Janelle Shane

Harry Potter and the word-level recurrent neural network

By Janelle Shane On August 17, 2017 - 6 min read

> Welcome Home by Alisanne | Severus will quite continue in a muggle book. In a previous experiment [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/162668008357/harry-potter-and-the-neural-network-fan-fiction] , I trained a character-level recurrent neural network (char-rnn [https://github.com/crazydonkey200/tensorflow-char-rnn]) to generate titles and summaries of Harry Potter fan fiction, based on over

Try these neural network-generated recipes at your own risk.

By Janelle Shane On August 06, 2017 - 4 min read

Stuck in a rut in the kitchen? Tired of preparing sandwiches the same old way? Machine learning can help! I trained a neural network [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn] on over 30,000 examples of cookbook recipes, and it learned to produce new recipes of its own. You can learn

Craft beer names, invented by neural network

By Janelle Shane On August 03, 2017 - 3 min read

With over 4,000 craft breweries in the United States alone, people are having trouble finding unique names for their beers. That’s a problem, because when two breweries accidentally use the same name, it results in potential confusion at best and at worst, a legal battle [http://www.npr.

Darth Net: Star Wars characters invented by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 27, 2017 - 2 min read

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way humans learn. If you give them a long list of examples of anything - paint colors [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160985569682/paint-colors-designed-by-neural-network-part-2] , Broadway musicals [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/162939563362/terrible-broadway-musicals-imagined-by-neural] , cat names [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/

Star Wars planet names generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 20, 2017 - 3 min read

Neural networks are a kind of machine learning computer program that are very, very good at making their own internal rules about a dataset. If you give them a list of ANYTHING, they’ll figure out how to generate more stuff like it. This makes neural networks very good at

Terrible Broadway musicals imagined by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 13, 2017 - 4 min read

(Marquee graphic generated with RedKid.net’ [http://www.redkid.net/generator/sign.php]s sign generator) Neural networks are a kind of machine learning program modeled very loosely after the human brain. By looking at a dataset and tuning the connections between their own virtual neurons, neural networks can learn

Harry Potter and the Neural Network fan fiction

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2017 - 5 min read

Or, what happens if you train a neural network on the titles and plot summaries of over 100,000 works of Harry Potter fan fiction. In the decades since the Harry Potter books were published, fans have written literally hundreds of thousands of Harry Potter stories of their own, and

Neural networks + Kittens = !!!

By Janelle Shane On June 29, 2017 - 5 min read

It was inevitable that the neural network, having named all kinds of internet datasets, should turn its talents to naming cats. And what an occasion! The AFK Cat Rescue [https://www.facebook.com/AFKCat/] of Huntsville, Alabama contacted me because they had an exceptionally adorable bunch of kittens (plus one

More neural network guinea pig names

By Janelle Shane On June 26, 2017 - 3 min read

So it turns out that neural networks, among their many talents, can come up with awesome names for guinea pigs. [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/161854386267/neural-networks-can-name-guinea-pigs] I found this out when the Portland Guinea Pig Rescue [http://www.pdxguineapigs.org/guinea-pigs.html] contacted me one day, asking if I’

Ancient wisdom from the neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 21, 2017 - 2 min read

What happens when really old advice meets really new technology? A recurrent neural network (like the open-source char-rnn framework [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn] used here) can teach itself to imitate recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140508739392/the-neural-network-has-weird-ideas-about-what] , paint colors [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network] , band names

Harry Potter and the word-level recurrent neural network

Try these neural network-generated recipes at your own risk.

Craft beer names, invented by neural network

Darth Net: Star Wars characters invented by neural network

Star Wars planet names generated by neural network

Terrible Broadway musicals imagined by neural network

Harry Potter and the Neural Network fan fiction

Neural networks + Kittens = !!!

More neural network guinea pig names

Ancient wisdom from the neural network

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