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Helen Mirren’s latexed and enhanced portrayal of Golda Meir, Israel’s “Iron Lady” prime minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur war, has been overtaken by a debate about “Jewface” casting because Mirren is not Jewish – addressing why Jews are casually excluded from the otherwise fiercely policed sensibilities about authenticity and identity on screen. (Would they get a white actor, for example, to black up as President Anwar Sadat?) It’s a valid and important question, but not exactly the problem in this stately, stuffy and…

Helen Mirren ducked a question at the Berlin film festival as to whether it had been appropriate to cast her as former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in a feature drama during a promotion event ahead of the film’s world premiere.Having faced criticism for taking on the role amid a debate about authentic casting, with leading British Jews such as Maureen Lipman and David Baddiel suggesting Jewish roles should be reserved for Jewish actors, Mirren turned to her director, Guy Nattiv, to respond to the question from The…

An honest review of JetBrain’s Data Science IDE after a year of using it“a code editor casting a spell”, at least according to DALL·E 2Disclaimer (originated in here): This is not a sponsored article. I don’t have any affiliation with DataSpell or its creators. The article shows an unbiased overview of the IDE, intending to make data science tools accessible to the broader masses.DataSpell was officially released in last November, yet Towards Data Science diligent authors have posted some reviews of the preview edition as…

Improve your KPI by 15% with 3X faster, free & interpretable modelPhoto by Victoire Joncheray on UnsplashIf you’re reading this article, you either consider using the Amazon SageMaker DeepAR algorithm for your multiple time series dataset, or you’re already “stuck” with one — and are not sure how to improve it any further.How your dataset probably looks like. Airtable (data by the author)Before delving into the neety grity technicals, you should contemplate on these:DeepAR prosNo Data Science expertise needed — If you…

Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Cyolo, maker of zero trust security tech enabling secure connection to workplaces, has raised a $60M Series B, bringing its total raised to $85M — The Israeli startup helps organizations in the IT and OT spaces to enable all users, including employees, third parties … Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Cyolo, maker of zero trust security tech enabling secure connection to workplaces, has raised a $60M Series B, bringing its total raised to $85M …