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U_1_08 Verified Art, Music & Culture

U_1_08 — Carnival, Festival, and Celebration

Carnival, festivals, and celebrations — periodic communal events characterized by heightened sensory experience, relaxation or inversion of social norms, shared feasting, music, costume, and collective joy — are universa

carnival festival celebration Mardi Gras Carnaval Diwali
U_4_10 Verified Art, Music & Culture

U_4_10 — Puppetry and Automata

Puppetry — the animation of inanimate figures to tell stories — is among the oldest performing arts, predating written drama. Shadow puppets: wayang kulit (Indonesia — intricately carved leather puppets cast against a ba

puppetry automata marionette shadow puppet wayang Bunraku
U_4_11 Verified Art, Music & Culture

U_4_11 — Martial Arts as Cultural Practice

Martial arts — codified systems of combat training that integrate physical technique with cultural philosophy, aesthetic form, and (often) spiritual discipline — are found in virtually every civilization and represent a

martial arts kung fu karate judo taekwondo capoeira
ZD_3_07 Verified Information & Computation

ZD_3_07 — Parallel Computing and GPU Programming

Parallel computing — executing multiple computations simultaneously — has become the dominant paradigm for performance growth since single-core clock speeds plateaued (~2005). Flynn's taxonomy (1966) classifies computer

parallel computing GPU GPGPU CUDA multicore thread parallelism