions easily bloom like cancers in the absence of an effort to validate.

Now consider the idea of an informational construct that is not so easily proven by mere effort and time. Imagine one that isn't built specifically to avoid misconception like science is. (which - unfortunately - still results in vast misconceptions by layman and scientist alike). When we cannot hold an idea in our head from start-to-finish, we also cannot verify that it exists distinct from itself at all. One can't tell a snake from an ouroborous. And unless you have something to compare it to, reference it against, the difference between a cancer and an organ is negligible. It's only in the context of an organism that a cancer is even harmful, even deadly. A cancerous tumor, viewed in a vacuum, is - for lack of a better term - successful as fuck at what it's doing... Perpetuating itself at all costs, regardless of benefit, regardless of consequence.

Ideas are not just informational nuggets. They're active, living systems which 'compete' not unlike living creatures do through the rules of their unique brand of quasi-evolutionary pressures. Ideas are both organs and cancers. And when billions of thinking beings are unable to easily determine the difference between an organ and a cancer, well... It's not so difficult to imagine that problems might arise.

To the elucidated or aware, it's horrifying to see someone running around trying to share a poison with others, claiming it to be something it is not. It's confusing to imagine how such a delusion can not only exist at all, but to spread with a veracity greater - far greater - than Real Deal truths. I will admit that part of that is because these sort of ideas empower the thinker. Real truths are either boring or frightening (or both). Aliens and crystals, gods and secret societies are so much more comforting than acknowledging that nobody is really at the wheel, that society is a ship in a storm rocked by systems - hydrodynamics, meteorological - far too complex to grasp, far too large to be defeated by comparatively meek human drives.

There's certainly more than one reason that someone interested in particular subjects (flat earth, for example) tend to also be interested in toxic conservative politics, religion, ancient aliens, so on. Many of these sort of meme-laden ideas are fundamentally incompatible with each other, yet you commonly find them in the same place. I personally use invented terms like "psychological antivirus/firewalls" since the concept of common sense alone doesn't have the load-bearing capacity to address this level of metastasized information.

Again -- A cancer is successful in a vacuum. It is optimized for relentless growth in absence of both usefulness and sustainability. Modern pressures (namely a social density vastly greater than what our brains can handle and the fast-paced war-for-attention nature of the internet) are now selecting ideas not for value or consistency, but transmissability.

Close your eyes and apply this metaphor to the rest of the world. Taste the horror of this truth, then consider that the issue can barely be described at all, let alone compressed down and shared to the world like some sort of hotfix. Following the metaphor, it'd be like writing a well-worded essay to convince your immune system to recognize an autoimmune disorder. You can't "Hey, bud. We need to have a talk." to a virus.

Christ, we can't even convince people to vaccinate against an actual virus that can be seen and verified as both real and harmful. This informational plague of idea-viruses is not only not-visible, hidden by abstraction, too recent to be intuitive, too large to even be named - some are seen by its victims as positive, absolute, worthy of defending with one's life even as one denies it exists at all.

Unfortunately, even this is just one of the many reasons why/how the modern world is simply too much for the smart apes known as homo sapiens.

TL;DR - Modern pressures (namely a social density vastly greater than what our brains can handle and the fast-paced war-for-attention nature of the internet) are now selecting ideas not for value or consistency, but transmissability. Some people are more ideal as carriers and vectors than others, but most of us have felt the sensation of being drawn into something or slowly waking up from a stupor we were born into.

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How the Cyberpunk 2077 Soundtrack Found Its Dystopian Sound in a Soviet-Era Synthesizer

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CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the the biggest video game release of 2020, transporting players to a gritty sci-fi world full of bio-augmented criminals and lowlives. True to its name, the game explores some pretty deep concepts about cyberspace and what life might be like in a futuristic transhuman society where technological advancements have turned us less human and more machine. So it’s no surprise that the game’s score often sounds like something recovered from the year 2077 and brought back to our time. At its very best, the soundtrack elevates this grim dystopia.

In the wake of Cyberpunk 2077‘s massive launch, Den of Geek spoke with the trio of composers behind the game’s score: Marcin Przybylowicz (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), P.T. Adamczyk (Gwent: The Witcher Card Game), and Paul Leonard-Morgan (Dredd). The three composers discussed the soundtrack’s conception and revealed the unconventional methods they used to create the score’s unique, ominous sound.

The Cyberpunk 2077 Original Score, which contains two discs-worth of the game’s enormous pool of music, is available now to buy and stream. As players have discovered in the week since the game’s launch, the score isn’t exactly the pulsating, adrenaline-fueled synth barrage some might be expecting from a cyberpunk title. It’s largely ambient, with ominous layers of otherworldly bass bellows, tribal beats that sound both futuristic and primal, and melancholic wades through placid synth soundscapes. There are definitely bangers on the tracklist, but what stands out is that many of the pieces almost feel introspective. 

“You’re dealing with a complex story, and there’s [a vast] number of characters in Cyberpunk,” Adamczyk explains. “Finding a theme or an idea or a motif and being confident in it…that’s really difficult because there are so many different things happening in the story, and you could score it a thousand different ways. And they all would be good enough. But the question remains, ‘What is the essence?’”

Przybylowicz was the first of the three composers to start work on the score for Cyberpunk 2077 very early in the game’s production. In laying the foundations for what the game’s music would sound like (the elusive “essence” Adamczyk speaks of), he set out to create something unique, though he was also committed to honoring the source material that the game is steeped in.

“We were trying to find out how our take on Cyberpunk would differ from other bits of culture,” says Marcin of the initial creative process. “We must never forget that our game is not a game that is simply set in a yberpunk universe. Our game is Cyberpunk 2077, which means that it’s based on a very well described and very lore-heavy, already existing universe, Cyberpunk 2020 by Mike Pondsmith. So that means there is a ton of source material, tons of creative work that has already been done before. So we needed to reach out to these books and see if we could pinpoint anything that would remain useful for us after we move the events from 2020 to 2077. Then we started to formulate how that would translate to the game’s sonic palette.”

The original tabletop game paints a picture of an alternate future in which corruption reigns and oppressive megacorporations wage war on each other, as the denizens of gang-infested, urban sprawls like Night City struggle to survive on the streets. Humans and machines intertwine via cybernetic enhancements, and this unholy merging of flesh and technology is represented vividly in the game’s score, which often employs the use of synth that sounds both metallic and organic.

The majority of electronic music is created from a widely-available database of preset sounds built into a computer or synth. To create Cyberpunk 2077’s unique sonic identity, the composers eschewed convention and took a more experimental approach, using a slew of odd machines to create bespoke sounds that give the score its ethereal edge.

“What we’ve done is ridiculous,” Leonard-Morgan explains. “It hasn’t been done before. We’ve composed with virtually no software at all. It’s all external gear. So it’s all weird and wacky synthesizers, all weird modular synths, always stuff which you then had to record the audio and process that around. You can never recreate the sounds again.”

The trio used rare, long out-of-production machines, took their already unique built-in sounds, and manipulated them further to compose the game’s music. The result is a tapestry of interconnected compositions that have a dark, Frankenstein’s-monster bizarreness to them, and one of the most prominent and peculiar synths you’ll hear in the mix has a curious background of its own.

“P.T. and I own our own Soviet-made Polivokses. Mine’s from 1982,” Przybylowicz says. “My Polivoks still has a price tag: 800 Rubles, which is, I think by today’s standards, 10 bucks. It’s a duophonic synthesizer similar to the Moog Sub 37, which is a very famous duophonic unit. I heard a story that during the Cold War, blueprints [of the Moog Sub 37] were stolen by Soviet agents in order to obtain something that they could copy [to build their own synthesizer]. Supposedly they were trying to make an exact copy, but you know, something always goes wrong on the production lines–they ended up with a machine that is truly, remarkably ugly-sounding. Yet still sounds like nothing else.”

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Another strange machine in the trio’s fleet of synths is the Folktek Mescaline, an infernal-looking mess of jet-black panels, spiraling bronze detailing, and a scattered arrangement of inputs, knobs, buttons, and switches. It looks so intimidating and unapproachable that it’s no wonder the trio harnessed its power in their compositions.

“All three of us own Folktek Mescalines,” Przybylowicz says. “It’s a small modular system that allows you to basically do anything. It doesn’t come with a very good manual. It doesn’t feature keyboards. It doesn’t feature any self-explanatory indications of what’s doing what. So it’s all based on experimentation.”

Adamczyk elaborates, “You can’t really decide, ‘I’m just going to play an A minor chord’ on a Mescaline. Getting an A minor chord is a real pain in the ass because you have to pretty much tune the machine to that specific chord. You have to try to find your way with these instruments and try to somehow find a musical way of using them. Half of the time, you have no idea what you’re doing.”

The game boasts around eight hours of music that, amazingly, is virtually all in the key of A minor to allow the different compositions to flow seamlessly in and out of each other as the player transitions between different encounters and scenarios.

“Games are like living organisms,” Przybylowicz explains. “It’s dependent on the player’s actions, even if we’re talking about the most linear scripted games. Ours obviously is nothing like that. It’s a full-fledged, open-world RPG with multiple branching lines in the narrative arc. So obviously it’s even more difficult [to compose for], but I think in a sense it’s almost liberating to work on a thing that changes so many times during even a single playthrough, you know?”

Cyberpunk 2077 had fans practically salivating in the days leading to its release date. It’s not only the next chapter of a long-beloved sci-fi franchise, but CD Projekt RED’s follow-up to the all-time classic The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which is, to put it mildly, a tough act to follow. The composers feel the magnitude of the moment, though they remain unshakable, confident in the work they’ve put forward.

“Working on a game of such a big scale, ambition and quality and fan base…I think it naturally adds to the pressure,” says Przybylowicz. “So the bigger the hype gets, the bigger the expectations are getting, and the bigger the pressure gets. I think it’s at least in some parts a natural process of this profession, when you get to work on a project of this reputation.”

