Second Glance: Put your best feet forward, March 27, 2022
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 4:19 pm
It goes beyond plot recaps and PR-ready sound bites to illustrate why some art works and other art fails. But to achieve an expanded appreciation of movies requires that we actually read movie reviews, which fewer of us are willing to do. Informal poll: How often do you visit Rotten Tomatoes to read movie reviews? And how often do you go there just to see the aggregate "Fresh" or "Rotten" score? To reduce film criticism to a binary score, however, risks reducing filmmaking to a purely consumer exchange. Do I want to pay money for this movie: Yes or no? And if that's our only criteria, we're not only missing out on this deeper appreciation of movies, says film criticism professor and author Walter Metz; we might be making the world a dumber place. Metz, who chairs the Department of Cinema and Photography at the University of Southern Illinois and is co-editor of the Film Criticism Journal.
Third, sound is a vibration that travels through a medium, like a gas, a liquid or a solid object. A sound's source is an object that moves or changes shape very rapidly. For example, if you strike a bell, the bell vibrates in the air. As one side of the bell moves out, it pushes the air molecules next to it, increasing the pressure in that region of the air. This area of higher pressure is a compression. As the side of the bell moves back in, it pulls the molecules apart, creating a lower-pressure region called a rarefaction. The bell then repeats the process, creating a repeating series of compressions and rarefactions. Each repetition is one wavelength of the sound wave. The sound wave travels as the moving molecules push. Pull the molecules around them. Each molecule moves the one next to it in turn. Without this movement of molecules, the sound could not travel, which is why there is no sound in a vacuum.|Imagine having to do the work of a jackhammer using a sledgehammer or a pickaxe, and you'll quickly understand how important this one machine is to the construction industry. Concrete, asphalt and rock are hard -- sometimes really hard -- to work with. Thanks to that toughness, roads and building foundations last for decades. But when rebuilding or mining projects require removing these unyielding substances, a sledgehammer just isn't enough. That's when jackhammers come in handy. T-shaped jackhammers are among the most iconic, fearsome and ear-shattering tools on construction and demolition sites. Because they combine two fundamental human hand tools (a hammer and a chisel) in one mechanized body, they are also one of the most useful. We could always go back to the old way -- using heavy-headed sledgehammers -- but there probably aren't enough chiropractors in the world to keep construction workers' backs aligned. Plus, sledgehammers are achingly slow.
We do so by leveraging multiple input representations, or “views” of the input video. As shown in Fig. 1, we extract tokens from the input video over multiple temporal durations. Intuitively, tokens extracted from long time intervals capture the gist of the scene (such as the background where the activity is taking place), whilst tokens extracted from short segments can capture fine-grained details (such as the gestures performed by a person). We propose a multiview transformer (Fig. 1) to process these tokens, and it consists of separate transformer encoders specialized for each “view”, with lateral connections between them to fuse information from different views to each other. We can use transformer encoders of varying sizes to process each view, and find that it is better (in terms of accuracy/computation trade-offs) to use a smaller encoder (e.g. smaller hidden sizes and fewer layers) to represent the broader view of the video (Fig. 1 left) while an encoder with larger capacity is used capture the details (Fig. 1 right).
On pizzas, ask for less cheese and more vegetables. Avoid high-fat toppings, such as pepperoni, sausage, and extra cheese. If you're in the mood for dessert, order fruit, sorbet, sherbet, or low-fat frozen yogurt. Or split a dessert with friends. At salad bars, enjoy all the greens and vegetables you'd like. They are good for you and have little or no fat and no cholesterol. But pass up or go easy on high-fat or high-calorie items, such as eggs, bacon, cheese, fried noodles, and salad dressings. Avoid mayonnaise-based salads, such as macaroni salads. They are very high in fat. Eat slowly and enjoy conversation with your dinner companions. This will help you notice when you are getting full so that you don't overeat. Watch out for large portions. If portions are large, ask for a container so you can take some home for another meal. To decrease the temptation to overeat, avoid entrees that are labeled deluxe, supersized, large, jumbo, or extra-large. Or order an appetizer for your main course. Limit your alcohol intake. Alcohol increases appetite. May decrease your willpower to resist high-fat items. It also adds calories without providing nutrients. At a buffet, scan the entire table before you choose anything to see what low-fat items are available. Eat some of these first before trying higher-fat foods. This will help you eat smaller portions of fattier foods. At a potluck, bring a low-fat dish that you really enjoy. Then choose your low-fat meal over other higher-fat alternatives. At parties, focus on socializing rather than eating. If you're enjoying the company of your companions, you won't be tempted to eat as much. If you do overindulge at a restaurant or party, don't feel guilty and punish yourself. Simply eat lower-fat foods the following day.
