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It was just a month ago that Lily Gladstone made Golden Globes history, becoming the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best actress for her role as Mollie Burkhart, the Osage woman at the center of “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Based on the 2017 bestselling nonfiction book of the same name, Martin Scorsese’s true-crime epic reflects on the racism and gruesome murders of members of the Osage Nation during the early 1900s, spurred by oil and greed. Gladstone, now nominated for best actress at next month’s…

Earlier this month, at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki, this editor had the opportunity to sit down with Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland who became known internationally for socializing with friends, but whose accomplishments in office are far more significant, including successfully pushing Finland to join NATO to better protect the country from its neighbor Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Marin, who opted out of Finnish politics in September, works today at the Tony Blair…

Beginner-friendly guideUnderstand the optimization algorithm widely used in Machine and Deep LearningThe slope of a mountain — Photo by Ralph (Ravi) Kayden on UnsplashImagine you are a drop of water on top of a mountain, and your goal is to get to the lake situated right at the base of the mountain. That tall mountain has different slopes and obstacles, so going down following a straight line might not be the best solution. How would you approach this problem? The best solution would arguably be taking little steps, one…

6 simple changes to improve your pandas’ code performancePhoto by Pascal Müller on UnsplashPandas is arguably a requirement for any data scientist’s portfolio. Whether you use it or not, mastering it will always be an asset.However, like with any other thing, the key is not to know how to use pandas but to actually produce efficient pandas code. That’s where not most excel, but after this post, you won’t be part of that crew anymore.But, first things first.What Is Pandas and Why Does Efficiency Matter?Using the official…

Julián Gil, the Argentine actor and host of “Sit Who Can” had a hard time after separating from Marjorie de Sousa and getting into a conflict about his son. However, in February 2020, he met Valeria Marín, and a new opportunity opened up for him. Both of them confirmed their relationship with a social media post during the pandemic, revealing that they had been keeping their romance hidden for a while. The most significant moment of their relationship came when Julián proposed to her in Qatar, while she was…

Introduction to DuckDB and its Python integrationPhoto by Krzysztof Niewolny on UnsplashWe, programmers, tend to default to SQLite when we want to work on local environments with an embedded database. While that works fine most of the time, it’s like using a bicycle to travel 100 km away: probably not the best option.Introducing DuckDB.I first learned about DuckDB in September 2022, while in PyCon Spain at Granada. Now, after 6 months of using it, I can’t live without it. And I want to contribute to the community by…

Step-by-step guideInstalling TensorFlow and Python on ARM Macs was never easierPhoto by Ales Nesetril on UnsplashI switched jobs one year ago and I found myself with a brand new M1 MacBook Pro to work with. I had to install everything a data scientist needs, which was a real pain.To make things worse, it turns out that I didn’t set it up properly and it was chaos.But a coworker shared a set of steps and, after following them and being able to set it all up successfully, I thought I could share it with you all. So I…

Marin Alsop, a world-renowned conductor name-checked in “Tár,” is speaking out against the 2022 film and its antagonistic protagonist portrayed by Cate Blanchett.In a recent interview with British newspaper the Times, Alsop denounced the prestige drama’s depiction of Lydia Tár — a fictional, abusive, narcissistic maestro who bullies her students and exploits her employees. Alsop — a real-life maestro, principal conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and esteemed MacArthur fellow from New York — is mentioned in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMarin Alsop, a female conductor namechecked in Tár, has hit out at the critically acclaimed film, calling it “anti-woman”.Cate Blanchett stars in Todd Field’s film as Lydia Tár, a world-famous fictional conductor who finds herself at the centre of a debate about the power given to successful artists after she is accused of preying on and abusing young musicians.A number of reviewers…

Before his death, the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia tried to get clean after years of freebasing cocaine and other drugs, so he gifted a marijuana pipe to a fellow musician who socked it away in his San Francisco home. About 31 years later, the handmade pipe has resurfaced in a Marin County antique shop, whose owner considers it a unique rock ‘n’ roll artifact.“My shop is fun and a lot of fun stuff walks in the door,” Steve Cabella, owner of the Modern i Shop in San Anselmo, told The Times. “But when this walked in the…