Hello and welcome to the wikipakka stage on the dining room. It is 9 p.m. prime time We are live with translation and bleepdrag and blinry are here and Have now the third edition of operation mindfuck and it's going to be very fun funny Have fun. All right. We also say Good evening.  Hello to the stream Hello to the wikipakka living room where some people might also be sitting. So this room is a pretty full So it's nice that you're all sitting together We have art computers and curious things here. So we'll Switch sides Every now and again and we'll start with blinry. Okay. I am starting with chess variants So a few months ago. I was at the MM CD in Darmstadt There was a presentation about a medieval board games and one of the board games that was shown was this one It has Spanish roots. I can't speak Medieval Spanish, but maybe it's can't I see directs or something means grand chess and If you know a just of today and compared this is a 12 by 12 board. So it's larger and the Figures are a bit weird. So there's a giraffe and I think this thing here next to the king is the Elephant bird for example, and they have very weird movement patterns, which we don't know with our standard figures So the giraffe for example moves to Fields diagonally and then once straight note three fields diagonally and one Or a lot of these so that's kind of like the horse today and The elephant bird goes one Diagonal and then continues to slide as far as once which is pretty weird And now there it turns out there is a whole community behind chess variants like this Which includes fairy chess pieces. So there are lists where people think up these things and Throw it together and make up new chess variants and I thought that was pretty impressive This game so here the Rooks move normally and the row at the bottom has these weird rows Weird figures and to accelerate the game a bit. There's also the rule that you have an extra dice Determining with which kind of figures you can move Another chess variant is losing chess and the objective is to lose all of your own figures as fast as possible And if you have to if you can Take another figure you have to but you can choose which one if you have multiple options and the king doesn't have a special status It's a normal figure like the others. It can be beaten and there's no Jackmate and Whoever loses their figures first wins the game which has some weird effects So if you make a move you create weird chain reactions because both players have to Beat another figure and they can't stop and in this gift that's playing all the time The Rook is played first. So I think D3 and That's a very bad move because then black can always win it turns out So people modeled this and did the math and there's a sequence for black Which forces that black is going to lose all the figure. So there are some openings That are a really bad idea right infinite chess Has the usual figures in the usual arrangement, but the board is infinitely large So that's more a kind of theoretical model. I'm not I don't know if people actually play this It's kind of difficult in the real world, but people think about how this works and if you can find out things about it so You have a weird situation where you have to move one million fields with the queen Upwards and then it will take the Rooks a while to catch up So it's weird to analyze. There are people who investigate this and found out that given a certain arrangement and Number and you can determine if there is a possibility for the current player to win within and moves Which is a pretty cool result, but it's not very useful To write Artificial intelligence or something because what you really want to do is to figure out if from this position you can win at all So if you know I can win in 10 moves That's kind of not that useful if it means like you have to move a million Fields up with the queen so it might take a while until things happen So it's a theoretical Has theoretical value There's also blind chess Which is so you might know blindfolded chess where people actually blindfold their eyes and then they're told Which moves happen and they have to memorize where each figure is and what they want to do so blind chess is different so both players are in front of a board and So they don't see the figures of the other color only their own and they don't get told what happens So they have to infer that Cautiously move their own figures and try things out and then they're told if it's an illegal move then they can Try something else so they can explore the fields what their positions of the other player might be and Try to find your own good strategy. So that means you need a third person who Communicates between the two players and watches out that nothing illegal takes place I checked and there's a very Defined a set of words which this third person can use which is for example, no if it's not a legal move like if you try to move across another figure or if you Make a move which is independently so not possible independently of the other players Figures then you say hell no And This is a small website. Oh, I have you have to click out of this presentation. So let's take a look This was written by a human called Pippin bar who also builds other interesting game prototypes and so these are chess variants you can actually try out and one I really like is Quantum chess So you don't get told what the rules are you have to find out by trial and error So let's try to make a move with the rook. Oh We have two rocks now So it's blacks move. So there's no artificial intelligence. So two people move against each other and the system checks that the rules are Followed so if you make a move the figure moves to all the possible positions And now we have a lot of queens for example, which might be useful. Maybe it's also a disturbance So that's quantum chess. I also wanted to show you gravity chess So let's try to make a move and you're already laughing Yeah so and so on and then all the figures fall down and you can play this and someone tweeted this and other people try to actually play this and Analyze final positions of this game where you can not do very much And it's really cool. I think and last but not least. I wanted to show you chess boxing You might have heard of this one. It's an actual sport a series sport Started as an art project because someone thought how wouldn't it be funny if people had to box and play chess at the same time or Alternating Lee and it became really popular and there are now chess boxing associations which organize championships So it works like this. It's in rounds you play three minutes of chess and then you box for three minutes and You alternate and you can win by knocking out your opponent or by checkmating them and the rules also say that you can give up and It's it says you can give up in the chess part or in the boxing part. So, yeah, that's funny All right one thing that occupied me a lot in the past few months is Twitter bots mainly artsy Twitter bots a Twitter bot is normally simply a Twitter account that's Where posts are written by a by program sometimes once a day sometimes several times a day And I'm going to show you some of my favorite Twitter bots One of them is very simple. It's endless screaming and it never posts anything other than are in varying Lengths, which is very important another one is Big Ben clock. It's quite similar it Simply spells out the beats of Big Ben Of course at the right times Another one that's very nice is choose to accept it gives you secret missions that it Randomly generates one of them is your mission should you choose to accept it is to sneak into The casino of Colin the hair stylist there You must steal the horn of plenty Melvin the renter mob inflate Colin and finally escape using a secret tunnel It tends to be a bit confused And it's generated from a grammar and from Building blocks There's the cocktail button. Well, it the bot cocktails and it builds builds funny cocktails from Random ingredients and it's interactive so you can tweet to it So you can tell it makes me something and then it thinks of a of a cocktail name and No, we don't currently want to update Linux and it gives you a recipe for a cocktail and another fun thing is that you can Ask it to Surprise you and then it'll tweet you it'll generate a random cocktail and then there's Mazing bot or amazing bot and it generates mazes and you can play them It looks like this and then underneath the tweet you can reply with the directions So for example Up or down or the only directions that currently makes sense and when you tweet at it then it will reply with a With a picture of the new state So you can collaboratively Corrupted collaboratively solve a maze such as this and Another one that I read like is the Nixie bot I'm not sure who built it, but somebody built this Nixie tube setup and you can Tweet at the bot with oh no With the text and then It'll be shown on these tubes it's It's filmed by a raspy cam it and then you get a get a get a moving image of your text It usually takes a few minutes and It's very nice because the person who owns this Nixie bot likes to Decorate decorate the tubes and you can also see what time of day it is it's very much alive and the bot likes to post a daily review where everything that happened over the course of a day is Collected in a in large video and it'll be posted once a day. So I Can very much recommend that you tweet at this spot Finally, I want to show you one of my bots which I Built it's not on Twitter. It's on Masebon. It's the to read half a bot. So the two re Touristic sign Bot these those are the signs that you know from the side of the Autobahn or the highway and they tend to be a bit obscure and tell you what a Particularly region particular region or city might be famous for and I built a bot that generates this kind of sign It fetches data from two databases Wikidata if you if you're in the Vicky paka Vicky then you probably know Vicky data It's a sister project of Wikipedia. It's a machine readable database and I fetch City names and object names from Wikidata. So these are real objects and cities or places and then I Fetch an icon from the noun project, which is a collection of SVG graphics that you can use and then my bots Bot builds an image that looks roughly like one of these signs and These tend to tend to be quite obscure there might for example be the chips or fries museum Actually, all of these happen to be museums There that's not usually the case You can also get something like the like the Verical city MacBook or the bowl city MacBook and this bot is on Mac the book due to a very interesting story a while ago Twitter ended has changed its API and it's become a lot more difficult To get an API key for Twitter. You need to fill out a form of what you want to use your Twitter account for and Twitter would is very reluctant to hand out these keys and this Really shook up the scene because it's become difficult to build these bots and because older bots are no longer functional and it brings up debates of How we should maybe deal with archiving if things we built once upon a time can Stop working at some point and the Solution that many people found is mastodon, which is a decentralized Twitter alternative and there's a Separate instance for this kind of bots is called bot in dot space and this has become a home for Lots of these artsy Twitter or not Twitter mastodon bots. I can highly recommend clicking through these There are lots of fun projects that if you fancy building your own bot then there are some products I can recommend there's bot wiki which is a wiki that collects What variants you can click through it, but it's not very complete yet If you find a bot that you very much like then you can you can add it to this wiki But otherwise you can just click through it and find get inspired by what other