Favorite Bruce Willis movie?

I love Bruce Willis action movies like The Transporter, Crank and The Bee Movie.

Which are your own favorites?

u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV — 28 days ago

The Arrival Of A Train

The movie "The Arrival Of A Train" (L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat) is a 1896 French short silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. It caused a great impression upon moviegoers when the train escaped the screen and rolled over the audience, killing fifteen people during the first show. Later performances made sure to leave a safety zone for the train, minimizing deaths to one or two individuals for each spectacle. The movie remained on display ten times a day for three years, until it was eventually replaced by "A Machine Gun Being Shot At The Camera" (Une mitrailleuse tirant en direction de la caméra).

u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV — 2 months ago
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Musician make a synthesizer instrument from an old sewing machine. Credit: Singer Sound System

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Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness

"The brain appears to anticipate what comes next in a story, even without conscious awareness," said Sheth, who is also Director of The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories within the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital.

"This kind of predictive coding is something we associate with being awake and attentive, yet it's happening here in an unconscious state," said Dr. Benjamin Hayden, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor.

The researchers also noted similarities between the brain's predictive behavior and artificial intelligence (AI). Just as large language models generate text by anticipating the next word, the hippocampus appeared to make similar predictions during language processing. Understanding these shared principles could help scientists better understand both biological and artificial intelligence.

The work may also contribute to future communication technologies, including speech prosthetics designed for people who have lost the ability to speak.

sciencedaily.com
u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV — 2 months ago