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Tom Hanks Showed Enthusiasm for Playing an Important Star Trek Role
Mark Wahlberg was presented with an opportunity to join Star Trek in the role of Captain Kirk’s father. Thus, it’s not surprising that Tom Hanks was allegedly thought of for a prominent part in the same immensely successful sci-fi movie franchise. This is not the least favorable Star Trek film, according to Rotten Tomatoes; rather, it is regarded by critics as one of the best in the series: 1996’s “Star Trek: First Contact.”
Which Star Trek role was Tom Hanks considered for?
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In the publication, “The Fifty-Year Mission,” Brannon Braga, a screenwriter for “Star Trek: First Contact,” disclosed that there were discussions regarding Tom Hanks portraying Dr. Zefram Cochrane in the film — a part that
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Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background in machine learning and natural language processing, and has spent over a decade working at the intersection of
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Yoeven Khemlani on Compact AI Models
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Ben Lesh on RxJS
RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates. Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS. He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS library.
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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson
Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The companyâs goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale. It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular
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Engineering Electron and Desktop Apps with Shelley Vohr
Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a single
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SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake-Up, and the UK VPN Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they explore Metaâs bold push into AI with the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs, the dramatic twists in the Windsurf acquisition
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Brent Baude Discusses Podman
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