Gabriel

Photo: Amanda Matlovich/NetflixDesperate to help his girlfriend, Jackie (Genevieve Kang), remember magic as her 18th birthday approached, Tyler spent a lot of season two trying to track down the Memory Key. That particular key was made two decades prior by Duncan Locke (Aaron Ashford), the kids’ uncle, at the behest of their father, Rendell (Bill Heck as an adult, Nick Dolan as a teen). He and his high-school friends—who dubbed themselves “the Keepers of the Keys”—wanted the power to hold onto their supernatural…

If Philip Roth had ever switched his attention from the great American novel and decided to write a lightweight indie dramedy, it might have turned out like this. Gabriel Byrne stars as poetry professor Samuel O’Shea, who is a cross between one of Roth’s protagonists and Keith Richards: a hard-drinking self-absorbed womaniser with a penchant for paisley scarves and chunky silver rings. It’s an insubstantial little film with slimly conceived characters, but Byrne adds at least 10 points to its IQ score and makes it twice…

There is a short video on YouTube of Gabriel Byrne being interviewed by the Irish comedian and actor Tommy Tiernan. “Do you think you’re a strange man?” asks Tiernan. “I do think I’m a strange man, yes,” replies Byrne without hesitation. He then bats the question back to Tiernan, deftly sidestepping any further discussion of the subject. I ask him if now he could elaborate on the nature of his strangeness.“I like to think I’m pretty normal and not given to extremes, but people who know me well would probably think I’m a…

End-to-end phyton project looking at exercise data from an Apple Watch, from data collection to model deploymentPhoto by Blocks Fletcher on UnsplashIn this series of posts, I will go through all steps of an end-to-end machine learning project. From data extraction and preparation to the deployment of the model using an API and finally to the creation of a front end to actually solve the problem helping with decisions. The main topics of each one are:Project setup, Data Processing, and Data ExplorationModel…

Photo: Christos Kalohoridis/NetflixMysterious billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) adopted seven of the 43 children born that fateful 1989 day and founded the Umbrella Academy in his sprawling New York City mansion to study them and train them into being a superhero team. Emotionally cold and even cruel, especially to Viktor, he wasn’t exactly a source of comfort to his family, something we see in season one’s extensive flashbacks. The nurturing was left to the kindly robot Grace, aka Mom (Jordan Claire…