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that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. up up next, it's click. when was the last time you wrote a letter? i mean, actually hand wrote one? i know, right? it's allabout the tippy capi typing these days is in a? what we've been looking at the weight machine learning can help write things for you in your own script. but is a good enough to fool
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the human eye? is my handwriting really that bad? yeah, it is. but not meet hemingway. this little robot is doing something that i hate. writing a letter but this one is particularly special. because it's doing it in my style of handwriting. this is writing in exactly my cell and the way hemingway here learned how to write my cell is i sent this piece of paper in with a sample test. this took me 50 minutes to write. hemingway can do it in two. after sending through my written text, the handwriting company scans it and puts it through its machine learning algorithms to figure out how i write my letters. the interesting thing about our tech is it inimical what humans do. every time you wrote a character, it is a tiny bit different and we pick up on those
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nuances. our technology will learn how you do those and it will also mimic allthe how you do those and it will also mimic all the variation and generate more on mimic all the variation and generate more on top of it. it's notjust printing the words on paper. it's a plain pressure at certain points where i apply pressure. it is being able to do that, i do a g like that without the curl at the bottom, this does this. just these little things. it has got it down to a tee. it's wicked. look at that. it is all very impressive. and even if i am right underneath the robot, you can see the results of summer. there are small details like little flicks from the pen that set mine apart. but why would anyone want to have a hand write a letter nowadays?m might seem a bit counterintuitive. but you get so many e—mails stay and you barely read half of them. it's about cutting through that noise and adding a personal touch. we work with big political organisations,
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they send it out, hotels edit for adding a personal touch. they send it out, hotels edit for adding a personaltouch. 0r they send it out, hotels edit for adding a personal touch. or maybe in your exams. to see how convincing this robot really is, i have asked adam brand to see if you see which is which. the bottom one is written by human being. the top one is mechanical. yeah, that is me. was it easy to tell which one was which? it's got the spacing right, it has the upper angles like, it has the form right but what is fundamentally missing is the fluency. there's a nick there, a nick there... missing is the fluency. there's a nick there, a nick there. .. what can you tell from my handwriting about me? there are some lovely things going on here. the sensitivity, the fluency, the need for information, the mental enthusiasm. you can tell all that with my handwriting, and you would not be retell that with this? you can tell a lot from this but in terms of actual
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identification, and wax soul. is there potential for misuse as it stands we screened the security problems clearly. but it is too easy to pick out the fact that one is mechanical and the other is a human being. you are the first ever person thatis being. you are the first ever person that is pretty positive about my handwriting. the handwriting company plans to improve the system so in future you can print your handwritten letters at home, tell your smart home assistant to write somebody up and even write with a particular emotion like white and fully for happy and intense pressure for angry! but until then, fully for happy and intense pressure forangry! but untilthen, it's cursed with my cursive. now then, blockbuster silk —— film season now then, blockbuster silk —— film seasonis now then, blockbuster silk —— film season is fast approaching so we thought we would look at the amazing app for that went into crete in the world of one of the big children's films of the year. dumbo. this is
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tim burton's take which took something —— scenes 30 mr mentor sub involved now, introducing the world famous flying elephant! when i initially came on board, my focus was what will he look like, what are the practical considerations and design considerations, how does tim wa nt design considerations, how does tim want to realise him as a character? tim wanted something to a completely photo real, his unusual design was not going to sit well in a perfectly real world. we chose to shoot on location which was shoot everything on stage, control the lighting, the set design, it was important we created a sort of beautiful downtrodden character driven movie with a world that was equally sort of design to his character and book as well. dumbo's animation is
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subtle, contain, and most of his emotion is read either through his eyes or body language. so it was incredible important. we had to do quite a lot of work to find the right book and while with only we do every thing we can to get everything in camera as possible. and in his dumbo suit provided a back for the kids to stroke or something a deficit to make the interaction work, we added cg hay on top of him just so that there is something to knock off or when we first meet dumbo and he sort of tumbles out of the train carriage, we had a starting point from a stunt performer going down the ramp and ultimately we had to cradle the haiti to interact with and also for the site off his body. similarly a water interaction, we did a combination of generating a lot of computer—generated foam to sit over out computer—generated foam to sit over our dumbo. we show another bit of
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prattle elements, photo elements against black that we could then use to tinkerand against black that we could then use to tinker and add to the final process putting the shots together. welcome to the family circus! where anything is possible. notjust dumbo but the adult elephant they all require an extensive rigging process. the animation team firstly have a really good skeletal structure that they can move the joints around and allow them to move as naturally as possible. but also there is the muscles on top of the skeleton and then the fat in the skin that all has to interact with that. one of the kind of key things i make sure we wanted to do in this movie was to really capture the subtlety of motion you get in elephant skin which is incredibly loose and stretchy, the way that is sort of expands when a bag moves forward and retracts again. it
