Janelle Shane

2020 Headlines

By Janelle Shane On December 16, 2020 - 4 min read

Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as: > Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

By Janelle Shane On December 02, 2020 - 5 min read

I’ve used various neural networks to generate recipes, to varying degrees of success. My earliest [https://aiweirdness.com/post/163878889437/try-these-neural-network-generated-recipes-at-your] recipes were generated with char-rnn, which had to learn everything - spelling, punctuation, words - entirely from scratch. Its recipes were terrible

Post-human flirting

By Janelle Shane On November 23, 2020 - 3 min read

In Henry J. Wehman’s The Mystery of Love, Courtship and Marriage Explained (1890) [https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryOfLoveCourtshipAndMarriageExplained/page/n33/mode/2up] there are charts of secret messages Victorian flirters could send with fans, parasols, gloves, and handkerchiefs. Whether the handkerchief codes were ever in use (or mainly used

What to do with your time

By Janelle Shane On November 13, 2020 - 2 min read

In Leonardo DaVinci’s diary you can find his to-do lists [https://jrbenjamin.com/2018/01/05/da-vincis-to-do-lists/], the kinds of broad-ranging investigations the famous polymath would use to occupy his time: > Draw Milan. Get the master of arithmetic to show you how

Splorts Teams

By Janelle Shane On October 30, 2020 - 3 min read

There is a game called Blaseball [https://www.blaseball.com/]that started online in summer 2020. Gameplay is both entirely straightforward [https://www.gains.af/blog/blaseball] and profoundly confusing [https://catacalypto.substack.com/p/i-am-all-love-blaseball-and-so-can] - a rulebook is now available, but is

2020 Headlines

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

Post-human flirting

What to do with your time

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