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![]() Presumably writing that in the script is the easy part, and actually realising that soundscape is a whole other challenge? We had Bob Yeoman, the DP, shooting on two Super 16 cameras, but we purposely kept him out of the rehearsals so he never really knew what was coming – he just had to get it.Įarly on, there’s a key image in this giant close-up of an ear, because to understand Brian’s creative make-up we need to hear what he hears. So we hired real studio musicians, gave them real lead sheets, and Paul had utterly ingested the Pet Sounds Sessions box set to the point where Brian’s studio banter was just inside of him and he was channelling it. But it also came from the documentary work I’d done in the 90s, that feeling that something’s actually happening and you’re trying to capture it in a dynamic way. No VH-1 in those days, so it was, like, really sweet when you got a look in on the inside. Did you go back and look at stuff like Let It Be or Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, where the camera’s battling to capture that moment of creation?Ībsolutely. Here’s someone with mental health issues, who’s open to being hurt and taken advantage of, yet it was precisely that emotional openness which made him such a great artist in the first place.Īnd yet the 60s material is where the film somehow establishes its credibility, especially in the studio scenes. That seemed a good way of getting into it, and since you can’t do Brian Wilson without exploring Pet Sounds, those were the two eras Oren Moverman, the screenwriter, and I gravitated towards.Īs the whole process gathered pace, I was really intrigued by the whole ‘creative genius’ aspect – where he got his musical ideas from, how he developed them – but however cool that was to explore, the heart of it was in the 80s. ![]() Here was this odd, quirky guy she found really appealing, but only later does she discover it’s Brian Wilson only later does she discover all the stuff that’s going on with him. I guess it was meeting Brian and Melinda, who’re still together, and hearing how they met. Was there a key moment when you began to see your way through it? If you just end up with a parade of celebrity scenes, that’s so much harder it becomes too much of a different world. ![]() And I was never really interested in the celebrity side of it I wanted to get intimate with the guy, feel it as he feels it so that the audience could relate to him in their own way. With Brian, there was so much trauma in his life, so many different periods, it felt that if we tried to do everything we’d end up in a mess. I don’t mean to do biopics down, but sometimes audiences expect you to hit every beat in that person’s life. Were you able to crack it precisely because you opted not to take the conventional narrative route? The notion of a Brian Wilson biopic is something that’s been doing the Hollywood rounds for a while. I sat down with Pohlad, a softly-spoken and gentlemanly Midwesterner, on his recent visit to the Edinburgh Film Festival.īill Pohlad (left) on the set of Love & Mercy (2015) Here John Cusack gives a bravura performance as a sweet-natured but evidently damaged pop recluse who’s eventually rescued from the clutches of his enabling yet somewhat sinister psychologist ( Paul Giamatti in Mephistophelean form as the late Dr Eugene Landy) by Elizabeth Banks’s car dealer Melinda, the latter captivated by the unusual behaviour of a walk-in customer not knowing who he is – or what baggage he’s carrying.Īdeptly flitting back and forth across the years, switching from documentary-style in-studio footage to rather more measured coverage of Brian’s 80s travails, and even switching perspectives from Banks’s sympathetic outsider perspective to a more interior take on Brian’s eventual self-realisation, the result is a film which cannily finds its own distinctive form as it goes along, confidently dispensing with much biopic cliché en route. However, he is clearly however tuned to a station which isn’t on anyone else’s dial, and the legacy of his subsequent psychological flame-out can be seen in the film’s interwoven later material. In the earlier scenes, Paul Dano incarnates the youthful Brian, who eschews the pop formulae of The Beach Boys’ harmonised paeans to cars, girls and the California surf to follow his own unique inner voice by crafting the ornate arrangements and achingly exposed emotional maturation of the classic Pet Sounds LP. ![]() ![]() Undoubtedly, it’s one of the most authentic free things to do in San Diego. This 12-acre park boasts historical buildings and sites covering shops, restaurants, museums, and more. Wander Old Town San Diego State Historic ParkĮxplore the historic Old Town of San Diego and visit Old Town San Diego State Historic Park which is the perfect place to feel the mixed vibe of the Mexican and early American periods. Don’t miss the Spreckles Organ Pavilion which hosts outdoor organ concerts on Sundays free of cost. Tips: Take Advantage of the Free Museum Days at Balboa Park. Truly Balboa Park is the cultural heart of San Diego with endless varieties. There are seasonal events, a Shakespeare Theater, puppet shows, a large rose garden, open space preserves, hiking, a velodrome, and Frisbee Golf. Check out some other amazing zoos in California! You can also visit the botanical gardens and lily ponds, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Man, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the famous San Diego Zoo. Pay a Visit to Balboa Parkįrom the Automotive and Air and Space Museums to the historical buildings, theatres, restaurants, and wonderful grounds, this 1,200-acre urban park is filled with an array of free attractions.ĭon’t miss the Balbo Park Botanical Building and the park, one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in California. 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And, of course, track time and use it to optimize work processes, form productive habits, etc. Process the data in different ways and visualize it. This service allows you to collect a lot of metrics on activity, engagement, and efficiency. Their developers often implement new technologies, conduct research, and constantly look for better and better solutions. There is also an advanced version for only $6 per month, including Priority support, Client invoices, and some extra features.