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Welcome to the Nightmare Game II - CH33

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Chapter 33: Star Death Reality Show (XVI)

With He Yi's intermittent narration, Qi Leren finally connected all the dots.

The amphioctopuses, a cosmic alien that could destroy civilization, would hatch once they had spread to a civilized planet and sensed nearby creatures. Generally speaking, this kind of "hatching" was slow, and it took more than half a month to break free from the outer shell of the glowing stones and begin to parasitize. However, there were also ways to stimulate the amphioctopus to incubate quickly, that is, to make an organism's body fluid—usually blood—come into contact with the amphioctopus’s shell, and the amphioctopus will complete the incubation within a few minutes and enter the parasitic state.

That smear of blood on the glowing stone in the church: apparently Annie or Mark had consciously awakened the octopus inside and made it parasitize Mark.

Once parasitized, the host would quickly lose self-awareness and become the octopus’s puppet. The amphioctopus could develop into a mature body within 20 hours, enter the breeding period, lay eggs once a day, and parasitize the surrounding creatures in a relatively closed space, where the number of prey available for parasitization was less than the total number of amphioctopuses.

The amphioctopus was an intelligent creature. The smarter its host was, the smarter it was, because it perfectly inherited everything from the host after capturing its self-awareness. It would use its brain to "think" about how to reproduce more. Its ultimate goal was to reproduce and expand by hook or by crook.

In the late night of the first day, Mark, the first infected person, appeared, and in the late night of the next day, the second infected person also appeared—by various indications, it was Xue Jiahui. The "amnesia" after she woke up was not just her forgetting because she had been parasitized, but because the octopus in her body had borrowed her brain. After thinking, it had concluded that she had better pretend to have amnesia and hide what she knew about amphioctopuses.

On the night of the third day, two new infected people appeared again: one is most likely Annie, the other was uncertain at present, and the most likely one was Lara, who was responsible for taking care of Xue Jiahui. However, Qi Leren had doubts about this, because if Lara had been parasitized, she wouldn’t have mentioned the "contagious physiological conditions" key to Qi Leren when listening to the Best of the Day that morning.

Then there was tonight. There would be four new victims tonight, and the total number of amphioctopuses would exceed that of human beings. After these larvae reached the mature stage, the eight mature octopuses wouldn’t be able to get enough prey. They were about to start a massacre in order to get enough energy, and then enter a long dormant period like the original octopus until new prey appeared.

It was preliminarily estimated that this time would be on the night of the fifth day.

"If you want to save them, time is running out." He Yi’s tone was exhausted as he looked at Qi Leren. "Are you sure you want to try? There are probably eight amphioctopuses outside, at least four!"

"We still have time and methods. I can't think of a reason not to do it," Qi Leren said.

"Methods?" He Yi frowned.

"The instrument that can identify whether someone is infected." Qi Leren remembered that He Yi had used it to confirm that he wasn’t infected.

He Yi's face changed: "No! Don't bring them in! You can go out, but don't come back after you go out. I’ll wait here until the army arrives, but I will not let the infected people enter here!"

Qi Leren frowned and thought: "Well, this research institute is very big. You can find a safe room to go in and lock it. I’ll bring some people who may not be infected to come in for testing. If there is an accident... you can close the door along the way and hide in the power room. In case the situation isn’t good, you can immediately cut off the power supply so that all the doors are difficult to open. Even if there are infected people, they cannot enter your area."

He Yi still shook his head: "No, I won't let the monster in!"

"...Well, at least let me out." Qi Leren sighed, but he understood He Yi's concerns and his frightened mood at this time. If he wasn’t an outsider at this moment, but an innocent ordinary person who was involved in this dangerous situation, he wouldn’t have been able to behave righteously as he was now.

Deep down, Qi Leren still held a wait-and-see attitude towards He Yi, and there were still many doubts about this person, so to speak. But Qi Leren didn't even ask, because it was impossible to get any useful response by questioning He Yi face to face here, and it might even startle him.

"How do you want to leave? The entrance where I came in has been completely blown up, and I can't get out. The door to the outside needs a special ID card, and there is a life detection system and a gait recognition system inside the passage. The AI will automatically analyze your walking posture, which is much stricter than any fingerprint authentication. You can't cheat at all. Once the system determines that you’re not a person in the database, the laser defense system will start until the life detection system determines that there’s no living thing inside. Are you confident you can pass again?" He Yi asked.

Without confidence, Qi Leren silently thought about how the S/L Data’s cooling time was one hour, and that it hadn’t passed yet.

