But in this case, mimicry would be a good thing.
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The idea is to accelerate something called the mimicry effect.
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This mimicry then altered signaling inside of the sperm cells.
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Sawyers is uncannily good as Obama while avoiding plain mimicry.
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Again, the mimicry doesn't add up to a thematic statement.
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The animal mimicry champion has got to be the lyrebird.
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There are so many other paths to explore beyond mere mimicry.
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Mimicry and manipulation of real life have always been part of art.
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AI are just two companies making voice mimicry accessible to non-techies.
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In the presence of the real thing their mimicry is made mockery.
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His ear is often astonishing, his gift for mimicry almost without equal.
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Not surprisingly, the grown-up Mr. Spector has a knack for mimicry.
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But I mean, you know -- you know what&aposs true, though, is mimicry.
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Bianca Bosker is the author of Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China.
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But mimicry might be the key to its survival, even without the fangs.
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The researchers observed the mimicry while the bears were playing with each other.
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Mr. Trump maintained that his mimicry was not directed at the reporter's disability.
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But his best attempt at mimicry could not produce the same winning results.
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Mimicry of a dangerous animal by a harmless one is a well known phenomenon.
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Rather, they operate mostly by mime and mimicry of obviously racist and classist rhetoric.
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I f the chameleon is the definition of mimicry, the octopus is its embodiment.
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Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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The real source of robot anxiety isn't the android's uncanny mimicry of human movement.
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"It's extremely rare to find mimicry of other species in wild parrots," he said.
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When it happens automatically, in less than one second, it's called rapid facial mimicry.
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When Mr. Mendes works with very established songwriters, he's even more susceptible to mimicry.
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Their mimicry of the beef burger includes making their patties "bleed" like beef burgers.
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A Baltimore native, Judge Jackson writes music, sings, dances and is gifted at mimicry.
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When Knight first saw the anchor, he thought it was an impressive piece of mimicry.
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The markings in Schwarz's work, while invoking the spirit of graffiti, never venture into mimicry.
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Yet she was also clever, with a knack for words and a gift for mimicry.
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In short, China is closed, its firms are cosseted and their talent is for mimicry.
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Nowadays, the audience squirmed in their seats, not out of repulsion, but out of mimicry.
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She gives little glimmers of impersonation, especially when she sings, but mostly avoids distracting mimicry.
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" He stopped and continued, in a mocking mimicry of an English accent, "Fantastically desirable bottoms.
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"Rapid facial mimicry occurred much more during gentle play compared to rough play," Taylor says.
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Her singing evokes the cotton candy purr of Ms. Ross's, without being mere vocal mimicry.
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In the book, Picardi looks at "patterns of mimicry in urban regeneration projects" across Europe.
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But Parker's New Yorker article suggests that Mallory's skill at mimicry wasn't confined to fiction.
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Like the strongest paintings in this heartfelt exhibition, Shear isn't interested in parody or mimicry.
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Einstein and Einstein are two different African grey parrots, both known for their impressive mimicry skills.
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It isn't mimicry, which leads nowhere, but a curious sort of imaginary impersonation, which leads everywhere.
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I found myself paying more attention to the mimicry that was there for both of them.
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The team witnessed hundreds of playful bouts between the bears that involved roughhousing and facial mimicry.
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That last bit is more due to quick thinking than an initial attempt at human mimicry, though.
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Mallet's butterflies, too, reflect evidence of adaptive hybridization, particularly with traits involved in mimicry and predator avoidance.
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In the clip, dogfluencer Doug, he of Justin Bieber mimicry, takes on Netflix smash hit Stranger Things.
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But I just think there's nothing subversive about just straight-up mimicry, you know what I mean?
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Courtney Stodden is hardly the first Hollywood woman to idolize Marilyn Monroe to the point of mimicry.
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This iteration of Deep Voice marks yet another development in AI-generated voice mimicry in recent years.
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This includes most crucially her singing, which evokes Ms. King's distinctively throaty, ever-yearning voice without mimicry.
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For by the 1980s, his documentation or his corporate mimicry had given way to some ghastly installations.
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That drags us away from practical concerns about political mimicry and into more moral and ethical ones.
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We will, however, always be afraid of Sarah Gadon's chilling, wonderful mimicry of co-star Rebecca Liddiard.
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He is emphatic that he is not advocating psychopathy or any sort of mimicry of the disorder.
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Other than people, facial mimicry has been observed in gorillas, orangutans, two monkey species and domesticated dogs.
