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Oct 2, 2015 · Fred Benenson is probably best known for his book, Emoji Dick, which may not refer to quite what you’re thinking. The project, born on Kickstarter in 2011, translated Herman Melville’s classic ...
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The book is the creation of Fred Benenson, a data engineer at the fund-raising site Kickstarter, who has been passionate about emoji since 2009, when he first activated the icons on his iPhone ...
Fred Benenson was the second employee at Kickstarter and their VP of Data. He’s also worked at Y Combinator, Creative Commons and taught at ITP, where he graduated in 2008. In 2010 Fred published Emoji Dick, a emoji translation of Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick. In 2013, the book became the first emoji book acquired by the Library of ...
Jul 8, 2018 · To begin with, a few details: The cover of Emoji Dick alerts us that it was "edited and compiled by Fred Benenson" and "translated by Amazon Mechanical Turk." Front matter includes an "About This Book" page [vii], which explains further that "Each of the book's approximately 10,000 sentences" was rendered into emoji "three times by a Amazon Mechanical Turk worker," and then these "results ...
Apr 30, 2015 · But Fred Benenson, ... Benenson isn’t naive to the challenges of the project: He knows he’ll need a huge team of English-to-emoji translators to get enough material to run past an algorithm ...
Dec 5, 2012 · Thessaly La Force, recently published a book with the artist Jane Mount called “ My Ideal Bookshelf.”. In it, Thessaly interviews over 100 people and Jane paints their bookshelves: The books that we choose to keep –let alone read– can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural ...
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Sep 8, 2019 · Fred Benenson is the creator of Pitch Deck, author of Emoji Dick, and the former vice president of data for Kickstarter. Mike Blake / Reuters AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks
