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Screenshot: MicrosoftAlthough they didn’t appear in the original telling of the Fall of Reach as seen in the 2001, Noble Team—a squad of next-generation Spartan-III supersoldiers, the successors to the Spartan II program—were the primary protagonists of the version of the Fall of Reach depicted in Halo: Reach. There were six members of the team—Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Noble Six, Reach’s customizable player character—and spoiler, but unsurprisingly so given everything you’ve read here so far, all but one of…

A court has granted the rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most internationally significant author of the 20th century, to five nephews of the author’s widow, who died in March.Borges’s wife, María Kodama, had devoted much of her life to fiercely protecting his legacy and it surprised many in Argentina’s literary circle that she did not leave a will, even though she had breast cancer.The absence of a will had put the rights to his works into limbo. But on Tuesday, a court in Buenos…

Image: ogichobanov (Shutterstock)A secretive Israeli cyber company is engineering ongoing influence operations directed at elections all over the world, a consortium of more than 30 news organizations reports. The CEO of the company, a former Israeli special forces agent named Tal Hanan, boasted to undercover journalists that his team of psychological warfare operators had been involved in “33 presidential-level campaigns, 27 of which were successful,” according to the consortium’s stories.Reporters from a cadre of well…

A complete guide with examples in PythonPhoto by Joanne Francis on UnsplashIn a few months, I will have been working as a Data Scientist for 3 years. I know it is not a long career yet, but together with my academic experience, I have been able to work on several machine learning projects for different sectors (energy, customer experience…). All of them were fed by tabular data, which means structured data (organised in rows and columns). In contrast, there are projects fed by unstructured data such as images or text…

Understanding bagging, boosting and gradient boostingPhoto by Arnaud Mesureur on UnsplashA tree ensemble is a machine learning technique for supervised learning that consists of a set of individually trained decision trees defined as weak or base learners, that may not perform well individually. The aggregation of the weak learners produce a new strong model, which is often more accurate than the former ones. There are three main types of ensemble learning methods: bagging, boosting, and gradient boosting. Every method…

Just off the coast of Miami Beach, on ultra-exclusive Fisher Island, there is one crane on one construction site. It is the last plot of land available for development and an unlikely bet on luxury real estate at a time when the housing market appears to be in freefall.Jorge Perez, also known as "the condo king of Miami," and his Related Group are behind the 10-story, 50-unit project that boasts a sell-out price of $1.2 billion. They paid $122.6 million for the land, at the top of the market.Units start at $15 million.…

| As first mentioned by Bleeding Cool by accident, Jorge Jiménez is the new artist on the twelve-year-awaited return of the Nemesis series, originally published by Marvel Comics, written by Mark Millar and drawn by Steve McNiven. Steve is too busy drawing Neil Gaiman's Spider-Man memories right now – and presumably for the last decade – so Jorge Jiménez is taking a break from Batman to draw the new return of the character. Who was once advertised as "What If Batman Was A C*nt" until DC Comics told him to stop it. And…

A clip from the recently rediscovered TV-movie “The Soulmates: The Gift of Light” which first aired in Canada in 1991.Gif: YouTube / GizmodoWill Sloan, a movie podcast host in Canada, first posted an old family photo online in 2016, asking if anyone knew what cartoon was playing on the TV in the background. Oddly, nobody could figure it out. But someone finally cracked the case on Monday after six long years.“My gf and her friends have spent years trying to figure out what cartoon (glimpsed in the background of a family…

On Monday, Jorge Gomez took the reins as the finance chief of the biotech success story Moderna Inc., MRNA -4.87% leaving behind the less flashy world of dental products at his previous employer, Dentsply Sirona Inc.A day later, Mr. Gomez was out.Moderna, maker of a leading Covid-19 vaccine, said Wednesday its newly hired chief financial officer left the company on Tuesday, citing a newly revealed internal investigation by Dentsply into…