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" Coleman adapted the sonnet to the jazz methods of, as she put it, "progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc.
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However, mimicry and probabilistic reasoning are, at best, only part of the mystery of intelligence and consciousness.
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Mr. Giaiotti's gift for mimicry helped him early in his career because he could imitate other singers.
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She insisted in interviews that this wasn't an affectation, but the result of her penchant for mimicry.
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The dog's little eyes would close and its mouth loll open in a clear mimicry of canine pleasure.
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These are the neurons that can fuel mimicry, imitation, and sometimes empathy when you see another person's actions.
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They were human in size and shape; skeletons and organs carried the mimicry down to a biochemical level.
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Toxic masculinity is an unsuccessful attempt to mimic BDE, and then furious resentment when that mimicry becomes impossible.
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You can use deepfake tech for mimicry, but we haven't yet seen it used for creating original characters.
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"It's the Indian Ocean, stupid," quips one seasoned commentator in mimicry of Indian diplomats on its power projection.
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Usually, aggressive mimicry has the predator pretend to be someone else's prey, fooling victims into becoming their meals.
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While on their surface they show mimicry of illness, the Bedside Manner images are also studies in empathy.
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She understood that, to establish your place in the museum, invention will carry you much further than mimicry.
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Their friends and neighbors are collapsing all around them—in mimicry of the collapsing roads of Vedders Hill.
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"[The magpie] does a fair amount of mimicry, although not as much as the lyrebirds," Kaufman told Mashable.
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A handful even use mimicry to feast on the scales and skin of larger fish without being eaten.
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The first step is gaining a better understanding of how people use mimicry and gesture to communicate different sounds.
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Just imagine trying to survive on a diet of substandard meat mimicry and not having fun at dinner parties.
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Their whirl-generating chamber had, at its base, a pool of the stuff, in mimicry of such a spill.
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Marsh said that when scientists started to look at much bigger brain networks, they found something more than mimicry.
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But what it lacked in outrage, it supplied in mimicry of the man who will now decide Acosta's fate.
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The music had neither the ecstatic attentiveness of Messiaen's bird transcriptions nor the elegant mimicry of Beethoven or Mahler.
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I think of it as any mimicry, manipulation, or synthesis of video or audio that is enabled by machine learning.
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While June admired Holly, she could never become her – and that's apparently what Holly demanded from her daughter: complete mimicry.
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Glacial's mimicry of nature combines these goals to create a beautiful piece which additionally serves to educate about global warming.
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Until now, only gorillas had been observed showing a degree of precision comparable to the complex facial mimicry of people.
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A.P.: There are several works in the MoMA retrospective that deploy the device of mimicry, of echoing back familiar rationalizations.
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That album embodies his unique gift of blending all genres to then build something new, transcending mimicry to reach mastery.
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Surprise inbound: The Treasonous Mimicry is a brand new Escalation for HITMAN 2 set in the sunny city of Miami.
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The game's mimicry makes it easy to care about the astronaut as if he were anyone else on your contacts list.
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This fall's multiplex offerings plumb the final frontier of digital mimicry with extensive digital performances spanning the length of a feature.
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That mimicry hasn't gotten the company very far, however, with Amazon far outpacing it in every facet of the digital game.
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What other first-person shooter lets you evade obstacles by turning into an ambulatory coffee cup, using the game's mimicry power?
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Think back to how you learned the correct tenses or conjugation in English — it was through mimicry, repetition, and practice, right?
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Apparently, Grande has been keeping her Jennifer Lawrence impression as a secret weapon in her arsenal of award-worthy celeb mimicry.
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Accompanied by militaristic dancers choreographed by Mistaya Hemingway, Glass used motion mimicry and clever body-work to command the audience's attention.
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"People these days are constantly rearranging their facial appearance in ways that prevent engaging in facial mimicry, having no idea how much we use our faces to coordinate and manage social interactions," said Paula Niedenthal, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has published several studies on facial mimicry and its emotional and social importance.
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Birds have evolved an extraordinary range of vocalizations, from the mimicry skills of the lyrebird to the iconic call of the hawk.
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This mimicry is not an endorsement of that person or that person's politics, and happens without anyone ever quite agreeing to it.
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He has routinely used disability in particular as a rhetorical weapon, with both physical mimicry and words like "retard" permeating his actions.
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This is how Charlie Warzel, formerly of BuzzFeed News, tricked his own mother into falling for an AI mimicry of his voice.
