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Lightyear art by Devin Elle Kurtz graces the cover of Mondo’s exclusive vinyl.Image: Mondo/PixarThese days when you think of big, adventurous, sci-fi scores, there’s one name at the top of the list: Michael Giacchino. In the past few months alone, the prolific, Oscar-winning composer did the scores for Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Batman, Jurassic World Dominion, as well as the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. Which is completely wild, especially when you realize that’s actually not it. In between, he also did Pixar’s…

Data splitting, cross validation, model optimization, and dynamic predictions to validate forecasting modelsPhoto by Oladimeji Ajegbile on UnsplashHow do you know if your time series model is any good? How can you be sure whether changes to your model will make it better or worse? In part 1, we looked at how not validating a model correctly could mislead an audience about its accuracy. In that post, I was seemingly able to predict, among a few other incredible phenomena, COVID-19’s impact on the airline industry only…

Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer of MicroStrategy, first got into bitcoin in 2020, when he decided to start adding the cryptocurrency to MicroStrategy's balance sheet as part of an unorthodox treasury management strategy.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHaving once lost $6 billion at the height of the dotcom bubble, software entrepreneur Michael Saylor is no stranger to volatility in the financial markets.In 1999, MicroStrategy, Saylor's software firm, admitted to overstating its revenues…

Dr. Aspen and Mr. Spock get their timbers shivered.Image: ParamountAfter last week’s attempts at more moral complexity didn’t quite hit the mark, this week Star Trek: Strange New Worlds re-centered on what’s worked for it in the past: a camp, tropey bit of action hung around a central member of the Enterprise crew. This time, Ethan Peck’s Spock took the limelight again—and although this was a little more self-serious on the surface than the last time that happened, we still had a lot of fun along the way.Rainn Wilson’s…

Know when you are being presented with accurate-looking forecasts vs. when the forecast is actually highly accuratePhoto by Nicholas Cappello on UnsplashIt is easy to be tricked by time-series models. I have seen models that are able to (seemingly) predict the most random trends accurately, such as stock and crypto prices, using advanced techniques that most don’t fully understand. Is time series really like magic in this regard? Perform the right data manipulations, apply a complex-enough model, and presto, amazingly…

‘The Office’ actors Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute) and Steve Carell (Michael Scott) on January 22, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Michael Buckner (Getty Images)Rainn Wilson, the actor who played Dwight Schrute on The Office, thinks his iconic character would be up to more than just selling Dunder Mifflin paper if the show was still on the air today.“He prepared himself for the zombie apocalypse that never came, but he probably would have done a big buildout of some underground bunker with food storage and weapons,”…

Recent Advances in Graph MLRecipes for cooking the best graph transformersIn 2021, graph transformers (GT) won recent molecular property prediction challenges thanks to alleviating many issues pertaining to vanilla message passing GNNs. Here, we try to organize numerous freshly developed GT models into a single GraphGPS framework to enable general, powerful, and scalable graph transformers with linear complexity for all types of Graph ML tasks. Turns out, just a well-tuned GT is enough to show SOTA results on many…

A nationally known landscape architectural firm has opened an office in Denver for what is a homecoming for the director of the new location. The process of adding Denver to the offices that Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates has in Cambridge, Mass., and Brooklyn, N.Y., happened organically during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Scott Streeb, an associate principal and the director in Denver. “I originally moved here in 2018 to be closer to my family. Michael was supportive of me working remotely,” said Streeb, who grew up in…

Scaling GNNsThe suitability of standard hardware for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is an often overlooked issue in the Graph ML community. In this post, we explore the implementation of Temporal GNNs on a new hardware architecture developed by Graphcore that is tailored to graph-structured workloads.Graphcore Bow IPU machine. Image: GraphcoreThis post was co-authored with Emanuele Rossi and Daniel Justus and is based on a collaboration with the British semiconductor company Graphcore.Graph-structured data arise in many…

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