Ī good service that is primarily aimed at time tracking and increasing productivity. It has a completely free version, which provides all the necessary basic features without any limits, so there are Unlimited team members & projects, Time tracking on projects & tasks, Billable rates & budgets, and Detailed reports. But still, it is more suitable for freelancers and small companies because its use will be very simple, efficient for them, and quite profitable. ![]() It has a lot of different features, all of which are implemented as high quality and easy as possible. ![]() This service is not limited as it may seem. Only a few services are available to you of the integrations, but some of the most popular ones are Zapier and QuickBooks Payroll. In addition to the web version, this service provides very well-designed mobile applications for iOS and Android, allowing you to track time even when offline. But basically, it's more of a time tracker with project management functionality rather than the other way around, as was the case with most previous services. And, of course, you can generate a wide variety of reports, as well as very flexible invoicing for a wide variety of tasks and their costs. You can maintain an unlimited number of projects and tasks, assign roles to participants, track working time in many different aspects, and add and customize time logs. My Hours is a very simple but well-executed cloud solution that is completely focused on time tracking. “It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, ‘each the other’s world entire,’ are sustained by love,” the citation read in part. McCarthy dedicated the book to his son, John Francis, and said having a child as an older man “forces the world on you, and I think it’s a good thing.” The Pulitzer committee called his book “the profoundly moving story of a journey.” But, as far as many, many people reading it, so what?” he said. ![]() “You would like for the people that would appreciate the book to read it. He told Winfrey he didn’t care how many people read “The Road.” “I just had this image of these fires up on the hill … and I thought a lot about my little boy,” he said. Standing at the window of a hotel in the middle of the night as his son slept nearby, he started to imagine what El Paso might look like 50 or 100 years in the future. In his Winfrey interview, McCarthy said that while typically he didn’t know what generates the ideas for his books, he could trace “The Road” to a trip he took with his young son to El Paso, Texas, early in the decade. ![]() It won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was selected by Winfrey for her book club. “The Road,” his stark tale of a father and son who roam a ravaged landscape, brought him his widest audience and highest acclaim. Fans of the Coens would discover that the film’s terse, absurdist dialogue, so characteristic of the brothers’ work, was lifted straight from the novel. He broke through commercially in 1992 with “All the Pretty Horses” and over the next 15 years won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer, was a guest on Oprah Winfrey’s show and saw his novel “No Country for Old Men” adapted by the Coen brothers into an Oscar-winning movie. Little known to the public at age 60, he would become one of the country’s most honored and successful writers despite rarely talking to the press. McCarthy’s own story was one of belated, and continuing, achievement and popularity. “And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us.” “Every man’s death is a standing in for every other,” McCarthy wrote in “Cities of the Plain,” the trilogy’s final book. As the doomed John Grady Cole of McCarthy’s celebrated “Border” trilogy would learn, dreams of a better life were only dreams, and falling in love an act of folly. Across stark and forbidding landscapes and rundown border communities, he placed drifters, thieves, prostitutes and old, broken men, all unable to escape fates determined for them well before they were born. McCarthy’s themes, like Faulkner’s, often were bleak and violent and dramatized how the past overwhelmed the present. ![]() McCarthy, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, was compared to William Faulkner for his expansive, Old Testament style and rural settings. “Millions of readers around the world embraced his characters, his mythic themes, and the intimate emotional truths he laid bare on every page, in brilliant novels that will remain both timely and timeless, for generations to come.” “For 60 years, he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft, and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word,” Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya said in a statement. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ![]() SANTA FE, N.M.-Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian,” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. 16, 2009 (Mark Von Holden/Getty Images for Dimension Films) Writer Cormac McCarthy (L) and director John Hillcoat attend the New York premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in New York on Nov. ![]() Add on Wolfram’s comprehensive knowledge-base and you have a search killer on your hands. If combined with the Wolfram language’s computational prowess, the problem of not understanding mathematical problems can be solved. ![]() Both these shortcomings can be addressed through Wolfram Alpha. In addition to a flawed dataset, the bot also faces difficulty in mathematical calculations, as it is not trained to understand them but simply try to ‘solve’ them using natural language. The dataset for GPT 3.5 consists of information scraped from the Internet, leading to many discrepancies when it comes to specific information like the distance between cities, population statistics, and many more. There are two reasons for this, first being ChatGPT’s dataset. One place where this system falls apart is when ChatGPT is asked objectively factual questions, where it confidently spews misinformed answers. Owing to this, the bot rejects queries that it believes it does not have information to answer along with blocking answers about sensitive topics, like hate speech and self harm. While the bug of information hallucination is yet to be solved even for ChatGPT and the underlying GPT LLM, OpenAI has conducted research on reducing the amount of misinformation that the bot gives out. Unfortunately, it had a propensity to hallucinate information, even though it was trained on close to 50 million scientific papers, leading to it being shut down in a matter of two days. This short-lived LLM was launched with the grand goal of organising all scientific knowledge and making it accessible through a chatbot. The scientific community has largely ignored chatbots derived from large language models, as seen by their negative response to Meta’s ‘Galactica’ model. This union might even make it the accurate