![]() On the left side of the front panel are a small on/off button, a tiny LED that glows white when the unit is powered up, and a larger LED that glows different colors to indicate network status. For its price, the Zen Stream has impressive build quality, with brushed-aluminum front and rear panels inset into a curved black aluminum shell that bows outward toward the top. It measures 6.2″W × 1.4″H × 3.9″D, not including cables, connectors, or Wi-Fi antenna, and weighs 1.14 pounds. The Zen Stream has the same funky styling as other Zen-series components. You can also play music from network drives or a USB drive connected to the Zen Stream, controlling playback from the iFi Stream app or from the Zen Stream’s own web interface. But the Zen Stream’s software suite already includes Roon Bridge, so Roon will see the Zen Stream and a connected DAC as a playback device, and stream to it using its RAAT (Roon Advanced Audio Transport) protocol. It also supports UPnP/DLNA, so you can send music from a UPnP-capable music player app-such as Audirvana Plus on a PC or Mac, or mConnect on an Android device-and NAA (Network Audio Adapter), for streaming from computers running Signalyst HQPlayer software.Īccording to iFi, support for Google Chromecast is pending so is Roon Ready certification. It supports Spotify Connect and Tidal Connect, so you can cue up music from the apps for those services, and transfer playback to the Zen Stream. Its software suite includes an open-source Apple AirPlay emulator called Shairport Sync, so you can stream to the Zen Stream from any app on an i-device or Mac, or from an iTunes library on a PC. The Zen Stream doesn’t support every streaming protocol under the sun, but it supports most of them. The Zen Stream can add streaming capability to any DAC with a coaxial or USB input. Many audiophiles already own a DAC for playing digital audio from physical media, or from local and network drives. And if you’re streaming from Spotify or Tidal, or from any music app on an iOS device, it’s just as convenient as simply using Bluetooth. ![]() ![]() When connected to such a system, the Zen Stream can deliver better sound quality than the built-in Bluetooth. In addition to wired digital inputs, many modern music systems have built-in Bluetooth, for convenient streaming from a mobile device. But as I have found, there are many other applications for this versatile little component. Add a pair of powered speakers, and you’d have a very nice Simplifi’d desktop audio system. The most natural partner for the Zen Stream is the Zen DAC V2. IFi’s latest Zen-series component is the Zen Stream network streamer ($399). These include the Zen Blue V2 Bluetooth DAC ($189, all prices in USD unless noted otherwise), Zen DAC V2 DAC-headphone amp ($189), Zen Phono MM/MC phono stage ($199), and Zen Can balanced headphone amp ($199). Irk will release their debut album ‘Recipes from the Bible’ in December.In the past few years, UK-based iFi Audio has introduced an impressive series of compact, affordable components under its Zen sub-brand. What I have, hopefully, just modelled to you, dear audience, is the Irk experience, and this new, wonderfully dirt-smattered gem of intense, groovy madness – plucked, may I say, from the Leeds noisy boys upcoming debut “recipes from the bible” – complimented superbly by Pstl Cstl productions’ strobing, claustrophobic riot of a video wrapped up in retro gaming pastiche, should prove no less of a trip. ![]() You thank fate for allowing you this experience, sit back and, taking it all in, enjoy. Ah? Actually, you realise, it’s all quite beautiful. Head, still feeling as though thoroughly spadethrashed, begins to nod. Now the mobsters are screeching at you buuuut what’s that? You catch a groove: the lopsided rhythm of the roundabouts rotation. Snakes? (The thugs have thrown in some snakes). Life becomes an intense blur of sight and sound. Limpframed, the masked men drag you briskly to the roundabout and, in summoning every possible splodge of energy buried in their collective, ill-gotten muscle mass, thrust you to a circular oblivion. Feet fumbling in vain, you collapse to the rubber floor. Children scramble, tiny forms swarming, terrified, towards exits far below, but your vantage point leaves no such easy escape. Yet, just as perfection threatens to rear its angel face, violence taints this world: dismounting motorbikes, a mob of balaclava-boasting, black-clad colossuses storm the scene. Nestled high, in damp climbing frame arms, everything expands outwards before you: skies, pastel blue and jewelled with oddly handsome birds, stroking clouds, formed into trivial shapes – solely for your pleasure, a comely canvas for playground pastiches of children and slides and children on slides.
