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...A Strange Loop Barbican, London Philosophy lessons don’t usually arrive like this....
...As examples I chose Patinir’s “Saint Jerome” — a scene choreographed by strange phenomena, solitude, thresholds — and Poussin’s “Landscape with Ruins”, an allegorical painting that feels like an instant...
...I mean, I’m just using indicative figures, but they’re not political game-changers, are they? I think we could probably agree....
...But by that point it’s not entirely clear that this particular Nabokovian game is still worth playing....
...I have said before that they don’t ring a bell when the rules of the game are changing, but if you listen closely, you can hear a dog whistle....
...China is a different, it’s a different ball game in economic and trade terms....
...Apple’s App Store has been the subject of a high-profile private antitrust case from Epic Games....
...I’ve also developed a strange taste for Cactus Pete’s homemade beef jerky (I prefer his smoky Campfire flavour; my son favours Black Pepper)....
...But the Osaka judges, with their reputation for the unconventional, boldly opted for Tamotsu Shimada’s design: a loop of uneven red cells (five of them bearing staring, lidless eyes) that roughly traces...
...Let the games begin A while back the FT launched a fantasy dinner party series where our colleagues come up with a group of people they would want to share a meal with....
...The game’s central mechanic seemed strange then — Jackson rescues children from cupboards, who gratefully cry “Michael!”...
...It’s a strange cocktail: the player is a courier traipsing through post-apocalyptic America with zany characters played by actors Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux....
...He started taking a pre-dinner walk, in lieu of the pick-up basketball game of middle-aged men he used to erratically join....
...Chunks of sparse text loop around the images, mimicking the shifting steps of a dance....
...Best not to give the game away too much, but expect a good thrashing with a bundle of twigs and leaves, followed by a peremptory dunk into 8C water....
...There is a sort of strange, slightly scary loop that we’ve found ourselves in.” The works he has created for the exhibition have an uneasy beauty....
...The system was designed as a simple closed loop controlled entirely by the occupants....
...Facebook designs its technology to have social validation loops — the whole use of ‘likes’ is designed from the ground up to be addictive,” he adds....
...It does raise a question, however, about the feedback loop between rising share prices and share-based compensation....
...Politics was a game of perception; economics is driven by reality. As Rana shows, the political-economy feedback loop is far mushier than that....
...After Mr Butterfield left Yahoo in 2008, he co-founded a video game company, Tiny Speck. In the process of working on a game, Glitch, the team created a communications tool to ease collaboration....
...So what’s a quant fund to do to stay ahead of the game in that context and keep those models fresh?...
...Amex gains most from what it calls its “closed loop” — it issues cards and handles transactions....
...For example, an increasingly popular risk management tool called “volatility control” could in theory mimic the feedback loop that portfolio insurance caused....
...The National Basketball Association pulled plans to stage its annual All-Star game there, while Lions Gate, the Hollywood studio, scrapped a movie project....
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