Baseball Coach Andy Cannizaro, Talking About His Writes Bone-Chilling Tales Tuesday Team’S Scrimmages Last Weekend in Jackson
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ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCHHE.COM OMMERCIAL ISPA50 ¢tc NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOMEH DELIVERY T C UESDAY CTOBER D T | O 31, 2017 SLIMANTICS Mullen dances around Univ. of Florida speculation an Mullen knows the podium Monday InsiDE drill. afternoon for ■ OUR VIEW: Tak- Mississippi State D Almost since his arriv- his weekly press ing full measure of University head al as head coach at Mississippi conference. the “Mullen effect.” football coach Dan Page 4A State in 2009, Mullen’s name has Mullen deftly Mullen on Monday been linked to coaching open- danced around deflects rumors ings on an almost annual basis. he may bolt for the question of whether he was the University of He’s accustomed to handling the interested in the job, which would Florida at season’s rumors. return him to Gainesville where end. Florida, where So when his name surfaced in he helped the Gators to two former MSU ath- media speculation that Mullen is national championships as the letic director Scott a candidate for the head coach- team’s quarterbacks coach and of- Stricklin serves in Slim Smith the same capacity, ing job at Florida after the Ga- fensive coordinator from 2005-08. parted ways with tors’ parted ways with Jim McEl- He was not so much dismissive of the its head coach wain on Sunday, the Bulldogs’ ninth-year speculation as playfully evasive. over the weekend. coach was at ease and ready as he took the See SLIMANTICS, 6A Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff TAKING ROOT Supreme Court presses Lowndes judge on bite mark case status Local man remains on death row as Supreme Court overturns verdict in DeSoto case BY ISABELLE ALTMAN [email protected] The Mississippi Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff Supreme Court has Jontavious Gardner plants pansies at Mississippi State University with other landscapers Monday. “I’ve so far enjoyed my asked Circuit Judge work here,” he says. 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Room what-you-want pricing for their ■ Kindergarten, West Lowndes Halloween in the Garden: MSU Trial Gardens in- Nov. 7: 2007 album “In Rainbows”? vites ghosts and goblins and their families to the Trick 4 What civilization was sustained Caledonia by farming on artificial islands or Treat Trail at 60 Technology Boulevard in Starkville Board of High 69 Low 41 called chinampas? from 4-6:30 p.m. Aldermen, 6 Mostly sunny 5 An Argentinean man left a p.m., Town Hall Full forecast on bequest to a theater company in 1955 provided they used his skull Nov. 13: page 2A. in what Shakespeare play? Columbus Answers, 6B TOP OF PAGE Municipal ■ Taylor Randle, 6, dresses as Jason from the School District INSIDE slasher film “Friday the 13th” during the Hail-Oween Board of Trunk or Treat and Egg Hunt event at the Starkville Trustees, 8 Classifieds5B Dear Abby 4B Sportsplex Monday. Taylor is the son of Rechion and Lily Dunn, of Columbus, a.m., Brandon Comics 4B Obituaries 5A Alexes Randle of Starkville. — Photo by Luisa Porter/ enjoys drawing, writing, Central 138TH YEAR, NO. 198 Crossword 6B Opinions 4A Dispatch Staff and acting. Services DISPATCH CUSTOMER SERVICE 328-2424 | NEWSROOM 328-2471 2A TUESDAY, OCtoBER 31, 2017 THE DISPATCH • www.cdispatch.com SAY WHAT? DID YOU HEAR? “... My main goal was when we got back on the bus and got back here that we were a better team than when we left, It lives! This nightmare machine and I felt like we accomplished that.” MSU baseball coach Andy Cannizaro, talking about his writes bone-chilling tales Tuesday team’s scrimmages last weekend in Jackson. Story, 1B. ‘She’s creating really interesting and weird stories that have never really HAIL-OWEEN TRUNK OR TREAT existed in the horror genre’ BY MATT O’BRIEN teresting and weird stories AP Technology Writer that have never really ex- isted in the horror genre,” Don’t throw away your said Pinar Yanardag, a Stephen King collection postdoctoral researcher at just yet. But the Master of the MIT Media Lab. One the Macabre might want strange tale, for instance, to keep an eye out behind involved a pregnant man him, because scientists who woke up in a hospital. have just unleashed a The lab’s experiment, nightmare machine on a launched in time for Hal- mission to churn out its loween, follows a similar own bone-chilling tales. project to create scary MIT researchers have images last year. But can applied the electrodes and all that deep-learning brought to life a new fic- technology and powerful tion-writing bot they call computation truly turn out Shelley — after “Franken- terrifying tales? Let’s just stein” author Mary Shel- say the experiment is still ley. To keep the bot busy in progress. — no wandering the coun- King, the world’s most tryside terrorizing villag- famous living horror writ- ers! — the team gave it a er, has said it can take him crash course in the horror “months and even years genre, forcing it to read “ to get a novel’s opening 140,000 stories published paragraph right. Shelley by amateur writers on a takes a couple of seconds popular online forum. — and the results can be a Now Shelley’s artificial little awkward. neural network is generat- “The doll came at me ing its own stories, posting with a syringe,” the bot opening lines on Twitter, posted on Twitter on Fri- then taking turns with hu- day. “Its blood shot out of mans in collaborative sto- its mouth, and it began to Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff rytelling. uncover itself. 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