Alexander

Alexander Skarsgård is an embarrassing creep who tries to coerce women into partying naked with him in hotel suites. Or so it would seem from the version of himself that he played last year in Donald Glover’s comedy Atlanta. “I’m not saying that I dance around in a leopard-print thong in front of girls I don’t know,” he says. “But I’m also not saying that I don’t. That kind of thing works really well when there’s a kernel of truth in it.”This twinkling, teasing playfulness represents the default setting of the 46-year-old…

Cher’s fiancé Alexander Edwards has said that they’re both heavily involved with each other’s kids from their previous relationships, per TMZ.“Chaz is my guy,” said Edwards, referring to Cher’s 54-year-old son Chaz Bono, whom she had with Sonny Bono. “Shout out Chaz, and Elijah. They’re my guys.” Her second son is 46-year-old Elijah Blue Allman, who she welcomed with her second husband, Gregg Allman. Asked if Chaz will walk Cher down the aisle, he added, “I’m just chilling right now.” The two first sparked engagement…

Intravenous contrast enhancement is fundamental to CT imaging. Here’s how it might be affecting your CT image datasets“Brain CT in the style of Vincent Van Gogh”. DALL-E 2.The use of contrast is ubiquitous in radiologic imaging and yet, there’s surprisingly little helpful information on the topic online. Here, I’ll describe the basics of IV contrast, how it appears in CT images, and how it might affect your imaging dataset.As a data scientist working on medical imaging studies, it is important to understand how contrast…

Resolve your issues, save time, and avoid mistakesImage by Vska from freepik.comSo you’ve begun to develop your first production recommendation system, and although you have experience in programming and ML, you are bombarded with an enormous volume of new information, like model selection, metrics selection, inference problems and quality assurance.We cover steps for creating the first working version of an ML model, including data processing, model selection, metrics selection, ML debugging, results interpretation and…

Absolutely Everything by Other Boys creator Damian Alexander is a new middle-grade graphic novel to be published by Graphic Universe in 2025.Absolutely Everything by Other Boys creator Damian Alexander is a new middle-grade graphic novel that follows Marcella, a sixth grader who struggles with undiagnosed ADHD leading to mishaps at home, in school, and with her friendships. Damian Alexander states "Marcella's story is heavily inspired by my own life and experiences with undiagnosed ADHD growing up!" Absolutely Everything …

Metrics don’t show the actual performance of NLP models. Learn how to thoroughly test your models and fix the annotation artifacts.Dataset artifacts are one of the problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that affect models’ performance in the real world. Even though pre-trained models can perform well on benchmark datasets, they show poor performance in other settings. Those failures are due to dataset artifacts or annotation artifacts — spurious correlations, which a language model learns during training.Photo by…

Image: Courtesy of Sundance InsituteOf course io9 wants you to read this review, but Infinity Pool—the latest from Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral, Possessor)—is one of those movies you shouldn’t know too much about before you watch it. No spoilers here, but if you want to go in totally blind, you’ve been warned.Set on a fictional island (Croatia provides the gorgeously scenic backdrops) at an exclusive resort, Infinity Pool introduces us to James (The Northman’s Alexander Skarsgård) and Em (In the Shadow of the Moon’s…

Colin Farrell had a great start to his acting career with his first lead role being the war drama Tigerland and his breakthrough co-starring with Tom Cruise in Minority Report. He even starred in one of the top films of 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin. But like all successful actors, there’s always that one movie that sets you back, such as when Farrell’s historical epic Alexander bombed at the box office.You would think the Oliver Stone epic Alexander would have shown great promise for its grand scenery and having…

Stills from some of the genre films coming to Sundance 2023.Image: SundanceThe 2023 movie season kicks into high gear this week with the start of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the big, buzzy, independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory—and, with the festival now being both digital and in-person, audiences everywhere can participate.Sundance might be best known for its dramatic fare (like last year’s best picture winner, Coda, which premiered…

Avatar: The Way of Water | New TrailerThe spectacle of James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time was, against all odds, worth the wait. The Way of Water improves upon the original Avatar on every level—not just in the spectacle, which was a given, but in the story, the characters, and the drama, too. The tale of the Sully family, forced to flee across Pandora and adapt to a new, wetter life, allows Cameron to explore a dazzling new world, while the fight with a Na’vi-fied Miles Quaritch…