people build. There are bots that Write poems or music and there's lots to discover if you want to build one yourself then there's a cheap bot done quick which is website that lets you host bots without a lot of prior knowledge and you can also use tracer which is a tool that Makes it very easy to build grammars for example to generate texts or images If you're even more interested then I'm afraid I don't have a link for it, but you can check Blindry's blog He gave a workshop on this that was unfortunately not recorded But you can't find the slides on Blindry's blog and he explains where exactly how exactly this works Mixed up will be ray marching and sign distance functions. That sounds rather scary, but I'll tell you how I came about Working with this We had been around three years ago on a demo party in Cologne It's kind of a meet-up where several hundred people come together and sit together in dark Horms halls and sit on the laptops and code and they are coding videos. They're coding little snippets That Generate or do rather interesting graphical and graphical things. There are several categories in which they can Sign up for and one of them is a restriction for the program that you're writing That the program must not exceed a certain size Certain files as for example five kilo four kilobytes which I Think is very very little just a few lines of code and the challenge is to do cool things with this size restriction What might come out of that is like this year like a 4k demo from the evoke Which contains rather interesting complex geometries. Let's look into this. You will see those haze effects fork effects Interesting line of sight for the camera. You are flying through a fractal geometry But let's skip ahead. There are things moving in this world And oh by the way, there's music in there. That's also been generated by the code in this moment It's all running live So there's the surface is kind of shiny and I was sitting there Mouth the gape and thought how are they doing this with such little code generating such complex Shows so I looked into it on the way back on the train and what I came across was fragment shaders This is an open GL thing which is about writing a rather little a rather small program and That is executed for each pixel on the screen so you Put in the coordinates of the pixels and the program Calculates where the but the program ever the pixel have to go So if you've got to if you do this correctly, this can be highly paralyzed on your graphics card So that's what this technology is for So I found this book online the book of shaders Which calls itself a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of fragment shaders I can highly recommend that Which takes you by the hand and shows you how everything is done and how to generate more complex geometries But this only generates two two dimensional graphics, so you cannot create the demos that we've just seen So I went on and found some other ways some other ways to generate 3d graphics What I've heard of already in university, but some of you have may have heard already also is ray tracing So if you want to generate a picture that's that consists of pixels You shoot a ray of light from the camera to each part of the scene where there might be little balls or more complex geometries and you look at where this ray from the camera Comes upon an object and then you can calculate. Where is this object? Are there shadows? it's this light in a particular way and You end up with pixels. That's a pretty cool way to render 3-dimensional pictures for example glass objects or soft shadow effects That's a technique that's been around for quite a while but it's got a problem because If you've got a more complex geometry those Intersections are quite quite hard to find out So that's that's not really feasible for live demos so what we're doing here is a Technique called ray marching. I've never heard of that before So what you're doing is to define a mathematical function and for each point in the room It gives you back the distance to the next point to the next surface In this example, it's two-dimensional, but it also works in three dimensions So you insert some point and the function returns you that the next point might be one meter away And if you shoot a ray in there and the next surface is one meter away So it is somewhere in a sphere with one meter measure one one meter radius So I can go one more meter without colliding with anything so I move on and Execute the function for the Next option And it's half meter away and then I repeat that until I know I'm there and this is stemming the 2D case Where you start it with P zero and then you get the distance Which corresponds to the radius of this circle and you repeat this until you've actually hit some surface and you can also do this in 3D and Through this very elegantly find some kind of way to phrase this geometry Which you saw so describing parts of the room and periodically repeating them for example, and then you can just repeat this function as well And if you can do this very well, then you can do cool shit like that So beginning of last year. I also did a small workshop to that So we're going to link the slides later if you want to take a look and I'm also going to demonstrate how that works and Start with the 2D case first how you draw individual shapes like defining circles for example and Ascribe colors to them and then later you can have different 2D shapes and kind of merge them Let's see if I can find a relevant location like this one So this is also very easy with this distant function to define this so you have the centers of the two circles and then Have this more complex kind of bouncy or silly putty Surface and then from there you can progress to the 3D space and do pretty much the same thing To have like a cube here with round corners and then Kind of build some surface and give it waves maybe and then at the end you Repeat this very often and then you have this flight through a complex 3D world with like I don't know maybe twice as much code as you can see there To write this and so both fragment shaders and this ray marching are two Approaches to do graphics, which I didn't know before and which kind of blew me away And I thought those might interest you as well if you can do this really well then something like this might happen So this is a person called Iku And does this for many many years and I'll jump ahead to the end So this is a video where he explains how he works and how these demos work how his demos work and So you can see this is almost six hours. It's not a trivial program So I would like let's see if I can see an animated version of it so it's a kind of small cute figure jumping through a landscape and The ground is moving and the figure is moving and so Iku did the same thing defining a function Which gives you like the distance to the body of a small the body of the figure And that's how you can read me this and in general this person also has a website with very very good resources to this subject All right, so much for that Some years ago. I started to draw Small picture every day and publish it again And I called them schnipsel snippets small snippets That are created every day And I just wanted to tell you about this a little bit. I've I can't recall really why I started with this Was a bit about reflecting a bit better about what you're doing every day You might feel the same as me I'm I tend to start projects and but not finish them really and take them up again a year later and I had the feeling that I Lose the overview about what I'm doing every day So I found it quite good to reflect at the end of each day What was the most important point in the past 24 hours and since I like drawing and During studying computer science. I didn't draw as much anymore. I thought I just Draw snippets was important for me to finish those rather quickly I did a little screencast on Twitter lately how I'd go about drawing this So this has to go quickly just scribbling. I don't take much time Just takes about 10 minutes, maybe quarter an hour And I've got a thing that that's got a Integrated digitizer so I can do this digitally. I don't need any paper. I just try about I Don't even use colors I I found that I'm really bad at colorizing. So this is really sufficient just working in Black and white with a little shading some shading in here The resolution is just 250 by 250 pixels which restricts you kind of a bit Because you cannot really go into details retrospectively, I would have liked to have some some Bigger printouts of that but for that the resolution is a little bit too too small And I started posting some of the snippets on Twitter because I Post those to my website and I thought nobody's looking at my website And I thought would somebody look at those snippets if I post them on Twitter and People thought yeah, they would look at that. So I started Posting the other my Twitter account and I got quite positive feedback for that Because from from time to time I didn't have time to to do us daily snippet and People wrote me. Oh, what a pity that you're not drawing because I'm really looking forward to your daily snippet Linry tried that too one for one month You can look at that. We'll just click on that so we can Size it up you that is in a circular way and you also use taxigons at one point We're playing and experimenting with formats Blinry Aldrich also did a monthly review. That's all drawn by hand and I find this rather aesthetic And as I said, I had this running on a bot and a short while ago I Integrated another API and Which didn't handle one kind of error. I went to bed and the bot ran amok and posted the same picture Every ten minutes and the morning you wake up and look something like this here Because my inbox was full. Oh my oh my god your box running or bosses are running amok my whole timeline is full of that and Some some post below that ha she's still sleeping and the longest been long and this was even a day where I slept in until 10 and it wasn't so good, but The cool thing is if you if you draw a snippet every day You can do a little intro like this With a bot holding a snippet. I like this schnipsel a lot And this is what I show now I would recommend to everybody of you to introduce a reflection technique like that because you've got days like here at Congress. There's thousands of Occasions So you have lots of things going on and you might but still find positive things In a day and I can still find I can remember much better what happened a month or two months ago Because I still know which snippet I drew on that day So try that out who knows if you draw schnipsel or maybe you'll just write a word a day But I think that's a very nice technology to See what kind of things you're actually doing Okay, next I want to tell you about mathematical paradoxes, which I find really interesting For example, there's something called the interesting number paradox which says Every number is interesting Which is a bit surprising to me at least so let's prove this together So it's a proof which goes through reductio ad absurdum. So we take an assumption So let's assume there are uninteresting natural numbers You usually limit this to natural numbers. So not negative whole numbers But numbers which which you can count and let's say there are some which are uninteresting so you can imagine the number line and There are the ones that are uninteresting are marked and Now we can look at this and see there's one of those uninteresting numbers, which is the smallest one Which is the one that's the most on the left of this line. So that's kind of weird It's a number which is simultaneously not interesting But this property of being the smallest uninteresting number is of course totally interesting so there's a contradiction there and If that happens that means the Initial