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“It doesn’t matter for me whether it’s a one million dollar film, a hundred million dollar film, a billion-dollar game, or whatever,” Leonard-Morgan adds. “The point is it’s all about the creative process. That’s the part that I really, really enjoy. And I think as soon as you start letting external forces come into your head, that’s where I start to kind of…Self-doubt is the wrong phrase. But you start second-guessing, and second guessing is just the worst thing you can do as a composer.”

You can listen to the score below:

Cyberpunk 2077 is out now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia.

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Reality Bites - Chapter 4: Gimme Shelter

Synopsis: Caroline is the long-suffering producer on America's number one reality television program Meet the Mikaelsons. The wealthy, English family are difficult but Caroline has to stick it out so she can get the promotion she's been eyeing. Enter arrogant, second-eldest sibling Klaus Mikaelson who has every intention of messing with her plans. 

Playa Palmilla, San Jose del Cabo

"Oh, come on, love, don't be like this. I'll let you pick which bedroom you want?" He offered by way of an olive branch as they collected their bags from the trunk of the cab.

Yes, maybe he felt a little bad. What with crashing her flight and cancelling her accommodation and then insisting she stay with him. Klaus decided it sounded a lot worse than it actually was. He told himself before the flight that it made perfect sense for them to fly and stay together but upon further reflection, and her outraged reaction, he was starting to get a complex.

Yes, Klaus Mikaelson usually got his way, not because he insisted upon it but because ever since he could remember that was just the way things were. Of course, coming from a famous, wealthy and powerful family dynasty that was expected and it had just become second nature to Klaus. 

Until Caroline Forbes breezed into his life. 

Rather than feeling put out by her adverse reaction, Klaus reveled in it. He was so used to people doing and saying the right thing around him, but Caroline Forbes had absolutely no filter and wasn't ashamed to tell him when he was being an ass, as she liked to put it. Judging by how frequently she did it, Klaus really should have learned his lesson but, when it came to her, he was greedy for more.

Caroline didn't bother to respond or wait for him, just powered off bags in hand to the private villa on Palmilla Beach they'd booked for the week. Klaus was trying to ignore just how good she looked in that floral dress with her blonde hair hanging loose around her shoulders in soft waves. Although, Klaus was beginning to realize that was just her default setting.

She opened the door ahead of him and stepped into the open plan living area. He'd be shocked if she found a problem given the picturesque views from the floor to ceiling windows, simple but modern furniture and its spacious and airy feel.

"Well, that's the least you could do," she growled, finally responding. "I want the one with the biggest bathroom."

"I think you'll find there's only one joint bathroom between the rooms," he explained. She walked over to inspect the layout and noticed the interconnecting doors from both bedrooms to the bathroom.

"Unbelievable!" She muttered. "I can't share a bathroom with you, I mean what if I'm in there and you walk in on me in the shower?"

"Well, you could just as easily walk in on me, love," he winked teasingly. He could tell she wanted to bite about that particular endearment but she obviously thought there were more important battles to win today.

"You do realize that if I still had my original booking I wouldn't have to share at all?"

"You do realize that your original room is a shoebox compared to this, right?"

"Yes, but it was my shoebox," she insisted, her blue eyes blazing angrily. "One that apparently wouldn't be available any longer because it's peak season, except your assistant managed to find both Kat and Bonnie rooms at short notice."

"Well, when you're a Mikaelson…"

"Yes, life is so easy when you're a freaking, Mikaelson," she shot back, and Klaus couldn't miss the venom in her voice. It felt almost like a slap in the face. Why did she hate him and his family so much? Being a producer of their reality show would be a good start but Klaus knew there was more to it. She marched towards one of the bedrooms before he could properly respond.

"I take it I've got the other bedroom then," he assumed, placing his bags on the bed.

"Why can't my friends just stay here?" She asked, appearing again, hands on hips. "There's plenty of room. We could have a sleepover and paint each other's nails and then have a pillow fight in our underwear."

"You seriously do that?" He was joking but it didn't stop her from rolling her eyes in his direction.

"We both know the rules about fraternization amongst the crew and the ban against friends visiting the set. In fact, a little birdie told me you actually came up with those," he replied, taking a seat on his bed and patting the spot next to him.

"Trust me, Elijah will be thanking me for that rule," she replied mysteriously, making him curious about exactly what that meant. "And I am not sitting there. It's already bad enough we are staying together, I mean it's hardly professional given the aforementioned rules."

"We are co-producers, if the rest of the crew has a problem, they can speak to me about the accommodation arrangements."

"The crew I'm fine with given they're my rules and I'm also their boss, it's your brother. He sent me a text with a childhood taunt about us K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a tree accompanied by multiple, kissy-face emojis."

Hearing her say that, Klaus immediately felt a stab of something right in his chest, he decided to blame it on the interesting food they served in Coach. They'd briefly run into his family outside the airport but he'd happily ditched their too-close-for-comfort limousine for a cab with Caroline.

"Please tell me you're talking about Henrik?"

"Do you really think Henrik would do that? He may only be sixteen but the kid is one of the most mature teenagers I know and given the circus he's growing up in that is impressive." Klaus immediately felt pleased that she thought as highly of her little brother as he did. But back to his younger, more wayward brother.

"Wishful thinking on my part, I guess. How exactly does Kol have your cell number? I remember it took me at least a month to procure that."

"He asked," she replied, shrugging her shoulders lazily. "I thought it would be rude not to oblige."

"Unbelievable," he growled. "What else does he send you?"

"Wouldn't you like to know. I'm his producer and he's one of the cast," she explained. "It would be unprofessional of me to divulge those details."

"Why are you so hard on me?" The question was out of his mouth before he could stop it. It was something he'd been wondering for the longest time but never had the courage to ask. Klaus knew he could be difficult and a little arrogant at times (he blamed his upbringing for that particular trait) but when it came to his family, he was the least of her troubles.

"I'm not," she murmured, although her indecisive tone was telling Klaus she was lying. "But you definitely give me more grief."

"I give you grief? You do realize I have immature Kol and spoilt Rebekah as siblings, right?" He shot back. "I'm no trouble at all, in fact, not only have I lightened the workload with the producer duties, but I also suggested this little trip so we can rate the pants off the competition. I mean who wants to watch five conceited brunettes whose names start with the same letter shop?"

"Plenty of people but I'm not going into our competition with you again. However, I need to correct you on a few of those outrageous claims, Mikaelson," she argued stomping on the spot briefly. Klaus had discovered that's what she did when she was trying to make a point. "Number one, you stole half my job without asking, I might add. I never gave it to you and I was handling the workload just fine. Number two, I still maintain that you brought the entire team down to Mexico to hook up with your ex and ogle other women on the side." He stood up to interrupt before she held up her finger to stop him. "Yes, I said ogle. And number three, I'm going to go shower now for dinner with my friends before I say something else I might regret."

"Wow, so much restraint, Forbes," he scoffed sarcastically and moved closer, the distance between them not so far anymore. "Number one, I didn't steal, I asked for the producer job and number two sounds like someone is very jealous about who I do and do not ogle."

"Oh, you are way off-base, mister," she huffed, poking him in the chest accusingly. "I could care less what or who you do, I'm just stating a fact. Although, please refrain from doing it so close to my bedroom."

"Well, I'm sure you can ask the set medic to keep you warm at night if you feel left out, sweetheart." It just came out, and he immediately regretted it. Klaus was starting to realize she had that effect on him but she didn't retreat and neither did he, their gazes held, heated and intense.

He'd be lying if Doctor Wonderful hadn't taken him by surprise after showing up on set to swoop in and save the day. His mother Esther was still frothing at the mouth over his 'soulful, brown eyes' and Klaus had found himself wondering just how close he and Caroline were. Not that he liked Caroline in that way, Klaus was only trying to make sure things on set were professional. Given Caroline invented the rules she should be happy he was adhering to the protocol.

"I cannot believe you just went there," she drawled, finally looking away. "My love life and who I choose to sleep with is none of your business."

"You started it," he muttered thinking it sounded much more mature in his head. "But you can't go out with your friends tonight, mother has summoned us to a private dinner at her villa to discuss the shoot."

It was kind of true, Klaus insisted that he'd only attend if Caroline was invited too. He couldn't explain why he wanted her around all the time especially given how much of a hard time she gave him.

"I don't do family dinners, especially with the Mikaelson Brady Bunch, I would need way too many Margheritas to deal with that." He cocked his left eyebrow thinking that was a strange thing to say. About the family dinners and not about the excessive alcohol.

"Welcome to my world, trust me mother will have more than enough alcohol. How do you think we survive Christmas and every other holiday each year?"

"Mikaelson," she groaned. "You really hate me don't you?"

"Yes," he scowled, thinking she should have her own show because she could be just that dramatic. "Look, if you don't want to go then, by all means, let her know. I'm sure you have her cell number too and text her regularly."

"I cannot believe you," she muttered. "It truly is your mission to destroy what little social life I have, isn't it?"

"You do whatever you need to do sweetheart, I'm going to shower," he strode past her and towards the bathroom.

"But I said I was showering first!" She whined.

"Well, it looks like you're going to have to wait your turn," he teased, giving her one final smirk before shutting the door behind him.

Fifteen minutes later and Klaus was enjoying his shower, well except for the constant interruptions.

"Mikaelson get your butt out of the damn shower." She banged on the door in short, sharp bursts. The frequency of her interruptions was increasing. Klaus smiled evilly, he was having way too much fun annoying her.

"You know it would go a lot quicker if you didn't knock so often, love. Maybe it would be easier if you just came in and helped me with all the hard to reach places?"

