Sentences with phrase «machina gave»

After years of Sony exclusives like Resogun, Nex Machina gave PC players their first taste of Housemarque's style of refined twin - stick shooter since The Reap came out in 1997.

With over 17,900 cases in our database and detailed information on the issues decided in those appeals, Lex Machina gives practitioners an edge over the competition.

Not exact matches

The account of God which seems most compatible with Whitehead's categories, and which is presented in detail by Christian, was shown to involve incoherence in that it explains how ordinary temporal actual entities can experience the past as given but includes no account which shows how God can experience the past without making God an exception to the principles of the system, a deus ex machina.

But two recent movies have made me think about one aspect of sci - fi — artificial intelligence — in a different light, given my focus in this blog on relationships, love and sex: Her and, now, Ex Machina.

A veteran screenwriter with strong roots in speculative fiction («Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...»), Garland made a knockout directorial debut with «Ex Machina» (2014), which gave us the gift of Alicia Vikander playing a sinuous female robot, plus the equally unforgettable image of Isaac tearing it up on the dance floor.

And by giving away so many details about the ending up front, writer - director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) seems to be emphasizing that Annihilation isn't about who - will - live dynamics, or the fast mechanics of action scenes.

Garland's cinematic Turing Test, Ex Machina, featured a genius billionaire inventor who describes Ghostbusters, as, «that movie where a ghost gives Dan Aykroyd oral sex.»

Because Annihilation, director Alex Garland's scifi follow - up to the excellent Ex Machina, is going to give you what you've been missing, right here on planet Earth.

Produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B (Oscar winners for 12 Years a Slave), distributed by A24 (last season's Best Actress winner Brie Larson — Room and Visual Effects winner Ex Machina) and starring Naomie Harris (Skyfall), André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) and Emmy - nominee Mahershala Ali (House of Cards) Moonlight combines elements of Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild and the documentary On the Downlow to give us a truly new vision of cinema.

One question remains though; will AMPAS break off and give Vikander a nomination for Ex Machina (a true supporting performance)...

Given the resultant complete void at the center of the story, we focus far more attention on the actual Scandinavian in the film — Swedish actress Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)-- who plays Einar / Lili's long - suffering wife, Gerda.

On this edition of the Flickering Myth Podcast, Luke Owen, Rohan Morbey and Scott Davis sit down to discuss Alex Garland's Ex Machina and give their thoughts on his directorial debut.

Take one plucky underdog of a hero, add in a disapproving relative / friend / acquaintance who pooh - poohs his dreams, throw in a preliminary test of his mettle that proves our hero's limitations, sprinkle a dash of «deus ex machina» to give him the edge he needs to succeed, hook him up with a weird and diverse support crew, toss in a villain drawn with broadly evil strokes, and bring it all to a boiling climax that begets the predictable happy ending.

For probably long enough to give it a decent shelf - life, Ex Machina passes the genre sniff test about as well as its android heroine — an artificially intelligent being with the body of a European rising star — clears her own trial, a personal variation on the Turing test.

It feels like the sort of place that could give birth to HAL 9000, and the aesthetics of the middle section of 2001 certainly had a heavy influence on Ex Machina's production design.

It is essentially a three part film, and all three parts are comfortable in the skin (or not - skin) of their roles, giving Ex Machina an irresistible momentum into its third act.

While the film is expected to have relatively niche appeal (see also why Netflix is handling international distribution), it seems fair to assume that most everyone who gave Ex Machina a shake will / should do the same for Annihilation.

However, a silver lining looks to be in the offing, as evidenced by Alex Garland's fantastic Ex Machina and it's female heroine, Ava (Alicia Vikander), a character who deconstructs the mentality of the «sexy» female robot by seeking independence and a consciousness outside of the identity her male creator has given her.

The usual I we are given has all the tidy containment of the kind of character the realist novel specializes in and none of the porousness of our every waking moment, the loose threads, the strange dreams, the forgettings and misrememberings, the portions of a life lived through others» stories, the incoherence and inconsistency, the pantheon of dei ex machina and the companionability of ghosts.

A Wednesday session, Scaling Content Development Through Automation, gave us Kristian Hammond of Narrative Science and Robbie Allen of Automated Insights in their talks on those computer - generated sports and real - estate reports you may have heard about, ex machina.

In the absence of online co-op play — Nex Machina is local co-op only — Brent (@TheDude1979) and Ben (@piccolo930) took it upon themselves to give the game a whirl cooperatively utilizing the PS4's Share Play feature, a nifty system - level option that allows gamers to play local co-op games with one another online.

Nex Machina offers four different difficulty levels and I started my review on the Normal level which is sufficiently challenging, however, the Easy level was only just slightly easier, to give you an idea.

When you've got a game that's as fun to play and as constantly re-playable as Nex Machina this is an admittedly minor gripe, but after the robust package we were given with Resogun — which I realize was the final result after a number of meaty expansions were added to the game — I was hoping for a little more.

Nex Machina is created in partnership between Housemarque and Eugene Jarvis which is an incredible pairing given that Housemarque has developed such outstanding games as Super Stardust, Dead Nation, Outland, Resogun, Alienation and Matterfall, while Eugene Jarvis is responsible for such retro classics as Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV.

If you want a challenge and something fast paced give Deus Ex Machina a go.

This gives Nex Machina an incredible replay value and increases the playtime for anyone who gets hooked.

This is a screencap taking during a demo I was given last week by Brian Howard, Lex Machina's legal data scientist.

Damages Explorer gives unprecedented insights into damages awarded, and Parties Comparator highlights corporations» litigation volume, performance, and outcomes to help attorneys win Menlo Park, CA — January 26, 2017 — Continuing the expansion of its successful Legal Analytics Apps ™ offering, Lex Machina ™, a LexisNexis company, today announced two powerful new applications — Damages Explorer and Parties Comparator — that instantly deliver critical litigation information to help attorneys win more cases and close more business.

Litigation strategy tools like Lex Machina ® can analyze a set of facts against a collection of past decisions and give a prediction of the likely timing and outcome that is more accurate than an experienced counsel can give.

Indeed, Lex Machina is an example where machines can give answers to legal questions more quickly and accurately than humans can, and their logic or reasoning process may look completely different from how a human would tackle a problem.

Following up on my posts earlier today (here and here) about the acquisition by LexisNexis of Silicon Valley legal analytics company Lex Machina, I had an opportunity to speak with Steven Errick, vice president and managing director of research services at LexisNexis, who gave me more details about the deal and plans for the future.

Lex Machina's federal employment law database includes tags for the type of damages — backpay, liquidated damages, punitive damages and emotional distress, the nature of any finding, and the remedy given.

Lex Machina's analytics platform focuses on several specific areas of law, giving counsel a wealth of information for researching a jurisdiction (additional databases on more areas of law will be coming soon).

For example, companies like Lex Machina (now owned by LexisNexis) and Premonition are using data analytics to give lawyers valuable insights about opposing counsel, courts, etc. to craft better arguments and assess the value of cases.