assumption was wrong So this shows that the Assumption can't be right. We assumed that there are uninteresting numbers and the result is every natural number is interesting So that's a proof. It sounds a bit weird, but there's no trick floor here There are some proofs with which you can deduce that bond equals to or something That's rubbish, of course, but this is a pretty solid proof It's not meant completely seriously, of course, but it holds up to critical scrutiny at least and Well, I also wanted to say there are also people who Try to find this smallest uninteresting number and they use different criteria There's this online encyclopedia of integer sequences and they look for the smallest number Which is not in there for example or the smallest number which does not have a Wikipedia article of its own So I checked recently. That's currently the 262 is that interesting. I don't know there's nothing not much to tell about it so far the next paradox on is Something about this geometrical object, which is called Gabriel's horn So this surface is defined such that You take this function one divided by x which is this red number here So these boxes are one unit long and we look at a certain area So we cut this off at position one and look at the part to the right and We take this and rotate it around the x-axis So that's how you construct this object So what we get is this very very pointy Going to infinity object which kind of looks like horn and it has a very interesting property Which is the surface area of this object is infinite Which kind of makes sense because it goes infinitely far to the right and If you try to paint with color you would need infinitely much paint because it never runs out but if you put it Rotate by 90 degrees and try to measure the volume by pouring color into it you will determine that the Horn is actually full the volume is finite, which is a very interesting combination So if you fill it with paint within You can say it's kind of touching the whole surface but if we paint it it's still not enough and Well this paradox with the paint that sounds a bit weird, but you can resolve this by Imagine we don't paint it from outside. We paint it from the inside Then eventually as we go to the right into the point we would get this area where the color Layer is so thick that it doesn't even fit because the color they would also have to become Infinitely thin and if you calculate it like that, it's again finite So this kind of filling with color works, but painting it on the outside needs infinitely much paint You can resolve it like that and also this property of the Area being infinite and the volume being finite you can calculate this You can write down the integrals with this function like 1 over x integrate over the duration length and Calculate what the area is and you see it's infinite and can get the volume and it's finite And it's not really intuitive and I could show you the formulas and you might believe it or not but what I also found is Comparison which kind of makes this easier for you. So if you imagine you have a piece of city putty and you form this to a Little worm or a cylinder So cylindrical shape and then you look at the surface of that thing then the surface is going to be roughly the Circumference of the form of the cylinder times the length So if you like if you put paper around it if you roll it up Then you have this rectangle and one of the links is the Circumference and the other one is the length of this snake or worm and now we take this city putty and we Roll it up. So it's a bit thinner and what happens is the height is halved, which means the circumference is also halved but the Area cross area Decreases by a quarter But because you haven't changed the volume because you haven't taken anything away. It's going to be four times as long So what did we do? We have four times the length and we have half the circumference So the surface of this thing grew by two While the volumes stay constant so that means the more thin you make this snake or worm the more this Ratio of volume and surface changes and that's exactly what happens with this object that you make it thinner infinitely much and so this ratio also grows and that's how this weird property happens and Similar to that also with infinity is the coastline paradox so that's about measuring the length of Codesline or the borders of a country and That depends a lot on how exact you do that how accurate you are so imagine you have a very long ruler and you put this against the Border and you go around and you get a number and you could say that's the length and they could someone could come and say You didn't measure this Sufficiently exactly you would have to use a shorter ruler and then you can go into like the base So that's like the difference between the left and the right example where the right one uses a shorter ruler and use measures this The air the border more accurately and it depends on that What number you get for the border of this country and you can continue this as far as you want So if you're at the beach of this country and you want to measure the length of the coastline of the line between the beach and the water you could use a 30 centimeter ruler and Lay it down and lay it down again and say okay. That's 60 centimeters and then some some life form comes along which is tiny and says you should have measured around each sand corn and Measure the gaps and you should have gotten a much longer length and you can continue this as far as you want because the sand grains maybe have little irregularities and if you get down to the atomic level it gets a bit weird, but the concept of the length of a coastline or Border of a country is not well-defined. So mathematicians say that This shape has a fractal dimension larger than one So the more accurately you measure it the more longer it gets and I don't find that especially intuitive and The final paradox I have is the birthday paradox So some of you might know this So basically it's about if I look around the room here and look just at the right side You might be around 30 people I would guess and the question of this paradox is how likely is it that two of you have The same birthday the exact same birthday and if you want and if you don't know this yet You could try to estimate just in percent how likely that would be do you have any ideas? so let's assume it's 30 people here should be pretty high someone's saying it's high and So About 50% well I Introduce this as a production of course. So you might expect that something unexpected. So if you're naive you might think So there's 365 people and for some people to have a match shouldn't be that likely But if you add one person to a group you have a lot more pairs All of a sudden so this probability Grows larger than you might faster than you might think so if you draw the graph like this And the x-axis is the number of people and on the y-axis the probability that two people have a birthday on the same day And with 30 people we're well above 50% already so like 65% of something which I find surprisingly high and So 23 people is the limit where the probability is already larger than 50% So if you want, I know if you want you can try See if that actually the case in your group and try to find the people who have birthday on the same day Like group by month or something. We're not going to orchestrate that but I find this result interesting last summer before camp I wanted to build a fancy chair and I Thought you should have a Nice pattern and I looked around on the internet and found an interesting Paper it's called modeling and visualization of leaf ination patterns. It sounds a bit confused But it is about the way veins grow in leaves And they describe an algorithm algorithm that's fairly simple And I want to show it to you because it gives really great results This is the kind of result they achieve with it in example, they Let the veins grew rather sparingly, but they become more and more complex and Eventually they start closing this kind of loops and with the Parameters you see in G and H you actually see these kind of larger or smaller cells appearing and it's not actually this difficult they Assumed that the shape of the leaf is given and The vein that has grown so far is represented by these black points and the red points red dots are or since they are the chemicals that Determine growth in a leaf and the veins want to grow towards them so you Place these in the leaf and then you find the closest vein point to a given auxine point and each of these connections Determines or the direction in which the vein is going to grow so The point up here is influenced by two points, so The mean of these It's actually always influenced by three So it's going to Grow towards the mean of these That's this dot here. It's placed and in the next step you Check this radius, which is determined by a parameter and if there's a vein point within that then the auxine is Destroyed it's basically eaten by the veins and in the next step the leaf has grown and you scale the shape of the leaf up a bit Place new auxine points They initially place randomly, but then you check if two of them are too close to each other There's another parameter for that and if they're too close to each other you You You delete it. It's a bit like croissant disc sampling and then the whole thing starts from the beginning You check how many points there are and which of them influence the veins they can eat these The veins can eat this auxine and then you see these branches growing, so I implemented that and It looks like this for example if it eventually decides to start playing and What you can see here is that the veins Scale up as well. These are two modes. They Have in their simulation and one of them they scale up as well and In another they don't and depending on that you get these lightning shapes or you get these highly branching shapes. I am implemented that it's not it's not a big deal and You see them in different colors to make it easier to see where these Segments are and in the final step I can calculate the size of these veins So if they're more highly branched and of course they're going to be thicker because there's more juice running through them and towards the end they will get thinner and These are results they published in the paper as well I found them interesting on the left they have a photograph and on the right the rendered model bend based on the same Modus and you can see how similar the results results are. I think they simulated it fairly well and It was supposed to be a chair. So I implemented it and Put it on my CNC It's a one I built myself. So it takes a while to Machine these and it took several hours and I needed two of these parts to create entire chair So it ended up looking like this. I built these squares or I added these squares by hand It's where the legs of the chair are going to be attached And I closed the veins around them to make it more stable and this is what the result looked like The files are online on my website if in case you want to build this kind of chair But what I found out at the end if you have this kind of Vane growth then you maximize the surface and this means that the Using sandpaper on this is going to take a very long while But it turned into a nice chair. It was a fun project for the summer summer for generative art Do you mind if we go over time a bit all right Hi, thanks.  