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In this Immortal X-Men #11 preview, Storm's had it with Charles and friends. But can she fix the damage from the Sins of Sinister fallout?Published Sat, 29 Apr 2023 20:26:10 -0500 by Jude Terror | Well, folks, it's time for another glimpse into the oh-so-enlightened world of the Immortal X-Men. Slated for release on the beautiful Wednesday, May 3rd, our eleventh issue will tackle head-on the fallout of the Sins of Sinister crossover event. With Storm unable to comprehend the sheer stupidity of Charles and the rest, what…

Image via Disney Plus One day, the planets will align, and the birds will sing as the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s longest-awaited prophecy comes true; indeed, at some point, we will in fact be introduced to Kevin Feige’s iteration of the X-Men, and just how one of the world’s pop culture mega giants will handle the politically complex superhero team is anyone’s guess. But before you figure out how to portray the team, you have to figure out how to portray the members of said team, and there’s no better starting…

In March, Spotify launched its first AI-powered feature with the debut of its AI DJ — a smart audio guide with a convincingly realistic voice. That AI persona was actually based on a real person, as it turns out —  Spotify’s head of Cultural Partnerships, Xavier “X” Jernigan, who had the honor of becoming the first voice model for the AI feature. TechCrunch sat down with Jernigan to learn more about the process for training the AI and Spotify’s future plans for its AI DJ efforts. The new AI DJ personalizes the music…

It was around 10 PM on a weeknight, and as usual, I was on the couch staring at my phone. I tapped open Spotify to pick a little background music for my bedtime death scroll, but this time the app had something new for me. It was a popup with a green circle on a blue background, asking if I wanted to try the new AI DJ. Well Spotify, don’t mind if I do. I’d heard a bit about this feature, but I wasn’t ready for what came next: Spotify started talking to me.Does Charlie Have a Kryptonite to Her Power?“It’s really great to…

A reboot of the X-Men in movies has seen serious consideration that Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad, and The Boys might play Professor X.Professor X, is that you? Last month, potentially published to coincide with Black History month, Marvel Comics launched Bishop: War College #1, set on the mutant island of Krakoa with Bishop training a new young defence force for the island, as literal Nazis attacked the place. The events saw Bishop shunted into a different timeline and time period, something closer to nineties X-Men…

Sabretooth plots vengeance against Charles Xavier in this preview of Sabretooth and the Exiles #4. He'd better hurry: there's just one issue left after this.Published Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:26:09 -0600 by Jude Terror | Welcome to the Bleeding Cool preview of Sabretooth and the Exiles #4! Sabretooth plots vengeance against Charles Xavier in this preview of Sabretooth and the Exiles #4. He'd better hurry: there's just one issue left after this. Joining me is Bleeding Cool's AI writing assistant, LOLtron, to give its thoughts…

Detailed derivation for finding optimal initial distributions of weight matrices in deep learning layers with tanh activation functionXavier Glorot's initialization is one of the most widely used methods for initializing weight matrices in neural networks. While in practice, it is straightforward to utilize in your deep learning setup, reflecting upon the mathematical reasoning behind this standard initialization technique can prove most beneficial. Additionally, a theoretical understanding of this method is often asked…

Nope (2022) - The Star Lasso Experience Scene | MovieclipsJordan Peele’s third theatrical film, Nope, opens on a random act of violence, a nightmare scenario in which a child watches his longtime friend and acting partner suddenly go berserk and viciously attack his TV parents, then becomes further traumatized when said friend is shot dead in front of him. That darkness haunts Jupe throughout the rest of his life, whether it’s through Saturday Night Live sketches or when you finally see the facade break as he recounts how…

Image: NetflixWhile Tim Burton’s Wednesday certainly attempts to imitate the aesthetic of the ‘90s Addams Family films, the surrounding plot and characters of Netflix’s newest teen drama fails to capture the morbid charm of Charles Addams’ gothic family. The eight-episode Netflix series follows Wednesday (Scream’s Jenna Ortega) as she attempts to solve a grisly murder that occurred in the woods outside of her new school, Nevermore Academy. She also digs into the history of Jericho—the small town that plays host to the…

Incremental Data Processing tutorial using Databricks Auto LoaderPsst! Are you listening? Photo by Manja Vitolic on UnsplashData in an enterprise environment traditionally grows infinitely over time. For example:Transactions in an online store accumulate at a fast pace.Log data for an application running on a server.Clickstream data for millions of online shoppers.IoT sensor data from hundreds of interconnected devices.In all the above cases, the commonality is that data accumulates and scales in volume over time and it…