The Blade of Nostalgia Chase Twichell, 1950 When fed into the crude, imaginary machine we call the memory, the brain’s hard pictures slide into the suggestive waters of the counterfeit. They come out glamorous and simplified, even the violent ones, even the ones that are snapshots of fear. Maybe those costumed, clung-to fragments are the […]
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DC Motors Control – Synchronize 2 motors with PID
Motors control is very important in Micromouse. The better we control the motors, the more accurate the mouse turns. The very basic motor control technique is using PWM (Pulse-width Modulation): This technique allows us to change the speed of DC motors. However, there is no feedback loop, so we have no idea what is the actual […]
Making Media’s Content Searchable
Videos contain a lot of information but there is no effective technique to retrieve that data. For example, Target has a few Petabyte (1e+3 Terabyte) of their surveillance cameras and they want to analyze customer’s behaviors at gaming section at curtain time. The task becomes impossible because of the size of data and the cost will be tremendous. […]
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Right Here Waiting
Right Here Waiting Written by Richard Marx Oceans apart day after day And I slowly go insane I hear your voice on the line But it doesn’t stop the pain If I see you next to never How can we say forever Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for […]
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Dawn at St. Patrick’s
Dawn at St. Patrick’s BY DEREK MAHON There is an old statue in the courtyard that weeps, like Niobe, its sorrow in stone. The griefs of the ages she has made her own. Her eyes are rain-washed but not hard, her body is covered in mould, the garden overgrown. One by one the first lights […]
My Everything
My Everything © Dean Coombes Published on February 2013 You’re my love, my life The air that I breathe You’re my soul, my happiness The all that I need You’re my light, my dark The stars in the sky You’re my ups, my downs The reason I try You’re my strength, my weakness The love […]
Crash Course in Semiotics
Crash Course in Semiotics BY LUCIA PERILLO 1. “Naked woman surrounded by police”: that’s one way to start the poem. But would she mean anything devoid of her context, in this case a lushly late-August deciduous forest, some maple, mostly oak? She carries no prop—for example, no bike chain, which the cops could be […]
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From “Junk”
From “Junk” BY TOMMY PICO Wherever we go, needs feed and I find it harder and harder to believe benevolence is the thing Thousands of Yazidi girls missing and plastic fills the ocean’s mouth and the cursive of yr name still occupies the canopy of my throat Fuel, the under- pinning What fires your gd […]
Changeling
Changeling BY HIEU MINH NGUYEN Standing in front of a mirror, my mother tells me she is ugly says the medication is making her fat. I laugh & walk her back to the bed. My mother tells me she is ugly in the same voice she used to say no woman could love you & […]
Again
Again BY ROSS GAY Because I love you, and beneath the uncountable stars I have become the delicate piston threading itself through your chest, I want to tell you a story I shouldn’t but will and in the meantime neglect, Love, the discordant melody spilling from my ears but attend, instead, to this tale, for […]