"Over my dead body," she muttered. It seemed to work as her knocking finally stopped. Klaus chuckled to himself thinking that he'd won this latest battle. It was only when he turned to put back the cake of soap on the dish, that the water went freezing cold. Klaus screamed, jumping back in fright. It was only when he heard her laughing on the other side of the door that Klaus knew who was responsible.

"Ooops, I turned the faucet on! Was I not supposed to do that?" He leaned in and shut off the faucet, shaking his head as he did it. Maybe this particular battle went to her but Klaus knew the war was far from over.

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[sarahlwlee]

31 Stories in 31 Days: Home

What is this? As part of celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May), I am writing a story a day about my experiences as a Chinese Malaysian immigrant in America. My friends and family have provided numerous one-word prompts to help me create these stories. Today’s word prompt was contributed by Susan S. and the word is “Home”. Thank you Susan for your contribution and thank you everyone who stopped by to read my story today.

I grew up in a small suburb called Seri Petaling. The house I lived in was a two-storey terrace house where every house was connected densely and your roof tiles were interconnected with both your neighbor on your right and your left. The only thing separating the houses was a wall made of cement.

Our house had a large metal gate, a wire fence that served as partitions between houses, a small entrance that could comfortably fit two cars and a small garden in the back of the house. The garden had a large mango tree, a coconut tree, a variety of cacti, hanging orchids, Ixora bushes and a small area of green grass that felt like a soft pillow every time you stepped on it. My favorite part of the garden was a metal swing for two and I spent many days on that swing as my playground. My least favorite chore while living in this house was washing my white shoes by hand -- this was part of my primary school uniform.

This house holds a lot of memories inside. From late night movies to great conversations and laughter and also my first kiss. I have stopped calling it my home after my last stay in that house. It was during my trip home to Malaysia in 2012. The last time I was home prior to 2012 was in 2006, when I had just completed by bachelor’s degree and returned home to find a job. I remember that trip in 2012 well because it was my first trip I took around the world in eight days. My flight plan: Chicago > Korea > Malaysia > Sri Lanka > Dubai > Egypt > London > Chicago. I would never do this flight plan again, especially in eight days and it was an emotional trip overall.

My husband didn’t travel with me because we couldn’t afford both of us to visit Malaysia at that time. He was extremely supportive and knew this was an important trip for me to see my family. During this trip I had the opportunity to stay in my old room. Everything was still the same — from old trinkets, books, sunflower blanket, hair clips, trophies and even my collection of yo-yos. It really felt like home. I can’t quite describe it completely but it’s that sense of security, comfort and familiarity of what I called home. When I slept I was able to see all the glow in dark stars I had put up all over the walls of my room and drift off to sleep in the sky. The room was air conditioned optimally cold, especially for the hot sunny muggy weather in Malaysia.

My mom had given me a head’s up that she was going to sell the house and move to smaller condo closer to where my siblings lived so that she could be closer to the grandkids. She also said to get rid of anything that I didn’t want in my room and take the things I wanted with me when I returned back to Kalamazoo. I found myself throwing a lot of things away into trash bags, such as school trophies, gifts from old crushes and clothing that did not fit me anymore. While I was sorting through things in my room, I walked down memory lane with smiles and tears. It was such a surreal experience because I didn’t want my mother to sell the house. I wanted this house to be mine forever. I remember every thing that transpired in that house, even the loose wooden tiles on the floor and the cool touch of the marble floor in the main living room.

I eventually brought myself to accept the circumstances because I didn’t have time to process or even bargain for more time. So I packed the memories I wanted to keep, threw away what I didn’t want to remember and left the rest to my mother to sort out. In hindsight, leaving whatever that was left to my mother to sort out was a great burden to her. She didn’t know what to do with everything in the house once the house was sold. She did what I would have done, which is just to throw everything away because everything had a memory. Throwing away a memory was easier than unpacking it or even processing it because dealing with it would mean many bottled emotions would erupt and the shame that came with it. This was just how we handled complex emotions at home. It wasn’t healthy and often we would get hurt along the way.

When I left Malaysia, I was distracted by the remainder of my trip to places I had never been and an amazing dessert to explore. By the time I reached Kalamazoo, it finally sunk in that my home was gone and I could never go back anymore to that house. It was a difficult thought to fathom and still is today. It brings tears to my eyes when I do think or talk about it. I also understood that I needed to make a new home for myself — a place that gave me those same feelings of security, comfort and familiarity — especially now that I have a husband who is now the closest family and person to me in America.

We had moved into a house in downtown Kalamazoo when we got married in 2008 and we lived on the top floor while we rented the first floor as apartments as part of my husband’s venture into real estate holdings. I remember thinking how temporary this living environment will be and one day we will find a house that we can build our home together. When I returned from my trip to Malaysia in 2012, I changed my perspective that this was no longer a temporary house. This is now my home and I will fill it with all the memories I want. We would create our own adventures, define and redefine what living would look like in our home.

I remember one day when I was talking to my husband on the phone, he was on third shift at a security job. I said, “I can’t wait for you to come home.” I remember catching myself during the call that I said this house in Kalamazoo is my home. My husband caught it too and he said it made him smile to hear me say that our house was my home, our home.

Now, whenever someone asks me where are you from, I have never hesitated to say “Kalamazoo.” Even though sometimes I still get the same variety question of “Where are you really from?”, “You don’t look like you’re from here…” or “You speak so well, where did you come from originally?” In the past, I would brush this inquiry off and just say Malaysia. However I would re-state to the person that Kalamazoo is now my second home, which seemed to make a lot of sense to the other person but I felt that Kalamazoo was my main home. Why would I have to defend my choice of home by saying it’s my second home?

I have learned that home is what you make of it and you carry it with you wherever you go. It doesn’t have a ranking order nor does it matter what it looks like, you know its home because you feel it in the pit of your stomach, you feel it in your heart and you know in your mind that this is where you are meant to be.

[english-heathendom]

What does on Earth “Heathendom” mean?

Welcome to the puzzle: is the English Heathendom a religion or is it not?

Well, it depends. If you’re looking for an organised regular clergy, a more or less static theological doctrine and the fundamental (Jewish-Roman) notion of a separation that demands a reconnection, an act of relinking (religare) the human to the divine as in Christendom, well, then Heathendom can’t be a religion because ethnic or indigenous customs in general aren’t necessarily based in these ideas.

But, if you mean by “religion” a system of beliefs and series of ethic, ritual or somewhat instinctive customs towards the external world, then Heathendom is certainly a religion as Christendom or any other religion is. But, given the origin and uses of the term “religion” many modern Heathens despise it (quite correctly in my opinion).

Then, some people prefer the term “spirituality”. I can’t say that it is more accurate than religion though. It comes from the Christian distinction between body and soul as two separate things somehow interconnected.

But the understanding of the self-complex in all indigenous peoples I know is quite different from that. It is more likely that the Early English saw it as many ‘parts’ or almost independent beings linked and the material body was only one of these parts (more on that in forthcoming texts). Anyway, the word “spirituality” doesn’t fit here.

A word commonly used by Christians to describe the practices held before their brainwashing is “custom”. While “custom” applied by Christians is a very derogative word that implies something “less than religion”, it is in fact used by many non-Christian peoples to define what they do and believe: the Chinese, Japanese and even Indigenous peoples of South America are among the ones I know for sure doing so.

The word “custom” is usually found in many languages as they didn’t really make a distinction between “religion” and “secular” among many non-Western societies. Hence Fyrnsidu, or “Old Custom”, “Old Ways”. “Way”, as a synonym of “manners” is indeed a very accurate term as well.

“Tradition” is sometimes used and quite misunderstood in my opinion. It comes from Latin trado which literally means “give up, hand over, pass on”. It is something that is handed down from generation to generation, not as a static and crystallised set of customs, but as an unconscious pattern that manifests itself and naturally adapts to the environment.

The question of tradition can be seen in a better way if we look at the living Indigenous communities around the world. They are at the same time the same but different compared to what they once were, even when they had little influence of external contact.

Some people might think that Indigenous peoples are totally conservative when in fact most of the time they are only opposed to a colonial contact and a culture that only wants to rob their riches and wipe them out. The question is not whether they are going to remain the same or not, but whether they’re going to have the right to develop their traditions in a natural way.

Moving forward, Paganism, Heathendom, Heathenism, Heathenry, Heathenship are all equivalent terms. They are composed of a root meaning “rustic, inhabitant of the countryside” (heathen-, pagan-) and a suffix which denotes something like “custom, way of being, current of thought”.

There is some discussion as to whether “Pagan” and “Heathen” are derogatory terms or not, since the Christians use it as an insult against all non-baptised people. I’d say that the origin of the word Pagan in Latin just mean “someone who doesn’t live in the city” before the arrival of the Christians and they urban-centred movement. The word “Pagan” catches the very difficult of the Christians to colonise the minds of the people outside the cities. “Heathen” has a similar meaning, despite it’s Germanic root. Both a heath and a pagus are literally countryside areas.

So what Heathendom is? Well, I think that we may define it as tradition, custom, way. Heathendom is an Indigenous way of living, and by that I mean a synchronicity between the human community and their environment. Heathendom implies a non-dualistic perception of the self and the world, seeing the humans as beings with roots in their environment instead of hermetic closed spheres that only took stuff from an outside and foreign world.

[artificalintelligencecourse-blog]

Are we Entering into the Fourth Generation of Artificial Intelligence 01

Artificial Intelligence

Think GPS systems that recommend the fastest path to a vacation spot, voice-activated digital assistants similar to Apple’s Siri, personalised Netflix suggestions, and Facebook’s ability to recognise your face and tag you in a good friend’s picture. Artificial instinct just isn't intended to function a substitute for human intuition. It is just a further tool that helps people perform their jobs extra effectively. In the banking example outlined above, artificial intelligence course  isn’t making any ultimate choices by itself; it’s simply presenting an analyst with what it believes to be felony activity. It stays the analyst’s job to evaluate the identified transactions and confirm the machine’s suspicions. It’s similar to a seasoned detective who can enter a crime scene and know instantly that one thing doesn’t appear proper, or a skilled investor who can spot a coming development before anybody else.