And the Prophet had said to minimize the use of the S/L... Qi Leren actually had no actual feelings, but he only vaguely felt that this skill was a bit evil, and dying too much would cause him to have frequent nightmares. But at the critical moments, he still instinctively relied on this skill.

I can't. There are too many gravestones on Undead Island.

"Where is the general control room for the laser corridor?" Qi Leren asked.

"It's useless, I’ve looked for it. I suspect that the door to the defense system’s general control room can't be opened without a password, and the monitoring can't be seen. Even if we find the password and go in, this system isn’t like the equipment that checks for the octopuses. It can't be operated at all without knowing the language here." He Yi shook his head.

Qi Leren pondered over it. To go out, you had to pass through the laser corridor. At the end of the corridor, next to the door that led outside, an ID card had to be used. However, Qi Leren had experienced the danger of the laser corridor once. Unfortunately, S/L solution was still needed to pass smoothly. Was there any other way...

"I have an idea!" Qi Leren shouted and scared He Yi, who looked at him suddenly. "He Yi, I need your cooperation!"

"...Go on."

"It’s like this: I will go to the laser corridor. You will go to the power room to turn off the power, so that the laser corridor won’t start, and the gait recognition system will be the same. I will go through the laser corridor to the front door and wait for you to turn on the power again, so that the ID reader on the door will start. I can open the door and go out once it starts ago!" Qi Leren said.

"Are you sure? What if the gait recognition system or life detection system starts first?" He Yi disagreed.

"It’s more likely for the door to start first once it’s powered on, rather than the laser corridor," Qi Leren said, "And isn't there you? It took me about one minute to pass through the laser corridor last time. Please calculate the time for turning the power on. Turn off the power again after about forty seconds. Forty seconds is enough for me to open the iron door and go out. If there’s an accident, I won't be able to open the door as I’ll be blocked by the lasers. As long as you turn off the power, the lasers will be turned off again with it."

He Yi thought for a while and nodded: "This method is good, double insurance."

For Qi Leren with S/L Data, this was three insurances. What he relied on was not luck, nor He Yi’s cooperation, but his own strength. Otherwise, he would rather study how to get out of the collapsed passage that He Yi had come in through, and would not consider such a dangerous laser corridor.

The two discussed the details again. Qi Leren also took off the watch he found when collecting materials and gave it to He Yi: "You can watch the time."

He Yi took the watch, nodded solemnly, and said, "Oh, I also found the arsenal here. Heavy weapons can't be used, but you should be able to get started with weapons like a handgun and hand grenade, you'd better take some with you."

No wonder this boy has a gun in his hand. Qi Leren glanced at He Yi: "Okay, thanks a lot."

The two men went to get the weapons, which were well preserved. Qi Leren picked a few easy-to-use ones and took them apart for maintenance. He could give them to Dr. Lu for use, while he took his usual ones and tested them on the spot. He Yi, who was on the side, said faintly because of his skillful technique: "You are indeed a military person. Or did you know there would be octopuses here? Did you secretly hide the octopus in that cave?"

Qi Leren said helplessly: "Oh, I’m really not, why do you think so?"

But he really had known there would be octopuses.

"Then who are you? Is it really possible that you’re an ordinary band lead singer?" He Yi was adamant.

Of course not. My singing is terrible, Qi Leren thought.

But... Should he pave the way for his skill card? So as not to expose the skills at the critical moment, be questioned by the audience, and lead to the failure of the task? With this in mind, Qi Leren decided to add some personal settings for himself.

"Actually, I do have a special identity," Qi Leren said with a dignified face. "I tell you, but don't tell anyone else."

He Yi waited for a while, looking at him carefully: "Then wait, should I turn off the tracking camera?"

Qi Leren couldn't help laughing, which exposed the fact that he was joking. Seeing He Yi looking at him with bitterness, Qi Leren corrected his expression and asked seriously, "Do you have a faith?"

He Yi was confused by his question and shook his head blankly: "I’m an atheist."

I used to be an atheist, until I got involved in the Nightmare Game, Qi Leren thought. In fact, he couldn't be regarded as religious even now. He just thought that there must be some great and incredible powers in the world beyond their knowledge. These were what were regarded as "gods".

—You can admire and question, but don't worship blindly and slander maliciously, otherwise you’ll be doomed to be unable to surpass yourself and enter a higher level. That's what Chen Baiqi had told Qi Leren, who thought what she said was very reasonable.

Seeing Qi Leren's delay in answering, He Yi asked again, "What about you? Are you a Christian? "

Qi Leren smiled: "I am an apostle of God."