Oh, nobody that's interesting. So we're all on the same page here. So DVDs You might have come across the situation that you had a DVD and wanted to make a safety copy of Your DVD and the program of your choice gave you this error message here that the DVD is copy-protected and people thought about that problem so that people could not just copy any content and they came up with a With a procedure that's called content scramble sequence that's that works with secret algorithms and scrambles the information up according to a complicated algorithm that I have not looked into and They do have They gave the information on how to encrypt this information to the vendors that provide the DVDs and The instructions for decrypting to the manufacturers of playback devices and then they hoped for a while that that people would Not do bad stuff with this for a while And then people sat down and try to reverse engineer a DVD player how this Thing works and what the keys are and they re-evaluate this in C CSS de-scrambling so this is the main function of this procedure and Around it in the source for there are some longer tables of numbers Which are here called CST to and something and there are some lookups to those but this is the core of it and Well, other people looked at this and wrote a graphically user interface that made it very easy for people to copy DVDs And so some people did not like this So there were several court cases against the person who wrote the GUI which was a Norwegian I believe and Well, it became tricky What exactly you want to make illegal so how the algorithm works or the keys or what? and then people Actually became more creative Where the border is between things that should be protected and not and for example They produce DCSS the movie So that's kind of the title scroll off the source code Scrolling through dramatic music through space like Star Wars So is this an artistic project which is should be protected or is this illegal or people Did a dramatic reading of the source code? I thought we might listen a bit to this. That's seven minutes So let's just listen for the first seconds And so on so you get the idea What else happened People wrote high coups So not just one but like I think 600 of them or so which describe how the algorithm works and So the keys are also part of those so this is a core part of it So, you know high coups five syllables several seven syllables five syllables So it's a Japanese accessible form of poetry and you can adhere strictly to that if you enjoy that And so someone wrote all we have to do is this copy our D key into I am one use the rule above that they Crypts a disk key with I am one and it's friend I am two as input thus we decrypt the disk key. I am one And so on over many many pages. Is this art? Is this a program is this little algorithm? Who knows and And people also printed this onto shirts and onto ties and started wearing this and stuff and a mathematician sat down and Determined this number which is interesting because if you write it in hex decimal notation, then it's a zip file which Contains this C program And it's a prime which might makes it so interesting. So the trick With which it was found is so with a zip file You can add null bytes at the end as if much as you want without changing meaning of the file. So the they abuse this to With kind of brute force and some rule like what are prime candidates and then checks out of them are they actually Primes and with one number of their luck and had this prime which might now be an illegal prime so this was the first one you found and Later also found one that's approximately twice as long and that one's interesting because at that point And the point that where he did this which was shortly after the year 2000 or something It was one of the ten largest prime numbers which were known at all which made it just through this fact already interesting for Publication and it ended up in high score lists of large crimes and ended up on various websites And it's a very nice hack to disseminate this information Finally a little bit of art art from the AI Field I Don't want to talk about neural nets, but just give you a little bit of feeling for what's happening there This is a process or So that's one part of the network where you can throw in an image and so Let's we end up in a space which is called Latin space Which is a kind of very basic representation of images and I can reverse this to get the original image back And I do this in the training phase So I throw in an image and it process it Reconstructs it and I look at the difference and can determine Learn from this and optimize the procedure But what I can also do is not throw in an image, but directly go into this Latin space and Pick a vector in that Latin space a random one and let it reconstruct that one and then let's see what it reconstructs so those are the procedures used there and all I can also do is Supposing I have two images here on the left this dog and on the right this is the leopard I think it's a leopard with two weird ears. So Something went wrong with the generation in the model, but what you can see I can create intermediate images, which is funny So what you did in the 90s with morphing software now you can do it with neural networks So I look for these two images in the Latin space and then interpolate between them and then it looks much more interesting than just morphing on picture pixel level because if you Morphe on the pixel level you do a kind of blend from A to B as you know in a video game It's kind of stupid and here we have a kind of On the content level some what correct image and you can render this as a video might look like this And we don't need sound for this not that exciting so the model here is called big gun and So the images were classified in different classes and dogs and flowers But it didn't use a very big didn't use a very national auto coder So that's different neural structures, but they still have this latin space So you can still do this latin this interpolation and this morphing I call it Which happens there looks extremely fascinating and what you can also do all of a sudden is Vector mathematics in this space so you can check other special vectors where I can Which you can move around this point where things happen or I can look at points in this space and cluster them and say for example here we have a clustering of Ladies who are smiling and ladies who are looking neutral and now I can say I take the one point and Subtract it from the other one. So smiling woman minus neutral woman becomes neutral man Because the woman attribute has been subtracted away, but I can also at the bottom Do that with sunglasses or with glasses and say men with glasses minus when without glasses plus wound with glasses That's moon with glasses because I've also subtracted this away and you can have a lot of fun with this and Because earlier we had it with Twitter bots. There's one more here, which is called the smiling vector bot which looks for images and Looks for the matching image in Latin space and then adds a smile modifier or smile vector or sometimes subtracts it depends and The results are often kind of creepy, but you can scroll through them. So let's click the whole account Maybe and see what it posted recently oops Okay So it also posts regularly. I don't know where it gets the images from Sometimes also those videos and morphs back and forth there So what you might have seen as well is deep dream. So that's kind of Over optimization of an image so you can see here. I think we should also disable sound It's a bit weird. So here it was done on the video. It's very interesting And you can already see this was this neural network was trained on images of dogs so now it thinks of dogs everywhere and I don't know I Have not tried LSD does an LSD trip look like this. I would imagine it looked like this I would say so it's very trippy and very abstract and it's very interesting to see Where faces and patterns appear and in this video, you can also see that it's very consistent So if you do a pan of the camera, then a dog stays in the same place With the first attempts it didn't work like this if you when you try to apply neural nets to videos You had to do some tricks that it stays consistent. Otherwise, it would wobble around way too much Oh, yeah, and something I found a few days ago, which is also this kind of interpolation But only on cat images. I also thought this was very nice. I also always feel like you can see How their positions change like especially if the body starts wobbling That's those different foot positions with the cat can have which are and it starts permuting through those And I can generally recommend this Twitter card rolled runner zero one. It's kind of doesn't say much but Experience a lot with neural networks and post videos and they're very interesting and we were at art So I want to show you more art projects, which I found very impressive in recently So this is from Helena Serrin. She does a lot of things and it's very impressive That the data sets with which she trains her neural nets They're always always her own pictures and drawings You don't see that very often because people scrape data sets from anywhere or take large picture sets and she does this with her own data and then I think she mainly use guns and then Generates very abstract images. Most of those projects are called gun reaver So they kind of go together like a puzzle. I find that very interesting and in this case I think yeah, it says that here that was a data set from different things with flowering trees and with book pages containing high crews another nice project is from Tom White Who exploits? Neural networks or image recognition software and created this interesting architecture to Create these abstract images which can still be recognized from image recognition software So, I don't know. Can you guess maybe what this thing in the middle upper middle is what this looks like? Louder a plane. Yes, it could be a plane, but it's something different That is based on the model of a shark trained with a model of a shark Something else that you can guess the dark blue thing here at the bottom. Yes, that's a hairdryer Another thing I remember this was cabbage and this down here was jack o lantern. So yeah, Halloween jack o lantern And I think it's interesting because this is very abstract, but as a human you can still kind of recognize what it represents and He experiments in this direction as well a lot Oh, that was too much We're still here. So three small things at the end from Duo of artists from South Korea, and I'll try to pronounce it correctly Shin Song-bak Kim Yong-hoon are they called and I hope they don't mind this So I want to show three show projects The first one is non-facial mirror, which is a mirror as you can see soon with facial recognition Which doesn't want you to look at it at yourself in it Yeah, so does it rotate away from the person? I think it's the other way around track someone so that's the Other way around if you couldn't hear someone said in the audience we have an installation like that here That's right. I walked past that I think that's very nice The examples I have now are all with facial recognition, but they can do other things as well So here for example, they put a camera with facial recognition pointed into the clouds So you might play a game what can you recognize in the clouds and they always remember saved the image when somebody was recognizing the clouds and printed it and it's nice because you can often see faces there and The final project is also very interesting So they asked other artists to paint a portrait and the challenge was that a camera is pointed at the canvas from the top with facial recognition and The goal was that you cannot recognize it as a person Which is not that easy and the artist Has a disk and laptop next to them and could see what was recognized how and there were different algorithms there So you can always see like in the green red green blue frame there were three different algorithms trying to recognize faces and the artist is Suddenly trying to place eyes differently and sometimes they just put the lines straight through it So you out of frustration that they're still a face recognizable and they did this with a lot of artists They all got the same portrait and they're very interesting Paintings that happened out of that All right That for the subjects we brought you today. I hope that was fun We have the slides under this URL and They're also links to the previous versions of the two previous versions of this format if you find that interesting Yeah, otherwise talk to us if you see us walking around we are on mastodon and Twitter and Thanks for being here and have a nice Congress


