TV.com: TV News - TV Shows - TV Listings - Entertainment News Did Kevin From ‘Home Alone’ Grow Up to Be Jigsaw? A Deadly Serious Investigation « The holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: rampant consumerism. Hordes of sheeple leaving their families to queue for hours in front of big-box stores across the nation in hopes of scoring cheap electronics without being crushed to death. The dystopian horror of mass transit hubs. The inevitable gaining of 15 to 20 pounds of ham, turkey, and pie weight. And, of course, constant re-airings of holiday entertainment such as Home Alone, Chris Columbus’s 1990 classic about young Kevin McCallister — played by a cherubic Macaulay Culkin — who spends a solitary Christmas in a vast Winnetka mansion after his family, in a rush, accidentally forgets to bring him along on a trip to Paris. Home Alone launched young Macaulay Culkin to international hang-out-with–Michael Jackson–level fame. Home Alone’s impact on modern holiday culture cannot be overstated. I’ve been working on this theory for several years, researching, poring over the film. Just hear me out. 20th Century Fox
epguides.com - Main Menu Page How does Shazam work - Coding Geek Have you ever wondered how Shazam works? I asked myself this question a few years ago and I read a research article written by Avery Li-Chun Wang, the confounder of Shazam, to understand the magic behind Shazam. The quick answer is audio fingerprinting, which leads to another question: what is audio fingerprinting? When I was student, I never took a course in signal processing. I’ll start with the basics of music theory, present some signal processing stuff and end with the mechanisms behind Shazam. Since it’s a long and technical article (11k words) feel free to read each part at different times. A sound is a vibration that propagates through air (or water) and can be decrypted by ears. A vibration can be modeled by sinusoidal waveforms. Pure tones vs real sounds A pure tone is a tone with a sinusoidal waveform. Its frequency: the number of cycles per second. Those characteristics are decrypted by the human ear to form a sound. pure sinewave at 20 Hz composition of sinewaves Musical Notes
Across the Pond Favorites - a list by koehler6-121-382553 Portraits of a Dancer For Numero Magazine Pour le magazine Numero Homme, le photographe Jacob Sutton a réalisé un shooting avec le danseur de ballet ukrainien Sergueï Polounine. Sur le thème des « jeux de scène », le danseur s’est adonné à des postures élégantes et des élancements aériens majestueux. L’ensemble des photos est disponible dans la galerie. A voir également : le clip de David LaChapelle pour le titre « Take Me to Church » de Hozier, avec le danseur Sergueï Polounine.
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