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created a different pattern of wrinkles and some of that detail was important to capture. we had to embark ona important to capture. we had to embark on a whole new way of creating our sort of simulation for wa nt creating our sort of simulation for want of a better word. right-wing? check left wing, check. prepare for ta ke—off. check left wing, check. prepare for take-off. fantastic stuff. now think, i have come to east london where i am about to make my own great escape. hi, welcome to of the world. would you like to come with me? looking like nothing at all a episode of tight my black mayor, this is a virtual reality with the difference. step in, put on the vr, and you will
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be transported to other world. i find myself on an island where i am free to wander about. going down the slide, i like how you walk in this game, you squeeze your triggers and you just do a walking motion with your hands. being in your own private pod means the environment is co ntrolla ble private pod means the environment is controllable and as you wander into different climates, a rumble pad under yourfeet different climates, a rumble pad under your feet and heat lamps and fa ns under your feet and heat lamps and fans which subtly change the temperature make this a multisensory experience. i feel the heat temperature make this a multisensory experience. ifeel the heat on temperature make this a multisensory experience. i feel the heat on the back of my head now. because i am facing away from the sun, i do like that. put simply, 0therworld facing away from the sun, i do like that. put simply, other world is a way to play many vr games in one place from frantic shoot them ups, to more serene place from frantic shoot them ups, to more serene experiences. place from frantic shoot them ups, to more serene experiences. but instead of choosing them from a menu here, you wander the islandsjust instead of choosing them from a menu here, you wander the islands just as you wander around a theme park
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looking for different rides. the idea is that you don'tjust walk around the snow scape but in these pie —— pause you step into them and find a game. i'm going into one called space pirate trainers now. there are 16 games currently available. and in the future, the 0ther available. and in the future, the other world team will want you to convert points in game into real—world tokens to spend at the bar. and although i think my performance is of it that belongs behind closed doors, it is also possible to share your experiences with your friends in other pods. i wa nt to with your friends in other pods. i want to know what they're doing and that other pod! 0ther want to know what they're doing and that other pod! other world is not finished and it is not locked down. it is in continual development and the slightly less glamourous workshop just around the corner. the slightly less glamourous workshopjust around the corner. we are always going to be bringing
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improvements or taking things away that people don't like, it is very fluid where we have an active sandbox around the corner of customs going in —— customers going and using it all day. with £1 million worth of investments of our, other world certainly looks the part but it is one of the first br arcades in the uk, so it is probably to her to tell if it can keep enough people coming through its doors to keep people coming through. 0h, coming through its doors to keep people coming through. oh, my goodness. and that is it for the short of click this week from other world. don't forget the full version for you is waiting for you on iplayer was up if you need us as we, we are on facebook, instagram, youtube at abc click. if you need me, i will be in my pod.
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good evening for almost all of us i think today was the more clement day of us. we said farewell to storm hanna noble and some of us got to see some... there was generally cloudy conditions across western parts of the uk. you can see that on the satellite picture. we have a slow moving with part moving across western parts of the country. it will not make progress eastwards. through tonight it will bring some patchy rain into south—west england and elsewhere. the isle of man, far south—west of scotland. elsewhere, some fog patches starting to form and in eastern areas quite a chilly night in fact for parts of north—eastern
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england and scotland there could be a localised frost. for most of us it is looking dry with spells of sunshine but our pesky weather front will still bring cloud and some patchy rain. early mist and fog clearing but always a patchy cloud into the afternoon. the best of the sunshine in scotland. 18—19, possibly 20 degrees. as we go into tuesday, a similar day of weather. scraping into western parts, some rain. elsewhere drive with spells of sunshine and the early fog will clear. tuesday will be the warmest day of the week, 20 in london, it could be 19 or 20 in other places. this should make some progress eastwards. not much winds to push it along, it is in no mood to move quickly. it becomes marooned on top of the british isles on wednesday. a band of cloud initially but may reinvigorate to give
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showers and thunderstorms into the afternoon. ahead of that weather front, still warm. but behind it, the temperatures start to drop away which is the theme heading towards the end of the week. it does look like turning cooler and fresher. some showers drifting eastwards during thursday. by friday most of us will be dry but those temperatures significantly lower than they have been. to sum things up for the week ahead, largely drive for most of us at first, rain spreading slowly eastwards. there could be patchy, dense fog and it does turn warmerfor a time.
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this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines: prayers in the street in sri lanka as church services are cancelled a week after more than 250 people were killed in the easter sunday bombings. more prominent health warnings on packets of opioid painkillers due to growing concern over levels of addiction. exit polls in spain suggest the governing socialist part have won most seats — but with no overall majority. they also suggest a far right party will win seats for the first time there since the 1970s. the uk's shale gas commissioner resigns after only six months in thejob, blaming ministers for paying too much attention to the environmental lobby.

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