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Ode to Spot
2016-11-16 Felix Catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature. Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predelection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents: You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance; And when not being utilitized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend. -- Lt. Cmdr. Data, "An Ode to Spot"
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"Human collective behavior can vary from calm to panicked depending on social context. Using videos publicly available online, we study the highly energized collective motion of attendees at heavy metal concerts. We find these extreme social gatherings generate similarly extreme behaviors: a disordered gas-like state called a mosh pit and an ordered vortex-like state called a circle pit. Both phenomena are reproduced in flocking simulations demonstrating that human collective behavior is consistent with the predictions of simplified models."
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This document describes the current state of packaging in Python using Distribution Utilities (“Distutils”) and its extensions from the end-user’s point-of-view, describing how to extend the capabilities of a standard Python installation by building packages and installing third-party packages, modules and extensions.
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TesseracT - ALTERED STATE TOUR VIDEO
2014-04-13 Footage taken between 9th September 2013 where the Altered State tour started in Kiev, up to 8th March 2014 in Norway.
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Deep Exposures
2013-07-30 Since 1995, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Stephen Alvarez has exposed some of the world’s least explored places for National Geographic, from an ancient Incan tomb in Peru, to the world’s deepest cave, near the Black Sea. Here, the intrepid photographer pushes more than a mile underground to shoot the “Rumble Room” in Tennessee, the largest cave room in the Eastern United States.