Listen to more stories on the Noa app. I n 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died. Dad, a pilot, had gone up in one of his twin-props with a friend and lost control after some sort of mechanical failure occurred in the skies above Central Florida. The funeral was closed casket--an uncommon thing for Catholics back then--because my mother did not want people to see the work the undertakers had to do to stitch my father back together. So I never did get to say that last goodbye.

When I first talked with Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring in 2012, they promised their creepy, psychedelic, stop-motion game, The Dream Machine, was going to be "better than sex with Jesus." They had a lot of work ahead of them -- they were building the game by hand, with physical materials, and the stop-motion process was inherently time-consuming. Plus, they had to wrangle episodic installments of an intimate yet sprawling story inspired by LSD trips and theories of alternate realities. Five years later, as the sixth and final installment of The Dream Machine finally lands on Steam, I ask Gustafsson and Zaring if they think their game delivers on its sacrilegious promise. "I think we under-promised and over-delivered as far as sexual congress with the lord and savior is concerned," Gustafsson says.

When it comes to the career trajectories of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Helen Hunt can relate. Like the two acting icons at the center of FX's Feud: Bette and Joan, Hunt began her Hollywood career at a young age (in her case, as a child actress) and has enjoyed both widespread popularity – as the Emmy-winning star of the hit sitcom Mad About You – and an acclaimed film career as well: along with starring in blockbuster crowd pleasers like Twister, Hunt earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for her turn in the 1997 dramedy As Good As It Gets. And as Hunt navigated the complex waters of acting in Hollywood, she also recognized the value of reinvention, following the example set by her father Gordon, a writer, acting coach and voiceover artist who pivoted into a highly regarded career as a director of sitcoms, stage plays and, later, video games. Like her father, Hunt initiated a successful segue behind the camera as well: writing, directing and starring in 2007's Then She Found Me and 2014's Ride, in addition to helming episodes of high profile TV shows including Californication, House of Lies, Revenge, Life in Pieces and This Is Us. And while she continues to pursue her acting career – she's currently appearing in Fox's limited series Shots Fired – Hunt was a natural recruit to direct the penultimate episode of Feud for a variety of reasons, as she tells Mashable; including executive producer Ryan Murphy's stated commitment to put more female directors to work; her empathy for the hard-fought battles of the actresses who preceded her in Hollywood; and her own understanding of leaving a lasting legacy in the arts.

By discussing several examples, the theory of generalized functional models is shown to be very natural for modeling some situations of reasoning under uncertainty. A generalized functional model is a pair (f, P) where f is a function describing the interactions between a parameter variable, an observation variable and a random source, and P is a probability distribution for the random source. Unlike traditional functional models, generalized functional models do not require that there is only one value of the parameter variable that is compatible with an observation and a realization of the random source. As a consequence, the results of the analysis of a generalized functional model are not expressed in terms of probability distributions but rather by support and plausibility functions. The analysis of a generalized functional model is very logical and is inspired from ideas already put forward by R.A. Fisher in his theory of fiducial probability.