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Don’t use a neural network to name your next pub

By Janelle Shane On September 07, 2017 - 3 min read

The King’s Arms. The Bell and Bucket. The Black Bull Inn. The Beggar’s Bridge. A pub’s name is part of its soul, often highly unique, often hundreds of years old, often with a story behind it. A simple computer program couldn’t hope to give a proper

A neural network invents diseases you don’t want to get

By Janelle Shane On August 31, 2017 - 2 min read

Science fiction writers and producers of TV medical dramas: have you ever needed to invent a serious-sounding disease whose symptoms, progression, and cure you can utterly control? Artificial intelligence can help! Blog reader Kate [http://www.mynameiskate.com/blog/] very kindly compiled a list of 3,765 common names

New My Little Ponies, designed by neural network

By Janelle Shane On August 24, 2017 - 3 min read

The Kingdom of Equestria is inhabited by thousands of colorful, magical ponies, whose life cycle, socioeconomics, and biomechanics are best not investigated too closely. Their names are usually something like “Rainbow Dash” or “Diamond Tiara” or (my favorite because she’s totally a grad student pony): ‘Twilight Sparkle”. Often the

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

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-

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

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Don’t use a neural network to name your next pub

A neural network invents diseases you don’t want to get

New My Little Ponies, designed by 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 = !!!

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