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This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm.It was roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer, Grigory Baklanov.Baklanov asked that his name be removed from the credits because the only motif that was adopted from Baklanov's work was the scene of the transitional period from power to subordinance.
For the film, Sokurov, as often, selected a single motif from the work of inspiration – in this case, it was the sickness of a woman. It was produced as the graduation work of S. Sidorov from the VGIK. At that time Sokurov was not allowed to work on his own films, and saw this as an opportunity to continue work in the field.
In his diary, Sokurov noted that in Platonov, he saw the "story of a 'weak heart', for which happiness was 'hard work'." Love and ongoing life are eternal, but unachievable, dreams for the characters. [2] The film is dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky who supported Sokurov morally during his battle against the Soviet censors. [3]
Elon Musk says Ilya Sutskever—the OpenAI chief scientist who helped fire Sam Altman then backtracked—should jump ship for xAI or Tesla. Steve Mollman. December 9, 2023 at 1:52 PM.
Yuri Sardarov is half-Georgian and half-Armenian; he moved to the United States at age two as a refugee.[5] [6] His parents and grandparents were musicians. [6]Sardarov was named after his grandfather, with whom he is very close, and they have matching Cyrillic tattoos. [6]
Ilya Sutskever FRS (born 8 December 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. [6] Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. [7] [8] [9] He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. [10]
Little Big is a Russian rave band founded in Saint Petersburg in 2013 and currently based in Los Angeles, California, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] [2] [3] The band currently consists of Ilya "Ilich" Prusikin and Sonya Tayurskaya. [4]
The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoins, worth about US$72 million at the time, was stolen.[1]In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein (born 1989) that contained addresses and private keys associated with the stolen funds. [3]