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Inside the company ripping apart classic Porsche 911s to restore them with impeccable detail

Popular Science

According to legend, Singer Vehicle Design founder and executive chairman Rob Dickinson was a young boy the first time his dad pointed out a Porsche 911. Dickinson turned that passion into a multi-million dollar business, reimagining classic Porsche models with his own twist. To be perfectly clear, Singer is not sponsored, approved, endorsed by, or in any way associated or affiliated with Porsche. Customers bring their own 911 to the Singer shop--not just any old 911, but an air-cooled 964 version model from 1989-1994--for a complete makeover. The cars are completely disassembled and modified around the original chassis with a process driven by Singer's obsessive attention to detail.


The 10 Best Shows on Apple TV Right Now

WIRED

Slowly but surely Apple TV is finding its feet. The streaming service, which at launch we called "odd, angsty, and horny as hell," has evolved into a diverse library of dramas, documentaries, and comedies. It's also fairly cheap compared to services like Netflix--and Apple often throws in three free months when you buy a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV. Curious but don't know where to get started? Below are our picks for the best shows on the service.


Emily Dickinson and the Meter of Mood: An Experiment in Text Analysis

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I tie my Hat -- I crease my Shawl -- Life's little duties do -- precisely -- As the very least Were infinite -- to me -- I put new Blossoms in the Glass -- And throw the old -- away -- I push a petal from my gown That anchored there -- I weigh The time'twill be till six o'clock I have so much to do -- And yet -- Existence -- some way back -- Stopped -- struck -- my ticking -- through -- The enigmatic young lady staring directly into our eyes in the famous daguerreotype pictured above challenges us. What is she thinking, with her slightly pursed lips, small nosegay, and plain dress? Perhaps she is composing another of the nearly 1800 poems she wrote in her lifetime. Perhaps she is thinking of her garden, where she gathered some fresh flowers. Perhaps she is pondering the many things she has to do before six o'clock. The poet Emily Dickinson, pictured above, is, of course, drawing on the "carpe diem" trope in her poem. As Robert Pinsky noted, the poet is well known for her somber, "steely perception" that time runs on.


Machine Learning for Poets: The eMiLy App with Jen Looper

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Can an AI generate believable poetry? Discover how an AI can simulate Emily's poetry, generating new poems before your eyes. Or simply select a happy or sad poem, as determined by an AI's natural language processing power, to allow yourself to feel better, or more grounded, by the power of Dickinson's words Can an AI generate believable poetry? Join Jen as she romps through venerable 19th century poetry to create the eMiLy app: a new way to experience the ethereal poetry of Emily Dickinson, rooted in the 1800s but renewed for 2019. In this talk, she'll guide you through the creation of the eMiLy app, a mobile app designed to influence the user's mood.


Samsung launches AI centre in Toronto

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Samsung Research America (SRA) is going to launch a new artificial intelligence centre at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. The new AI centre will be Samsung's second in North America, with the other in Mountain View, Cali. It also comes shortly after the announcement of two newly established AI centres in Cambridge, U.K. and Moscow, Russia. The Toronto centre will be led by Dr. Sven Dickinson, professor on leave and past chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Dickinson is an expert in computer vision technologies.


Sinclair Spectrum designer Rick Dickinson dies in US

BBC News

Rick Dickinson, the designer of Sinclair computers, has died in the US while receiving treatment for cancer. The British designer, thought to be in his 60s, worked in-house for Sinclair Research and oversaw the creation of its home computers in the 1980s. He was responsible for the boxy look of the ZX80 and ZX81 and the Bauhaus-inspired appearance of the Spectrum. Mr Dickinson also helped to develop the technologies for the UK company's touch-sensitive and rubber keyboards. He was recently linked to a crowd-funded project by Retro Computers to turn the Spectrum into a handheld computer.


Identifying When Poems Were Written With Natural Language Processing

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My latest project is really exciting. I've been a lover of poetry for a while, so I chose it for my first major foray into Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the coolest things about data science is its ubiquity and versatility. So I used this project to stretch my data science experience and illustrate that idea in a really cool way. You can probably tell the difference between a Shakespearean poem and a piece by Emily Dickinson.


iPhone 7 Lines: Mini Robots Join The Queue To Reserve Spots For Human Customers

International Business Times

Waiting in line for the latest iPhone gadget is a tedious task--people camp out for days and wait in line for the hope of nabbing the newest smartphone model. Now, robots can do the lining up for you. In New Zealand, where consumers got an early start purchasing iPhones courtesy of the time difference, miniature Alpha 1 robots stood in line for a hundred people. The "robot army" was purchased by Spark, an Apple carrier in New Zealand, for select customers to save their time while waiting in a queue. "Technology these days is so much more advanced than it used to be, so why shouldn't our customers have their tech queue for them instead?"