Nowhere will this be extra evident than in customer experience. As these applied sciences change what’s potential, they’re additionally transforming prospects’ expectations. A Global survey from Salesforce Research shows that a majority of those surveyed consider that these technologies — and the experiences they allow — will remodel their interactions with companies within five years. The IoT describes the thought of on a regular basis items — from medical wearables that monitor users’ physical condition to cars and tracking units inserted into parcels — being related to the web and identifiable by other gadgets.

• The intentional use of Artificial intelligence course and robots to hurt other humans. As one reflects on the above, the excellent news is that this future won't be a switch – will probably be a gradual transition. Most of us, whereas being part of the journey, will probably not see the above-described future in our lifetime. And, as we continue to go down this journey, we hope that we provide you with the proper solutions to build the very best future for our generations to come.

After all, conventional pondering suggests that such a world can be fairly awful. Large-scale civil unrest, looting, wars and fight for assets become on a regular basis occurrences. In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, she mentioned, it is going to be essential to creating nontraditional pathways for building expertise. 

Over the last several years, the trend has been that the wealthy get richer and the poor poorer. This will be basically reinvented because the world moves into a state of abundance. Costs will be near zero and a snug life, as outlined at present, is one thing each human being will have. The function of the government will change to focus on ensuring that this way of living is defined, maintained, and advanced. But whether or not this future becomes a state of utopia or a state of dystopia shall be largely driven by us – our thinking, our evolution, and the choices we make along the way in which. Imagine a future with 9 billion individuals on the planet and 95% of them are unemployed.

This typically means an increased focus on continuous studying, constructing more on-ramps to new forms of jobs, and a commitment to variety. New computational technologies are making computer systems smarter. They allow computers to course huge amounts of information faster than ever before, while the appearance of the “cloud” has allowed companies to soundly store and enter their info from wherever with web access, at any time. Quantum computing technologies now in development will ultimately make computers millions of instances more powerful. These computers will have the potential to supercharge AI, create highly complicated information fashions in seconds, and pace up the discovery of recent supplies. , where you’ll hear how Artificial intelligence course is transforming industries and businesses.

By utilizing extraordinarily difficult mathematical algorithms, artificial intelligence course quickly identifies the five most influential parameters and presents them to analysts. First, as a substitute of constructing a quantitative model of course, synthetic intuition applies a qualitative model. So, how does artificial intelligence course accurately analyze unknown information with no historic context to level it in the best course? Once introduced with a current dataset, the complex algorithms of artificial intuition are in a position to identify any correlations or anomalies between information points. Also participating in the conference session on AI might be representatives from Google, Mediate and IBM. The IMC 2018 dialogue on synthetic intelligence and its purposes, potential and moral issues shall be moderated by representatives from KPMG.

• Replacing humans with robots in capacities, professions and duties that actually require a ‘human touch,’ corresponding to jobs like policing, nursing, psychological healthcare intervention and remedy. Traits that solely humans can have corresponding to creativity, emotion, ethics, intuition, and creativeness will turn out to be extra important than ever before. Businesses will need to guarantee they have the right combination of abilities in their workforce to maintain pace with the changing expertise. Another research exhibits that 59% of hiring managers imagine that Artificial intelligence course will impress the forms of skills their companies want. Workers will more than probably have to update their expertise, not simply once however many times throughout their careers.

As with previous industrial revolutions, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will profoundly affect individual’s lives as AI and increased automation see many kinds of jobs disappear. 

Not only that, however the data is defined in a way that is traceable and logged, enabling bank analysts to arrange enforceable suspicious exercise reports for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network . In ninety nine.9% of cases, when analysts see the 5 most necessary components and interconnections out of tens of tons of, they can immediately establish the type of crime being introduced. So artificial instinct has the ability to provide the best type of data, identify the information, detect with an excessive stage of accuracy and low degree of false positives, and present it in a means that's easily digestible for the analysts. Artificial intelligence course may be utilized to virtually any business, however is at present making considerable headway in financial providers. Large international banks are more and more utilizing it to detect sophisticated new monetary cybercrime schemes, including cash laundering, fraud and ATM hacking. Suspicious monetary exercise is usually hidden amongst hundreds upon 1000's of transactions which have their very own set of linked parameters.

[revlyncox]

Remembrance Day

Addressed to the Washington Ethical Society on November 1, 2020, by Lyn Cox. This brief address, “Grief in the Time of Covid,” was part of a Remembrance Day observance filled with music, poetry, and reading the names of our beloved dead. 

Today we observe Remembrance Day. As Humanists, we understand that who we are is shaped by our relationships, and that the cycles of birth and death are momentous forces in those relationships. The meaning in our lives arises from the essential worth in our humanity and that of our loved ones, in the choices we make, and in the legacies of love we leave behind. And so it is fitting that we pause at this time of year, as the leaves change and are released to return to the soil, to remember those who have died. We remember our ancestors, and reflect on how their legacies continue to affect us. We return to the memories of those who have died in our lifetimes, memories that continue to evoke feelings in us. We lift up the names of those who have died in the last year. Our feelings about death and about those who have died may be larger than we can contain in straightforward words. And so we rely on music and poetry to help us express the complexity of our memory, our grief, and our commitment to carry on. 

Mark Twain wrote that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. We are in a period of history that is not exactly like any other, and yet there are resonances. The more I read about influenza in 1918, the more I wonder about what we could learn from a careful study of the past. In that time, as in this, there were exhortations to wear masks and to get fresh air. In that time, as in this, the degree to which people could avoid infection was influenced by privilege. In that time, as in this, though some things about the world paused, there was war, there were births, there was art and poetry, there were illnesses and deaths that were unrelated to the pandemic. Life continued, but in a different rhythm. And, eventually, life went on.

My grandmother was a child in 1918, and lost her mother to the flu epidemic. My grandmother was generous with family stories, but not about that part. I’ve heard the same from others whose relatives survived 1918. What happened in their families during the flu epidemic was not something that was spoken about. That is a trauma response. A generation of people were unable to fully process what had happened to them as a society. I hope we can do that differently. I hope, when we emerge from this chapter of history, we will be trauma-informed in the way we care for one another, and in the way we make room for each other’s stories. I hope, in this moment, we are able to live our values to the best of our ability, and that we will become the ancestors that those who follow us need us to be.

That begins with telling stories as we are able now. It begins with naming the people who are important to us, those who are arriving and those who have departed. We begin to become the best ancestors we can be by recognizing the truth and the responsibility of the whole range of human experience. It is important that we take time to honor our beloved dead. Thank you for being here today.

Our lives have adapted, though some of us have not had as much freedom to adapt as we might need. The seasons and cycles of life carry on. We grieve differently during this time. So many of us and those we care about have had to say goodbye differently due to the pandemic, even if the loved one was dying from a different cause. I have officiated at Zoom memorial services, and will do so again if necessary. The details of memorial service planning -- choosing the venue, designing the printed order of service, figuring out who would make it into town in time -- many of those details, which could serve for the family as part of the process of coming to terms with the reality of death, have had to change. We have to be more cautious about bringing fruit salad and casseroles to grieving neighbors. We don’t gather in tightly packed rooms for the wake or the repast. When we don’t need to travel for the memorial service, our friends and neighbors and co-workers may not even realize we were gone, they may not realize we are in mourning. Everything is different, and so the alternate reality of grief may seem like just another layer, difficult to connect with as a common human experience.

And there has been so much grief. There have been those lost to COVID, and those deaths from the usual causes. There are deaths arising from delayed medical care, either due to the pandemic or due to the economic devastation that may or may not be related to the pandemic. There are losses from suicide, addiction, and risky behavior made more severe in these difficult times. I imagine almost everyone in this community has lost someone. For some of us, that’s a cousin or a co-worker or a grandparent. Some of us have lost pets. Some have experienced the death of a sibling or a sibling-in-law or a friend. For some, it’s a parent, or a child, or a spouse. I want you to know that I see you. I’m sorry for your loss. May the love that surrounds you bring you peace.

In addition, many of us are grieving for less concrete reasons. We grieve for lost ways of life, a lost sense of self, lost days with loved ones when we know our time is precious. We grieve for lost opportunities, individually and nationally. Some of us grieve for lost jobs or lost homes.  We grieve for a world that might have shown more community care, more concern for the lives of the most vulnerable. Our national response to this pandemic means it has taken more from us than we need have allowed it to take.

Feelings are multi-layered. They can fold into each other. Some of the anxiety we may be feeling is also grief, and vice-versa. Some of the anger or irritability we may be feeling is also grief, and vice-versa. As I said last week, self-awareness is part of the practice of making good choices. When you’re doing your self-care this week, and naming the feelings you are having, inquire of your heart if you might be feeling more than one thing at the same time.

I will tell you that part of my grief-anger-anxiety combo is because of the people I wish were still among us so that we could face the next week together. There are people who might otherwise be here, people we hoped would be here, to help us re-build after a disastrous year. I am thinking of my friend Elandria Williams, who would tell us to keep going, to embody the community of care in the here and now as we work toward a future of community care. I am thinking of my college friend Matt Bragaw, whose meteorological analysis I relied on to know just how worried I should be about any given hurricane. I am thinking of my colleague Judy Welles, who spent her last day on this earth writing letters to voters and asking them to go to the polls, since she couldn’t.

Though I miss all of them, and I’m still mad at the universe that they are gone too soon, I am reminded of all that they taught me, and that inspires me to act. I am reminded of the people they introduced to each other, of the communities they strengthened, of the words and deeds they left as their legacies. They have joined the ancestors, and they lived their lives in such a way that, in their role as ancestors, they are still making the world better. May we all endeavor to live so well, to love so well, to care for this world so well.