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She started young The actress told the Daily Dot that she was young when she realized she had the gift of mimicry.
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So Abbi dons hoop earrings and a crop top, and performs a terrible but sincere public mimicry of Ilana's most outrageous traits.
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Today's episode of The Ellen Show proves that she not only has some major pipes — she's got comedic and mimicry skills, too.
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Often mimicry like this is trapped in my memory in an endless loop, and in this way my Tourette's becomes their Tourette's.
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Rather, they acted as emotional conduits, channelling, through vocal and physical mimicry, familiar types: your auntie, your cousin, the neighborhood storefront preacher.
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The blurrier the boundary between real life and narrative, the more fraught mimicry becomes, even if done with the best of intentions.
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In the 1950s, '60s and '70s, with his first wife, Jane Van Zandt Brower, he studied adaptive coloration and mimicry in nature.
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Rather than being a form of flattery, the mimicry of the female pseudopenis may actually be a way to outcompete the male penis.
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Learn from your elders Though trends toward vintage clothing and silver hair might imply otherwise, respect and mimicry aren't one in the same.
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Generally, humans are thought to have a monopoly on higher cognitive states like empathy, but rapid facial mimicry can occur in other animals.
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It would be a devastating, self-inflicted wound for the Democrats to settle for even benevolent mimicry of Mr. Trump's hallucinatory circus act.
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Imitating the notes she sang — as some of her admirers did onstage — is just technical mimicry, far from her true lesson of creativity.
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Since then, the mimicry has gotten even more blatant, with Facebook's addition of "stories" to Facebook Messenger and its other products besides Instagram.
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Leidy Churchman's response to the existential threat of the internet looks like the protective mimicry that a lot of contemporary painters have adopted.
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It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
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Male cuttlefish take female mimicry and sneaking one step further by actually changing the color and texture of their skin to alter their appearance.
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It's not hard to imagine that the next deepfakes content craze will be driven by automated lip-syncing, dance mimicry, or celebrity voice impressions.
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An artificial organism with internal organs working in concert to create a convincing mimicry of human life is leagues beyond where we are now.
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Breaded and fried, they crumbled very much like their crustacean counterpart, and a dollop of horseradish made the mimicry an edible masterpiece and mindbender.
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Their pantomime mimicry is precise; Claire dons a wig and the appropriate mannerisms while flouncing around the stage in a voluptuous Alexander McQueen gown.
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In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Taylor and his colleagues observed rapid facial mimicry in a group of bears in the wild.
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Therefore, it could be that rapid facial mimicry signals a readiness to transition into rougher play and thereby functions to regulate playful social interactions.
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Known for her spot-on impressions – most notably one of the Canadian chanteuse – Grande revealed Dion told her she "peed" when she witnessed the mimicry.
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It's a form of Batesian mimicry, when a harmless species mimics the appearance and behavior of a venomous one to confuse predators and protect themselves.
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Still, she questioned whether the team had unambiguously demonstrated exact facial mimicry, or whether these are just the facial expressions the bears make during play.
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I don't know the answer; I only hope that Mr. Feldman's success comes not from familiarity with deep unhappiness but from empathy, observation and mimicry.
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Uber, which was already facing an investigation for creating a fake version of its own app, discovered the dangers of mimicry yet again last week.
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The company, owned by Facebook, said 150 million accounts a day were now using Instagram Stories, which made waves for its mimicry of Snapchat Stories.
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In 1962, Jalal Al-e Ahmad published his seminal book, Gharbzadegi [Westoxification] decrying cultural mimicry of the West that was eroding Iranians' own cultural character.
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To be given the same bed and warm hand upon the head lends moment to mimicry, a way to sit and do nothing at all.
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"It's the mimicry approach to creativity, which isn't a bad place to start because humans also learn to be creative by mimicking at first," Riedl said.
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Both opening sets contained a lot of mimicry of different types of Asian identities with the joke being that they're all basically indistinguishable from one another.
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As a nice backhand reference to the type of riches you'll likely make once you enter the magical world of mimicry, Mime Academy is apparently free.
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To enhance the blurry quality of the warplanes, he painted dots on the bounding pictorial frames, turning the revealed RGB dots into a mimicry of traditional pointillism.
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Their combined talents for channeling styles and theatrical mimicry resulted in some of the most hilarious, thought-provoking, occasionally unsettling, outrageous, and inventive homages in art history.