“……”

"If I’m killed, I will be resurrected immediately."

“…………”

"When danger comes, God will give me strength to become an angel and fight against evil forces to the end."

“………………”

Qi Leren showed a sage's smile full of divinity and gently stared at He Yi, who was eager to speak.

Before the show begins, give the audience a little psychological preparation.

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Editor’s Notes: [Player Qi Leren has leveled up an ability: Bullshitting.]

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Artificial Intelligence Philosophy – AI and Machine Learning

A student will gain an awareness, and discover to judge and also to produce arguments for and against major philosophical problems concerning AI, robotics as well as their relations to human cognition and behavior. A different type of effort at fixing AIs ethics issue is the proliferation of crowdsourced ethics projects, which have the commendable objective of a far more democratic method of science.

To illustrate DJ Patils Code of Ethics for Data Science, which invites the information-science community to lead ideas but doesn't develop in the decades of labor already made by philosophers, historians and sociologists of science. Then there's MITs Moral Machine project, which asks the general public to election on questions for example whether a self-driving vehicle with brake failure must go beyond five destitute people instead of one female physician.

Philosophers call these trolley problems and also have printed a large number of books and papers around the subject in the last half-century. Evaluating the views of professional AI philosophers with individuals of everyone could be eye-opening, as experimental philosophy has frequently proven, but merely ignoring professionals and going for an election rather is irresponsible. We live at a time in which the fundamental knowledge of what it really way to be human is altering. Social networking platforms still redefine our feeling of place and time.

We grapple using these changes once we attempt to define ourselves and our social relationships within an era of constant connectivity. A couple of decades ago, if a person claimed to possess supporters you’d assume they were beginning a cult. Now it’s an expression that 12 year olds use once they discuss Instagram and Twitter. Customers aren't the only ones who're increasingly more demanding, employees too. They would like to choose their professional future as well as their development.

That's the reason new talent management methodologies have started to emerge, as we will have below. Many counter-arguments happen to be made against unpredicted intelligence explosions, focused largely on technical limitations and logic. For instance, sci-fi author Ramez Naam stated within an essay for H+ magazine that a super intelligent mind would want some time and sources to invent humanity-destroying technologies it would need to have fun playing the human economy to acquire what it really needed (for instance, building faster chips requires not only new designs but complicated and costly nick fabrication foundries to construct them.)The determination that the system, just like an atom of polonium218, is or isn't a closed system, obviously, poses difficult epistemic problems, that are compounded within the situation of people, precisely since they're vastly more complicated causal systems.

Furthermore, probabilistic systems need to be distinguished from (what exactly are known as) chaotic systems, that are deterministic systems with acute sensitivity to initial conditions, in which the smallest switch to individuals conditions can result in formerly unpredicted effects. A small improvement in thousands and thousands of lines of code controlling an area probe, for instance, composed of the appearance of just one wrong character, just one misplaced comma, caused Mariner 1, the very first US interplanetary spacecraft, to veer off target after which need to be destroyed. A minimum of some versions of artificial intelligence are attempts not just to model human intelligence, but to create computers and robots that exhibit it: which have ideas, use language, as well as have freedom. Performs this seem sensible? What can it show us about human thinking and awareness? Join John and Ken because they identify the philosophical issues elevated by artificial intelligence. However the nerd-sighted geniuses in our day result in the same mistake. Should you ask a coder what ought to be done to make certain AI does no evil, you are prone to get 1 of 2 solutions, neither being reassuring. Answer No. 1: It is not my problem. I simply construct it, as exemplified lately with a Harvard computer researcher who stated, I’m just an engineer when requested the way a predictive policing tool he developed might be misused. Answer No. 2: Believe me. I’m smart enough to have it right. AI researchers really are a smart bunch, but there is a terrible history of staying away from ethical blunders.

A few of the better-known goof-ups include Google images tagging black people as gorillas, chat bots that become Nazis and racist soap dispensers. The effects can be more serious when biased algorithms are responsible for deciding who ought to be approved for any financial loan, who to employ or admit to college or if to kill a suspect inside a police chase. I can tell how that's already happening. We have pretty efficient satnav systems, which generally take us right places.

Those who have developed with this type of system have grown to be incredibly dependent on navigation by machine. In the event that begins to fail at any time, Id imagine some those who have lately passed their test as motorists would a very find it difficult to use road signs, or memorized routes, or perhaps a conventional map as a means of having in one spot to another. Another recent article within the New You are able to Occasions claimed that academics happen to be asleep in the wheel, departing policy makers who're battling to learn how to regulate AI subject to industry lobbyists.

