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Earlier in the month, Disney released a second volume of its animated anthology series, Star Wars Visions. Where Volume One focused on the sci-fi franchise through the lens of various Japanese studios, this new batch looked to ones all over the globe, and is all the better for it. Nearly all of the episodes are nothing short of bangers, with the best of the bunch arguably being Sith from Spanish studio El Guiri.The Rings of Power | First FandomsThe 14-minute short opens the new season, and is currently part of a Spanish…

How unsupervised learning can help us detect phase transitions and emergent phenomena?Photo by William L. Stefanov on NASA-JSC. (Cities growth can be understood as a second-order phase transition and an emergent phenomenon).This article was inspired by the paper Discovering Phase Transitions with Unsupervised Learning by Lei Wang .IntroductionOne of the most intriguing phenomena within the natural sciences is phase transition or critical phenomena, which can usually be seen in the transition between states of matter such…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePaul Mescal surprised his Aftersun co-star Frankie Corio with a personalised message from Olivia Rodrigo.The actors star together in Charlotte Wells’s coming-of-age drama about a father and daughter on holiday at a Turkish resort.While filming in May 2021, Mescal arranged for the “good 4 u” singer to wish Corio a happy birthday in a pre-recorded video.In a short clip shared by Leona…

A way to better understand learning with deep neural networksPhoto by Giulia May on UnsplashCurrently, the theoretical mechanisms of learning with Deep Neural Network (DNN) are not completely well known. One remarkable contribution is the concept of Information Bottleneck (IB) presented by Naftali Tishby in 2017, who was a computer scientist and neuroscientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His theory claims to be a way to understand the impressive success of neural networks in a huge variety of applications.…

“I try to approach music photography in the mindset of a superfan,” says Pooneh Ghana. The Los Angeles-based photographer, 32, has been documenting the live music scene since she was a teenager.Her specialty is capturing musicians on stage in front of sweaty faces pouring over stage barriers – and also intimate candids of them on the road between shows. It is more interesting that way, she says.Fans at Turnstile’s 2022 tour. Photograph: Pooneh Ghana/Courtesy of Pooneh GhanaShe has gone on tour with some of the biggest…

Merry Christmas, Livies! Olivia Rodrigo surprised fans Friday with an early Christmas gift: a full version of a song she wrote when she was 5 years old. In an email newsletter to her fan club, the teen pop sensation shared links to her holiday merch collection and a free, downloadable remix of her first Christmas song, “The Bels.”“hi guys!!” the “Sour” artist, 19, said in a handwritten note included in the newsletter. “hope everyone is doing well! I miss you guys! It’s been getting cold her in LA & things are slowing…

Gen Z acts like Conan Gray, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish stack up against legacy acts like Fleetwood Mac and Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Spotify Billions Club this year.Graphic: Lori PedrickSpotify is one of the premiere music services of the 21st century, and modern music consumption favors streaming over nearly all formats. In 2021, Spotify unveiled the Billions Club, which consists of every song that has accrued at least one billion streams on the platform since their respective date of upload. So far, the…

Olivia Rodrigo teases that she will be releasing new music in 2023 after the massive success of her debut album Sour which scored her three Grammy Awards. The singer confirmed the exciting news in a ‘thank you’ video to fans following the release of Spotify Wrapped. The songstress recently boasts over 35MIL monthly listeners on the music streaming platform, Spotify. Following the achievement, Olivia gushed, “I just wanted to say thank you so much for listening to my music this year.” She then teased, “I really, truly…

When she shared her most recent TikTok video, Selena Gomez, 30, made her admirers melt with cuteness. The throwback video showed the singer and her younger sister Gracie Elliot Teefey, 9, at an Olivia Rodrigo performance, and it was easy to see how close they were. Before young Gracie leaned in for an embrace from her elder sibling, they both grinned at each other and sang along to Olivia’s song “Driver’s License” while they were in the audience. Gracie had her hair down, while Selena donned a black jacket and a blue…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Music Publishing date: Aug 16, 2022  •  20 minutes ago  •  2 minute read  •  Join the conversation In this file photo taken on June 27, 2008 Canadian singer Alanis Morissette performs on stage at the Rock in Rio Madrid music festival in Arganda del Rey near Madrid. Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES /AFP via Getty Images Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made…