• The Descent Part 2 is a 2009 British adventure horror film and sequel to the 2005 horror film The Descent. It was directed by Jon Harris from a screenplay...
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  • The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film stars actresses Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid...
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  • released under the title Descent Maximum. It is the second installment in the Descent video game series and the sequel to Descent. The player controls...
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  • Look up descent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descent may refer to: Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the major concepts...
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  • Gradient descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization. It is a first-order iterative algorithm for minimizing a differentiable multivariate...
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  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 2010 survival horror adventure game developed and published by Frictional Games. It was first released on September 8, 2010...
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  • Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh...
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    The Lone Descent is the fifth studio album by the Danish band Of the Wand & the Moon, released on 10 October 2011 through Heiðrunar Myrkrunar. Berlingske's...
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    theology, the Harrowing of Hell (Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades) is the period of time between the Crucifixion...
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  • Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, known as Conflict: FreeSpace – The Great War in Europe, is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer...
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    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary...
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  • Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time tactics video game developed by Tindalos Interactive in collaboration with 20th Century Games and published by Focus...
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  • documented Cherokee descent who do not meet the criteria for Cherokee tribal citizenship may describe themselves as "being of Cherokee descent" or "being a Cherokee...
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  • Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern...
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  • Descent 3 is the third game in the Descent video game series and a sequel to Descent II. The game takes place in a science fiction setting of the Solar...
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    Kinship (redirect from Kinship and Descent)
    developed a number of related concepts and terms in the study of kinship, such as descent, descent group, lineage, affinity/affine, consanguinity/cognate...
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  • Disarm the Descent is the sixth studio album by American metalcore band Killswitch Engage. The album was released on April 2, 2013, under Roadrunner Records...
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    by descent (IBD) in two or more individuals if they have inherited it from a common ancestor without recombination, that is, the segment has the same...
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  • Coordinate descent is an optimization algorithm that successively minimizes along coordinate directions to find the minimum of a function. At each iteration...
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  • Faithfully flat descent is a technique from algebraic geometry, allowing one to draw conclusions about objects on the target of a faithfully flat morphism...
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    Descent of the Ganges, known locally as Arjuna's Penance, is a monument at Mamallapuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, in the Chengalpattu...
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  • The Avon Descent is an annual, two-day, white water event along the Avon and Swan Rivers in Western Australia. It includes both paddle craft (kayaks,...
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  • stochastic approximation of gradient descent optimization, since it replaces the actual gradient (calculated from the entire data set) by an estimate thereof...
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  • aeronautics, a descent is any time period during air travel where an aircraft decreases altitude, and is the opposite of an ascent or climb. Descents are part...
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  • Descent is a 2007 American rape-and-revenge thriller film directed by Talia Lugacy and produced by and starring Rosario Dawson. The plot centers on Maya...
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    royal descent is a genealogical line of descent from a past or present monarch. Both geneticists and genealogists have attempted to estimate the percentage...
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  • Natalie Mendoza (category Australian people of Filipino descent)
    in the British drama series Hotel Babylon (2006–2008) and as Juno Kaplan in the horror film The Descent (2005), as well as its sequel, The Descent Part...
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  • Anna Skellern (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    cast in the sequel to Neil Marshall's critically acclaimed horror film The Descent, The Descent Part 2, which was released in late 2009. The script sees...
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  • Relatives in Descent is the fourth studio album by American post-punk band Protomartyr released on 29 September 2017. Their first to be released through...
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    The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian...
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