Skyfall: A Bond Movie For The Times

There is a touch of Bourne to it. One of their own comes to make damage. You train a spy and he turns on you. Only Bourne is a good guy, here the designation is to the bad guy. But then that is why you put James in the movie. James, James Bond.

And modern warfare is cyber. Skyfall has a ton of that. Bond has to travel back in time.

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"Do you feel safe?" I thought that was a powerful line.

Skyfall has the usual dose of Bond action. And the scary guy from No Country For Old Men is the bad guy here.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Bond does not cease to surprise. The final part in Scotland is really something.

















The Quartermaster scene is really something. Welcome to the new world.

This is another movie I am looking forward to. Zero Dark Thirty. Music makes for much of the action.

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Mandarin Within Reach

Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible...... has taken in oodles of data, and can thus have that translated Mandarin spoken. And the final kicker: he has fed the system an hour’s worth of his voice, and thus the software will speak in Mandarin, using his own tones. ..... Just over two years ago, researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto made another breakthrough. By using a technique called Deep Neural Networks, which is patterned after human brain behavior, researchers were able to train more discriminative and better speech recognizers than previous methods. ..... rather than having one word in 4 or 5 incorrect, now the error rate is one word in 7 or 8

This is incredible.

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