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Christen Limbaugh Bloom: God using Kanye to inspire believers -- and even the skeptics

FOX News

Director of Ministry Intelligence at the American Bible Society Dr. John Farquhar Plake provides free bibles to Kanye fans. It's no secret Kanye West's "Jesus is King" album set the internet on fire over the past week. Fox News reported that Google searches for "Jesus" and "Christian beliefs" significantly spiked since the album's release on Oct. 25, and it has sparked both social media and real-life conversations among countless Christians and skeptics. After listening to the songs and watching several of West's interviews where he explains the reasoning behind his drastic change of behavior and newly professed "sonship" to the Kingdom of God, I'm convinced God is using him to inspire both believers and non-believers alike. In his appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" West was asked if he now considers himself a "Christian music artist."


A New Kanye West Dating Service Promises Love Free From Taylor Swift Stans

Slate

The galaxy of extremely niche dating sites has gained a new star--one that promises to help you find someone who loves you like Kanye loves Kanye. That's right, lonely singles are no longer confined to finding each other based on interests like farming or the goth aesthetic. With the release of Yeezy Dating, fans of Kanye West are one step closer to finding someone to argue with about the proper breakdown of their Kanye madness bracket. Slated to launch sometime later this month, the Yeezy Dating website is pretty sparse at the moment, featuring a brief explainer noting that the site is "for fans of the genius Mr. Kanye West." However the site, created through a crowdfunding campaign launched by 21-year-old Yeezus stan Harry Dry, has a relatively active Instagram presence.


Teenager Teaches A.I. to Rap Like Kanye

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A 17-year-old from West Virginia has used an archive of Kanye West lyrics to train a neural network to write rhymes on its own. The results are braggadocious, intermittently obscene, frequently incomprehensible, and laced with nonsensical name-drops. The rapping robot was created by Robbie Barrat, who told Quartz that he put it together in a week, at the urging of his high school programming club, using the open-source software PyBrain and a Linux laptop. Most impressive of all, this is apparently Barrat's first working AI. Here's one choice sequence of Barrat's creation going to work: No more wasting time, you can't roam without Caesar It's not exactly Wallace Stevens--it's hard to find much in the way of consistent themes or narratives in the robot's work.


Teenager Teaches A.I. To Rap Like Kanye - BI Insight - Business Intelligence

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A 17-year-old from West Virginia has used an archive of Kanye West lyrics to train a neural network to write rhymes on its own. The results are braggadocious, intermittently obscene, frequently incomprehensible, and laced with nonsensical name-drops.


This Neural Network's Emoji Game Is Stronger Than Yours

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Right now, there are 1,851 emojis supported by the Unicode Consortium, including everything from a purple eggplant to a ghost with its tongue sticking out. But despite the runaway popularity of these curious cartoon symbols, the way we actually type out emojis is very primitive: a tiny separate keyboard on our smartphones, roughly organized by category, that even the best emoji users haven't so much mastered as partially memorized. "Emoji has a big UI problem," says Xavier Snelgrove. It's a problem that his company, Whirlscape, is trying to solve with artificial intelligence. The company has created an Android app called Dango that uses recurring neural networks to automatically predict what emojis you want to use based on your message.