Horror movie history book – “The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film” (Centipede Press, 2018) – Lee Gambin interview

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Lee Gambin has been writing about movies and especially horror movies for the last 15 years. We spoke about his latest book on the famous werewolf horror movie “The Howling.”

0:49 – Lee talks about how he got into studying and writing on “The Howling.” He really loved seeing a movie about a community of werewolves. He tried finding writings on the Howling and coulnd’t find any so was inspired to write on it.

5:11 – Lee talks about his writing career progressed.

7:45 – Lee goes into details on what the book is like.

11:05 – Lee discusses an interesting discovery made about “The Howling.”

24:30 – Lee talks about Bob Burns and his direction.

29:20 – Lee talks about some costume issues that the cast dealt with.

38:34 – Lee writes for Fangoria and Diabolique.

Links of interest

http://www.centipedepress.com/studieshorror/howling.html

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Guests: Lee Gambin

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: author, werewolf, werewolves, monster movies, 80s movies, movie history

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Artificial Intelligence academic – “How Smart Machines Think” (MIT Press, 2018) – Sean Gerrish interview

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Sean Gerrish is a software engineer and has worked as an engineer for Teza Technologies and as an engineering manager for machine learning and data science teams at Google. We spoke about his latest book on machine learning. Sean’s comments in this interview reflect his views and not necessarily those of his employers.

0:41 – Sean talks about how he got into studying machine learning.

2:26 – Sean talks about the book and how it’s broken down. He touches on self-driving cars, IBM’s Watson, and machines that can play Atari games and so on.

4:31 – Sean talks about the most difficult concepts for people to understand.

6:51 – Sean talks about what intelligence in machines is.

12:01 – Sean talks about machine learning and the future of robots that can think for themselves.

15:39 – Sean talks about the large amount of labor needed to create machines that learn.

18:53 – Sean talks about AI and the marketplace.

24:01 – Sean talks about how he did the research for the book.

28:46 – Sean talks about a problem he grappled with in the research.

32:02 – The book has a sci-fi related Easter egg.

39:16 – Sean can be found on twitter @seannyg, and he writes frequently on Quora.

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Guests: Sean Gerrish

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Netflix, Watson, Atari, machine learning, intelligent machines, robots, bladerunner