The content trigger a Twitter storm of replies from philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, angry their decades of underfunded jobs are again being overlooked and erased. Such as the Who’s lower in Whoville, they cried in fear, we’re here! We're here! We're here! We're here!

If policy makers and funding sources listen carefully to individuals’ voices, there are answers on offer. The content concludes that people urgently require an academic institute centered on algorithmic accountability. On Twitter, the articles author, Cathy ONeil, was adamant, there must be several more tenure lines dedicated to it. Individuals both seem like solid ideas. Objection II: A minimum of it might be figured that since current computers (objective evidence suggests) do lack feelings until Data 2. Does arrive (when) we're titled, given computers' insufficient feelings, to deny the low-level and piecemeal high-level intelligent behavior of computers bespeak genuine subjectivity or intelligence. AI lent many concepts without delivering thanks, like ontology, theory of mind, agent based architecture, object oriented design, archetypes and many more. Algorithms tracking our each step and key stroke expose us to dangers more dangerous than impulsively buying anti-wrinkle cream. More and more polarized and radicalized political movements, leaked health data and also the manipulation of elections using harvested Facebook profiles are some of the documented connection between the mass deployments of AI. Something as apparently innocent as discussing your jogging routes online can reveal military secrets.

These cases are simply the beginning. Even our beloved Canadian Tire cash is being repurposed like a surveillance tool for any machine-learning team. Singer didn't think about a. I. s, but his argument shows that the escalator of reason leads societies to greater benevolence no matter species origin. A. I. s will need to strike the escalator of reason must have, simply because they will have to bargain for goods inside a human-dominated economy and they'll face human potential to deal with inappropriate behavior.

The philosopher John Smart argues, if morality and immunity are developmental processes, when they arise inevitably in most intelligent collectives as a kind of positive-sum game, they have to also grow in pressure and extent as each civilizations computational capacity grows.

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growningupgeek · 8 years

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Seven Years Gone

Word Count-1,371

Characters-Dean, Garth, Cat Pairings-Sam x Cat (eventually)

Summary- It's been a little over seven years since Final Good-bye. Cat is a hunter, but no one knows who she really is or that she was once Sam Winchester's girlfriend.

A/N- This is part 1 of my fic for @iwantthedean YouAU challenge. It's kinda gotten out of hand. Tags under the cut, my darlings.

May, 2010

“It was nearly midnight when the phone rang, an unknown number showing on the caller ID. I touched the answer button and whispered, “Hello.”

“Mickie,” said a deep voice that was rough and smooth at the same time, like good velvet. “My name's Dean, I'm Sam's brother.”

My heart dropped, the was only one reason he'd be calling. His next words confirmed my worst fear, “We lost him, sweetheart, Lucifer was too strong. He said you'd know what to do.”

I swallowed back my tears, “I do. Thanks for calling.”

“It was the last thing he asked me to do,” there was a catch in Dean's voice. “He wanted make sure you were safe.”

“I loved him too, Dean,” was all I could think to say.

I heard a gulp on the other end of the line, “You need anything when you get settled you call me.”

“I will,” I promised, not meaning it at all. “Good-bye Dean.”

August, 2017

I woke up in a cold sweat tangled in the sheets again. At least I wasn't screaming tonight, although it wouldn't be the first time I had to bug out of a motel room early. Nearly every night for more than seven years I'd had the same nightmare about Lucifer chasing me wearing Sam's face. For more than a year I hid out, moving from town to town, taking martial arts classes and raiding local libraries for any information on the supernatural i could find.

I'd been on a salt and burn when Garth found me, saved my ass from the damn ghost to tell the truth. He'd taken me under his wing and shown me the ropes Bless his goofy heart, he'd never asked why I wanted to become a hunter or my real name, but I learned the basics from him. He also introduced me to Bobby. Sam had told me a bit about him, it was nice to have that connection even if we never got to meet face to face. I was the only hunter invited to Garth and Bess’ wedding, but then I was the only one who knew he was a werewolf at the time.

