But before that, Ernst Jentsch wrote about "the uncanny" in a 1906 essay, and Sigmund Freud followed up 13 years later.
Prior to delivering his speech, Zuckerberg recalled his only eighth grade memory: Mr. Walsh, his eighth-grade teacher, had an uncanny resemblance to a pirate.
She can pinpoint with uncanny precision where a tumor will grow months ahead of time and predict how long a patient is likely to live under various treatment scenarios.
The original, with its touch of the uncanny, has a special appeal for techno-geek teen-agers and perhaps for certain intellectuals who feel trapped in a corporate-controlled culture that they are powerless to fight.
Over the years, Steve has generated a nearly uncanny ability to recognize talent and to recruit almost everyone he has ever set his eye on.
The experience was uncanny, and not a little disorienting.
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Along with his front-line work on many major issues this year, Kennerly has enjoyed a stellar career and is known for his uncanny ability to get behind the scenes of a story.
Football4PDA, who's developing a reputation for uncanny accuracy in leaks, has posted what's claimed to be the core specifications of HTC's first phablet.
It was uncanny for me to see a chapter on fiduciary duty and indexing in The Quest for Alpha because I also included chapters on this same subject in The Power of Passive Investing.
MacDorman's current focus is on the uncanny valley with respect to empathy: that is, is the uncanny valley phenomenon related to a person's difficulty in identifying with particular computer-animated or robotic characters in films?
In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.
On one of his walks Hugues catches sight of a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to his late wife.
Yet the progression toward atonality also had a mystical aspect: these uncanny new chords could serve as esoteric icons, emblems of the sacred.
Dr Gray and Dr Wegner believe their findings argue that a big part of the uncanny-valley effect stems from expectations not being met.
He has the uncanny ability to get his body into a position where he is able to hit the ball where there are no fieldsmen.
The actors all give memorable performances, especially Mr. Cerveris (right), who evokes the charismatic Balanchine with uncanny precision, even managing to suggest a dancer's lithe physicality.
Building 20, though, ranks as one of the most creative environments of all time, a space with an almost uncanny ability to extract the best from people.
In his view, the uncanny valley effect has to do with a mismatch in features of a single animation or robot, with some parts appearing much more humanlike than others.
Like his high tech counterpart, Rathmann has an uncanny knack for timing: He pinpointed a new industry ripe for rapid growth, one that needed both a technologist and an entrepreneur.
The Angerman projects were infused with his love of hospitality and his uncanny ability to sense how to open a restaurant to join and even raise the throbbing pulse of New York City.
Ultimately what makes Madonna a successful artist is her uncanny knack for reading the musical pulse and choosing the best producers like Mirwais, William Orbit and Stuart Price, keeping her relevant to a young audience.
In a phrase first coined by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, get too human and they fall into the "Uncanny Valley", that point on a graph that plots acceptance against how human like a robot is where acceptance falls through the floor.
The trick is his uncanny ability to sound an optimistic note in a sea of melancholy.
Her tiny movements, such as bending over to closely examine a new item for the first time (even one that has no bearing on the game), give her a human feeling without treading into Uncanny Valley (where animation comes so close to actual human behavior that it causes discomfort).
The idea of the uncanny valley was originally proposed by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese roboticist, in 1970.
Scott Fitzgerald story, has been rendered by the writer Eric Roth and the director David Fincher with a fanatical literalness that occasionally touches the uncanny but that often feels laborious and even pedantic.
The Frenchman was not the first, nor the last, outsider to feel both the allure and the vindictive sting of a modern Greece that manages in an uncanny way to be much more, and much less, than the sum of its parts.
He was dubbed "Mr. Yen" for his uncanny ability to strengthen or weaken the currency by uttering a few words.
Hitherto, from the Rockefeller Centre to the Hollywood Hills, Japanese investors have shown an uncanny knack for losing serious money whenever they have bought a slice of America.
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