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There are two types of love: the one you chase and the one you earn. We all live for that first flush of love, but when you’ve had children with somebody, you start to grow old with them, and still really fancy them – it’s the golden ticket.My childhood ambition was to get shot with an arrow. My dad was a long-distance lorry driver. When he came home on weekends, we’d watch westerns together. My dream was to be an extra who got shot, fell off a horse and got dragged along.Work for yourself, not the bank manager. That’s my…

Ed Sheeran has said that following the deaths of friends SBTV founder Jamal Edwards and the Australian cricketer Shane Warne in 2022, he “didn’t want to live any more”.Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine ahead of the release of his sixth album, – (Subtract), he said: “I have had that throughout my life. You’re under the waves drowning. You’re just sort of in this thing. And you can’t get out of it.”Sheeran, 32, said he worried that the thoughts were “selfish”, especially given that he is a father to two young girls. “I…

Another lesson we can learn from software engineers: break stuff to make it more reliable.Photo by Soheb Zaidi on UnsplashIt’s midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times currently serving as the “situation room.”A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage.We had been in the cloud for years, which helped some. Our main systems would scale—our articles were always…

FrontierImage: SolarisIt’s February, traditionally a month for romance—but 2023 is also bringing a bumper crop of frights! There are several big horror titles out this month, including Stephen Graham Jones’ sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw and author Matt Ruff’s return to Lovecraft Country... as well as all the sci-fi and fantasy your heart desires.Image: 47NorthMeru by S.B. DivyaIn a far future in which humans dwell on Earth while posthuman “alloys” handle all the space exploration, the discovery of an Earthlike planet…

Part two in a practical data leader series on how to best work with each department and all their wonderful eccentricitiesImage courtesy of Shane Murray.Understanding and aligning with each business domain’s unique incentives and workflows is what ultimately makes data teams not just efficient, but great.Part one of this series looked at everyone’s favorite spreadsheet power users, the finance team. This article will examine how data teams can better identify the common causes and avoid points of friction with product…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeElizabeth Hurley has reflected on the death of Shane Warne, the cricket legend and her ex-fiancé who died earlier this year.The Australian cricketer, who was considered one of the best bowlers of all time, died of a suspected heart attack while in Koh Samui, Thailand, in March aged 52.In a new interview with The Times Magazine, Hurley, who was engaged to Warne in 2011, talked about how…

Part one in a practical data leader seriesPhoto credited to JUVART via Shutterstock.Recently I wrote an article about data silos that form across the organization, often due to lack of alignment with partners. This alignment can be difficult to come by, but is crucial to a data leader’s success. In fact, you could argue this alignment is the single most important task for any data scientist or engineer at the manager level and above.With the range of internal customers to support, it can be tempting for data teams to…

Alex Williams has been cast as the lead role of Shane Warne in Channel Nine’s controversial miniseries ‘Warnie.’ The Australian actor is known for playing Julian Assange in the 2012 television film Underground: The Julian Assange Story. Photos taken from the set on Tuesday showed Williams in full character taking a stroll alongside actress Marny Kennedy, who is portraying his ex-wife Simone Callahan. Production of Shane Warne docuseries commenced this week in Melbourne on the two-part drama. It comes less than two…

You’ve heard of shadow IT, but what about shadow data?Photo by Stephen Pedersen on UnsplashData silos and dark data: every organization has it—and by definition none of us know the full extent. Sometimes data hides from the scrutiny of the data team similar to shadow IT.Shadow data (or, data silos) arise when:Autonomy and speed is prioritized over technical standards;Data access or resources are limited, forcing teams to work around existing systems and processes; orData consumers decide to deploy their own…

In the 35 years since the release of Predator, Hollywood has continually struggled to make a good sequel. Sure, the second one is okay and the ideas behind some of the others—like going to other planets and crossing over with Alien—are good, but overall, it’s rarely, if ever, panned out. So if audiences are skeptical about a new Predator movie going straight to streaming, set centuries before the original, staring a largely unknown cast of Native American actors, you can hardly blame them.However, once they press play on…