Thinking Garth reminded me that I hadn't talked to him in a few days, so I shot him a text to let him know I was handling that vamp case he'd steered me towards. I'd taken it reluctantly, since it meant going home to Detroit. It wasn't the chance of running into someone I knew, it was the memories of Sam I didn't want to face. With a sigh, I put down the phone and stretched, climbing out of bed to meet the day. I let my tension and fears run down the drain with the hot water, then threw on a tee-shirt, jeans shorts and sandals and put my hair up in a ponytail. The last thing I put on was a silver locket with an anti-possession rune enameled on it and Sam's picture inside. Sam had given it to me for my birthday without telling me what it was, the picture I added later. Then I grabbed my laptop and headed for the nearest coney island joint. I'd no sooner gotten settled in a booth with a cup of coffee when my phone rang. Glancing down at it I saw Garth's face looking back at me. I smiled as I answered it, “Hey Garth, what's up?”

“Not much, Catling,” he answered. “Just wanted to know if you'd like some help with that vamp case?”

“I never turn down help with vamps. They're slippery assholes,” I reminded him.

“Good, because there's a friend in the area and he should be pulling into that restaurant anytime now,” Garth told me.

I swore softly, “Garth, the next time you track my GPS I'm gonna shoot your fuzzy ass.”

“You wouldn't do that, you love Bess too much,” he countered. I had to laugh, “Might be the only thing keeping you alive. I'll meet with your friend and let you know.”

I hung up and got on with my research, checking the local newspaper archives for deaths that fit with vamp attacks between bites of fruit and yogurt. I marked each one that fit on my map so I could see any pattern that emerged. When I finally saw it I started packing up to leave. I was getting out the money to pay my bill when a deep, velvet voice said, “You Cat?”

I froze for a split second, I knew that voice it was burned into my brain. I looked up and met a pair of green eyes almost the same shape as Sam's set in a model handsome, freckled face topped with short light brown hair. This was Dean, Sam's older brother who I had talked to just once. I recovered from the shock quickly and held out my hand.

“You must be Dean,” I replied as he took it and slid into the booth across from me with a nod. The waitress practically teleported to the table, much my amusement. She hadn't moved nearly that fast when I was by myself. He ordered breakfast and gestured to my laptop after she left, “Got anything yet.” “I think so,” I turned the computer so he could see it. “They're not working too hard at hiding their hunting grounds. Problem is that there's a lot of empty office buildings and warehouses that end of town.”

While Dean studied the map I worried lower lip with my teeth, wondering if he'd recognize me. Then it hit me, we'd only talked that one time and then I'd vanished, unless had a good ear for voices like I did he'd never know until I told him. I relaxed with a soft laugh that caused him to look up. I held up my phone like if found something funny on it.

He smiled, “Can I send this to someone? He might see something we're missing.”

“Sure, go ahead,” I shrugged.

He turned my laptop and started sending the information, finishing just a the waitress brought his food. I got a refill on my coffee so I could keep him company while he ate. When his phone rang, I tried not to listen to the conversation, but wanting to pry. When he hung up he grabbed my laptop and pulled the map back up. Switching over to the satellite view he zoomed it in on one location.

“My brother says his best guess is this empty office on Wyoming,” he said. “ Want to check it out?”

I nodded, managing not to flinch at the mention of his brother. I assumed he was talking about Adam. I tossed a twenty on the table and packed up my laptop, “My car or yours?”

“Sweetheart, I don't ride shotgun “ he grinned at me.

I smiled sweetly at him, “You might be sorry for that.”

I stopped to put my laptop in my trunk and grab some weapons. Carrying a machete was out so I took my trank gun and a couple of vials of dead man's blood, just in case. I closed the lid and turned to find Dean practically drooling. “See something you like, sweetheart,” I teased, imitating his drawl.

Dean closed his mouth and swallowed, “What year is she?”

“He's a ‘60 Thunderbird,” I corrected him with a smile.

Dean's eyebrow shot up and I answered his unspoken question with a shrug, “Reasons. Where's your car?”

He led me across the lot to his Baby, she was just as beautiful as Sam had told me. I glanced Dean for permission and when he nodded I ran my hand over her fender, “She's a beauty. And before you ask you called my car she so you think of your car female.”

He smiled and gestured to the passenger door. I opened it and climbed in, biting back a moan as the smell of Sam's aftershave hit me. How could it be so strong after seven years? Dean fired up the engine and AC/DC blasted out of the stereo. I rolled down the window so I could breathe and let the wind blow through my hair as we headed to the supposedly empty office building.

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torentialtribute · 5 years

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Chris Wilder isn’t old school – he’s the most forward thinking manager in the Premier League

Naming Sheffield United & # 39; s Chris Wilder a & # 39; old-school manager & # 39; is wrong. I have heard from him a few times that he was tarred with that brush, and I think it is disrespectful to him and his team.

