A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner […]
A complete guide to the mathematics behind neural networks and backpropagation. In this lecture, I aim to explain the mathematical phenomena, a combination of linear algebra and optimization, that underlie the most important algorithm in data science today: the feed forward neural network. Through a […]
Handwritten by candlelight on a remote island in Alaska in the 1990’s, this is a video adaptation of the 2nd edition for 2024. The book brings the reader through landscapes of despair, addiction, nihilism and suicide to a place of hope and redemption that is […]
In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate. Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive sinkholes. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying […]
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.