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In 2019, Death Stranding borrowed some concepts from The Postman and made package delivery in a broken world entertaining. A movie version was recently announced to be in development and creator Hideo Kojima is revealing just how he wants it to go. The 59-year-old gives his thoughts in a new article published by IGN looking at his Kojima Productions office and just what is next for them. Essentially, he does not want the film to ape what was made for the interactive entertainment space. Kojima says this has caused the…

Metrics for Recommender Systems differ from traditional metrics. Here we look into 9 such metrics which are used widely in RecSys domain.Photo by Diana Polekhina on UnsplashMetrics for Recommender Systems differ from traditional metrics like accuracy in the sense that these mostly work cumulatively on an ranked list of predictions instead of scores of individual predictions. It is because, for the scenario of recommender systems, the business needs that we need to optimize almost always get tied up with the set of…

Microplastic samples collected from the North Atlantic during the eXXpedition Round the World voyage. Credit: Sophie Dingwall The waters of the North Atlantic gyre contain significantly greater quantities of plastic—composed of polymers arising from packaging, rope, and paint particles—than other areas of the open ocean, according to new research. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Concerns over university students' strain and well-being soared when the coronavirus pandemic moved lectures online and sent students home. A new study among Finnish university students shows that the transition to remote teaching and learning was experienced in many ways. Strengthening students'…

Mean standardized score of each of the semantic variables (Valence, Arousal, Imageability, Concreteness, OAI, and OSI) as a function of descriptor category. Error bars illustrate 95% confidence intervals. Violin plots illustrate distributions. Credit: Cognitive Science (2022). DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13205 Most languages lack a specialized vocabulary to describe smell experiences. People instead use words from other domains, such as…

Estimated trends for Aitken mode Dp and N at measurement sites. Trend has been calculated by DLM; see Sect. 2.3.1 for details. The overall trend presented in the figure is comparable with the long-term trend estimates given in Sect. 3.1. To get a DLM trend for 1 year, the 1 d trend given by the model was multiplied by the number of days in a year (365 used for all years) and divided by the mean of the variable over the first observed year. For example,…

While sexual minority men report that racialized sexual discrimination is rampant on dating apps and websites, Black men reported differing experiences on Grindr and Jack'd, according to a recent study led by social work professor Ryan Wade. Credit: L. Brian Stauffer About 99% of the 550 young sexual minority Black men who participated in a recent survey reported encountering racialized sexual discrimination while searching…

Apple iPhone 14 lineup will be unveiled on September 7 at Far Out event. The series is likely to consist of four models- iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Max. A previous rumour earlier suggested that iPhone 14 Pro…

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It was last fall that the entertainment industry was shaken by the tragic events that occurred on the set of western film Rust. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a live round that was fired from a prop gun. Lead actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun that fired the round, also injuring director Joel Souza in the process. The FBI soon launched an investigation and, in the midst of that, Baldwin denied pulling the trigger. Now, the investigation is complete, and the forensic findings clash with Baldwin’s…