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Director Pedro Almodovar has spoken out on why he declined the opportunity to direct the Oscar-winning drama Brokeback Mountain. Adapted from Annie Proulx’s short story, the hit motion picture centred on cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) as they fall in love in the rural West. The film won Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Original Score at the 78th Academy Awards. It was also nominated for the categories of Best Actor (Ledger), Best Supporting Actor (Gyllenhaal)and Best…

Image by the author.The beauty of Bayesian statistics is, at the same time, one of its most annoying features: we often get answers in the form of “well, the number is somewhere between…”If on one hand, this might be frustrating to business strategists or policymakers looking for straightforward guidance, it is also a fantastic way to know how wrong you can be.To start with a simple example, let us say that we are given the task of finding the distribution of heights of students in a high school classroom. Maybe this…

Create extremely customized and organized preprocessing pipelines with Sklearn’s ColumnTransformerPhoto by Simon Kadula on UnsplashData preprocessing is probably one of the most time-consuming steps in a Machine Learning/Data Science Pipeline.In most realistic scenarios, the available raw data is unformatted, dirty, and improper to a machine learning model/data analysis, requiring several steps of cleaning and feature engineering.In the context of structured data (tables), a developer needs to deal with all sorts of…

Kathleen Kennedy managed to both firm up and dance around the immediate big screen future of Star Wars when she hinted that Taika Waititi’s untitled movie would be next out of the gate, perhaps as soon as December of next year, before instantly making it clear that nothing is set in stone. The franchise has been absent from theaters since The Rise of Skywalker split opinion right down the middle back in December 2019, but there’s more content than ever in the works for Disney Plus. This weekend’s Star Wars…