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Image: Naughty Dog/PlayStation2020's The Last of Us Part II is a revenge story built around two sides: that of Ellie (as played in the show by Bella Ramsey) and newcomer Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). Both women have their own respective supporting casts, and the HBO adaptation has mainly cast the folks in Ellie’s social circle like Dina and Jesse.Thanks, Last of Us. Thanks a Lot. | The Last of Us Episode 7 ReviewAccording to Variety, HBO’s managed to lock down four actors who’ll play the people in Abby’s friend group. Top Gun:…

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Catherine O’Hara has signed on to join HBO’s next season of The Last of Us.Thanks, Last of Us. Thanks a Lot. | The Last of Us Episode 7 ReviewPer Variety, the actor will be appearing in the sophomore outing for the post-apocalyptic drama. Her casting comes weeks after other actors were locked in for major season two roles, such as Kaitlyn Dever as Abby and Isabela Merced as Dina. But unlike them, her role is being kept entirely under wraps at time of writing. But that hasn’t stopped Last of Us…

Edge of Tomorrow 2 might finally happen, thanks to Tom Cruise’s major new Warner Bros. deal. David Gordon Green will no longer direct The Exorcist: Deceiver. Plus, Netflix returns to Eternia in a new trailer for He-Man: Revolution, and new footage from Godzilla x Kong. Spoilers now!Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewWeaponAccording to The Insneider, an overbooked Pedro Pascal has dropped out of Zach Cregger’s mysterious Barbarian follow-up, Weapon, due to “scheduling conflicts.”Smile 2The…

Another lead in The Last of Us Part II has been cast for its TV adaptation. The second season of HBO’s The Last of Us has found its Dina in Instant Family’s Isabela Merced. The news, tweeted by Max and Naughty Dog, is the third casting for the new season in the past few days. The first was Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, and soon after, Beef‘s Young Mazino as Jesse. Creators Neil Druckmann and showrunner/director Craig Mazin talked about Merced and Dina with Variety, saying “Dina is warm, brilliant, wild, funny,…

When the burning metal rod sank into his shoulder, K passed out to the sound of his own screams. He sensed more burning wounds on his back when he came round. It was August 2009 and he was in a government interrogation room in Sri Lanka. K’s torturers kept asking him where the gold was that he hid for the Tamil Tigers. “I swear I don’t know,” he told them. “I’m not LTTE . I’m a jeweller’s assistant.” They poured petrol over his wounded body and threatened to set it alight unless he told them what they wanted to know.Or…

The question driving Dina Nayeri’s latest book, “who gets believed?”, is deceptively simple. The Iranian-American novelist, once a child refugee, weaves stories from her own life with those people who were wrongly denied asylum in the UK and US. In doing so, she shows how “the accident of birth, the privilege of race, class, and nationality” often trumps “data, history, science, and reason” when it comes to whose voices are heard, and whose truths acknowledged. The consequences can be devastating.The book is instantly…

Discover a cost-effective ad campaign strategy by defining and evaluating model sensitivity, with step-by-step guidance and Python implementationPhoto by Joey Kyber on UnsplashThis blog post outlines a tactic for businesses that utilize paid traffic in their advertising. The objective is to acquire paying customers with minimal traffic while maximizing efficiency. Predictive modeling is utilized to assess and enhance the model’s effectiveness in achieving this goal. By defining and analyzing model sensitivity, companies…

Social network analysis (SNA) is a field of study that involves the use of statistical and mathematical techniques to analyze and understand the relationships and patterns within a network of individuals or organizations. It is often used to identify key players and understand the dynamics of social, professional, and communication networks.In SNA, a network is typically represented as a graph, with nodes representing the individual actors (e.g., people, organizations) and edges representing the relationships between them…

Leveraging NLP and PySpark to Enhance Marketing Funnel Analysis and Optimization. A Practical Guide to Analyzing and Improving the Customer Journey with PySpark.Photo by Shengjun Shi on UnsplashThis article discusses the use of PySpark to implement Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) weighting for events in the customer funnel as a way to build features for machine learning to predict purchases. TF-IDF is a statistical measure used to evaluate the importance of a word or phrase within a document or set of…