-thinking manager we have in the Premier League

He does something very different, something we have never seen before. Hands up if you thought this idea of overlapping middle backs would be discovered in the upper flight?

Jamie Redknapp says that Chris Wilder is the most progressive manager in the Premier League is

Wilder instructs his middle back to overlap and it is caught this season so far from

The progressive tactics of Sheffield United helped them a earned point on Chelsea

Wilder wonders so far. They have kept overloading the flanks and only Liverpool and Tottenham have produced more crosses than his side. The most important thing is that they collect points during all this.

Saturday was an excellent result for Wilder, who came back during the 2-0 break to draw 2-2 with Chelsea. He wants his team to feel that they belong at this level.

They were not at Stamford Bridge because they are still in the lower division, only to play in the third round of the FA Cup and enjoy a day out. They were there as a Premier League club in themselves. They were there to compete, and they certainly played in the second half, no doubt after a few harsh words from Wilder at the break.

. Chris Basham (6) and Jack O & # 39; Connell (5) did not push forward as much as normal. However, that changed in the second half. Their average positions for the next 45 minutes show the center-back duo close to the center line. school manager & # 39 ;. Nor is it because he is English, or because he is older than some of his Premier League peers at the age of 51, or because he tells his players to play with a little bit of elbow fat.

I prefer to judge a coach on his tactics. When it comes down to it, Wilder is there with the very best.

The center back of Sheffield United played ahead in the second half against Chelsea

What Pep Guardiola does is great. The way he lets his Manchester City players pass the ball, the way he uses his entire back. Jurgen Klopp is also a great tactician.

Wilder is not blessed with brilliant players and he has not spent a fortune on the market. Yet he has remained with the tactics that promoted them in the first place, and they now have five points from their first four Premier League games. That is just the reality of life on this level.

And I am sure they will remain one of the bookmakers' favorites for relegation until it is mathematically impossible to go down.

With an innovator like Wilder in charge, however, they will always have the chance to jump up and survive.

Man City will regret not having signed by Ligt

Aymeric Laporte has gone to Manchester City which is Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool.

Laporte is the defensive axis of the city, but now it is on the sidelines. We don't know how long. But his clash with Adam Webster from Brighton looked filthy and he had to be dropped off on a stretcher at Etihad Stadium.

I suspect City is now kicking themselves that they did not insist on drawing Matthijs van Ligt in the summer. We all knew that the 20-year-old would leave Ajax and eventually he went to Juventus for £ 67.5 million.

Why didn't City try to get him, especially after losing Vincent Kompany? He would certainly come in handy now and he had the potential to become even better. Losing Laporte is a blow to City's title burden.

Due to Aymeric Laporte's injury, Manchester City is desperately short of middle back

Leicester can become a powerhouse among Rodgers

Leicester is a club capable of special things. Their run to the title in 2016 told us that. If I was in Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United or Tottenham, I would be a little worried. Not only because the side of Brendan Rodgers might end up in the top six, but because they might make a break for the top four.

It will do a bit because of the quality of its rivals, but they stand a chance. They have the manager. They have that mix of young and old. There is an arrogance for James Maddison that I love, while Jamie Vardy also flies in the front. They carry that atmosphere of trust. This team will love working with Rodgers. He will encourage his players to express themselves and aim as high as possible. Could that be the top six, or even the top four? Let's see.

Leicester can be a powerhouse.

Brendan Rodgers has a large team in Leicester City built – they could finish in the top six

The North London derby is the best match in English football

I believe the North London derby is now the best match in English football. Liverpool vs Manchester United has always been praised as the one to watch, but so many of those games have ended in disappointment for the neutral. That does not happen with Arsenal and Tottenham. Their collisions have been electric in recent years, especially those at the Emirates Stadium.

These 2-2, last December's 4-2 and the 2-0 Carabao Cup of Spurs win over there … It's a celebration of football.

The North London derby is an open attacking affair unlike the other major games of English football

Steve Bruce has a good reason to feel positive

Steve Bruce will feel positive in the international break with four points from his last two games. Bruce started this season as a manager under intense pressure. Newcastle was a big job. He took over from Rafa Benitez, who understandably worshiped the fans and knew that he would be criticized. Liverpool in two weeks will be a big test.

After a difficult start Steve Bruce Newcastle led to four points of their last two games

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Pitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on PowerPoint in presentations

Microsoft’s PowerPoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world. But that doesn’t make it the most loved. Now, a new startup out of Berlin called Pitch is emerging from stealth with plans to challenge it, by making what CEO and co-founder Christian Reber describes as “a presentation tool for the Slack generation.”

