How native speakers pronounce “picture”

These screens are huge. That is a huge picture of me bald in front of a lot of people. OK, so next up was rescuing animals.

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She went over to her, and she said, "What are you drawing?" And the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." And the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like."

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What about travel? Take a cell phone picture of your credit cards, your driver's license, your passport,

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there's a short, it starts a fire. Drones enable us to have a complete digital picture of the grid to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

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looks like we might have caught somebody here -- and generally have a complete digital picture of everything that's happening. In the 20th century, we built transportation infrastructure.

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And two months later I was teaching a class. This is me -- you probably can't see, this is a bad picture. You know, sometimes you get rejected by lighting, you know?

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and I could teach. And in that picture, which you can't see, I quoted Martin Luther King, Jr.

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to a satellite that's orbiting above us right now that we built, that you can upload your picture to for free, and it will display it on a screen

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Step one: you make a bait package like this. And on the outside, you have something like a picture of headphones. But inside, instead of headphones, you have this contraption.

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Think about what we even do when we use a computer today. You move a picture of an arrow around until it touches a picture of a folder. Inside, there are pictures of files.

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(Laughter) The picture's not coming up, but that's fine. Don't worry about it.

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and that would be fine, but in my view, you'd be missing a bigger and more awesome picture of life on this planet.

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with young people, so they feel like they're actually allowed to claim this bigger picture of life on our planet.

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If you consider prediction as a quest for power, a very different picture emerges. If you have enough money,

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from a seven-and-a-half- or eight-hour sleep, and have been able to see the big picture. So as we are facing all the multiple crises

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with my ability to imagine myself with my partner, when my imagination comes back in the picture, and when I can root it in absence and in longing,

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and avoid burnout. I'll paint the picture for you. It's four weeks away from that big deadline.

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It will also include rigorous training. Picture it, as women come to learn organizing and recruitment strategies,

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Let's think about what really goes into something like laundry. Everyone picture your laundry pile right now, OK? How many clean clothes do you have left right now?

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under very dim lighting conditions. And here, in the background, you now see a picture that might, more or less, be brought about by only the involvement of the rods.

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and we call them retinal ganglion cells. Now, you might ask yourselves, "What picture is she going to show next?" But I'll have to disappoint you ...

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But I'll have to disappoint you ... I’m not, and I actually can’t, show another picture. Because from all we know,

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which, I mean, still pretty impressive for a horse. But this is an old picture, and we would not fall for Clever Hans today.

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about how the brain represents the language. It's not a perfect picture of what the brain's doing, but it's good enough.

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Taken together, all of those little circles paint us a picture of how the neural network is representing language,

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(Laughter) I know I've just painted a very bleak picture of the future of the English language,

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in that we played this completely straight. Shannon wasn't able to manipulate the description of the picture or the caption.

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Amazingly, they worked, I survived, I returned to medical school, and I got what I think might be the worst before-and-after picture of all time. (Laughter)

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What do you see when you picture world hunger? A skinny, starving kid in Africa?

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A grain sack stamped with a flag of a distant nation? Now picture something else. A farmer harvesting fresh crops,

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But you can see them. You would see them better if the picture was better, but they're there.

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Bilawal Sidhu: Thank you, Palmer. You painted a very vivid picture of the future of warfare and deterrence. I want to ask you a couple questions.

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It's stealing from the future. Picture what it would have looked like if the Luddites actually had managed to halt progress in its tracks.

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But it would have been true just the same. So picture that, really picture it. A spinner sells a few spools of thread and suddenly you don't have a car.

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Now, actually, it's worse than that, because it's often quite easy to picture the near-term downsides. I mean, just read any article about AI.

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This is a completely plausible, if slightly exaggerated, picture of the world of knowledge work today. Welcome to the age of outsourced reason.

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We've heard that story before. What's wrong with this picture? For one thing, it's only one step removed from this,

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when you live in Road Runner mode you fixate on yourself you ignore the bigger picture when you slow down you stop thinking so

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it is natural to feel discouraged. One wise solution is to remove your ego out of the picture, it's not about it.

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(Laughter) But these to me basically are the picture of the good life to me. And so for the past 18 months,

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So here's one week in May. Picture my tracker. And this is a particularly tough Monday.

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but now I don't really panic anymore. I know I'm managing the full picture of my life because I'm measuring it.

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and they added their own messages. This picture happens to be Toronto, but this project actually happened in dozens of cities across the country

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To understand number three, I want you to picture yourself at a campfire. It's been a long journey to get to this point.

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surrounded by loved ones. And now can you picture someone leaning forward across that campfire? It glows in their face.

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Because like, outside, a lot of people picture you as, you know, you have access to this stuff. And we hear all these rumors coming out of AI,

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compassion is the default for these couples. Picture this. I come home upset.

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where I would love to be able to explain to people what the bigger picture behind that. I really believe in independent media and independent film.

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and showing off what we know about the planetary systems. And this one boy says to me, when I saw a picture of this moon, he said, "Oh, when you look at the moon,

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physically, whatever. And when I did this, it painted a terrifying picture. I was self-medicating,

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scientists looked at children who were reading for pleasure. That means that they picked up a magazine, a picture book, a story book. The data showed that children who were reading for pleasure

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I would stand still, and I would stay sunk. Are we losing the bigger picture? Are we not making it to where we need to be

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For years I have been saying that taking a picture is not the same as seeing and understanding. Today, I would like to add to that.

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To illustrate to you what your spatial intelligence is doing constantly, look at this picture. Raise your hand if you feel like you want to do something.

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was in more ways very, very wrong. Picture yourself as a senior executive at a big multinational. In the 25 years you've been climbing that corporate ladder,

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They cause us to shut down, to remove ourselves from the picture. Denial erases our responsibility.

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Transcriber: Picture one of your favorite spots in nature, a place you love. Maybe you're heading for this spot after a stressful day at work,

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I feel connected. Now, picture that the place you love, that sacred place where you can feel more at ease

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we were starting from scratch and had to paint that picture over and over again. This is also when I learned the value of a well-placed happy hour

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about marketing and advertising. And because of that, I had a crystal-clear picture in my head of how I wanted every piece to work in this new initiative.

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and this is only getting worse with social media, because algorithms show us the most extreme picture of reality. As an etymologist and content creator,

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Jad Abumrad: Like this guy, mathematician, Steve Strogatz, and he would paint a picture. SS: Picture it. There's a riverbank in Thailand,

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and he would paint a picture. SS: Picture it. There's a riverbank in Thailand, in the remote part of the jungle,

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it had a bed and a rocking chair and a long desk and even longer picture windows looking out on a small, private, walled garden,

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all of which represent the history of the Mixtec region. There are many social dynamics taking place in this picture, which specifically showcases the marriage between the Mixtec King and Queen.

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They were not enthusiastic about my patriotism. This is my picture with my brother. This is me, the little one, and I know what you're thinking:

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