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Image: Wit Studio/FunimationWe left 2022 behind in the dust weeks ago, but there’s still awards to be given for the previous year’s top movies and TV shows. It’s the same for anime too, as Crunchyroll finally unveiled the list of nominees for its annual Anime Awards ceremony.Of the many nominees, Cloverworks’ Spy x Family has caught the most attention with 16 nominations in various categories including Anime of the Year and Best Animation. The show’s popularity isn’t much of a surprise, but the number of nominations…

Montreal’s premiere party in the snow Igloofest is back after a couple of pandemic years, and the city is ready to don their one-piece snowsuits once again. As always, it’s happening in the city’s Old Port during the months of January and February, starting tonight with the sold-out return of Montreal favourite Flume. But there are plenty of other acts to check out too over the course of the festival. Here are 10 artists to catch at Igloofest 2023.1. FlumePerforms Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m.Headlining the first night of…

Python for AI Engineers and Data ScientistsCreate Custom Iterators and Generators for Efficient Data ProcessingVisual created by the author.This blog post delves into the world of iterators and generators in Python, providing an in-depth guide on how to use them to optimize your code and improve the performance and efficiency of your programs. The post covers the concepts of iterators and generators, including how they work and how to create custom them for specific use cases. The blog also explores advanced techniques…

TJ Klune’s latest leads you deep into a fantastic forest where a man has raised a small family of robots. This standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door takes inspiration from Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, and is described as “Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E.” In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine,…

Logistics heavyweight C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. has reached an agreement to work with its activist investors as analysts said new board member Jim Barber would be a strong candidate to lead the company.  The pact between C.H. Robinson and activists Ancora Advisors LLC, known as a standstill agreement, renewed for a year a deal reached last year as the investment group placed two representatives on the company’s board of directors and questioned the direction…

We cover the basics of NLP with spaCy, including tokenization and POS tagging, as well as more advanced topics like named entity recognition and dependency parsing. The guide also touches on working with large data sets, custom models, and advanced techniques like text classification and word vectors. Finally, it provides some suggestions for further resources and the next steps for those who want to continue learning about NLP with spaCy.Wordcloud for the blog. It is generated by the author via…

Brian Robinson, the former Alabama running back who was drafted by the Washington Commanders in the third round of last year’s draft, made his NFL debut this weekend just six weeks after he was shot during an attempted robbery. Robinson took the field against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday with an entrance that was soundtracked by “Many Men,” a classic track from 50 Cent’s 2003 debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’.50 Cent, who has been shot multiple times as well, took to Instagram early Monday morning to shout out Robinson…

The crime writer Peter Robinson has died aged 72, his publisher has announced.The Yorkshire-born author died suddenly on the 4 October after a brief illness, publisher Hodder & Stoughton said. Robinson was best known for his novels featuring Inspector Banks, the first of which was published 35 years ago. The books were adapted into the TV drama series DCI Banks which ran between 2010 and 2016, and starred Stephen Tompkinson in the titular role.A total of 8.75m books were sold by Robinson’s UK publishers Hodder &…

Colin Robinson in season three... or is it Colin Robinson in season five?Photo: Russ Martin/FXWhat We Do in the Shadows wrapped up its fourth season last night, ending a hugely enjoyable ride that included a vampire nightclub, a wedding, the Jersey Devil, a very tricky home-renovation project, and some major character growth—including, quite literally, for Mark Proksch’s Colin Robinson. io9 jumped at the chance to speak with Proksch and series producer-showrunner-writer Paul Simms to learn more.If you haven’t watched the…

Comedian Craig Robinson says he’s safe after evacuating from a North Carolina comedy club on Saturday after a suspect with a firearm. The Killing It and Office star was scheduled to perform at the venue when a man entered the building around 9 p.m. and brandished a gun, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Those inside the venue were evacuated, after which the suspect discharged his weapon. Authorities say the suspect was detained and that no one was injured. The Hollywood Reporter has…