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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

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

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-

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&

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

More 80s action figures from the neural network

By Janelle Shane On May 31, 2017 - 1 min read

Earlier, I posted a collection of action figure names [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/161131639137/80s-action-figures-designed-by-neural-network] generated by a neural network trained on a list of about 3,700 action figures from the 1980s and 1990s, from lines including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.

80′s action figures, designed by neural network

By Janelle Shane On May 27, 2017 - 1 min read

Part of the power of a recursive neural network is that the same framework can teach itself to generate text in a huge variety of styles. So far I’ve used it to generate things like recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-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

Neural networks can name guinea pigs

Sports teams designed by neural network

Just when you thought neural networks couldn’t get creepier

The neural network will name your next band

More 80s action figures from the neural network

80′s action figures, designed by neural network

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