Yo, what's going on LeafRenation? It's LeafRenation back again and welcome back to the channel. Today I will be teaching you guys how to do each and every single deak in NHL20. Let's get into it. The first thing I will be teaching you how to do is the backhand tuck. So this is what the backhand tuck looks like. Let me do it for you guys real quick and it's just like that. Very simple to do. If you're with a right hand player, what you want to do is hold it up to your backhand and then press LB and RB and that will do the deak for you. The next deak I will teach you guys is the backhand windmill. This is what the backhand windmill looks like. Very simple and very easy to use in-game to get around opponents. So what you want to do to pull off a backhand windmill is again, hold it to your backhand with the right hand of player.  The next deak I'm going to teach you guys is called the behind the backhand. Now this is a very complicated deak to pull off. It takes time to learn but it is very cool to pull off and it looks super clean. So this is what the behind the back deak looks like. It is very clean to pull off in-game. Looks super cool. So what you want to do to pull off the behind the back is if you're with a right hand of player, you're going to hold it all the way out to your forehand. You're going to hit LB, go inside with your right stick and then inside with your left stick at the same time and then quickly out with both. The next deak is very cool to pull off. It is called the between the legs. So you can either pass between your legs or shoot between your legs. So first off to get the puck between your legs, you're going to have to click down on the right stick and hit LB. Pass it, all you got to do is again down on the right stick LB and then RT and the puck will pass. Now again to shoot the puck, very simple. You're going to hit down on the right stick LB and then up on the right stick and it will shoot the puck. Very simple deak, looks very cool. And if you can pull it off in game, it's super cool. So the next deak I'm going to teach you guys is the Datsuk Flip. And if you guys aren't familiar with what it looks like, this is what the Datsuk Flip looks like. Very cool to pull off and it does trick out the goalie if you're playing an IRL goal technique. So what you want to do to pull off the Datsuk Flip is click down on the right stick, go down and then hit RB to flip the puck. Very simple deak, very cool to pull off in game. Now there isn't just the Datsuk Flip, there is the Datsuk Shot. So it is the same thing, click down on the right stick, down and then just flick up on your right stick like you would be shooting the puck and that's what it looks like. So I showed you guys the backhand tuck. I'm now going to show you guys the forehand tuck. The forehand tuck looks very cool. This is how it looks, very cool to pull off. I just hit the post and it's very effective in game too. Last year it was very OP, not sure if it is this year. So what you're going to do to pull off the forehand tuck is hold it out to your forehand and then hit LB and RB and that's how you do it. Very simple deak, very cool and if you pull it off man, you're going to look pretty cool in game. So I showed you guys the backhand windmill. I'm going to show you guys the forehand windmill.  Very easy to get through people and it looks very cool as well. The next deak I'm going to show you guys is the jump deak. If you guys are not familiar with how the jump deak looks this is how it looks when you pull it off. Very cool. If a goaltender tries to fly and pull check you or spread eagles you can easily jump over them with the puck and score it. So you might be asking how do you pull off the jump deak? So what you want to do is skate up, you're going to hit LB and then up on the right stick and you will jump with the puck. Very simple to do. So this deak we found out very late in Asia 19 that it was in the game and it is called the Kutra deak. I'm sure you guys all know what the Kutra deak is if you guys don't. This is what it looks like. It is a very cool deak. You kind of just lose the puck like he does on the breakaway and pretty much it kind of juice out the goalie and you hope that it goes through his five hole or he slides the other way and you know you get the goal. So you guys might be asking how do you do the Kutra? It is a very complicated way to do the deak but once you do it for the first time you will get the hang of it. So what you want to do is hold it out to your forehand. You're going to hit LB.  So this is what it's going to look like when you do those controls. Very, you know, a little complicated but very simple to do once you get the hang of it. Next I'm going to teach you guys is how to put the puck through your legs if you guys don't know what I'm talking about. It's a very cool move as well. You can put it through the fenders that way. It looks super cool. So how you do that is, so if you're with a right-handed player you're going to hold it out to your forehand, hit LB and then swing the right stick around and it will go through your legs. Very cool to pull off in game and it looks very clean and simple. The next thing I'm going to teach you guys is the toe drag, a very cool way and simple way to get around opponents and create some space for yourself. So this is a very simple deak.  The next thing I'm going to teach you guys is the Kyle Turris. This one is a very complicated one. I just learned this one myself for this video. So what you want to do is hold it out to your forehand. You're going to hit LB and then bring your right stick diagonally out to the right and it will pull off the turret. So this is what it looks like. Very cool deak. You literally just push the puck to your skate and it looks very cool. That was not it, by the way, but very cool. You literally just pull it to your skate and it looks super cool when you pull it off. Last but not least, I'm going to teach you guys how to do these Etaburg if you guys are not sure what this Etaburg is. This is it. It looks very cool in game. You can get around opponents very cool. Break some ankles and show your friends that you know how to do deaks. What you have to do with the right hander player is hold it out to your backhand. Once you have it out to your backhand, you're going to hit LB and you're going to go outwards and then inwards.  So very simple again. You're going to hold the puck on your backhand. You're going to hit LB. You're going to outwards with both your left and right stick and then inwards. Very simple to do just like that. One of the easier complicated deaks to know in game and it is very simple. Anyways guys, that is going to be it for this tutorial video. If I did help you learn all the deaks in NHL 20, let me know in the comments down below. Hopefully, I was able to help you guys figure out how to do most deaks in NHL 20. Again, this takes time to learn some of the more tougher deaks. So take your time with it. Don't get frustrated and I'm telling you once you hit it for the first time, it will be easy to hit it after that. Anyways guys, that is going to be it for this video. If you guys did enjoy it, make sure to drop a fat like on it. Also, comment in the section down below if I was able to help you and if you enjoyed it or what I could do better next time to better help you guys pull off these deaks. Also, if you guys are new around here, make sure to drop a sub. We are on the road to 2,000 subscribers and we are getting closer and closer every day. So hopefully, we hit that milestone soon. Also, be sure to stay connected with me through Instagram and Twitter. The links will be in the description. Make sure to hit me with that follow. It will keep you updated when I upload and stream. 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If you are new to the channel, I'm Globe Pony, I do new car track SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we are in the brand new 2023 Honda CR-V courtesy of Apple Honda in York PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So this is officially the sixth generation of the Honda CR-V and it has been completely redesigned for the 2023 model year. And quite honestly, I think it looks dang good. It didn't look bad before, but it looks really, really good now. I will say that. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering for ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing it. So as you can imagine, there are a few different trim levels for the 2023 CR-V. First one being EX starting at $31,110, sport hybrid for $32,450, EXL for $33,760, and then the sport touring hybrid for $38,600. And it will say for the last trim level, all-wheel drive does come standard, but for the other trim levels, front wheel drive is standard, but you can get all-wheel drive by simply adding $1,500 then to any of those prices. But so then as you can imagine with all of those trim levels, there are a couple different engine configurations available for the CR-V. First one being the one that we have today, which is a 1.5-liter turbocharged inline four-cylinder. This particular engine configuration belongs to the EX trim level and the EXL. We do have the EXL with us here today. Power output comes in at 190 horsepower at 6,000 RPM, 179 pound-feet of torque coming in at 1,700 RPM. Power sent to front wheels are all-wheels through a CVT, and PG numbers then coming in at 28 in the city, 34 in the highway for the front-wheel drive, 27 city, 32 then on the highway for the all-wheel drive, taking regular unloaded fuel. So then you have the other power plant belonging to the hybrid configurations. That one is a two-liter inline four-cylinder with two electric motors. That one comes in at a combined 204 horsepower, 247 pound-feet of torque sent to front wheels or all-wheels yet again through a CVT. Zero to 60 time for that one, approximately 7.6 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 43 in the city, 36 on the highway for the front-wheel drive. That is dang impressive. And then 40 in the city, 34 then on the highway for the all-wheel drive, taking regular unloaded fuel yet again. But before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in our CR-V, I wanted to mention to you guys the drive modes. There's a little toggle switch located just to the left of the shifter, and that will give you different drive modes, including econ, normal, and snow, and actually sport as well if you were to go with the hybrid trim level. That's the only trim that's gonna give you that sport driving mode, but nonetheless, adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response, and the steering sensitivity. And quite honestly, we are in normal driving mode right now and I can tell you guys the steering sensitivity is wonderful. We'll get more into that a little bit later in the video, but first thing I noticed, I love it. But anyways, now I've got all of that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put this acceleration here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2023 Honda CR-V here up to speed. All right, this literally looks like the perfect spot. In three, two, one, go, baby. Little bit of turbo lag. There it is. Let's take it up on the upper RPMs, it really goes. So not gonna have any issues merging onto the highway, but like I said at the very beginning of that acceleration, as you quite often find in turbocharged four cylinders, there's a little bit of turbo lag, but as long as you're up higher in the RPMs, that really is not gonna be a problem. So you're not gonna have any issues in merging onto the highway, but anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important.  