chatbot that the scientific community doesn’t know they need. ChatGPT is unbeatable at parsing natural language and making it computer-readable while Wolfram is excellent at solving complex mathematical problems by breaking it down into the Wolfram language’s symbolic expressions. When looking at the approach that the creators of Wolfram and ChatGPT have taken, the benefits of bringing them together are obvious. This language was made expressly to solve complex algebraic problems, with its latest iteration being able to take on higher-level calculus tasks like differential equations and matrix manipulation. On the other hand, Wolfram Alpha is built on the Wolfram language, a symbolic programming language that is focused on expressing complex ideas in a computational form. This means that the chatbot has learned the pattern of human-like speech along with the capability of translating a query in a human language to one in a machine-understandable language. ChatGPT is trained on GPT 3.5, a large language model that has a dataset containing 175 billion parameters, using which it has learned to respond to prompts in natural language with coherent responses. To understand why these two vastly-different applications can work so well together, we must first delve into the approach that they each take to solving a problem. He also showed off the capabilities of Wolfram Alpha and how it can be used to ‘inject’ data points into ChatGPT, which the bot then accepted as the correct response. Wolfram demonstrated the tendency of ChatGPT to give factually incorrect answers which sounded like they might be accurate, highlighting the feature of the chatbot to correct itself when prompted. In a blog post published recently, Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, explored the idea of combining the capabilities of Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT. Bringing together Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT With modern advances in natural language processing and chatbots, this forerunner of modern AI might change the landscape for NLP-powered problem solving. For all its computational intelligence, the website sometimes struggles with identifying queries in natural language. These questions can range from high-level calculus to the amount of calories in a given dish, and Wolfram Alpha will provide an answer while showing the steps to the solution. Wolfram Alpha, an answering machine built on this language, uses natural language processing, the world’s largest repository of computable knowledge, and a custom-made symbolic programming language to provide answers to mathematical questions. Ever since its genesis in 1988, the Wolfram language has been the go-to language to solve complex scientific problems. I highly recommend “If You Tell” by Gregg Olsen. And there are all types of books too, healing, self help, thriller, psychological thriller, fantasy, etc. but Kindle Unlimited allows you to pay so much per month & “borrow” as many books as your heart desires, read, return, & replace with another good book that sparks your interest. Plus I have “feral kids” (if you know, you KNOW but if not, look it up□). I can’t get into it if I know what’s going to happen, so I definitely can’t afford to spend the amount of money they now cost to only get use one time. I have always been a bookworm but times are tough, I can’t afford to go buy books to read right now, especially considering I can’t reread something I’ve already read. Kindle is great, but Kindle Unlimited has made it AMAZING!!□□□ ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his childhood, his mother would come upon him in the living room, playing an entire hockey game by himself while calling the play-by-play. In addition, the foundation provides support for other organizations and families that address the physical, social, emotional and/or educational needs of children. He Shoots He Scores When Marc Zeplin was 4, his father took him to his first Rangers game. Marcy Zeplin is a Senior Manager, Information Technology & Erm at Genworth based in Richmond, Virginia. This site is dedicated to honoring the memory of Marc.Ī father of two, Marc was a "family man." To best remember and perpetuate his values, a foundation has been established to provide scholarships and assistance to children who lost a parent as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Zeplin is a handy dandy tool for better communication between designers and developers. Marc's loss has left a void in many lives, as he has left behind family that loved him dearly. Marc Scott Zeplin lost his life on Septemwhile working as an equities trader for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower. ![]() personnel, including sailors, soldiers and civilians. ![]() The attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,403 U.S. Navy was able to rebound relatively quickly from the attack. Moreover, the Pearl Harbor assault had left the base’s most vital onshore facilities-oil storage depots, repair shops, shipyards and submarine docks-intact. (Some had returned to the mainland and others were delivering planes to troops on Midway and Wake Islands.) By the 1940s, battleships were no longer the most important naval vessel: Aircraft carriers were, and as it happened, all of the Pacific Fleet’s carriers were away from the base on December 7. Most importantly, more than 2,000 people died.īut the Japanese had failed to cripple the Pacific Fleet. Dry docks and airfields were likewise destroyed. In all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. (All but USS Arizona and USS Utah were eventually salvaged and repaired.) Impact of the Pearl Harbor Attack Less than two hours later, the surprise attack was over, and every battleship in Pearl Harbor- USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Utah, USS Maryland, USS Pennsylvania, USS Tennessee and USS Nevada-had sustained significant damage. With 400 sailors aboard, the Oklahoma lost her balance, rolled onto her side and slipped underwater. Next, torpedoes pierced the shell of the battleship USS Oklahoma. The ship exploded and sank with more than 1,000 men trapped inside. At 8:10, a 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona and landed in her forward ammunition magazine. Bombs and bullets rained onto the vessels moored below. ![]() On December 7, after months of planning and practice, the Japanese launched their attack.Īt about 8 a.m., Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. That way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. The Japanese plan was simple: Destroy the Pacific Fleet. |
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