And to do so, the company is announcing $19 million in Series A funding, ahead of a projected launch date of summer 2019.

The Slack reference is intentional, and not just because of how the product will be built (more on that below). Part of the funding is coming from the Slack Fund, the arm of the work-chat unicorn that makes strategic investments into like-minded startups.

Others in the round include Index Ventures and BlueYard as leads, along with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Framer CEO Koen Bok, Elastic Co-Founder Simon Willnauer, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Wunderlist-backer Frank Thelen, and Metalab Founder Andrew Wilkinson. Blue Yard led Pitch’s seed funding as well: the company has raised $22 million to date.

“Pitch is one of Europe’s few true product-centric companies breaking new ground in software for businesses,” said Neil Rimer, partner at Index Ventures, in a statement. “From messaging to file sharing, software companies like Slack and Dropbox have transformed how teams work together and unlocked greater productivity as a result. We believe Pitch has the potential to redefine the presentation space and become a central hub for content collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and ultimately a platform for better decision-making.” Rimer’s also joining the board.

If $22 million sounds like a lot of money for a product that hasn’t launched, in a field that already has a very dominant player, Pitch is not your average contender. It’s being built by the same founders who created Wunderlist, a popular to-do app that — coincidentally — Microsoft acquired to supercharge its existing list-making and to-do software. You could say that Pitch knows just what it is pitching, when it goes after a problem that already appears to be “solved.”

In an interview, Reber said that he and the team — which includes founders Vanessa Stock; Marvin Labod; Adam Renklint; Charlette Prevot; Jan Martin; Eric Labod; and Misha Karpenko and 12 others — have been at work on the app for about nine months already and that it is in private beta with a few businesses.

As for the app itself, Reber would not show it off to me, but he did provide some detail about what it’s setting out to do.

The premise behind Pitch is to make “a presentation tool for the Slack generation,” he said, in reference to the workplace communications tool that became a runaway hit with organizations because of its ease of use, its speed, and the fact that it positions itself as a platform, integrating with just about any app that a person might use in the normal course of a working day, turning itself into a communication layer underpinning all those apps, too.

The same will go for Pitch. “Pitch integrates with everything you already use,” Reber said, describing Pitch presentations as “living documents” that will essentially update with information as data in other documents gets modified.

There will also be a social element, a la SlideShare, the cloud-based presentation app that was acquired by LinkedIn many years ago but has seen few updates since, and of course now is part of Microsoft too.

In the case of Pitch, users will be able to create documents for their own ends, but they can also use Pitch as a distribution platform, either to a selected group of users (for example, if you are pitching your startup to investors), or to a wider audience who are also Pitch users.

It’s ironic that Reber, who joined Microsoft along with the rest of the Wunderlist team when the startup was acquired, left the mothership rather than potentially trying to either build another presentation tool within Microsoft, or moving to PowerPoint to work on updating that product.

The reasons, I suspect, are the same ones that keep large tech giants from being able to move quickly on ideas, and to often live with bad ones for too long: leviathans are too big and too entrenched, and their halls are rife with politics.

Reber — who jokes that he seems to have a knack for trying to build things “that others have already built” — said that another reason is that he also has a little regret for selling Wunderlist when they did.

“I didn’t feel like I’d accomplished my goal,” he said reflecting on the sale. (For the reasons why he sold anyway, you might speak to a lot of other founders who have exited, and I’d guess that the multiple reasons are often the same.) “So, a year after the exit I thought I would like a chance to start from scratch and be more strategic in how I built my startup.”

The choice to tackle presentations came, as many startup ideas often do, out of his own frustrations — and possibly yours, too, if you have been PowerPointed at some moment in your life.

The most popular presentation tools that exist today are just outdated, he said, with different versions out in the wild, across different platforms, making for a challenge in sharing presentations with others. Reber describes the Pitch-nee-Wunderlist team as “design driven,” so you can imagine how that kind of lack of aesthetic consistency might grate.

He noted that Pitch is built on Electron — the application framework that’s used for WhatsApp, WordPress and many other apps — to smooth out some of those bumps across platforms.

Pitch is most certainly going into business with its eyes open, knowing that even if you put Microsoft’s PowerPoint and SlideShare to the side, there are yet others, such as Keynote from Apple, the web-based Prezi, and Slides from Google. But there are plenty of precedents that nevertheless indicate opportunity.

“It’s really fascinating for me why new products win,” Reber said. “Just look at the business communications space. The market was saturated, and Hipchat dominated the startup world, but then all of the sudden Slack came and everything change. It just took over. There will be a similar shift, I think.”