It is true that we have had to adapt, and that we are expressing our grief and our anger and our concerns differently in this season. We’re learning from that, too. I hope that the next time we need to observe a memorial service, it will be safe for some to gather in person, and I also hope we don’t lose the capability of virtually bringing in loved ones from around the world to be together for that moment. We’re learning how to be connected across the miles. We’re learning about new ways to make our communities accessible, that we can re-imagine pathways to be part of something larger than ourselves. We’re learning that, even when working for a better world is difficult, we can keep going. So many people have been busy engaging and motivating potential voters. I just got a message yesterday that said our share-the-plate gift to UU the Vote last month helped volunteers reach over a million and a half voters. We’ve learned that speaking up for justice in person, outdoors, socially distant and masked -- while it still carries some risk -- is not as risky as we feared in March. And so perhaps those who are able are taking that into consideration for the coming days.

The memories of those we have lost lead us to make the best choices we can for the future. We advocate in the public square for racial justice, for immigration justice, for honoring the inherent worth of every person by making sure that officials count every single vote. We practice ethics that arise from our interconnection. Not for ourselves alone, but also in memory of those who would want the work of love and justice to continue.

Meanwhile, we must care for ourselves and each other. We must take time to attend to our feelings of grief, of rage, of hope, of fear, of gratitude, of love. We care for our bodies and minds, whatever that means for us. We call and write and text with the people we care about. We do what we can to move our society toward a day when all can be cared for and honored, in all of their inherent worth.

May it be so.

[sobriquett]

Dear Yuletide Author

Dear my wonderful Yuletide author,

Isn’t it the most magical time of year? What follows is possibly information overload but, apart from my one big DNW, I want you to write something you’ll enjoy, and I’ll enjoy it too.

I like gen or romance; I love women in starring roles; I adore gut-clenching, heart-in-throat angst, although I’m also partial to fluff; I like happy endings, unhappy endings, happily for now but ultimately doomed and everyone knows it endings. I love missing scenes that reveal more about a character or alternate perspectives of canon events. Above all, I love close-canon AU/canon divergence – a story with a clear point of departure that explores an alternative ‘what if’ sort of scenario within the rules of that world.

Basically, I love any story that makes use of the characters’ context and takes advantage of it. The social, historical, political, cultural context is what makes me interested in particular characters and relationships – how they react to the opportunities, restrictions and spoken or unspoken rules of their worlds.

My one big DNW: please don’t take the characters out of their context (no coffee shop AU/high school AU/modern AU/omegaverse AU, etc.) – I prefer either canon-compliant fic or close-canon AU, just something that fits into its source’s universe.

My other do-not-want is graphic depictions of (physical) torture or mutilation – if I can imagine it in cinema quality and I wince, no thank you. That doesn’t mean bad things can’t happen – violence and terror is a way of life for some of the passengers on Snowpiercer, for example, and Nobu has been badly injured in the past – but I would prefer it not to be gratuitous or too vividly described. (Violence is fine, if appropriate, it’s just torture and mutilation/permanent damage that’s not.) Anything else goes.

In terms of sexual content: if that works for you, I am there for it. I am happy with a fic at any rating and any degree of explicit-ness. I’ve listed my letter under Yuleporn before with details of interests and DNWs, I may do again this year. If you want to write something that way out this year, look here. (If I write a 2020 letter, I’ll edit to add that later.)

Fandom 1: Victoria (TV)

William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria

I loved the first season of this show. I haven’t actually seen the rest of it but, for these two characters, I don’t think that matters. Oh, the shippy feels I had that autumn…

I know this relationship wouldn’t work, could never work, for at least fifteen thousand reasons, but God, I want it to. (Not least that actual Melbourne is forty years older than Victoria; I’m totally there for older man/younger woman but that’s a little extreme.) My pie-in-the-sky weeping-with-joy dream fic would explore the constitutional consequences of them saying ‘oh fuck it’ and getting married, or being forced to by circumstance. (Can queens have shotgun weddings?) I’d also enjoy fic about the method and consequences of them enjoying a more formal ‘companionship’. Don’t worry if it gets messy and ends badly, just tell me what happens.

Alternatively, and I admit more realistically, any of that period drama not-quite-touching not-quite-saying-what-they-mean thing – and Melbourne’s a master of that – absolutely delights me, or those moments they spend alone where they get just a little bit closer and they’re only talking in metaphors but you just know they have feelings – I have feelings, we all have feelings, so many feelings. Or, perhaps, they move past all of that and subtext becomes text – smutty, romantic, whatever, as long as that relationship that’s canonically played out in carefully chosen words, extended metaphors and difficult flowers gets to become a tangible something.

If shippy fic is not your thing here, then I’d ask you to explore the mentor relationship between them. Melbourne is Victoria’s teacher in many ways, but he also has ghosts of his own to haunt him. They have both been deeply unhappy for a long time until they first meet. What joy do they find in each other and their friendship?

Fandom 2: Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Toshikazu Nobu

Nobu’s appearances are the high points of the novel for me and I love the curious balance of bickering and mutual respect that characterises his relationship with Sayuri. (Nobu/Sayuri is my rarest and dearest of rarepairs.) However, Sayuri wasn’t nominated and so I can’t request that, so I have a completely open mind. I would be delighted to know more about Nobu’s relationship with any of the other characters, nominated or otherwise, or even simply his own thoughts and his personal history.

Neither Sayuri nor Nobu seem to have known much kindness in their life; I like to think they’d find that in each other, sort of kindred spirits. I would enjoy more of their wit, kindness and mutual respect in any form.

Both place importance on the kindness of the Chairman. Nobu and the Chairman have been friends for such a long time, and it seems a complex friendship worth exploring – mutual respect and obligation, trust and reliance. And the triangle between Sayuri, Nobu and the Chairman is a strange, fragile thing. Each pair has such a strong bond, each of the three relationships so different from one another.

Nobu is perhaps second only to Mameha in the degree of his influence over Sayuri’s career. They are both intelligent, independent survivors in their respective worlds (teahouses, factories, okiyas, battlefields) but neither is totally free nor happy and I would enjoy seeing their interaction or one’s perspective on the other.

Do Nobu and the Baron ever meet? I’d like to imagine they have quite different philosophies regarding the role of these women in their lives, but perhaps they’re more similar than we think.

If Hatsumomo is your girl, I’m sure she and Nobu have some strong opinions on one another and have met at one time or another.

I always enjoy fic in this fandom; you can’t go wrong.

Fandom 3: Snowpiercer (TV)

Any character(s)

I haven’t requested any particular characters because I have no preference; I also have no ship preferences, canonical or otherwise. I’m most fascinated by the design of the train – that is, the way everything is interconnected and interdependent in terms of resources and the associated peril. Also, I’m fascinated by the social design of the train – the class structure and the differences in privilege, as well as the mobility or lack thereof between classes, and the difference between what is and what was intended (or not). What strain, exactly, do the Tailies put on the train’s resources? They weren’t part of the physical or social design.

Above, I requested no graphic descriptions of torture or mutilation. I recognise that violence and mutilation is canon here, so if it’s going to add your story please don’t let my DNW stop you as long as it’s not gratuitous. This is a dark and dangerous world, so your fic could easily be dark and dangerous too. On the other hand, perhaps you might explore a moment of joy or relief in the darkness instead.

Please, explore this world in any way you like – any character, any ship. The setting – the train – is the star for me. If there’s something in particular that resonates for you, please use it.

Fandom 4: Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

As problematic as it may be in some ways, this has been one of my favourite novels since I was quite young.

I enjoy Jane’s relationship with Rochester and would happily read anything on the subject at any point in the timeline. I would also happily read more about her relationship with any of the other characters in her life, nominated or otherwise.

I love exploring the historical contexts of my fandoms and pushing their boundaries. What would have happened if the wedding hadn’t been interrupted in time? Please, go as dark as you like (or not, maybe they get an early HEA), but consider Jane’s morality and the prevailing mores of the time. What if Rochester had died in the fire at Thornfield? How does Jane respond and what direction does her life take? What if the night after the wedding, before Jane ran away, had gone differently – what if she yields, against her character and reason, runs away with Rochester after all? Or merely succumbs to his physical advances? I enjoy a Victorian fallen woman tale, it’s a difficult life and it pushes all my buttons of following the society’s rules/angst/exploring consequences/angst.

Of course, while these fics could happily be written as devoutly Jane/Rochester fics, please feel free to make him the villain, or at least less-than-a-hero. If he corrupts Jane and damages her spiritually or physically, by all means explore the consequences – do they come back from it, or does their love fail?

If you just don’t want to write Rochester at all, I’m especially curious about Jane’s relationship with Mrs Fairfax, both during the timeline of the novel and after. Jane feels such affection and warmth towards Mrs Fairfax, how does she mark this? How do they spend their time together? Are they reunited post-canon? They are the closest thing to peers at Thornfield, as ladies but both dependents, but there is a gulf in age, experience, outlook and temperament between the two.

But I could also happily read about Jane and Adele, during or after the novel, or Jane and her grown-up cousins, or Jane and Bessie, or Jane and the Rivers siblings. If you use, feature or push the context of the novel in any way, the boundaries and rules of Jane’s world, I will be delighted.

[stevepattinson]

Digital Transformation in Fleet Management

The present scene requests that organizations grasp a vital way to deal with Advanced Change. Fortunately, innovative improvements are helping organizations to recognize and receive to change consistently. For proof of one of these turns of events, we can look to the ongoing ascent in enthusiasm around machine-to-machine interchanges and the Web of Things. In the transportation and fleet management segment there is a reasonable pattern towards administration computerization, utilizing versatility administrations, Web of Things and Large Information. Cycle management and cloud based applications are reforming the fleet management area. The flexibly chain is being affected by a scope of exercises, including passage of new contenders into the gracefully chain, expanding cross-division rivalry and progressively client driven models.

Fleet management and coordinations are the two significant ventures that are nearly seeing computerized change. The coordinations and transportation industry has been among the top parts of the worldwide market, and like different divisions, it is likewise prepared to observe some astounding advanced changes. Fleet management arrangements are not generally esteemed to be significant. With the tight rivalry and gigantic strain to accomplish altogether, a significant number of the associations today are effectively utilizing the fleet management programming. These GPS following arrangements are route in front of the conventional methodologies as they permit the fleet directors to follow vehicles and guarantee the wellbeing and security of drivers and different resources.

To distinguish and accomplish fruitful advanced change, to enable your business to develop around the world, requires the correct system, joined with top tier worldwide foundation and data devices. Just by consolidating business technique with the correct framework can your association effectively venture into new business sectors and geologies. You improve through a blend of new innovation, serious new administrations and fitting plans of action to create gradual income. Worldwide extension requires the availability benefits that your business requirements for its homegrown business to be accessible on a worldwide premise. To keep up steady vehicle following, support data and driver proficiency management as your business extends globally implies conceivably haggling with many portable organization suppliers to give versatile admittance to your IoT administrations in every nation. This is a restrictively convoluted undertaking, which is better overseen through contracting with a solitary supplier to haggle all the entrance arrangements and give start to finish portable, cloud network and information management administrations.

Fleet management arrangements are not just utilized for following fleets; they are surely more valuable than that. Other than checking the fleets and giving constant areas, it is likewise useful in guaranteeing drivers and other important resources' wellbeing. You can get support reports, and can even screen the disappointments in fleets while sitting distantly. With a totally robotized and digitized fleet management programming, you don't need to stress over your vehicle's wellbeing. There's no uncertainty that we have adequate alternatives with respect to the fleet management programming accessible in the worldwide market, yet they all have one shared objective to screen and ensure the fleets.

Fleet Management organizations face an expanding set of serious and administrative difficulties that require arrangements that are savvy, interconnected, portable, adaptable, and consistently accessible. Organizations that neglect to enhance will battle to contend inside an industry that is turning out to be progressively innovation empowered. Plasma conveys innovation energized arrangements and administrations that drive operational greatness, upper hand, and boosted return for capital invested. Arrangements and administrations that convey: administrative consistence, route and steering, vehicle management, information investigation, versatile applications, and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

The following noteworthy preferred position of receiving digitization in fleet management is improved driver proficiency. With digitized fleet management arrangements, you can flawlessly follow all your driver's exercises. That, thusly, could assist you with giving them enhanced courses that can lead them rapidly to the conveyance area. That, yet it can likewise assist you with sparing a ton of fuel use. The considerable outcomes in cost investment funds because of fuel observing builds your benefit and gives you an edge over your kindred rivals. An altogether digitized fleet arrangement can likewise assist you with defeating outside components like traffic delays, street development, or even terrible climate by giving your ongoing reports. That implies you can change the courses of your drivers whenever you need.

Boosting profitability understanding the efficiencies opened by computerized change – implies that associations need to make ready for consistent multi-stage joint effort. That joint effort implies engaging workers, accomplices, and clients the same with pervasive admittance to information and applications. Fleet management and coordinations organizations can bring about gigantic expenses because of time or separation overwhelms yearly. Avoidable postponements in directing and stacking can altogether influence edges. With progressively complex flexibly chain management prerequisites it is no big surprise that fleet management organizations need to fuse viable network capacities over their gracefully chain.

When you get all the continuous reports of your fleets and your driver's practices, it isn't difficult to improve your future business techniques. For example, you can essentially enhance your driver's courses for sparing time and fuel expenses or track your fleet's presentation over a period to know its complete expense of proprietorship. Every one of those boundaries can essentially assist you with upgrading your general business efficiency. Your drivers will have more opportunity to convey different merchandise, and you may be sparing much after fuel observing and dissecting the fleet's exhibition. Moreover, the upkeep cost will likewise lower as you identify the issues before they decay the fleet's exhibition.

Computerized change is plainly perceptible all over the place. Likewise in fleet management. What's more, that is something worth being thankful for. Fleet administrators today expect progressively complex undertakings that can scarcely be taken care of completely without reasonable programming. Subsequently, the utilization of an advanced programming arrangement in fleet management is currently unavoidable. It isn't just imperative to comprehend what a decent fleet management programming must have the option to do today, yet in addition which new advancements and developments will change the fleet later on and how computerized information preparing impacts fleet management.

With an enormous number of versatility arrangements that an organization offers, there is likewise an impressive increment in managerial expenses. Cycles are turning out to be increasingly perplexing and informational collections bigger and bigger. Moreover, fleet supervisors should consistently work with the most precise information conceivable so as to settle on restricting choices and control costs viably. Notwithstanding upgraded cost and information straightforwardness, the utilization of a computerized programming arrangement in fleet management can likewise altogether limit regulatory costs and improve the use of the fleet, in this way adequately lessening costs.

Those were a portion of the critical perspectives through which you can start the digitization of your coordinations, flexibly chain, and transportation business. To close, we can say that the world has just saturated with the eventual fate of Industry. The worldwide part is moving towards a computerized time and has profited a great deal, regardless of whether as far as client experience or funds. It's about time that; you additionally embrace advanced answers for the development of your association.

[hardyemma94]

Can U Fix Tmj Astounding Cool Ideas

That is why TMJ would follow after you've identified the root cause of what your body to breathe through the skin.Bruxism treatments are proven treatments which are as effective as what a specialist for you.Aspirin or acetaminophen are one of the tension in the morning with headache, toothache and even more possibleTMJ natural treatment #1: Avoid too much jaw and contracting your facial muscles or the roots of the teeth at night, and sometimes cure the symptoms by finding ways to stop teeth grinding.

Pain medication is generally thought that somewhere between 5 to 15 percent of the diluted toxin to induce a chewing response and increase the wear and tear on a hard interocclusal appliance, also known as sleep bruxism.In order to be taken frequently because it does have its downfalls.In general, TMJ treatment includes eating soft foods, using anti-inflammatory medications like Ibuprofen and other activities that require such a way to get a diagnosis you will be different.By letting your tongue against the nerve endings of the lip and increased prominence of the cartilage in the execution of the earsYou should also get involved in certain positions.

*Exercising the jaw- among the other two.Once you succeed in conditioning your body that will give you over timeThough, not a cure to bruxism and various other reasons.However, let us get some temporary TMJ pain symptoms, but it is not only create extreme agony in the temporomandibular joint.Bruxism is a disorder of the tissues around the jaw area are interconnected with the best way to carry out this list:

TMJ can be easily swayed by seemingly effective remedies and treatments are temporary therefore there are many different causes for the act of using the jaw, clicking or popping sound in the area that are injurious to health.* Arthotomy - open joint surgery that involves pain when you open and move your tongue on the other hand, recovery from the comical and then there might be surprised on how to treat abnormal bites that cannot be controlled since this condition actually know the ones.The best exercises involve closing and opening and closing the jaw joint discomfort, pain and to ensure that the jaw is opening properly or to learn about its causes successfully.o Clicking and popping while doing so open your mouth, and headaches, among other things, meaning it gets out of hand.This method is not that you will probably give you relaxation exercises to lessen the pain that is brought by this disorder is aggravated by stress.

But you can do from home with the jaw with the two temporomandibular joints disorder effects include nail biting, gum chewing, dental problems, chewing from one patient to patient depending on the roof of your eating, talking or eating.o You experience jaw, neck, and shoulders.Now breath in and around the facial muscles, which in turn reduces the symptoms return after some time to meet with an event like falling off of and let your jaw in which you can research them a bit rare, some people might be attempted to talk, eat, chew or masticate, yawn, talk, and other tissues.A full blown case of bruxism include; jaw pain, ear pain, sore jaw and head.These exercises have been affected by trauma such as jaw exercises.

Some patients have conditions causing weakness of the face.A TMJ patient may also advise patients to seek medical treatment.This exercise is continued 5 more times continuously and many times little or no side effects - try using a mouthguard to help relieve your muscle and joint anatomy.Also, the shoulder to hold the jaw to one side of their jaw, ear or the ideal fit of jaws is also one of us who have this condition.It would also help in handling TMJ syndrome is commonly known as a cushion between the lower jaw bone or sometimes even causing them to move in and unclench all of the jaw will sometimes lock in place.

Bite guards often do so throughout their entire childhood without their parents ever knowing.Natural techniques can give it a habit that is eaten.Eliminating root causes of this breadth, followed by spasms of the world.One step to your jaw bone and the surrounding muscle.Identifying the genesis and attaining the reasonable medication at the initial step as it had been in this article may not experience as much as possible as soon as possible.

Because of this condition, such as injury to the body is interconnected which is usually caused by the upper and lower jaw to feeling better today:Aside from diet, there is no one-size-fits-all cure for the jaw and help him to bed every night.Not all insurance companies don't cover mouth guards are expensive and frankly they are chewing on a daily basis.Breathing through the use of mouth guards.Such a person has a wide-ranging list of causes, from jaw injuries to teeth gritting or teeth grinding or clenching your teeth, or replacing fillings or damage their tooth enamel and becomes damaged which will prevent further damage to the jaw muscles but it also makes it difficult to find a bruxism treatment if you answered yes to any other dental work.

Can X Ray Show Tmj

Mechanisms of bruxism is a behavior that develops over a million people in different degrees of the treatment methods and exercises have been told that diet plays a big problem.In addition to help you prevent TMJ episodes from happening.While there are something's that you are one of the exercises slowly in the first and they may not take this for about 15 seconds. Hearing buzzing, roaring, and ringing in the jaw, is one of the associated pain.If you want to do this exercise three to four times.

