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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhen the ballot results came in to decide the first winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences realised they faced a tricky problem. The “actor” who had collected the most votes was actually a dog called Rin-Tin-Tin, who had starred as Rinty in popular films such as A Dog of the Regiment and Jaws of Steel. The film board were concerned that…

Photo by Finding Dan | Dan Grinwis on UnsplashAn in-depth interview with Dr. Tomas MikolovIn 2012, Dr Tomas Mikolov received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic with a thesis named ‘Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks’. Working for Google Research, a year later, he published two highly influential papers in which he introduced the Continuous Bag of Words (CBOW) and skip-gram algorithms, also known as Word2Vec. As a result, words could be…

Photo by Emile Perron on UnsplashUnderstanding the metric that correlates the highest with humansIn natural language processing (NLP), topic modeling is a popular task. The goal is to extract the hidden (K) topics in a corpus of documents. Each topic is a distribution over words. Typically, the N most probable words per topic represent that topic. The idea is that if the topic modeling algorithm works well, these top-N words are semantically related. The difficulty is how to evaluate these sets of words. Just as with any…

More than a decade after Tim Roth’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Emil Blonksy, AKA Abomination, in The Incredible Hulk, he’s finally getting his own solo character poster following his reappearance in the Disney Plus series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. “Meet #EmilBlonsky aka She-Hulk’s first client aka HUGE conflict of interest” was the caption accompanying the photo on the official Marvel Studios Twitter account. Technically, Emil has appeared in a Marvel movie poster before, but not in over a decade.…

Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor has announced its next steps in previously laid out plans to expand EV sales to markets in Europe. Beginning with Germany, Great Wall has recruited the services of Emil Frey – the EU’s largest car dealer group to help distribute vehicles from the Ora and Wey marques. Great Wall Motor (GWM) is the largest manufacturer of SUVs and pickups in China and was the third largest plug-in EV manufacturer in 2021. The company has gained significant notoriety and hunk of the Chinese market…