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![]() My First Pass: Manually Scanning Show Notes If you’re neither, then I clearly did not nail the SEO or demographic for this post - thus the reason I need help -). My guess is if you got this far you’re either 1) an engineer of some sort or 2) a podcaster that wants to figure out how to create SEO rich episodes to get discovered. Manual Methods vs Machine Learning to Help Find Podcast Topics With Troy’s help, I settled on using Amazon Web Services Transcribe and Monkey Learn Text Extractor to extract keywords for individual episodes as well as all episodes combined. His post on a simplified view of the AL/ML stack is a must-read on this and helped me figure out the what and how the heck I could do this. Troy launched Productive AI (along with a podcast) to help people like me figure out how to make AI (and Machine Learning) into a productive tool. In fact, there are so many different types of platforms and services that I had to enlist my friend Troy to educate me. Going Down the Machine Learning Rabbit HoleĪ lot has changed in Machine Learning (ML) since 1999. That’s why I dusted off my python skills and jumped into the deep end of Machine Learning. ![]() Ideally, I wanted an automated way to look at all 30 to see the trends in keywords along with where in the episode those keywords were talked about. I did look at the show notes but those are incomplete and based on my faulty memory. The good news is that I do have a rough idea of podcast topics that are interesting but I did not want to listen to all the episodes again. I want to improve my site’s SEO to get more listeners.I wanted an easy way to repurpose the interviews into smaller ones based on what topics people might be interested in.They are all entrepreneurs and my target demographic.So I decided to try and figure out what podcast topics I should cover on the podcast by doing an analysis of the first 30 guests. but who knows if anyone wants to listen to that. Sure, there are standard topics like the traits, values, beliefs, skills, life journey, mindset, etc. I’m sure it might seem obvious what a podcast about my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, should be about but it’s actually hard to figure out what topics to cover. ![]() That’s what got me thinking about a nagging problem I have related to my podcast, The Entrepreneur Ethos, how to come up with podcast topics? Podcast Topics Are Hard to Figure Out That company is long gone (it folded back in 1999) but the types of tasks our chips could do you can now do cheaply on the web. Early in my career, I worked at a semiconductor company that built neural network chips to solve problems like image compression, character recognition, face recognition, etc. I did the same kinda thing when I created the Podcast Market Fit survey.Īnother topic I have always been interested in is how computers can learn to do said mundane tasks. I’m one of those people who would rather write a script for half a day to automate some manual tasks that would only take me 30 minutes. I have always been interested in automating mundane tasks. ![]() The more towers you have upgraded, the stronger and more powerful your character becomes. ![]() In Bloons TD Battles, each level contains up to 18 different battles, and the game offers up to 20 different towers. You lose if the number of balloons reaches the maximum allowed. Every balloon that enters your stronghold affects the number of balloons that you can get. The objective is to knock down all the balloons by the time they reach your home. You must be on a different mode depending on the objective you’ve selected. Choose the map, game mode, and defense tower to start the game. One player stands with a hammer while the other is armed with a pickaxe. Tower Defense Bloons TD is a tower defense game in the traditional sense. You don’t need to be worried. This is important because if you run out of lives, your tower will be destroyed, and you want to avoid being defeated at any cost.