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It’s time for Cooking With Neural Networks!

By Janelle Shane On August 03, 2018 - 3 min read

Neural networks are computer programs that learn by example. Rather than a programmer teaching them step-by-step rules on how to solve a problem, neural networks try to deduce their own rules by looking at examples of lots of successful solutions. One of the first problems I tried to

New Burning Man camps by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 27, 2018 - 2 min read

Burning Man descends every year on a patch of Nevada desert, turning it into a giant, strange maze of art projects and themed camps. At various camps you may find tea, techno, giant animatronic owls, beans, banjos, giant ambulatory anglerfish, new pants, snow cones, or, eventually, giant flaming things. Each

A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles

By Janelle Shane On July 19, 2018 - 2 min read

Will machine learning algorithms be writing commercials soon? A familiar sight on US roads from 1926-1963 were a series of red billboards advertising Burma-Shave. Each billboard would contain a snippet of a jingle, and the last one always read “Burma-Shave”. There were about 600 different messages printed

AI does not understand “sexy”

By Janelle Shane On July 13, 2018 - 3 min read

Machine learning algorithms can uncover complex patterns in the data they see, making them useful for image recognition, predicting customer service questions, or recommending movies. They can even do a decent job at naming craft [http://aiweirdness.com/post/163753995072/craft-beer-names-invented-by-neural-network] beers [http://aiweirdness.

Nails by A.I.

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2018 - 3 min read

So the folks on Ravelry’s LSG forum [https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1-25] are quickly becoming some of my favorite people on the Internet. They enabled the fiber-wrangling wonder that is SkyKnit [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-

Nails by A.I.

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2018 - 3 min read

So the folks on Ravelry’s LSG forum [https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1-25] are quickly becoming some of my favorite people on the Internet. They enabled the fiber-wrangling wonder that is SkyKnit [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-

Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 28, 2018 - 3 min read

The other day I discovered that neural networks [https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn] can learn to name rock climbing routes, when I trained one to generate new names for routes in Boulder and Joshua Tree [http://aiweirdness.com/post/174885047997/rock-climbing-routes-generated-by-neural-network] . This week, I

The Visual Chatbot

By Janelle Shane On June 21, 2018 - 3 min read

There is a delightful algorithm called Visual Chatbot [http://demo.visualdialog.org/] that will answer questions about any image it sees. It’s a demo by a team of academic researchers that goes along with a recent machine learning research paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08669](and a challenge

Rock climbing routes generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 14, 2018 - 2 min read

Climbers have given nicknames to thousands and thousands of rock climbing routes - and the names range from quirky to rude to bizarre. Clearly, this makes them an excellent candidate for imitation by a neural network [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn], which specializes in these three things exactly. With the

Why did the neural network cross the road?

By Janelle Shane On June 08, 2018 - 3 min read

Can a machine learning algorithm learn to tell a joke? I’ve experimented with neural networks and jokes before, teaching them to tell knock-knock jokes [http://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell] , or to generate April Fools pranks [http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/

It’s time for Cooking With Neural Networks!

New Burning Man camps by neural network

A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles

AI does not understand “sexy”

Nails by A.I.

Nails by A.I.

Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network

The Visual Chatbot

Rock climbing routes generated by neural network

Why did the neural network cross the road?

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