Lots of sites that publish regular information have their own RSS feeds, like Marshall Brain's BrainStuff weblog. The trouble with living in the Information Age is paradoxical: There's too much information. It's everywhere. How are you supposed to keep track of all the news, sports, weather and blogs you follow? Better yet, how are you going to do that and find time for work, school and family? If you're addicted to the constant flow of data that we know as the Internet, you're not going to be able to manage it without some help. One way to keep track of it all has grown very popular since its introduction in 1997: RSS. Short for Really Simple Syndication (at least now -- more on that later), RSS is a way to subscribe to a source of information, such as a Web site, and get brief updates delivered to you. When you subscribe, you'll get a feed -- often a series of headlines and brief summaries -- of all the articles published on that particular Web page.
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Third, sound is a vibration that travels through a medium, like a gas, a liquid or a solid object. A sound's source is an object that moves or changes shape very rapidly. For example, if you strike a bell, the bell vibrates in the air. As one side of the bell moves out, it pushes the air molecules next to it, increasing the pressure in that region of the air. This area of higher pressure is a compression. As the side of the bell moves back in, it pulls the molecules apart, creating a lower-pressure region called a rarefaction. The bell then repeats the process, creating a repeating series of compressions and rarefactions. Each repetition is one wavelength of the sound wave. The sound wave travels as the moving molecules push. Pull the molecules around them. Each molecule moves the one next to it in turn. Without this movement of molecules, the sound could not travel, which is why there is no sound in a vacuum.|Imagine having to do the work of a jackhammer using a sledgehammer or a pickaxe, and you'll quickly understand how important this one machine is to the construction industry. Concrete, asphalt and rock are hard -- sometimes really hard -- to work with. Thanks to that toughness, roads and building foundations last for decades. But when rebuilding or mining projects require removing these unyielding substances, a sledgehammer just isn't enough. That's when jackhammers come in handy. T-shaped jackhammers are among the most iconic, fearsome and ear-shattering tools on construction and demolition sites. Because they combine two fundamental human hand tools (a hammer and a chisel) in one mechanized body, they are also one of the most useful. We could always go back to the old way -- using heavy-headed sledgehammers -- but there probably aren't enough chiropractors in the world to keep construction workers' backs aligned. Plus, sledgehammers are achingly slow.
We do so by leveraging multiple input representations, or “views” of the input video. As shown in Fig. 1, we extract tokens from the input video over multiple temporal durations. Intuitively, tokens extracted from long time intervals capture the gist of the scene (such as the background where the activity is taking place), whilst tokens extracted from short segments can capture fine-grained details (such as the gestures performed by a person). We propose a multiview transformer (Fig. 1) to process these tokens, and it consists of separate transformer encoders specialized for each “view”, with lateral connections between them to fuse information from different views to each other. We can use transformer encoders of varying sizes to process each view, and find that it is better (in terms of accuracy/computation trade-offs) to use a smaller encoder (e.g. smaller hidden sizes and fewer layers) to represent the broader view of the video (Fig. 1 left) while an encoder with larger capacity is used capture the details (Fig. 1 right).
On pizzas, ask for less cheese and more vegetables. Avoid high-fat toppings, such as pepperoni, sausage, and extra cheese. If you're in the mood for dessert, order fruit, sorbet, sherbet, or low-fat frozen yogurt. Or split a dessert with friends. At salad bars, enjoy all the greens and vegetables you'd like. They are good for you and have little or no fat and no cholesterol. But pass up or go easy on high-fat or high-calorie items, such as eggs, bacon, cheese, fried noodles, and salad dressings. Avoid mayonnaise-based salads, such as macaroni salads. They are very high in fat. Eat slowly and enjoy conversation with your dinner companions. This will help you notice when you are getting full so that you don't overeat. Watch out for large portions. If portions are large, ask for a container so you can take some home for another meal. To decrease the temptation to overeat, avoid entrees that are labeled deluxe, supersized, large, jumbo, or extra-large. Or order an appetizer for your main course. Limit your alcohol intake. Alcohol increases appetite. May decrease your willpower to resist high-fat items. It also adds calories without providing nutrients. At a buffet, scan the entire table before you choose anything to see what low-fat items are available. Eat some of these first before trying higher-fat foods. This will help you eat smaller portions of fattier foods. At a potluck, bring a low-fat dish that you really enjoy. Then choose your low-fat meal over other higher-fat alternatives. At parties, focus on socializing rather than eating. If you're enjoying the company of your companions, you won't be tempted to eat as much. If you do overindulge at a restaurant or party, don't feel guilty and punish yourself. Simply eat lower-fat foods the following day.
Lots of sites that publish regular information have their own RSS feeds, like Marshall Brain's BrainStuff weblog. The trouble with living in the Information Age is paradoxical: There's too much information. It's everywhere. How are you supposed to keep track of all the news, sports, weather and blogs you follow? Better yet, how are you going to do that and find time for work, school and family? If you're addicted to the constant flow of data that we know as the Internet, you're not going to be able to manage it without some help. One way to keep track of it all has grown very popular since its introduction in 1997: RSS. Short for Really Simple Syndication (at least now -- more on that later), RSS is a way to subscribe to a source of information, such as a Web site, and get brief updates delivered to you. When you subscribe, you'll get a feed -- often a series of headlines and brief summaries -- of all the articles published on that particular Web page.
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