Ģ.9. You’ll love playing Bloons TD Battles because it provides you with a Clash of Clans like setting, but instead of building and defending your Kingdom against assault, Bloons TD Battles offers a multiplayer setting where you defend your base from balloons, or Bloons. ![]() As is customary in this game, each player will control their own defensive and offensive swarms of balloons and the other player will be responsible for commanding the defensive and offensive swarms of their You can also get points to enter your name into the online leaderboard. Bloons TD Battles MOD APK is an action-packed tower defense game in which players take control of a number of towers to defend their base from waves of invading balloons. Moreover, no update has been released yet this year. There was a solid jump in 2018, but since then we can definitely notice a reduction. For instance, explore the graph below that shows FCP updates per year (2017-2023). If we analyze the amount of FCP updates released by Apple, we can see a significant reduction in the last few years. Most of those films were edited on Avid Media Composer, and furthermore, even Premiere Pro has managed to penetrate into the post-production phase of these films. If we take the Oscars 2023 for example, then we can reveal that there’s almost not even one film that was edited on FCP. Why? And the more important question: Does Apple care? Apple FCPX 10.5: Accelerated machine learning analysis for Smart Conform Nevertheless, professionals choose to edit on the ‘others’. However, in the Apple Silicon ecosystem, FCP is blazing fast. Obviously, you need the OS platform in order to make it run. I mean -it’s the fastest NLE around (more than Premiere Pro, Resolve, and Avid). The keywords are ‘Speed’, and ‘Performance’. That’s how Apple defines FCP: “Final Cut Pro combines revolutionary video editing with a powerful media organization and incredible performance to let you create at the speed of thought”. Is it intentional? Well, by reading Apple’s definition of FCP, it might. Since Apple made the ‘jump’ from 7 to 10 (FCP 7 to FCP X), its NLE consensus is linearly fading. Final Cut Pro (FCP) had a glowing future back then, in the days of version 7. What is happening to one of Apple’s most sophisticated and professional apps - Final Cut Pro? This desktop app has been one of Apple’s Pro App flagships. Picture: Apple Final Cut Pro: Not ‘Pro’ anymore Hence, Apple’s Final Cut Pro has reached its glass ceiling. ![]() On the other side of the NLE map, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are deep into the race, as FCP remains on the starting line. ![]() Since the beginning of the year, Apple has not released any update of FCP (Final Cut Pro). 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The theory had been tentatively accepted-but we still needed proof, in the form of empirical observation, that these waves existed. He theorized that magnetized waves of plasma could carry huge amounts of energy along the sun's magnetic field from its interior to the corona, bypassing the photosphere before exploding with heat in the sun's upper atmosphere. In 1942, the Swedish scientist Hannes Alfvén proposed an explanation. This spike in temperature, despite the increased distance from the sun's main energy source, has been observed in most stars, and represents a fundamental puzzle that astrophysicists have mulled over for decades. The long term intentions of the KC are to follow the Continental system where dogs must succeed both in trials and shows, but (typically) they are coming from the wrong direction as the aim is (as usual) to increase their income from mail order registrations. I'm afraid field trials, especially down south, are rapidly being "modernised" so that show dogs can compete rather than the longer route of improving the hunting ability of the show dogs. On the main pointer forum ledgends, an excellent site, HD testing is an issue talked about so hopefully it will be the norm to test soon.Ī working spaniel, bred to work within half a gunshot, is not quite the same thing as a breed bred to work a front several hundred yards wide at full gallop on the open moor for hours on end! If all breeders did it there never would be. Yes I am waiting for official results for HD testing, though unfortunately most of the pointer breeders don't do this test as there is not a general problem in pointers. I need to talk to more pointer people show and working and make sure I find the right stud for my girl as creating new little lives is so exciting but a huge responsibility and one that must be looked into deeply. Most of any litter will become pets, pointers make superb pets as long as you know what you are getting and are prepared to excercise. My thought are I don't want a show dog as any dog must be fit for purpose and an outcross will be stronger and have more vigor. ![]() I took her on to the north york moors and she was in heaven finding grouse I had no idea about. All they want to do is retrieve, boring boring for a pointer, she will do it but wants to hunt. I would love to have a go at field trial but living in the south I have tried 2 gun dog trainers and they really don't understand or want to understand pointers. This is a good point and one I have considered, a pup from my bitch and FT/working stud would be one nor the other. |
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