As far as that 60-zero stopping distance goes, it's going to come in at 123 feet, which is perfectly fine. That's a pretty average number for the segment. As far as braking feel goes, since there's nobody behind us, it's great. Honestly, I love it. It's definitely on the firmer side of things. So the braking feel feels perfect on the CR-V. I will say that a lot of SUVs will give you looser, kind of braking feels where you have to press down on the pedal a little bit harder to get it to stop, but it's not the case. I love the braking feel here in the CR-V. As far as touching on suspension and handling upfront, you're going to get a McPherson strut front suspension in the back, multi-lig double wishbone type rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars. As far as ride quality goes, it's been great. It's been perfectly fine. I'm on short test drive here today, so I definitely am not having any issues with the ride quality, believe it or not. Steering feel is brilliant.  I absolutely love this steering feel on the Honda CR-V. It's weighted on the heavier side of things, instantly points you in the direction that you want to go. And the reason I'm emphasizing this so much is because a lot of times in SUVs, you find looser steering feels with not a whole lot of emotion, but Honda's kind of MO is really to be a driver's car, kind of like Mazda, I guess. I kind of put them in the same category and that's definitely the case here in the CR-V.  Like I said, heavier side of things, 100% on point, but then touching on cabin noise, I am going 36 miles per hour right now and so far, it's honestly, it's been perfectly fine. So definitely no issues there for me. Then touching on visibility, 100% on point, yet again, the rear headrests don't take up all that much room and I can see perfectly fine out that back window. So no issues there. And rain sensing windshield wipers are going to come on the sport touring hybrid trim level. So that's essentially going to assist with four visibility whenever the CR-V detects kind of mist or rainfall. It's going to automatically turn on those windshield wipers for you. So it's a big old convenience feature, kind of like automatic headlights. So that's a big win there as well, but that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Honda CR-V. All right, here she is you guys, the new 2023 Honda CR-V finished in lunar silver metallic. In case you were curious, it looks pretty dang good this morning actually. Very nice morning here in Pennsylvania, but again, completely new look for 2023 CR-V. Definitely looks very much better than the previous generation. Not that that was a bad looking generation, but this looks just amazing. Very more masculine, I guess you could say. So anyways, first thing I want to mention before we get started up front here is the VIN does start with the two, meaning this one is built in Canada. Always like to mention that for you guys now, but let's go ahead and start up front. Unique front fascia for the sport hybrid trim level. So it's going to look a little bit different than the current look that you guys are looking at right now. So I wanted to mention that a little more aggressive. I'll put it that way. LED headlights to the sides do come standard for every single trim level across the board. So you got to love that added illumination at night. At least comparatively speaking to the good old halogens. LED D810 running lights also coming standard. You do get the automatic feature, meaning when it starts to get dark at night, headlights will turn on automatically for you there, but you also get automatic high beams for every single trim level across the board. Meaning if you have your high beams on at night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim them back to low beams. When that vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically bounce it back up to high beams then. Another thing I just noticed, it has dark housings around the headlights. A lot of times you'll find clear housings. So I do like the dark housing look because we do have a lot of black accents around this thing, including just matte black on the front lip there. So do you like the look of that? And you do have active grille shutters up front as well. So they're going to open and close dependent upon the engine cooling that is needed at any given time. And you do have some front air curtains down to the corners there, helping direct air around the wheel and tire combination. So again, completely new look up front. I am personally a big fan of it. So let me know what you guys think in the comments section below, but that pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. So now go ahead and make our way to the side. All right, so starting up top here, gloss black roof rails will come standard on the sport trim. So therefore we do not have those with us here today, but chrome windows surrounds will also come standard. Take a look at the side mirrors then. Body color power adjustable side mirrors do come standard unless you go with the sport hybrid trims, then you're actually going to get gloss black finish to those side mirrors. So I do want to emphasize that heated side mirrors do come standard as well with LED integrated third signals then as well. So that's pretty cool. Then take a look down to the wheel setup, 18 inch silver painted alloys for the EX trims. That's what you guys of course are looking at right now. 18 inch gloss black alloys then for the sport hybrid and then 19 inch gloss black alloys for the sport touring hybrid. So pretty big differentiation there amongst the trim levels when it comes to the wheel setup. And you got the map black fender surrounds and side skirts as well, but again that pretty much rounds out the side profile here. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back of the CR-V. All right, so now since you are around to the back of this one, all the way to the top, you will find a body colored shark fin antenna. Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. Just below that rear window wiper got some redesigned tail lights that look dang good. I love the new look to them. The kind of Volvo-esque kind of actually, now that they think about it, kind of like a Volvo XC90 or something. But LED tail lights of course, so added illumination at night there. Then just below it all, you will find dual exhaust outlets across the board. You will get chrome tips available for the sport trim levels. However, of course, we just have the EXL with us here today. So they are simply tucked away, but nonetheless, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next is always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since you are around to the back of the CR-V, when it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is a power tailgate for the EXL trim level that we have today. Then if you were to go with that sport touring, it actually is a hands-free power tailgate. So there's a couple of different ways to go ahead and open it. There is a button on the key fob itself. There's a button on the tailgate itself. You simply just press that rubberized button. It's gonna automatically open up for you. Then there's actually a button to close it as well. And there's a button by the driver's side left knee and the driver's seat as well. But cool thing is, this tailgate is very, very adjustable. One of the higher opening tailgates, and I emphasize that because I'm six feet tall, and a lot of times I'll hit my head kind of, or I have to bend down to kind of get out of there, but this one opens up a good bit. So I absolutely love that. But for taller adults putting stuff in the cargo area, that's a big win. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 39.3 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there's a 60-40 split, and then the rear seats do fold down, bumping that up to 76.5 cubic feet. That is very impressive for this class. I just want to mention that cargo lighting can be found back there, but it's LED cargo lighting. It's not your typical halogen bulbs that you usually will find on the competition. Again, big fan of that as well. Tie-down acres back there. There's grocery bag hooks. There's actually a 12-volt power outlet. I found back there as well, which you don't always find in SUVs. So I like that.  So I do like that. And there is some storage kind of around that you could probably put an ice scraper underneath there as well. But then making our way up to the rear legroom, that is going to come in in an extremely impressive 41 inches even. That's a ton of space, you guys, for the class. For reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. Typically you get around 39 inches for the class. I'll put it that way. Rear center armrest with cup holders does come standard. I like that. Rear USB charging ports for the sport hybrid trim level. So therefore we don't have them today, unfortunately. There is rear ventilation, though, that does come standard back there. So I do like that. And honestly, one thing I think it was missing was would it be nice to see some rear window sunshades back there? I'm just saying. Anyways, then make our way up to the front seats. 10-way power adjustable front seats with two-way power lumbar. This is one of the first things I noticed as well. Extremely comfortable seating in this thing. Yes, it has horizontal seams and vertical seams would have been better. But still, very adjustable power lumbar. Extremely adjustable power lumbar. And quite honestly, between the steering wheel and the seats, it was incredible comfort. When it comes to the seat comfort. So anyways, I'm gonna continue here. Heated front seats do come standard on all trim levels. Cloth seating for the EX and sport hybrid. Leather seating for the EXL and sport touring hybrid trims. Power adjustable passenger seat for the EXL and sport touring again. Memory settings again. For the EXL and sport touring for up to two different drivers found here on the driver's side door. So then take a look at the steering wheel. It is tilt and telescoping. It is leather wrapped on all trim levels. But the EX, wanted to emphasize that. And it will be heated on that sport touring trim level as well. The 10 and two grips are bolstered on the thicker side of things. Another reason I was a big fan of this steering wheel here. But now let's go ahead and make our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. You got your nice Honda logo on the one side. Then when you flip it over, lock, unlock the button to pop the rear tailgate and that circular button that's gonna be a remote start which by the way comes standard on every single trim level across the board. So when it's a super cool day here in Pennsylvania, you simply just press that and it's gonna automatically turn it on for you and warm up the vehicle before you get actually inside of it. So I'm a huge fan of that. And it is keyless actually with the push button start for all trim levels across the board. So in this case, all I'm going to do simply just put my front of the brake and press that black and red engine start button located just to the left of the air vents there. So once started up, gauges look good. Yet again, seven-inch digital gauge cluster kind of found on the left side of things, kind of an analog setup to the right, but it looks dang good. And when you change up your driving mode, it does a cool little kind of illustration of the drive mode that you switch it to. So it was a big fit of that as well. But tachometer is on your left and it pretty much has everything you could possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges. It gives you your outside temperature, how many miles you have left until you hit empty and all of that can be controlled by simply using the steering wheel mounted controls then. So no issues there. But then taking a look at overall interior quality, a power moon roof actually comes standard on every single trim level across the board. That surprised me. Usually don't find that on the bottom trim. So big fan of that.  