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Jury president Ruben Östlund struck a defiant note of optimism on the opening day of the 76th Cannes film festival, positioning the event as a stronghold of community in an increasingly atomised world. Cinema, he said, was more relevant and valuable than ever. The challenge is to connect it with a younger, post-pandemic audience that prefers to gorge its entertainment online.“If you look at today’s world, you see that cinema is unique for the simple reason that it offers a room where we can all watch films together,” he…

How to classify images with the help of Transformer-based modelPhoto by drmakete lab on UnsplashSince its introduction in 2017, Transformer has been widely recognized as a powerful encoder-decoder model to solve pretty much any language modeling task.BERT, RoBERTa, and XLM-RoBERTa are a few examples of state-of-the-art models in language processing that use a stack of Transformer encoders as the backbone in their architecture. ChatGPT and the GPT family also use the decoder part of Transformer to generate texts. It’s safe…

Ruben Östlund is a filmmaker who is keenly interested in the strangeness of human beings. His last two films, Force Majeure and The Square, were also about humans behaving badly. With Triangle Of Sadness, he makes his English-language debut with a dark satire that places two models, Carl and Yaya, far and away from their comfort zone. (Also read: Cannes 2022: 'Most disgusting movie of the year' Triangle of Sadness is a frontal attack on the super-rich) The film is divided into three chapters and opens by introducing…

Ruben Ostlund will head this year’s competition jury for the Cannes International Film Festival, organisers announced on Tuesday. The Swedish director’s Triangle of Sadness is a capitalist satire starring Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Dolly De Leon and the late Charlbi Dean. It won Cannes’ Palme d’Or for best film last year. It has become Ostlund’s most commercially successful film, with a box office of $24 million and counting. After sweeping the European Film Awards, winning Best Film,…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Feb. 24. I’m Gustavo Arellano, and I’m writing from Orange County, where it’s cold and rainy. I’m also a Metro columnist, which means I’m allowed to have opinions. Like:History is cool.That’s why the past is not even past, to paraphrase William Faulkner — it’s always on my radar. But even a SoCal history nerd like me doesn’t know it all, which is why I was happy to hear recently from Félix Gutiérrez. He’s a professor emeritus of journalism at…

How to use BERT to calculate the semantic similarity between two textsPhoto by Leeloo Thefirst: https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-wooden-ruler-and-colored-pencils-on-papers-8970296/Ever since its inception in 2017 by Google Brain team, Transformers have rapidly become the state-of-the-art model for various use cases within the fields of Computer Vision and NLP. Its superior performance led to the development of several state-of-the-art models such as BERT and its variants like distilBERT and RoBERTa.BERT outperformed old…

How to Use Integrated Gradients to Interpret BERT Model’s PredictionPhoto by Shane Aldendorff: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shallow-focus-photography-of-magnifying-glass-with-black-frame-924676/Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformer or BERT is a language model that’s very popular within the NLP domain. BERT is literally the swiss army knife of NLP due to its versatility and how well it performed in many different NLP tasks, such as text classification, named entity recognition, question-answering, etc.But…

Digging into this extremely useful though often neglected design patternA picture of a syringe, because this is about dependency INJECTIONS, do you get it? Ha ha ha. Ok, was trying to crack a little joke, but I’m afraid it was a VEIN attempt. Do you get it? Ha ha ha. (I’m sorry). Photo by Diana Polekhina on UnsplashDependency injection as a concept is neither sexy nor cool, as pretty much any design pattern. And despite that, when properly harnessed, it is extremely useful — again, as pretty much any design pattern.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRuben Östlund recently screened his new film Triangle of Sadness to a select audience in Paris. Among the attendees was “one of the richest persons in France”, who stood up during a Q&A and started screaming that the film was “too simple”. As he recounts the story to me, Östlund looks disgusted. “No, it’s not very complicated,” says the Swedish director, folding his arms defiantly.…

Credit: Lionsgate It’s been some time since Now You See Me: The Second Act brought magic and mayhem back to our screens and now the third installment of the magic franchise, Now You See Me 3, has finally found a director who sharpened his teeth with a Marvel flick. Ruben Fleischer is the filmmaker behind blockbuster action movies such as Uncharted and Marvel/Sony’s Venom, and now he’s tackling the long overdue third installment of this franchise. Fleischer is excited to be reunited with two of his favorite…