Besides, he added, having multiple competitors is a good thing. “It just means that the best product will come out the winner.” Let’s hope so.

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02/22/2017

Grace’s current situation

I’ve re-written this first post several times now, and each seems to vary massively depending on what my mood on that particular day. First time, it was a laborious rant. Second time, it was more reflective but infinitely more boring. Third time I can’t even recall because I deleted and rewrote so many parts. So...I’ve decided to go with a mixed jist of things.

I studied a BSc Psychology degree at the University of Nottingham, and graduated last year (with a first, haw haw). I was interested in the intelligent systems side of collaborating with the CS department, but the only professor who also shared that interest in my own department had left before my final year. Rats.

Still, I managed fairly well at my solo attempt at being interdisciplinary, and even won a departmental award for a dissertation on BCI-controlled prosthetic limbs. I knew this was the kind of route I wanted to go down, but nobody else at the school was interested. So, I took up a full-time job after my degree and considered my options; there are only a few places in the country that would let me research what I wanted, and after having told Adam that I didn’t want him to go abroad to study, it would hardly be fair to do the same. Eventually I landed on the CNCR course at the University of Birmingham - where I’m going to start studying in the fall (with any luck).

My job right now is....yeah. There are a few aspects that I love - the relative independence, the creative opportunities, and a few of the staff members I get on with. But, as one of the fabulous presenters at last weekend’s Women in Tech conference corroborated; admin is a soul-crushing experience. Also, my office environment isn’t as I’d like it; horribly disorganised, naïve and confused about online presences (despite being invested in it) and plagued by unprofessionalism. That being said, however, I’ve learned many new things. Working here, I’ve designed a website from scratch and mocked up design briefs for our programmers, I’ve become proficient in advertisement making and video production, and I’ve installed a HDD from having never cracked open a case before. So, I’m probably much more than an admin (probably why I feel substantially underappreciated).

I can’t say I’ll be recommending my current place to anyone after I hand in my notice (which I have yet to do, so keep your lips sealed, ahem) and I won’t miss it when I’ve gone. But it’s been a valuable (in time and money) experience that has facilitated me being able to go after my dreams. #graceshouldstopcomplaining

In other news, when I’m not tearing my hair out over tiny problems or playing in tabletop games, I’m actually kind of ill. I have been opening up more and more about this to people I know, but I feel like it’s important to discuss with new people. The hospital suspects I have a few vestibular problems and I have recurring, mixed dizziness symptoms every single day. My colleagues at work are only just grasping how detrimental this is (mostly as I have to leave the office for blood tests and GP appts. every other week), and it’s something I’m fighting all the time. Which is something.

As usual, Adam makes everything bearable by supporting me even when I’ve transformed into the crankiest old swamp monster I can muster. I’m sure he’ll post up about his current sitch soon, but he’s also starting at Birmingham in the fall doing a PhD focused on cyberpunk literature. I’m such a proud little graduate ♡

Goals for March:

Keep going with my Lexi app project. Getting into app development might be tough (outside of the MIT Appbuilder 2 workshop I had at WiT) but this idea might be worth it!

Survive March, tbqh. Every weekend is packed with events and meetings and trips out and I just need to get through March

Work more on Vitya, my Arduino robot. I’ve been running through the test sketches on the IDE but there are some tweaks I want to try once I’ve bought some more hardware

Collect Eirika on that god-darn Fire Emblem iOS game. I REFUSE TO PAY FOR ORBS

Make sure the launch of the new site at work goes smoothly, and video production gets done on time...ugh...

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Pitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on Powerpoint in presentations

Microsoft’s Powerpoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world. But that doesn’t make it the most loved. Now, a new startup out of Berlin called Pitch is emerging from stealth with plans to challenge it, by making what CEO and co-founder Christian Reber describes as “a presentation tool for the Slack generation.”

And to do so, the company is announcing $19 million in Series A funding, ahead of a projected launch date of summer 2019.

As for the app itself, Reber would not show it off to me, but he did provide some detail about what it’s setting out to do.

The choice to tackle presentations came, as many startup ideas often do, out of his own frustrations — and possibly yours, too, if you have been PowerPointed at some moment in your life.

He noted that Pitch is built on Electron — the application framework that’s used for WhatsApp, WordPress and many other apps — to smooth out some of those bumps across platforms.

Besides, he added, having multiple competitors is a good thing. “It just means that the best product will come out the winner.” Let’s hope so.

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