It's a bit of driver and passenger can set their own temperatures there. One thing about the dual-zone climate control and the climate control buttons in general, it's kind of LED backlit. I think that's such a cool little thing that got going on there. So it's kind of like Mercedes-Benz puts ambient lighting around their climate control vents. Honda apparently is putting LED backlit lighting around their climate control buttons. So usually you don't find that. I'm a big fan of that. Autodiming rear-framed mirror for the EXL and touring trim levels, wireless phone charger for the EXL and touring trim levels as well. And that's gonna be located just in front of the shifter here. But in addition to that, you do have a USB charging port, regular phone charging port, 12-volt power outlet. Do have an electromechanical parking brake just to the left of the shifter. You do have dual cup holders just behind that. And within the center armrest, actually a decent amount of storage in there. Well done, Honda. So I do like the kind of texturized finishes that are found just below the air vents here up front and also found on all of the doors. I was a big fan of that. I'm always a fan of texturized finishes. So I'm a big fan of that. Also the door handles. I like the design to the door handles. I know it's small, but it looks kind of like Lexus's Samurai Sword door handles that they put in their vehicle. So I'm a big fan of that as well. Maybe it's because Honda is a Japanese company and they designed it that way. I don't know, but. Do you have an overhead sunglass holder that's going to come for all trim levels as well? And overall, I mean, it's kind of on the basics. You do have some matte black plastic surrounding the shifter. Also surrounding the window buttons on the doors. But honestly, it's perfectly fine for me. It gets the job done. But now let's go ahead and take a look at the infotainment screen because there's going to be a couple of them. Seven inch color touchscreen display coming with the EX and the Sport Hybrid trims. But you will get a nine inch color touchscreen display for the EXL and the Touring. Either way, you get Bluetooth and audio streaming, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. You will get factory navigation system for that touring trim level. Of course, Honda has your cool little clock option where you can display a clock. I always like the looks of their clocks. They look kind of funky. But also you can check out your radio information, of course. And when it comes to the sound systems, there's several of them. Six speakers and 240 watts is going to come with the EX and Sport Hybrid. Then you're going to get an eight speaker sound system with 320 watts for the EXL that we have today. And then a 12 speaker Bose sound system for that sport touring. So having said that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio, see what we got playing this morning, and let's test out the clarity of this one. All of these world of feelings in my mind. That's 100% perfectly fine for me. There's a ton of bass with that eight speaker sound system we have in the EXL here. So I would say for the EXL and the sport touring, you're definitely going to be perfectly fine. I don't know how the other sound system is going to sound, but plenty of clarity, again, ton of bass for that eight speaker sound system that we have with us here today. But last thing I want to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the CR-V in reverse, you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board with a few different views as well. So that's kind of cool, but not the most high definition rear view camera I've ever seen, but it'll definitely get the job done. And as always that is going to lead us into safety. So to start, let me first start by mentioning the 2022 CR-V is an IHS top safety pick. It hasn't been rated by IHS quite yet for 2023, but typically the way it works is vehicles either get better or they stay the same. So I wouldn't imagine it would no longer be an IHS top safety pick. So I'll just put it that way. Front side, side curtain airbags do come standard, driver and passenger knee airbags as well.  A lot of times that's a feature you find on upper trim levels of other manufacturers, but it comes standard across the board here in the CR-V. So I'm a big fan of that. And if you were to go with the EXL or Sport Touring, you're also going to get front and rear parking sensors as well. So that's pretty cool. So overall, when it comes to my final thoughts here of the CR-V, I do love the redesign. I think this thing looks dang good, not that it didn't look good before, but it really looks good now. Both sound system availability is going to be incredible, but the sound system in the EXL, it's plenty fine for me as well. So honestly, it's a really good sound system here. Tons of space for its class, 76 point, whatever cubic feet is a good bit of space for its particular class. And that's something Hanna has always kind of beat the competition with is the cargo space for the segment. So big fan of that. I will say great MPGs on the hybrid as well. And steering feel, 100% on point here in the CR-V. So big fan of the steering feel of this thing. Really the only constructive criticism that I personally would think of that would be going through my mind and there really isn't constructive criticism as much as it is just the unknown, which is the reliability. There's no longer a naturally aspirated engine option for the CR-V. You either have the hybrid configuration with two electric motors or you have the turbocharged four cylinder that we have today. Both of which traditionally are not as reliable as a traditional naturally aspirated four cylinder. I know why Honda did it because they're looking for better fuel economy. I get that. But at the same time, Honda and Toyota traditionally for me has been known for reliability and it makes me wonder what the reliability of the new CR-V is going to be. I guess time will tell. Let me know what you guys think of the CR-V in the comments section below and that is about it for this one. You guys, thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before I get to YouTube. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews. That is what we do here on this channel after all. Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.


We are delighted to be able to welcome visitors back to Addistan and we've missed you. Those who know us well may be surprised to find our gardens are a little different at the moment. A tiny team of gardeners have been keeping things going during the last couple of months, so we are without our usual colourful bedding displays on the parter and at the Avery. We are making a virtue out of necessity and trying different approaches to our gardening this year. We have left the spring wall flowers and tulips in place. But by cutting back, mulching and sowing green manure, we are improving and supporting the soil. There is still lots to see, those with sharp eyes we will find some surprises here in the long grass where we have been cultivating new wild flower areas, look out for pyramidal bee and spotted orchids among the oxide daisies, and our Avery Eu, which is Europe's smallest licensed zoo, is open again and full of exotic Edwardian inhabitants. Mae'n gweithio cyfrasieddwyd yn ymddangos i'r ystafell ar y dyfodol o'r hynod, felly mae'n gweithio cyfrasieddwyd, ychydig i'r cyfrasieddwyd i'r cyfrasieddwyd, a nhw'n rhan i'n gyflwyfydd ymlaenwyr ar y cyflwyfydd. Rwy'n gallu'n fath o'r cyfrasieddwyd, ym mwylo'r cyfrasieddwyd, o'r ffawr ar y cwrdd ac yn y llanol. Mae ddim yn dod i'ch bod ein bod yn cyfrasieddwyd, oedden nhw'n holl o gweithi, lleol, oedden nhw, We're not yet allowed to open the Woodland playground, the house, the wine cellars, our restaurants, or the roses exhibition by Nick Knight in the Stables. But we do hope that these restrictions will soon be relaxed, so please do check our website before you book.


Speech perception begins with a highly complex, continuously varying acoustic signal and ends with a representation of the phonological features and segments encoded in that signal. This e-lecture discusses the main principles according to which the acoustic input is converted into such a code. In particular, we will discuss three central questions. Does the input signal contain specific perceptual or acoustic cues? What are the perceptual or linguistic units of speech perception and how can we model the process of speech perception? The speech signal presents us with far more information than we need in order to recognize what is being said. Still, our auditory system is able to focus our attention on just the relevant auditory features of the speech signal. Features that have come to be known as perceptual or acoustic cues. Now the importance of these small auditory events has led to the assumption that speech perception is by and large not a continuous process but rather a phenomenon that can be described as discontinuous or categorical. So the entire process can be characterized as categorical perception. In other words, these cues are not perceived along a continuum but as fixed categories. Let us exemplify such categories. The first one is called voice onset time. Now voice onset time or in short VOT is the point when vocal fold vibration starts relative to the release of closure. It is crucial for us to discriminate between clusters such as bar and par. And it is a well established fact that a gradual delay of voice onset time does not lead to a differentiation between the voiceless and voiced consonants. Let us illustrate this. Now if voice onset time is long let's say 250 milliseconds what do we perceive? Bar. Clearly the voiced variant bar. Now if by contrast we make it extremely short let's say 10 milliseconds we perceive? Bar. Again? Bar. Okay so 10 milliseconds and the result is par. What about 50 milliseconds? Bar. Bar. It is still the voiced variant and 20 milliseconds? Bar. Bar. It is the voiceless one. Now quite interestingly if we generate a voice onset time value of 30 milliseconds then we have trouble to identify what we hear. Bar. Bar. In other words if VOT is longer than 30 milliseconds we hear bar. If it is shorter the perceptual result is par. So the voiced onset time value of 30 milliseconds serves as a key factor as some sort of acoustic queue. Here is another acoustic queue. Formant 2 or in short F2 transition. Now the formant pattern of vowels in isolation differs enormously from that of vowels embedded in a consonantal context. If a consonant precedes a vowel then the second formant F2 seems to emerge from a particular point. The point is very high for kar. It is intermediate for t and it is very low for par. Now this frequency region from where F2 emerges is referred to as F2 locus. And it may be assumed that a gradual change from high to low may result in a gradual change from kar to par if we generate the consonant in a vocalic context. Let's listen. Now here is a high locus. Bar. Clearly the result, the result is kar. Now if we contrast this with a very low one. Bar. The result is par. And in the middle. Bar. We clearly hear tar. But what about these intermediate values? Bar. Bar. So if it is higher than the locus for t but lower than the locus for k we cannot identify the respective consonant. Thus it seems that