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By Janelle Shane On March 09, 2016 - 1 min read

ucresearch [http://ucresearch.tumblr.com/post/140692024976]: Can Lasers Make The Internet Faster? > Faster, faster, more and more data. Our demands for Internet speed are outpacing the technology. UC San Diego alum Janelle Shane [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com] has an answer: lasers. > As we try to fit more

The neural network has bad ingredient ideas

By Janelle Shane On March 08, 2016 - 1 min read

I’m training a neural network to generate recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] based on a database of about 30,000 examples, and one great (not great?) thing about it is it comes up with new ingredients that I’m

The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat

By Janelle Shane On March 05, 2016 - 1 min read

So I’ve been training this neural network to generate cookbook recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] by letting it look at tens of thousands of existing recipes. The generated titles can get a bit odd. There’s a creativity variable

The neural network gives bad cooking advice

By Janelle Shane On March 04, 2016 - 1 min read

I’ve trained the neural network on about 30MB of cookbook recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] , but its cooking advice still doesn’t seem that great. I’m not sure I should do or add any of these things. >

The neural network doesn’t understand ingredients

By Janelle Shane On March 02, 2016 - 1 min read

As the neural network learns to generate recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] , it’s very clear from the ingredients it produces that it has no clue what these words actually mean, or whether the substances involved are powders, liquids, solids,

The neural network doesn’t understand pepper.

By Janelle Shane On March 01, 2016 - 1 min read

As the neural network tries to learn to generate recipes by looking at a 30MB cookbook [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] , there are certain ingredients it has to learn to deal with. One of the most confusing for the network is

What is teaspoons?

By Janelle Shane On March 01, 2016 - 1 min read

I’m training a neural network to generate cookbook recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] . It looks at a bunch of recipes and has to figure out completely from scratch - no knowledge of what English words even are - how to start

The Silicon Gourmet: training a neural network to generate cooking recipes

By Janelle Shane On February 29, 2016 - 3 min read

Neural networks are computer learning algorithms that mimic the interconnected neurons of a living brain, managing astonishing feats of image classification [http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html] , speech recognition [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxRAHVtafI], or music generation [https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com/2015/

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By Janelle Shane On November 13, 2015 - 1 min read

Looks like a slanted surface of Martian desert cliffs, but this is actually an extreme closeup of a human hair. Nanoresearchers who try to describe their research often up comparing their devices to the size of a human hair - for good reason. At about 100 micrometers thick, a human hair

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By Janelle Shane On November 12, 2015 - 1 min read

Looks like a slanted surface of Martian desert cliffs, but this is actually an extreme closeup of a human hair. Nanoresearchers who try to describe their research often up comparing their devices to the size of a human hair - for good reason. At about 100 micrometers thick, a human hair

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The neural network has bad ingredient ideas

The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat

The neural network gives bad cooking advice

The neural network doesn’t understand ingredients

The neural network doesn’t understand pepper.

What is teaspoons?

The Silicon Gourmet: training a neural network to generate cooking recipes

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