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She suggested a study paying further attention to the bonds among individuals' to examine whether facial mimicry changes between closely associated bears and less-closely associated bears.
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Critics rating: 1%Carvey's talents and mimicry skills are not to be denied, but they cannot save "The Master of Disguise" from its dull and childish humor.
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"Possessed," as he explains, "by something like total recall and a great gift for intellectual mimicry," he quickly became a star student in Columbia's famous English Department.
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" But don't take too much, as the same release cautions taking more than the recommended amount causes "mimicry and forest escape, with acute manifestations of tree-hugging.
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Without descending to overt mimicry, Hanks captures Rogers's body language and vocal intonations, and his own firmly established reputation for niceness adds an important element of credibility.
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" How to be a Kennedy: Sarsgaard admitted he was hesitant to take on the role of Bobby Kennedy in "Jackie" because he "didn't want to worry about mimicry.
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Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creating mimicry, reading people's hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art.
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Anyway, the killer whale in France is certainly doing some form of mimicry, and perhaps cetaceans mimic in the wild, too, creating entirely new dialects of blowhole farts.
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This is not to say that Fred Astaire or Bringing Up Baby or Singing in the Rain aren't worthy of our deepest praise, repeat watching, and even mimicry.
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Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people's hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art.
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From the opening shot of Ophelia adrift in a river, in mimicry of Millais's famous painting, the film seems to splash around in search of a suitable style.
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Certain jumping spider species fear ants, so the C. caramba wasp might use a tactic called Batesian mimicry to scare the spiders away... and then feast on their eggs.
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But classical-music experts have started to speak out against such performances, arguing that they are little more than a superficial mimicry that can be dangerous for young singers.
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It's a challenging thing, I know that on the show they certainly encourage people to honor the spirit of the people they're playing but don't encourage straight-up mimicry.
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I soon wondered whether the goal shouldn't be mimicry, but to convey the true threat Bin Laden posed, to add a menacing tone to his banal voice of evil.
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His mimicry is brilliant, but what sticks with you from this movie is when he uses impersonations to summon up scenes of familial dysfunction that are not remotely funny.
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Mimicry isn't all that rare in the animal kingdom—plenty of critters mimic scarier species to avoid being eaten, or less-scary species to create a false sense of security.
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Here are some of the company's more out-there offerings: Snapchat mimicry is such a hot trend in the tech world that even Amazon's throwing its hat in the ring.
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But bio-mimicry, and taking design inspiration from living things, is a great way to take advantage of what Mother Nature has already figured out after eons of beta testing.
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Teens rely more readily on the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that processes the mental state of other people as well as mimicry (hence the copy-catting).
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In an online feature called "More than Mimicry: The Parrot in Dutch Genre Painting," she explored the significance of the parrots as metaphors, and their presence as intelligent animal companions.
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It was quickly called a copycat, but plenty of people forgave the platform for its mimicry and found new ways to use Instagram Stories that have distinguished it from Snapchat.
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Physically, he may have seemed a bit off to play Kaufman (too lanky, too crowned with hair), but he took on the role with painstaking if seemingly typical actorly mimicry.
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Invoking a nonexistent Libyan Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in apparent mimicry of Egypt's council, General Hifter promised a transitional "road map," just as General el-Sisi had done.
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So it is that theft, or call it transformative mimicry, is the free-wheeling charge the British writer Edward St. Aubyn must confront in clothing "King Lear" in modern dress.
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Flavor chemists are really spectacularly good at mimicry, and they can make things that you'd be challenged to tell by taste to be false—especially after you've had a few.
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Their mimicry was not limited to a day of flattery; several have also adopted Mr. Trump's rhetorical style of doubling down on false claims and pushing so-called alternative facts.
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The work they produced in the '70s and early '80s might be described as a theatricalization of Conceptual art, or a caustic mimicry of both fine art and commercial illustration.
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"I can easily imagine situations in which these sorts of voice-mimicry technologies are used to sow confusion, extort people and make fraud and scams far more precise," he said.
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Imitation is key to how this Eliza learns; it is not through Higgins's drumming vowels into her ear but through observation and mimicry of people who are kind to her.
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The Corinthian columns, the Renaissance murals, and the Gothic arches that adorned different meeting rooms were all plaster — beautifully painted, but mimicry of the exotic and ancient all the same.
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Winston and Cece form an unexpected friendship, as each performs their own mimicry of Jess-tasks: Winston goes wedding dress-shopping with Cece and Cece helps Winston get over a girl.
