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Henry Morrison Flagler, who only had an 8th grade education and who left home at the age of 14 to seek his fortune,  would go on to become one of the wealthiest men in the world. With John D. Rockefeller he founded Standard Oil of Ohio. In 1853, he married Mary Harkness. They had three children, Jennie Louise, Carrie and Henry Harkness. Unfortunately, only Henry Harkness would survive to have children. By the 1870s, Mary Flagler had  developed severe bronchitis, and her doctor ordered the hot, humid climate of Florida as treatment especially during the cold winter months in New York 

Live from New York … Hung Up! You can read an event recap here.The way men misunderstood Her, the 2013 Spike Jonze movie, should be studied. (I saw a movie about a mustache. My friend Hilton memorably calls Her a movie about an airpod. Men saw a movie about a perfect woman with no wants or needs, just an, um, “old soul” with a sumptuous voice.) Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, sought Her star Scarlett Johansson’s voice for a new chatbot assistant feature.

CULIACÁN, Sinaloa, Mexico - Paulina always dreamed of looking like the most “desirable” women in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Women like Emma Coronel, the young wife of drug-trafficking kingpin Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán, or Claudia Ochoa Félix, known as the Empress locally, and allegedly a high-ranking killer for the Sinaloa Cartel. Both are (or in Ochoa’s case, were) sculpted buchonas - a word used here for the women who become involved romantically with drug-traffickers.

The stuff here is close enough to the basics of why music is to be listened to and appreciated with no musical background of any sort. It’s kind of like not necessarily knowing if you dig ballet, but definitely liking the way the girl across the table moves her hands. No preconceptions, you just dig it.  - Paul Williams, Rolling Stones rock critic on Terry Riley’s In C I owe a lot of my musical journey to my oldest brother, Paul.

In my last Substack, I argued that it was time for churches to stop singing Hillsong worship music. Given all we now know about the global enterprise — including the alleged coverup of sexual abuse, plus leaders’ financial impropriety and mistreatment of staff — I argue it now lacks integrity, and hampers Christian witness, for churches to financially s… ncG1vNJzZmijkamyrcXNm5yarKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on56qlWKus7GMcWSgqpWWwW7DzquqoaGgYq6zwMisq6w%3D

“Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect” From Castaways and Cutouts, Hush Records, 2002 And here I dreamt I was a soldier And I marched the streets of Birkenau And I recall in spring The perfume that the air would bring To the indolent town Where the barkers call the moon down The carnival was ringing loudly now And just to lay with you There's nothing that I wouldn't do

Working with Machine learning and Deep learning models involve usage of cost functions which are there to optimize the model during the training. Better is the model, the lower will be the loss. One of the most used cost function for classification based problem statement is Cross-Entropy. Lets have a deeper dig into it. Cross-Entropy Loss is also known as logarithmic loss, log loss or logistic loss. Each probability of the predicted class is compared with the actual class and loss is calculated which penalizes the probability based on how far it is from the actual expected value.

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