acrobatics

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While the acrobatics is silly, what this guy is doing is impressive and indicate skills that could be applied more broadly.

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Quick take

The art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of acrobatics gathered in one view.

noun

The art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.

noun

A spectacular display of agility.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for acrobatics.

noun

The art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.

noun

A spectacular display of agility.

Example sentences

While the acrobatics is silly, what this guy is doing is impressive and indicate skills that could be applied more broadly.

What happens next may end up a complicate web of legal acrobatics, but the individual at least knows the law is after them.

Even now, in newer C features, extra acrobatics are done to avoid name collisions (_Bool in C99 for example).

Apart from semantic acrobatics, there is a practical need for defining causation in science and technology.

There's a huge difference between not paying the intended amount of taxes, and executing Herculanean acrobatics through (probably lobbying-induced) loopholes.

Don't even get me started on all the rent-seeking and tax acrobatics surrounding non-wage compensation.

Oh how I'd be happy using a bit more cpu time for that instead of other css3 acrobatics.

Some yoga feels like a light pre-run stretch; some yoga feels like intense acrobatics.

I see that this kind of semantic acrobatics is extremely common in discussions of AI on HN.

Would they need special license acrobatics to authorize you to implement a callback of the necessary form as specified by the copyrighted API?

Mental acrobatics are part-and-parcel of the language, either in digital or non-digital form.

Neat fix, but wow, what acrobatics to do something that should be simple.

Quote examples

For the "addicts", the primary problem is not the drug - it's the prohibitive acrobatics to mental health care, medication, and ongoing maintenance.

While one can make the case that ত্য is simply "'to' - 'o' + 'ya' = 'to'"[0][1], it's rather confusing mental acrobatics, and it doesn't reflect either how the writing system is taught, or how native speakers use it and think of it on a day-to-day basis.

Even if you did the acrobatics of saying there could be II (inorganic intelligence), there's nothing to suggest self-awareness could transfer from organic to inorganic, and there's no way to distinguish between a simulation being self-aware, and having the "appearance" of being self-aware, so I don't see how anyone could claim to have made a self-aware machine.