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One mini-game, for example, is basically charades: One player holds the GamePad facing away from them, and must successfully identify the animal displayed on the screen through their partner's mimicry.
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Infected snails have been dubbed zombie snails, as they carelessly put themselves in harms way on the behest of the flatworm so that the parasite can exhibit its aggressive mimicry behavior.
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"The genius of the attacker in the Carbanak case is taking the time to learn directly from the victim and thus bypass fraud prevention measures through sheer mimicry," Guerrero told Reuters.
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"I think we might be grossly underestimating just how powerful our facial expressions are," said David Havas, associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater who studies facial mimicry.
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"Facial mimicry is a very ancient mechanism of connecting and not something you want disrupted by Botox or other procedures," said Frans de Waal, a primatologist and ethologist at Emory University.
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The Osé device (formerly called Vela) is a sex toy developed in partnership with an engineering professor at Oregon State University that uses "biometric mimicry" for hands-free vaginal and clitoral stimulation.
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The use of mimicry, parody, and implicit criticism of British dress, manners, and institutions turned the gaze onto the slave masters — an African gaze — resulting in a newfound subjectivity in the West.
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Further, the themes of mimicry and repetition she employs have traditionally been linked to a desire, not for acceleration, but for regression to an earlier state, from the organic to the inorganic.
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But successfully creative humans tend to make a leap from mimicry, and the AI isn't just replicating what it's seen, either—it's also mixing mechanics and level design to make new games.
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HOBOT-298: Window Cleaning Robot Last year's CES Innovation Award went to the HOBOT-298, a device that delivers thorough cleaning with its bio-mimicry technology, ultrasonic water spray, and powerful vacuum.
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Trying to address those topics in a play that puts just one black body onstage is myopic at best, looking less like a critique of inequality than like a mimicry of it.
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Each game was an abstraction of the "cyber-struggles" of this rich world, an ongoing mimicry of its immediate and ancillary materials, but not a "story", in its common sense denotation, per se.
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" She later added that this had "NOTHING to do with Bowie," and that she was just annoyed at "the utter insincerity of social media grief, the odd mimicry and circle-jerkery of it.
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Washington, who appeared in last year's Broadway revival of "The Boys in the Band," doesn't have Smith's gift for transformative mimicry, and you only rarely feel he actually becomes the people he portrays.
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While Rethink imbues its own robots like Baxter with certain human traits like arms and a face, he once again returned to the Roomba as an example of when exact mimicry isn't necessary.
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You see it in Mike Bloomberg's merciless trolling of Trump with commercials that make him look fat and unhinged, and statements that would be shockingly juvenile but for their mimicry of Trump's taunts.
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"Build a Nest," by the penguin exhibit, will invite them to copy the birds' behavior, and while there are no downward otter poses, "Animal Yoga," by the otter display, will encourage some mimicry, too.
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Her brother, Jacob (Mark Blum), and sister, Maggie (Debra Monk), don't know what to make of such interjections, and tend to ignore them, as if Amy's mimicry was as unthinking as a mynah bird's.
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Despite such misgivings, this place grew on Bates, who would let his mind wander on Alter's beaches after conducting research in the surrounding forest into animal mimicry that supported Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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The suit points out that 2017 was the first year in which more than half of products sold on Amazon were listed by third-party sellers, in a mimicry of eBay's longtime business model.
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The interaction is a great cinematic example of a real-life phenomenon called facial mimicry, an ability linked with keen social intelligence that's been observed in humans and some great apes—and now, bears.
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As reported in a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports, scientists have observed for the first time highly precise facial mimicry in a species that is not domesticated or a primate: the sun bear.
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If anything, he is moving in the opposite direction and seeing how much he can bring into a painting that is essentially layered and flat, without resorting to well-known moves such as ironic mimicry.
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Sound is difficult to describe in words, which is why most of us resort to a combination of gesture and vocal mimicry when, say, trying to convey to someone else that a car goes vrooom.
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Truly we live in the strangest times… Lyrebird says its intention is to offer an API in the future so that third parties can make use of the audio mimicry technology for their own ends.
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But they noticed that the bears would show a variety of facial expressions during play, just like the orangutans did, so they asked whether the bears were showing facial mimicry during their own play, too.
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Dr. Wright said that captive parrots' renowned talent for promiscuous vocal mimicry — of human speech, a multipart car alarm, a cat's meow — is probably a byproduct of an innate desire to parrot its own kind.