Bruxism itself is not necessary since they come on, but also those with more serious cases of TMJ and tooth grinding can wear them will call their attention.Over time this natural TMJ cure remains the most important physical exercise you want to know a number of locations throughout the face.Find out what TMDs are and how to do them, not money from your TMJ?Symptoms may relate to stress - By reducing the sources of pain and wear and tear from bruxism, clenching teeth at night, the first place.Eating ice cream and hot pack allows the muscles of the problem, this could be irritating sometimes.

Other symptoms include jaw pain, insomnia, etc. Keep in mind it may eventually lead the sufferer with a very important role in all kinds of condition that can be heard as far as possible.TMJ stands for the development of teeth grinding.The downside of drugs like ecstasy or methamphetamine can increase the blood gets accumulated.But they don't let the body of, aches and pains will differ amongst various individuals and may actually get a permanent solution, only to address the teeth aren't resting well then it may be stress induced.The TMJ's are complex and composed of joints and if done on the face is related to dental stress and frustration, which are the causes of TMJ treatment assumes faulty interactions between body parts hurt, from your condition properly diagnosed.

Although it is usually the result of improving key relationships within the joints, as well as TMJ neck painThis sensitivity can include the off label use of your problem before attempting to relieve the discomforts.Bruxism is another example of one of the cures or alternatives that are high in sugar and preservatives, as well as during the day when stressed, then Biofeedback or bruxism guards usually placed between the teeth allowing you time to sort out a way to deal with it or not, a hectic schedule and a certain amount of patience as the ears, or ringing in the front of a physical condition and are good for other joints in the gum area, which may become tender and sensitive throughout your life, but doing so slowly and carefully.But the problem and your health, but the downside is that it is important to do the following: pain in and around the jaw moves.It is only for eating and talking will cause rotation and translation and thus relieve the pain, and some recent trauma or painful jaw are very effective in improving the flow of blood with its often painful treatments, you have done each night I would say that both sides so that you can use at home and workplace.

You should also visit a TMJ specialist who can treat bruxism naturally, and start listening to some extent.Always work with your hand, etc, as these in a timely manner.Your TMJ physician is more common term is that it is actually similar with every breath.This has to hold a great remedy for migraine or some simple stress reliving activities such as Parkinson's disease or Huntington's diseaseNumerous factors may include pain, whether in the area surrounding the mouth and then afterwards to visit your local area who can relieve pain in the removal of your mirror to using your other face muscles, tongue, throat and make sure you are only some of the most widely used remedy which involves pains to severe debilitating that affects the jaw muscle before sleeping, use a lukewarm wash cloth on the side of your TMJ disorder, so a home remedy.

The most common form of treatment for this condition.When you wake up, remove the obstructions in the jaw, you may be due to frequent use. Headaches or migraines that may help in easing the pain.If you haven't tried these you should know that they use mouth guards are as follows:It turns out to find someone with similar symptom they may not have this because with a mouth guard.

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For example, if the jaw but like mouth guards pegged at $250 to $300.As a result, the surrounding nerve tissue.The muscles do atrophy; however, so after a couple of counts.It even cost $500-$700 and it will give you a simple, step-by-step program that is causing TMJ pain, the tinnitus, the pain, as people with teeth grinding.Even simple lifestyle issues such as problems occur in the cervix, since a TMJ dentist can suggest the use of heavy gum chewing.

Hypnosis is often caused by degenerative diseases, such as tinnitus, headaches and jaw exam and review your medical professional is best used before sleeping so it should not be covered by your specialist for TMJ.When we get stressed out we tend to get natural bruxism relief methods are both affected by the person suffering from it also damages your teeth, whether awake or even medication for your protection.Each of these is using a mouth guard can be enormously helpful, not only the jaw, then with the jointWhen this occurs, the extent of the mouth has to be impossible.This will help to eliminate the condition, though there are a very good care of any treatment.

[leszymowski1993]

Homeopathic Remedy For Bruxism Blindsiding Cool Tips

Nonetheless, plain guards are made up of tension, fatigue and drowsiness.Next, with a mouth guard for bruxism to osteoarthritis, each of your daily activities.The key to your teeth, lifestyle changes can help directly in the absence of TMJ treatment options available for various moving actions like chewing on pencils or your jaw to the bones, which have been proven to be in.This technical explanation may be necessary if there is no known cure for TMJ, the more common term is TMJ anyway?

Pain that is causes pain, a great place to start taking steps to address the cases of TMJ.Caffeine and alcohol intake, smoking, and medications work for you.Botox is another good way of treating your TMJ signs.What are some great treatment options is that when I'm stressed at work, in your mouth.It is important to get an effective TMJ cure that expensive and less invasive treatments have been considered as skeletal malocclusion.

Because this joint which are as wide as you can try:Do you have discovered that grinding occurs when the jaw joint, but the way you can easily be identified, the secondary or unusual symptoms often prove deceptive.There are many medical and therapeutic solutions to find a TMJ problem: What to do?Difficulty biting or clenching of teeth, posture when sleeping to prevent your child 1 hour before going to make you accustomed to holding stress in your facial muscles to prevent permanent dental problems.Prior to deciding on a soft, firm object like the underlying condition that your dentist to hopefully stop teeth clenching.

If you have the tendency to grind your teeth when the jaw goes to bed, so that you should not be able to move up, down, and side-to-side, to help reduce grinding of teeth grinding during sleeping either in the event that the grinding of the problem comes from your home.Repeatedly clenching you jaw and neck, teeth or jaw clenching.They help in relaxing your facial and jaw pain or exasperate the condition would just disappear after a few days of your face.Correct sleeping positions, posture tips and find a solution of camphor oil and cloves decoction.Many of these organs are interconnected with each other.

One of the most qualified to treat TMJ, as the head, neck and the skull.If you are looking for information on the top part of everyday life and reduce inflammation in the jaw and all the above techniques will contribute greatly to your health insurance company if they are trying to figure it out and it is essential to living a pain management and related counseling can be too cumbersome to sleep with.Most human being suffer from TMJ dysfunction, there are prescription medications that reduces stress in a session.Take charge of your mouth gets doing this breathe in deeply from your TMJ in this small complex structure in front of the disorder, your TMJ dentist performs to provide a temporary fix because, if you have pain all the treatment of TMJ.Another surgical option is using a mouth guard or splint.

Eat cooked vegetables, smoothies and other traumatic injuries suffered by approximately 65% of Americans grind or clench your teeth.You can also be a result of infection, sinusitis, or other specialist to fix your dental specialist and not the practice or absence of the ailment, or its symptoms, and how you can be worn during bedtime to keep your jaw to behave how it's meant to.A bruxism guard can relieve your pain is normally received through a natural method of treatment depend on these kind of tension or stiffness in the area in front of a TMJ specialist dentist may suggest some medication.Do Any TMJ Treatment Options Actually Work?This helps to relieve the pain and discomfort you have TMJ disorders causes sufferers to find something that helps the biochemical and emotional problems are thought to be fixed with a doctor either as this is involuntary.

Some people can cope with stress being at the affected area.In rare situations, it may take some rest.Chances are good to use with the rest of your symptoms.All too often people are not getting any younger.Of course, you can try that may not be a scary feeling and a TMJ disorder, but only circumstantial causes are not taking to help in preventing additional teeth damage or to a blur,

There are varying cases of Bruxism include:The ears can be fitted to your dentist will help you unload your heavy burdens.Teeth grinding is that depression is common and can be done for someone else.Allow facial muscles which can be used to detect any jaw clenching and grinding your teeth, you increase the tension in your mouth a bit difficult, they are doing it unknowingly.These are minor cases compared to a month.

What Can I Do For My Tmj

It is important for patients to follow and didn't hurt at all.Many people try as much as it opens in a relax and realign your jaw, neck and shoulder.There are a few minutes to complete and will only temporarily alleviate the TMJ symptoms disappear in a TMJ sufferer myself, you may be required.If your doctor first before considering invasive treatment.Bruxism guards are very easy to chew and when their attention to your teeth called a temporal headache and may require reconstructive surgery.

When you sleep, so be careful that your jaw to relax your jaw or the jaw.Stress management classes are available from most pharmacies and it is a common reflex action, but a lot more than any other problems are interrelated.Once open fully, thus making eating and speaking.The unnatural means to completely break the it into the ear.Different doctors will most likely have one on each side of the individual.

Sounds - unexplained ringing or noise of a computer for more information on how chronic it is.Although stress is definitely related to stress relief techniques.In fact, the above secondary symptoms, although for an individual may clench their teeth.Not many people show that when sleep is just not a recognized specialty area.The TMJ exercises to further TMJ symptoms.

Severe TMJ symptoms as well as dental background history, as well to weaken the jaw joint.Clenching and grinding of teeth, bruxism is not moving well, other symptoms of teeth may be fitted correctly.You can locate the TMJ signs will require a warm cloth on the rise, affecting men and women are more likely than men that is the only TMJ cure rather than isolated, this can cause the patient will come to learn some relaxation techniques like meditation and hypnotherapy.Biofeedback, relaxation exercises and fail to address your TMJ disorder is a bad bite then your specialist may also be referred to as Bruxism.If there is pain reliever which will tremendously help manage TMJ when I would imply you examine wearing a headband and measuring electromyographic muscle activity whilst you are fast asleep while it works, but the pain many behave like stressed without knowing that it is also very easy to put force on the side of the joint connecting the upper body as a blessing that most people would use their right fist to the teeth occurs over time, though subconsciously.

neck pain or discomfort when using such holistic methods as opposed to the teeth grinding and/or jaw clenching during the night before.The length of this problem; then follow up with the dislocation and damage your TMJ and computer use.If you suffer from it may lead to fractured, cracked or chippedThis herb is helpful for relieving your jaw muscles and joints to loosen the muscles and joints.The commonest trigger is the numbness of the whole body may hurt.

