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After hosting a similar “White Party” in the Hamptons last year for the Fourth of July weekend, Michael Rubin has once again celebrated the occasion with a star-studded shindig.The Philadelphia 76ers partner pulled out all the stops for his latest private party, hosted at his $50 million estate. The guestlist included Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Yo Gotti, James Harden, Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Fat Joe, Joel Embiid, Robert Kraft, and Draymond Green among others. Rubin also got some of his superstar friends to put on a…

Origins of Geometric Deep LearningGeometric Deep Learning approaches a broad class of ML problems from the perspectives of symmetry and invariance, providing a common blueprint for neural network architectures as diverse as CNNs, GNNs, and Transformers. In a new series of posts, we study how these ideas have emerged through history from ancient Greek geometry to Graph Neural Networks.Image: based on Shutterstock.What is in common between snowflakes and the Standard Model? Symmetry. In the first post from the “Towards…

In 1984, George Michael released a song called “Freedom” with his pop duo Wham! Six years later, he put out one of his own called “Freedom! ’90.” And six years after that? A song called “Free” closed his third solo album, “Older.”The specifics of the liberation he’s describing in each tune vary; so too did the shape of the British singer’s stardom at the time he wrote each of them. But to listen to these songs now — half a decade after Michael’s shocking death at age 53 and amid a swelling of interest in his work tied to…

Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images If you saw a horror film remake in the days of former Presidents George W. Bush or Barack Obama, the chances are Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes banner was behind it. They began with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, gave the world A Nightmare on Elm Street in 2010, and Bay is refreshing the A Quiet Place company to make the next generation of schlock and quality sci-fi. News of the 57-year-old finding a new home for Platinum Dunes at Universal is reported today in an article…

Scott Hutchison, a musician and visual artist best known as the singer in the band Frightened Rabbit, took his own life in 2018, aged 36. He was close friends with the Scottish poet Michael Pedersen, providing the illustrations for his second poetry collection, Oyster. In his new memoir, Boy Friends, Pedersen pays tender tribute to his late pal, remembering his “marshmallow-melting gooey grin”, the brilliance of his drawings – “the morose made funny, dolefulness shadowed in love” – and the good times they shared: road…

Michael Waters / MIT Technology Review: Data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural zones, are increasingly being built in urban areas to further reduce internet lag for locals — Companies are pushing more server farms into the hearts of population centers. — In 1930, the telegraph giant Western Union put … Michael Waters / MIT Technology Review: Data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural zones, are increasingly being built in urban areas to further…

Late pop singer Michael Jackson delivered several hits during his career and one of them was Dirty Diana. Talking about the song, he once changed his performance list prior to his show at Wembley Stadium in the United Kingdom after Princess of Wales, Diana and Prince Charles arrived for the show. He said that the decision was made in due respect for the Princess. (Also read: When Bappi Lahiri’s gold Ganesha chain attracted MJ, made him say ‘Fantastic’)Saturday marked the 13th death anniversary of Michael Jackson. In…

A portrait of Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis by English pop artist Sir Peter Blake has been unveiled at the music festival.The portrait, unveiled on Blake’s 90th birthday, was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London in 2019, and will be displayed at the venue when it reopens in 2023 after building works are completed.The portrait shows Eavis, 86, standing in front of the famous Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, where the festival is being hosted for the first time in three…

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Michael Saylor, whose company MicroStrategy holds bitcoin now worth ~$2.7B, says bitcoin “is still at an early stage in its development and poorly understood” — Software entrepreneur has remained calm even as crypto markets crashed — What do you do when you head the public company … Richard Waters / Financial Times: Michael Saylor, whose company MicroStrategy holds bitcoin now worth ~$2.7B, says bitcoin “is still at an…

Former children’s laureate Michael Rosen has written a new poem to mark the 75th anniversary of the release of Anne Frank’s diary.The poem is titled Sonnet for Anne Frank; Rosen wrote in this form, he said, because sonnets have “a certain kind of dignity” and give “you time to reflect”.Michael Rosen. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesRosen addresses Frank directly in the poem writing, “you compressed so much life into that loft”, but that “each time we read, we struggle to enjoy / your love of life while knowing how…