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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

Neural networks can name guinea pigs

By Janelle Shane On June 15, 2017 - 3 min read

Neural networks are a type of computer program that mimic the way human brains learn. Unlike traditional computer programming in which a programmer invents rules for the program to follow, neural networks have an amazing ability to intuit their own rules about datasets simply by examining them. Given a dataset

Sports teams designed by neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 08, 2017 - 3 min read

One of the many impressive things about neural networks is how well the same basic algorithm can adapt to very different kinds of problems. I’ve used the same framework, Char-rnn [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn], to produce things like recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] , Dr. Who

Just when you thought neural networks couldn’t get creepier

By Janelle Shane On June 07, 2017 - 2 min read

There’s a neural network framework called pix2pix [http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fphillipi%2Fpix2pix&t=YjUyMzc2NTM3ZDcxOTg5MjBhNmEzZWI4N2M3MGY3ODA5ZDYzY2I0Mix6RWxsUk1ieA%3D%3D&b=t%3AIinBpZOgiMHH_bphj7hrOQ&p=http%3A%2F%2Flewisandquark.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F159654519362%2Ffun-with-a-neural-net-that-transforms-line&m=1] that can be trained to

The neural network will name your next band

By Janelle Shane On June 01, 2017 - 3 min read

An important part of starting a new band is choosing an appropriate name. It is crucial that the name be unique, or you could risk at best confusion, and at worst an expensive lawsuit. The neural network is here to help. Prof. Mark Riedl of Georgia Tech, who recently provided

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 = !!!

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Ancient wisdom from the neural network

Neural networks can name guinea pigs

Sports teams designed by neural network

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