”What I’ve come to realize is that when people say, ‘The thinking man’s whatever’ — there’s no such thing. The thinking man also wants to f*** Megan Fox.

Quote from Tina Fey’s Esquire spread. I wish she’d get a late-night show. She’s funny when she’s scripted, but I think she’s even better at improv.

”Is a huge fan of Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. While filming Cabin Fever, Roth played the Olsen Twins’s film Holiday in the Sun on a continuous loop in a screening room, to give the cast and crew “artistic inspiration.

Hilarious exceprt from Eli Roth’s IMDB bio page.

I heard him interviewed, and looked him up to learn a little more. He’s also OCD and one of his obsessions is Nikola Tesla.

He gained 40 lbs. of muscle for Inglorious Bastards. In the interview, he revealed that he had a lengthy conversation with Tarantino about how authentic his Boston accent should be in the film: should it be a period-appropriate 1940’s Boston accent or a more recognizable, modern Masshole accent, & could he reference the Sox (he did).

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Creating a translation machine has long been seen as one of the toughest challenges in artificial intelligence. For decades, computer scientists tried using a rules-based approach — teaching the computer the linguistic rules of two languages and giving it the necessary dictionaries.

But in the mid-1990s, researchers began favoring a so-called statistical approach. They found that if they fed the computer thousands or millions of passages and their human-generated translations, it could learn to make accurate guesses about how to translate new texts.

Cool article about Google’s Translation Tool. The list of projects that might be easier to takle with billions of data points instead of rules is endless, & probably includes fields like healthcare, meteorology, calling football plays, etc.

via Andy McAfee