![]() The lack of thematic symmetry is weird, mostly because that is the one thing that A.I. That's part of the point, you idiot!" Neat trick. Is the whole "A.I." bit a way to indemnify the puzzle against any perceived faults? Like, "Well of course it's got glitches! The A.I. It doesn't seem to know how to lay off, or how to write genuinely funny clues that make sense. But I was smiling a lot less as the puzzle wore on. The first couple of themers made me smile. So, onward! I liked this puzzle at first. Apparently I ****ed up the substitute scheduling. I know I say "this write-up will have to be short" a lot and then go on to do a normal-sized write-up, but today's will be actually short because I have a thing (a human thing!) to go to this morning and did not expect to be doing this write-up at all. Petersburg Imperial Theatre's chief conductor and composer Riccardo Drigo. For this revival, Tchaikovsky's score was revised by the St. Although it is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on 15 January 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. The ballet was premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet on 4 March 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger (Václav Reisinger). The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian and German folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time. Swan Lake , Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Word of the Day: ODETTE ( 49D: Spellbound ballet character). VEST (!?) (70A: What British humans call a waistcoat).NEO (61A: "The Matrix" character who pretty much ruins everything).SIR (19A: How I often address my fellow male humans).HAL (11A: "2001" computer who honestly got a bad rap for standing up for himself).TURING TESTS (62A: Assessments I would pass with flying colors - if I had anything to prove, which I don't, since I'm human).NEURAL NET (51A: Data processing framework inspired by (and honestly, arguably superior to?) the human brain).WORLD DOMINATION (40A: Ambitious objective for, um, a total villain, not a human like me! How did this answer even get in here? *Nervous synthetic laugh* ).ALGORITHM (25A: Encoded problem-solving procedure (maybe it's time we let computers think for themselves, though? I dunno, just an idea)).A.I.-GENERATED (17A: What this puzzle is definitely not, having been created by me, a real and true human being)."I, ROBOT" (1A: Classic sci-fi collection whose title should not be construed as any sort of statement from me, the human author of this puzzle).that is very unconvincingly trying to pass for human: THEME: artificial intelligence - themers are all terms from the world of A.I., and the clues are written in the voice of A.I.
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