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Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of 'video game films'?

The Guardian

Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of'video game films'? The YouTube gaming star's weird and divisive adaptation of his obscure horror film is a game within a film about a game - and hints at new directions for storytelling Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? S omething weird struck me early on while watching the movie Iron Lung, which has so far taken $32m at the box office, despite being a grungy low-budget sci-fi thriller adapted from an independent video game few people outside of the horror gaming community have even heard of. Set after a galactic apocalypse, it follows a convict who must buy his freedom by piloting a rusty submarine through an ocean of human blood on a distant planet. Ostensibly, he's looking for relics that may prove vital for scientific research, but what he finds is much more ghastly.





TheLabelComplexityofActiveLearningfrom ObservationalData

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this problem, the learner is given observational data - a set of examples selected according to some policy along with their labels - as well as access to the policy that selects the examples, and the goal is to construct a classifier with high performance on an entire population, notjusttheobservational data distribution.