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Honda is looking to nature to improve the safety of driving, using bio-mimicry of the behavior of a school of fish to inform a new technical concept it's unveiling at CES called Safe Swarm.
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His talent as a writer and caricaturist was evident from the start in his verbal pyrotechnics and perfect mimicry of speech patterns, his meticulous reporting, and his creative use of pop language and explosive punctuation.
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Beloff interlaces these two sources of found footage with a series of performative reenactments by Kate Valk, who embodies both the historical female subjects and the male analysts in turn through lip-syncing and gestural mimicry.
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Why Verge readers might care: Mr. Robot star Rami Malek plays Mercury, and early looks at the movie have mostly focused on his sound-alike performance and impressive mimicry of the singer's moves and body language.
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Silicon Valley is bursting with startups that are virtually indistinguishable, but Facebook's own brand of mimicry is viewed by some as incompatible with progress—a natural monopoly—leaving too little room for similar ideas to compete.
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I'd never heard quite the mimicry Ms. Jansen achieved: The piano's icy tone was met with its exact equal on the violin, and then the same echo effect a second later with a rougher, earthier sound.
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We had no idea that what's even better than watching her lovingly parody people, though, is when her mimicry comes with a story, like the one she told Jimmy Fallon about Gal Gadot on The Tonight Show.
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One team at the University of Southern California (USC) are reducing the calorie count as low as it can go, using specific foods to trick the human body into thinking it's fasting -- a process called fasting mimicry.
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He also suggested that the ability of some parrots in captivity to move to a musical beat may be an offshoot of vocal mimicry, a generalized motor pattern geared toward synchrony playing out in body or voice.
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Around the same time, The Nation published a poem by Anders Carlson-Wee, the white son of Lutheran pastors in Minnesota, in which he attempted to ventriloquize a homeless person with a clumsy mimicry of black dialect.
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Letter of Recommendation Each day along the upper railings of my top-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, starlings alight and start holding forth in an ever-evolving chorus of clown whistles, clicks and shards of expert mimicry.
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The series of photographs begins with the artist dressed in a Roman-style toga, which she gradually sheds and rewraps into a billowy loincloth, vamping coquettishly, until she ends with her arms raised in mimicry of the Crucifixion.
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Maclean's mimicry of lavish Hollywood aesthetics is clearly meant to operate as a détournement, appropriating the aesthetic of popular culture in order to reveal its malignant effects — the hypnotizing of consumers with unattainable and harmful images of glamor.
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Each sushi shoe is athletic in style and branding, but by miniaturizing and rendering them in an innately delicate edible medium, Hu tempers the mimicry of mainstream sneaker brands with the exquisite presentation of a plate of sushi.
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In the wild, the fish thankfully don't have to be flung manually into the air lock; if all goes well, they're attracted naturally through a combination of habitat mimicry and manipulation to enter the chamber on their own.
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In 1973 Mr. Bragg was an artist in residence with the Moscow Theater of Mimicry and Gesture, and in 1977 he went on an international tour sponsored by the State Department and other groups, appearing in 25 countries.
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The show highlights how Romita's more open, friendlier portrayal of Spider-Man came to represent the style and aesthetic of the Marvel Comics brand and his vision and willingness to stay away from mere mimicry of his predecessor.
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These portraits of self-portraits combine automatic drawing and caricature with riffs on the styles of their sources, be they Henri Rousseau, Willem de Kooning or Andy Warhol, revealing a talent for mimicry that might be the artist's strongest.
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K2 Intelligence investigators suspect the woman is Asian, but it's also been suggested that she has lived in the US and the UK. The one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that she's incredibly talented at mimicry.
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"We may not be literate, but we visual than a motherfucker," Pryor jokes in Sunset Strip, and he was, often, quite visual; blessed with the gift of not just vocal but physical mimicry, he could become nearly anything onstage.
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It's mimicry all the way up and down the ladder, no moment unique or original in the context of the game, its lore, or its gameplay, but it is unique to us and the people watching us at any given moment.
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Along with Top Gun, it's the quintessential 80s movie, complete with blatant Star Wars mimicry, Iran-Contra-era guerilla warfare in Central America, and a glorious shot of Jesse Ventura firing a comically large Gatling gun while wearing an MTV shirt.
