Werner Herzog's films have a common theme: they're about visionaries and dreamers. Sometimes his dreamers accomplish the impossible: he's made two films, for example--"Little Dieter Needs to Fly" and "Rescue Dawn"--about the American pilot Dieter Dengler, who escaped from a Laotian P.O.W. camp and, for twenty-three days, hiked barefoot through the jungle until he reached freedom. But Herzog is also fascinated by delusional dreamers. At the end of his 1972 film "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," the conquistador Aguirre stands on a raft in the Amazon. He's been searching, fruitlessly, for El Dorado; now all his men are dead, and he's speaking only to their corpses and some monkeys.

One analyst argues that Oracle is about to see a surge in database upgrades, but it's unclear how much cloud and open source options are eating into the company's profit pie. The world's largest enterprise technology event, Oracle OpenWorld, is just a few weeks away. Oracle is holding off on making its biggest announcements until the event, but a look through the conference's voluminous online session catalog turned up some of the key highlights for customers and partners. Artificial Intelligence: AI has been all the rage in the IT industry this year, marked by a flurry of acquisitions and new product announcements. Netflix, Uber, and eHarmony are consumer services used every day to watch movies, drive from point A to B, and meet people, respectively.

Sonos today announced an integration that's just shy of wonderful, but still pretty fun: You'll soon be able to control everyone's favorite connected speakers from the comfort of your Amazon Echo. Today, Sonos announced two new ways to control its system via third-party wares. First, you'll soon be able to fire up Spotify, select your Sonos in the devices menu, and control the speakers directly from the app. That trick is not quite available yet, but it's coming as a free Echo device update in 2017.

Actress Cloris Leachman issued a statement about the death of "Young Frankenstein" co-star Gene Wilder, who died from Alzheimer's disease Sunday. He was 83 years old. Leachman, 90, fondly remembered the actor, who starred in classic films like "Blazing Saddles" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." "Gene was in a class by himself," her exclusive statement to People Magazine read Monday. "I looked up to him yet on the set he was just one of us. I remember when we were shooting'Young Frankenstein' there was a scene where I had to get the group up the stairs immediately. I had to say, 'Shtay close to zee candles' and turn toward him. As I turned around I could see his face was in two pieces. We had to do our scenes 14 times over because he'd be laughing so hard. Alas…alas… So, dear Gene, I vill say, Goodnight."

So I am nonplussed by word that she was an assigned roaster for a Comedy Central roast of Rob Lowe, just taped for upcoming airing. But other roasters in part turned on her, not Lowe. "Ann is one of the most repugnant, hateful, hatchet-face bitches alive," standup comic Jimmy Carr said. "It's not too late to change, Ann. He was wasting his time.

Sonos took a look at the future and realized it's time to put partners first. The wireless audio company announced it would roll out Amazon Alexa integration early next year, enabling voice control for Sonos systems. It's also pushing out a host of other software updates, including one that will let Spotify users control their Sonos systems with Spotify's mobile and desktop apps. Overall, the changes are all part of Sonos's effort to become the sound platform for the connected home. "We believe Music is killer app of connected home." said Sonos President Patrick Spence.

As much as Sonos is known for high-quality connected speakers, it's also built up a reputation for lackluster software and a closed ecosystem. And that's getting harder to live with as alternative platforms like Google's Cast (formerly Chromecast) are flourishing alongside smart partnerships (see Vizio's recent TVs) and inexpensive devices like the Chromecast Audio. So to course correct, Sonos announced today that it's opening up its platform to Spotify Connect, and it has also kicked off a "long-term strategic collaboration" with Amazon to integrate Echo voice control with its speakers. The Spotify Connect support, which is coming in a few weeks, will be particularly useful for anyone who's grown tired of Sonos's software. You'll be able to control the company's speakers from within any Spotify app.

No one in Luke Scott's "Morgan" acts like a human, which is fine enough for some of his characters -- after all, this is a film about a genetically engineered being run totally amok -- but becomes slightly more problematic once the film attempts to dig deeply into themes relating to human emotion, human behavior, human fallibility…the list goes on and on. "Morgan," for all its ambitious sci-fi trappings, is really a film about how being human is hard and messy and weird, a message that's difficult to deliver by way of wooden lines, worse delivery and a series of cheap, gotcha! "twists" that do its audience no favors. Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) is something of a fixer -- a "risk management consultant" for a shady corporation who seems to only be dispatched when things have already gone way past risky (mention is made throughout the film of some sort of incident that happened in Helsinski, one of the few genuinely tantalizing tidbits to make its way into the final film). Her latest job seems to be just the kind she likes: a hard one that hinges on her staying stone-faced, opaque and exceedingly rigid.

In this video, I explain the basics of recurrent neural networks. Then we code our own RNN in 80 lines of python (plus white-space) that predicts the sum of two binary numbers after training. I just want to start off by saying thank you to every single one of you. Thanks for watching and commenting and sticking with me as I push these videos every week. You guys are the reason I do this...

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