She proved to the world that women can make exceptional protagonists. She embodies woman empowerment, wit and adversity, but Lara Croft also represents the colonial values of old school archaeology. Like many archaeogamers, I’m a huge fan of Lara Croft, even Classic Lara, who stole artefacts and disseminated archaeological sites just because she felt like it. In the first Tomb Raider, she says it herself: “I’m sorry, I only play for sport.” But as the reboot series tried to transform Lara to less of a female protagonist built for the male gaze to a relatable hero, she fell more victim to Western imperial privilege. Oh the irony.
How I Deployed a Machine Learning Model for the First Time
For as long as I’ve started with machine learning, Jupyter Notebooks have been my most loyal sidekick. From data preprocessing to model training, fine-tuning,…