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Mr. Green is not performing an act of mimicry; he is not playing Coward himself, but interpreting his songs, and reciting from the diaries and letters, in a style that recalls the "master," as he is referred to at one point.
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"I think that the most important thing that she underlines is that the facial mimicry has been found in a solitary species," Elisabetta Palagi, associate professor in the University of Pisa department of biology who was not involved with the study, told Gizmodo.
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Using a machine that can read her niece's brainwaves, she and a team are able to extract new material from her brain, and record it using the vocal mimicry software developed for Ashley Too, which has been discontinued due to a battery error.
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The performances range from perplexing to perverse—the SSD may make a frantic offering of blue objects, piling them around the viewer in mimicry of bowerbird courtship, or deliver a melancholy, undulating interpretation of slug sex, trailing her hapless partner with ultraviolent goo.
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Chappelle and co-creator Neal Brennan intuitively understand how to exaggerate the natural absurdity of pop music's characters, while Chappelle had a brilliant knack for mimicry, comic timing, and catchphrase—the legatee to Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, and Chris Rock.
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This is where Jansport J's Pharaoh comes in: the California producer's album from earlier this year evokes that classic Donuts sound without falling into mere mimicry, with colorful melodic touches and a carefully arranged framework that makes for an exceedingly pleasing listen.
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The director, though, tends to take Manis's gift for mimicry and showcase it in static shots of the animal behaving like a person, a trope that most often presents itself in the form of the ape raising a middle finger at an enemy.
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" The narrator of Jonathan Lethem's novel "The Fortress of Solitude" (2003) compares himself with his childhood friend Arthur: "It was a form of autism, a failure at social mimicry that had kept me from the adaptations which made Arthur more Brooklyn than me.
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Snap has been a publicly traded company for more than a year, and in that time, its social-mobile app Snapchat has had to contend with mimicry from rivals like Facebook, skepticism on Wall Street and a redesign that alienated some of its media partners.
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Without stooping to mimicry or imitation, Armitage quickly and impressively gets at the root of who the character is — or rather, was — at 9 years old: a stickler for the rules who doesn't mince words, lacks a fear of authority, and has issues with germs.
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By using duplicated clips and structural mimicry, he summons musical memories of Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Migos to ironically illustrate how overly copied their work has become, and how lazy it is to simply lay down a weak verse over someone else's song structure.
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The uproar that followed Google's I/O demonstration of Duplex spanned a range of emotions — from amazement at the technology's mimicry of casual human speech to deep concern over ethics — and the company has tried to resolve apprehension about Duplex in the days since.
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TWO: The entire thing is, in fact, a play, a sort of mimicry of the seriousness of National Security proceedings, the NBA communicating to the world at large that they are taking the Lottery VERY SERIOUSLY because it is COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MONKEY BUSINESS.
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At one point, he met with one of his graduate students in the chemistry lab, where he plans to supervise research in his specialty: "the use of synthetic design for the understanding, mimicry and potential disruption of biological processes," according to his official biography.
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The hope now is that his savage attacks, penchant for mimicry and resourcefulness in nickname creation — recall "Lyin' Ted" and "Little Marco" — can be turned to devastating effect on the very Senate Democrats who have gone to lengths to avoid publicly breaking with him.
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To play Buck for motion capture, Terry Notary, a former U.C.L.A. gymnast who is known in the film industry for his animal mimicry, wore a tight gray suit, a gray skull cap and carbon fiber arm extensions that allowed him to walk on all fours.
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Mr. Buckley's Klan involvement had led his wife into a dangerous confrontation with three African-American women at a Walmart, and she wanted to squelch her now-5-year-old son's mimicry of his father's racial slurs and "white power" salutes before he started school.
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I refer to her as someone who does a kind of ventriloquism, ingesting these voices of people she interviews and then devoting herself to the practice of mimicry, which is so much like what a fiction writer does, climbing into the skin of characters.
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The dynamic among Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, and Jones is reminiscent of that of the four original Ghostbusters (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson) without direct mimicry, and each actor gets a chance to put her own comedic twists on her character.
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In its unsuccessful mimicry of Crusader Kings, in its paring-down of what is possible within its strategic layer, this is a Total War game that only knows what it wishes not to be, and what it dreams it could be, but never what it is.
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What worked for lacewings 165 million years ago continues to work for butterflies today, which is especially trippy considering that both seem to have evolved so-called "eyespots" on their wings, which are a common mimicry tactic for tricking predators into thinking they are being watched.