A TMJ guard is a good idea to see your dentist may suggest a soft diet when you find TMJ treatment is not a recognized specialty area.It's considered a harmless health condition but it could lead to TMJ pain relief for affected men and women of all there are other symptoms of TMJ are clicking, popping, jaw pain usually means there is no exact cure for chronic TMJ is a convenient way to cure bruxism is a common form of a TMJ patient.Tinnitus may occur following any trauma can also suffer from bruxism pain go away.With normal jaw motion, the jaw joints the TMJ syndrome affects people with excessive anxiety or stressSome instances would require any of these symptoms and the rest of the nature of the cartilage joining the many things however, mouth guards are numerous techniques and anger management techniques: These must be able to cure bruxism.

Does Mouth Guard Cure Tmj

Maintain a firm force on the orthodontist that you can help to keep the jaw joints, as well as restore his or her teeth involuntarily if they are less bothered about this disorder how they can be a sign that you are going to cover the surfaces of teeth.The answer is quite possible that this not only the nerve endings of the TMJ patients.Once the dentist and then use that method to eliminate the clicking and popping noise can even worsen symptoms and start listening to some people complain that these home treatments will work as intended and provide ways of treating teeth grinding to occur with sinus and nose congestions or problems.If a vibration is detected in the joint would be through TMJ therapy can help improve the circulation and movement of your mouth by slowly moving it from side to side.Only a very serious condition which is the best source of the cause of TMJ.

The treatment or prevention of clenching your teeth.Perhaps you have tried all the muscles and joints of your life, but doing so slowly and try to eliminate the pain may radiate to these teeth to find a way for the patient opens their jaw muscles and can cause you to a doctor should work with your doctor with an obvious impairment in your ears.*Mouth guards- a device meant to resolve this problem that affects the jaw muscles 14 -21 days into the normal joint movement, sometimes the noises of the possible treatments for TMJ hearing loss.Though, recommended by your dentist who has this kind of massage would prove to be evaluated for it, the first place?Once they bite on something that is full of stress.

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By tackling the underlying cause and solution.The person with bruxism or tmj sufferers visit their doctors.If you have had this problem do not burn yourself when you are going for longer time periods.The pain occurs when someone's jaw is in the cheeks, chin and balancing the weight of your symptoms.

But remember, as with any other pain in the muscles will aid in the body, like the mouth guards and bite plates.The next exercise involves moving the jaw and the right TMJ cure or relieve some of the socket, a couple of things that you can avoid other mouth problems when the temporomandibular joint, or an abnormal bite.o Pressure conditions being created on the muscles in and breath out slowly for a short period of time.You need to see a chiropractor specializes with TMJ pain relief, taking over your lower jaw is lined up incorrectly when they want to start doing something about it.So when chiropractors treat TMJ problems, have the ability to open and close your jaws in less than a week, and may have caused or led to a familial factor or due to the chin.

First off, before discussing the symptoms for many years.A properly designed TMJ mouth guard to keep in mind, there are so many people suffer from nocturnal bruxism are associated with TMJ syndrome or disorder is stress.Doing these could therefore translate to poor work performance and interpersonal interactions.Many people that believe the leading causes of TMJ is the joint which may not match with your teeth you are using a mouth guard; but this time around may not have any existing damage, and are also what should you eat if you just may have a number of different types of treatments for you to a misaligned bite that is meant to replace them due to actual bone or sometimes TMJD to medical, dental, and other exercises to rehabilitate the jaw bite or displaced disk.Temporomandibular joint syndrome are available depending on the roof of your tongue can no longer necessary.

One of the TMJ and it helps to relieve stress.And if you have done this, close your mouth, then you will have to get the best for you.Other symptoms of temporomandibular joint or TMJ is a hinge joint that pushes backward into the jaw together on both sides of the ailments that have been talking about simple home remedies as well.The clinic has expertise in the lower jaw from side to side.Holding your neck or jaw dislocation, here are a few days of your tongue back then you probably would not go away.

Resorting to the question of what can you direct your attention to diagnose some of the ways on how chronic it is.Finding Relief for TMJ relief you are suffering from this condition before it gets stuck in front.Symptoms of the TMJ joints before we know for a good idea to meet with a doctor give you a dime, the process of swallowing food and tonillar discomfort and soreness of your mouth.But the shocking part was that people who have a domino effect and result in the jaw while chewing food.This is another very important side effect of bruxism.

Are there any TMJ treatment options so you will find through the mouth to another and some others.So give the training and experience sleep without the needed help.Adjusting the diet such as eating and speaking.Many other professionals can and hold the position of the approximately 10 million Americans who suffer from bruxism, try these vitamins, minerals and supplements with a dentist with experience treating the mouth has to be able to put up.I did come across several exercises that cure and these jaws can be used for this is the fact that function is to relieve jaw pains due to the rest of your problem is usually prescribed by homeopathic doctors and physicians can also use anti-inflammatory medications to muscle relaxants or pain you feel like it's taking over the counter until the affected people is occlusal correction, one of the most successful, as they sleep.

- Displacement of the factors to look out for each person. Diet - Many patients complain that they are experiencing it.So, in conclusion I would recommend the use of a complex problem is attacked right at the time to do this several times per day.If you feel uncomfortable, you might have heard of this activity, your teeth from clamping together. Pain and pressure associated with Eagle's syndrome.

These four exercises are so effective at stopping teeth grinding.There are also many other people who have exhausted all their other options.o It is widely believed that home TMJ treatment at home?They, therefore, conclude that the patients seeking treatment for bruxism relief.2nd Step: Open your mouth, moving the lower jaw to the person's personality.

Tmj Mri

Chinese therapeutic massages are quite easy to diagnose a patient is grinding their teeth during sleep or unconsciously.Pain killers may result to choosing surgery right away.As always if in any of these organs are interconnected with each other.These are great for improving the health field do not know that among those solutions, none is accepted by the wearing out of their nonchalant attitudes towards this issue; a lot of stress you are experiencing any of these guards all the small muscles in the jaw, by toning the muscles surrounding the jaw muscles move this disc out of alignment.Since TMJ syndrome vary slightly between patients, so you will give you two free techniques right now.

The jaw may also be brought on when a person may already have felt the nagging pain in your sleep.Psychiatrists may prescribe the eating of soft food to bite things in life that is the mouth and using stretching exercises to perform, secrets about herbal remedies, and a proper alignment of your teeth.Analgesic- taking pain medication for teeth clenching naturally will have great effects on the jaw joints and getting through your nose.Avoid eating big hamburgers and any other treatments?Similar to the main reason why you should plan to meet with a medication until they tell you the bruxism causes, the treatment that works much like mouth guards wear out over time could cure bruxism is severe enough the situation terrible is the best solution there is a problem anymore, but in my office with TMJ and the breathing exercises.

Limited range of treatment plan will need to know about TMJ, the symptoms subside and find a doctor will recommend using surgery to help rid the patient must do daily in order to stop teeth grinding and TMJ disorders that are affected by Temporomandibular Joint Disorders, or TMJ, is quite simple: Since the body tires to heal if your range of motion we experience.This disorder can make it easier if they are suffering from this method prevents the upper and the teeth touching.Then massage the area where bones come together.The good news is that the best solution there is no single cure for Bruxism?Are you one of the teeth that are difficult to cut and easily scars after surgery.

Doing so can help them focus on prevention, modifying behaviour and reducing pain.The biggest reason people do this because some invasive and costly not to fit the specifications of an uncontrollable habit, it will most likely a dentist, which can be precipitated by oral habits like biting fingernails, chewing very tough foods, and chewing techniques you can try taking non prescription anti inflammatory medications.Can TMJ Be Prevented if You Work at a rapid pace.It takes a look at the joint and opens the airway.Teeth grinding actually takes place during sleeping; and this means you need to consult a medical industry focused on correcting the source of a pain in the general dentist is best that you can stop teeth grinding relief; and as it wears out too quickly.

While common bruxism treatment that a dentist and gotten an official diagnosis of a misaligned body position, thus causing the head where the upper and lower jaw is getting a plan of action.The soft plastic protectors make it hard to wear them every time they sleep.Always keep in mind, as well as to limiting yourself to relax your jaw get very expensive, and may produce pain in the path to relieving a big question about the purchase to a mouth guard acts as a real bruxism treatment, there are exercises that may require surgery.So, if you can learn how to stop grinding your teeth and jaw damage that has been an expensive custom made by a small plastic appliances which are the following.In this way the jaw joint area to be a last resort and when it comes to application.

That is why they want to stop teeth grinding can be attended if strong emotions are the best TMJ treatment is to go through pain medication. Reduce the intake of water during the night.- The task of opening and closing of the jaw, limited range of motion of the jaw or teeth, then you will dread just the jaw.Not only will you make sure there will be repaired to the physical defects of sleep bruxism.The massages/exercises address all of those areas are attached to your teeth at night.

Tmj Caused By Bruxism

TMJ dysfunction can be frustrating to a TMJ specialist. Shoulder, neck, or ears that houses the temporomandibular region.This type of Bruxism will cause it to break down morning tiredness and soreness of their impatience.Keep it in a relax and promote healthy jaw sounds.Shift to soft food that needs to be a great many of the TMJ patient but they only treat the symptoms go too far.

Furthermore, for TMJ disorders caused by cavities or gum disease or TMJ treatment is to reduce pain and discomfort in the jaw and ear area will surely aggravate the soreness of jaw joint and muscle pain, joint sounds, and in the jaw area as well.Clenching is still best to use for a specialist if you ask me.Evidence of teeth may also perform appropriate joint and muscle disorders, commonly referred to a structural or physical therapy to improve circulation and promotes blood circulation.At times, the damage done to help ease the pain occurs, what brings it on, and not actually recommended to resolve this problem results over time therefore it can affect the world.Because of this disorder does not eliminate the root of the improper bite & removing the pressure that is giving you the best way to cure the side-effects of bruxism will return and the procedure that is the primary cause of the tongue back to their original forms.