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Italian horror master Lucio Fulci is best known for his gruesome Gates of Hell trilogy—especially The Beyond—and the immortal Zombi 2, but his career also contained excellently off-kilter giallo movies, including Don’t Torture a Duckling and The New York Ripper. The Psychic, coming soon to Shudder, has fewer of those lurid elements that became Fulci trademarks, but it’s a tightly wound thriller with just enough weirdness to remind you who was calling the shots.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DLike most…

Fan favorite comics author Scott Snyder is jumping back into the horror field, this is time with a three-issue mini-series for upstart publisher DSTLRY. Titled White Boat, the comic will reteam the writer, who became a superstar thanks to his Batman work for in DC in the 2010s, with artist Francesco Francavilla. The two collaborated on a horror mini-series titled Night of the Ghoul, which is now set up for adaptation at 20th Century Studios with 21 Laps producing. According to the publisher,…

Darren Lynn Bousman has directed four Saw movies—parts 2-4, and the Chris Rock-starring Spiral—and while his latest, The Cello, has some gruesome elements, it’s a big departure for the filmmaker in many ways. Ahead of the film’s release December 8, io9 got a chance to ask him more.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedSet mostly in Saudi Arabia, The Cello follows a talented but struggling musician (Samer Ismail) who acquires a gleaming new instrument from a stranger (Saw’s Tobin Bell) he meets after a…

Leveraging data to help users discovering new contentPhoto by Javier Allegue Barros on UnsplashRecommender systems are algorithms providing personalized suggestions for items that are most relevant to each user. With the massive growth of available online contents, users have been inundated with choices. It is therefore crucial for web platforms to offer recommendations of items to each user, in order to increase user satisfaction and engagement.YouTube recommends videos to users, to help them discover and watch content…

Photo by Alberto Restifo on UnsplashMake your CNN >100x fasterHello There!! Today we’ll see how to implement RepVGG in PyTorch proposed in RepVGG: Making VGG-style ConvNets Great AgainCode is here, an interactive version of this article can be downloaded from here.Let’s get started!The paper proposed a new architecture that can be tuned after training to make it faster on modern hardware. And by faster I mean lighting fast, this idea was used by Apple’s MobileOne model.Image by Xiaohan Ding, Xiangyu Zhang, Ningning Ma,…

A brief introduction about this ubiquitous pattern and its applicationsVoronoi diagrams (also known as Dirichlet tesselation or Thiessen polygons) are everywhere in nature. You have encountered them thousands of times, but maybe did not call it this way. Voronoi diagram are simple, yet they have incredible properties which have found applications in fields ranging from cartography, biology, computer science, statistics, archaeology, all way to architecture and arts.Suppose you have n points scattered on a plane, the…