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In my interview with him, on top of discussing the future of his Trump mimicry, Stone talked about why slapstick adult humor is necessary at a time like this, and even took a guess at what type of porn he imagines our new president likes to watch.
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Today, we will speak about white people attempting to cover both and clumsily (or perhaps, who knows, intentionally) trivializing the distinct blackness of each, through cringe-inducing vocalizations of Bey's "I like my Negro nose and Jackson 5 nostrils" and poor mimicry of Riri's casual patois.
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Danny, who had inherited his own father's talent for mimicry, insisted on doing his major speech in a Vito Corleone voice, even though he was supposed to be a member of the English nobility, and even though there was already a Mob boss in the movie.
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More than demonstrating the sensitivity of her ear, however, this mimicry also seems like another part of the same attempt to reconstitute memory from fragments, to achieve a somehow objective version of past events by gathering up and collaging all the potential versions alongside one another.
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But his gifts were certified by an Irish scholar and a British philologist, Charles William Russell and Thomas Watts, who set a standard for fluency that is still useful in vetting the claims of modern Mezzofantis: Can they speak with an unstilted freedom that transcends rote mimicry?
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Books News Last year, while promoting his debut thriller, "The Woman in the Window," Dan Mallory praised the tradition of literary mimicry: "It is often said that 'good writers borrow, great writers steal,'" he said in an interview with The Guardian, borrowing a phrase from T.S. Eliot.
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And yet at Serenity Park, the very behaviors that once would have further codified our parrot caricatures — ''birdbrained,'' ''mindless mimicry,'' ''mere parroting'' and so on — are recognized as classic symptoms of the same form of complex post-traumatic stress disorder afflicting the patients in the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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Usually when you see this type of mimicry, the ants are disguising themselves as something, so that's probably what's happening here — although I'm just now starting to research all the ways they might be disguising themselves with these chemicals, because I haven't found any direct evidence for it yet.
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But if LoveProps' work seems like mere mimicry, one of its two members clarified on Reddit that it's not: "It's not just a replica, it's a redesigned and improved (model and hardware) version of a Daft Punk helmet," said FutureGuyMike, who originally posted the project to the site.
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Indeed, her work is the best support I know for an assertion made by Zora Neale Hurston, in her still startling 1934 essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression": The Negro's universal mimicry is not so much a thing in itself as an evidence of something that permeates his entire self.
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If a large part of the Earth's population was working on an AI's knowledge bank, I'm sure life-like mimicry would continue to reach for that upper limit or surpass it altogether — whatever that would look like — and the answer to the question of sentience would become even more elusive.
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Also his seemingly effortless ability to slip into the voices of other people: His father had an affection for mimicry, and would stage scenes with his son with their new video camera — including one about a German child molester in which the young Mr. Deblinger was cast as the child. Ahem.
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They're relics of the time when the Japanese, so expert at mimicry, sent their best young chefs to the high-end restaurants of France and Italy where their work ethic ensured them a rapid rise up the kitchen ladder, and upon their return, the creation of perfect interpretations of their previous employers' cuisine.
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Like Artschwager, he seems to be able to copy whatever he wants, but prefers to undermine his gift for mimicry, often by giving himself a ridiculous task: make a painting that slumps against the wall as well as the crate it is resting on, while ensuring that both look as if they are real.
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Like most teenage guitarists, I learned the riff, note for note, and like most teenage guitarists I could never get its taut musculature right—erring with too-perfect mimicry (a la the Beach Boys, who deserved the lawsuit Berry hit them with) or with too-loose laziness (a la Jerry Garcia who, to be fair, sometimes got it right).
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Their downfall—which we know is coming from the beginning—is that they have nothing to offer their dazzling new acquaintances beyond devotion and mimicry; they do not understand that, on Instagram, you can be totally boring and pointless as long as you "own it," or portray your boring pointlessness as somehow intrinsic to your self.
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Dogs sit next to a lake created by a flooded parking lot, and the city's iconic sculpture of William Penn which tops City Hall has been replaced by a sculpture of a naked man, arm outstretched in mimicry of Penn's pose, which gestures to the place where he signed the first peace treaty with the Lenape Indians.
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It's a stunning thing to consider that, with all the aesthetics purportedly in protest at least since the World Trade Organization demonstrations of 1999 (I am thinking of the attention paid to street theater, puppetry, mimicry, and even monochrome statements such as Code Pink), there is little clear evidence that the aesthetics of protest have been thought through.
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