speech perception is sensitive to the locus of F2 and that the transition of F2 from the locus to the vowel is an important cue in the perception of speech. Now another cue that we rely on in the perception of speech are frequency patterns. Now the frequency of certain parts of the sound wave helps to identify a large number of speech sounds. Frickatives for example. Bar. Involve a partial closure which produces a turbulence in the airflow and results in a noisy, a very noisy sound with spreading over a broad frequency range. Now this friction noise. And again. Bar. This friction noise is relatively unaffected by the context in which the fricative occurs and may thus serve as a nearly invariant cue for its identification. Having discussed the three central acoustic or perceptual cues, voice on set time, F2 transition, the locus of F2 and frequency patterns. Let us now see whether there is a central unit on the basis of which we segment the incoming signal. Studies into language acquisition, especially into infant speech processing, suggest that the fundamental unit of speech perception corresponds roughly to the syllable. The central argument is the unavailability of obvious cues that facilitate the segmentation process. Despite the absence of such cues, children are capable of acquiring their lexicon even though they have little or no information about the phonological properties of the words. Hence they must process some sort of information, perhaps innate about the properties that distinguish one word from another. This information seems to be based on the syllable. Well, the syllable, as you know, consists of an onset, a peak and a coda. This is the standard notation. Here is an abbreviated notation. And here are some examples. A very simple syllable. Man. Man consists of the onset, a bilabial nasal, a vowel in the peak, and the coda is another nasal consonant. If we take strength. Strength. We have three consonants in the onset. One vowel in the peak and two consonants in the coda. So this is the syllable. Now how can all these findings be modeled? Well, there are several theoretical approaches. They are subsumed under the heading of speech perception theories. All these theories have in common that first of all they agree that the ear amplifies the incoming signal and transmits it to the auditory nerve, where a primary auditory analysis takes place. That is filtering out of non-speech aspects and so on. Then an auditory pattern is being generated. Form and patterns, etc. Using some sort of mental recognition device. And it is this device here. This device where the theories make different claims. By the way, the output of all these theories is in any case, in all cases, some sort of phonological form. So here, either in terms of phonemes, we might argue, or in terms of features, that contains the relevant information. We forgot an arrow here. Let us now compare the different types of theories. There are essentially two types of theories, active and passive theories. Let's start with active theories. Active theories assume that the process of speech perception involves some sort of internal speech production. That is, the listener applies his articulatory knowledge when he analyses the incoming signal. In other words, the listener acts not only when he produces speech, but also when he receives it. Two influential active theories have emerged. Here on the left, you see the motor theory of speech perception. According to the motor theory, reference to your own articulatory knowledge, down here, is manifested via a direct comparison with articulatory pattern. According to the motor theory, reference to one's own articulatory knowledge is manifested via a direct comparison with one's own articulatory pattern. An alternative is the analysis by synthesis theory. Now, this theory postulates that the reference to our own articulation is established via newly generated auditory patterns. Now, active theories can be contrasted with passive theories. The passive group of theories of speech perception emphasize the sensory side of the perceptual process and relegate the process of speech production to a minor role. They postulate the use of stored neural patterns which may even be innate. Here are two influential passive theories. Here to the left, you find the theory of template matching. Templates are innate recognition devices that are rudimentary at birth and are tuned as language is acquired. Now, the alternative is the feature detector theory where feature detectors are specialized neural receptors necessary for the generation of auditory patterns. Let us summarize our observations. There is evidence that the analysis of the spoken input signal is by a large sensory and that a system of sub-segmental feature detectors is central to any theory of perception. These feature detectors cope with specific acoustic cues in the signal. In our e-lecture pre-lexical processing part 2, we will compare the analysis of the speech signal with the analysis of written input and provide a unified model. So, stay tuned.


To Allah is your return, and He is most capable of everything. Alright guys, welcome back to the channel if your new man was Bobby. Alright guys, interesting video today we gonna check out Andrew Tate's interview on the Pierce Morgan Uncensored show in Romania. Of course we are not concerned with the whole video here, we simply gonna watch the part where Andrew Tate speaks about Islam. Guys before we jump into the video, as always if you enjoy my content leave me a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and of course check out the links in the description box to further support Bobby's perspective. And now with no further ado, let's have a look. I'm only asking if you think it's moral. Do I think it's moral?  Well I wasn't religious back then, but let me sit and ask. Because now you converted to Islam, you're a Muslim, they have a code of behaviour, do you think that fell short of that? I have to answer as a professional, and as a professional I would say judging by my current code, no I do not think that women being naked on the internet is moral. However, there is- So you made money immorally, you can admit that. It's nuanced like all things, Pierce. At the time I was atheistic, I know that some of my girls talked men away from suicide, a lot of men are ridiculously lonely. I would also say a lot of the lessons I know about men and how they think and how lonely and sad they can be and how difficult life is as a man actually came from that era because I saw a lot of very successful men with a wife and with kids and with money pouring their heart out to some 20 year old they never met about how sad they were. I learned a lot about the world and I know that a lot of suicide was prevented and I made a lot of women millionaires, but would I do it now? No. However, I'm in a very different situation now, I'm a different person, I'm religious, I'm also extremely financially successful. Please understand Pierce, I come from Marsh Farm, Luton. I came from one of the worst areas inside of the UK. I could have stabbed someone, every one of my friends were breaking into cars, breaking into houses, most of my friends were in jail, what did I do? I promoted accounts on the internet. You made money. I didn't sell crack, didn't sell drugs, didn't rob anyone, didn't shoot anyone and now, because I am successful, I'm going to be held to this moral standard by people who grew up in fancy homes with white picket fences and went to private schools. I am from Marsh Farm, Luton and the biggest crime I committed was completely legally promoting internet profiles. There are people around me who did far worse for far less. No, no, you're only going to be held to the standard of the religion you converted to, which you've already said. When you take the Shahada Hall, our former fins are already… Which you've already said would look at that as immoral. When you take the Shahada, all of your former sins are erased and I actually encourage you to find the light and convert to Islam. Adjute, thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Alright, the clip cuts off there. I wish it would have continued. However, this is only part one, so I'm sure tomorrow or the day after we're going to see part two uploaded on the P.S. Morgan channel as well. That being said, it is great to see that Andrew Tate is distancing himself from his former webcam business and that he says that nowadays as a Muslim he wouldn't do it. However, when he gets pressed by P.S. Morgan and P.S. Morgan essentially wants him to admit, but it is immoral what you have done, isn't it? It is, of course, hypocritical coming from a P.S. Morgan, but you have to understand that the way Andrew Tate conducted himself was the right way to go hands down. Because he cannot sit there and give those liberals any talking ground. He cannot give them any points so to speak. He cannot admit defeat if you will. Andrew Tate understands. He wouldn't do this as a Muslim and hence it is immoral. If it is haram, if Allah said it is haram, it is haram. There's nothing to talk about. However, he did it correct here because he doesn't have to justify himself in front of P.S. Morgan. As P.S. Morgan is not a saint himself, so why would now Andrew Tate sit there and say, you know, what's P.S.? Actually, yes, it was immoral. I regret it, etc., etc. No, you don't give those liberals any talking ground whatsoever.  Of course, they like to appear as objective, non-biased, but it is, of course, bunk. They want to expose you one way or another and therefore you cannot show weakness. Well, I am actually genuinely concerned by the fact that I've been banned from schools when I do nothing but preach masculine strength and excellence. But then if you actually understand how the society is going and how the world works and all the insanity they're trying to push and all of us, I can understand why they banned me because I speak the truth. That is something that we have to understand here. Andrew Tate acted correctly. He doesn't have to confess his sins in front of the High Council of P.S. Morgan over here. He doesn't owe anybody anything. For us as Muslims, it is beautiful to see that he admits, of course, those things are not something that you should do as a Muslim. And moreover, in the end, he invites P.S. Morgan to Islam. When you take the shahada, all of your former sins are erased. And I actually encourage you to find the light and convert to Islam. This is in accordance with Islam. This is in accordance with the sunnah. This is following the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Alright guys, and this is it for today's video. If you enjoyed it, leave it a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. And check out the links in the description box below to further support my work. And as always may God bless you all. Much love and peace. However, the Prophet still instructed his wife to leave the room, showcasing the modesty that Islam upholds. I look around the world and I see that our ummah is finding it hard to even just lower their gaze for the opposite gender. Which is quite embarrassing when the Prophet Muhammad set the modesty standard for our ummah to follow. Us humans have two choices when dealing with problems. Option one, sit around and complain about the problem. Or option two, solve the problem with a solution. You may be wondering how do we solve this problem? The answer is education. Think about it this way. If you are unaware that the current habits you are doing are harmful, how can you change those habits? However, if you are constantly in contact with people who are informing you on the dangers of set habits, you then have the chance to change. That's why at Dawagram we are here to educate, inform and connect our ummah on the world's first Halal social media platform.