Janelle Shane

Learning to hack like a faulty AI

By Janelle Shane On April 26, 2019 - 3 min read

So last week I was a biiiit busy, traveling to Vancouver to give a TED talk(!!!!). I’ll post the talk when it goes live online, probably at the end of October. For me, one of the highlights of the 2019 TED conference was Simone Giertz’s “Sh*tty Robot

Physics acronyms: there was an attempt

By Janelle Shane On April 12, 2019 - 2 min read

The other day, Katie E. M. tweeted [https://twitter.com/kt_bop/status/1116106321718390790] the following: > Astrophysicists are all like, “ah, yes, this important piece of technology? It’s called the Very Very Very Long Extra Big Spectrometer Device. This other one? We call it NINJATURTLE for short, and

Discount Strong Bad emails

By Janelle Shane On April 01, 2019 - 2 min read

Children of the early 2000s internet (hi!) may remember spending hours watching Strong Bad emails [http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html] from homestarrunner.com [http://homestarrunner.com]. They are literally short videos of some guy named Strong Bad checking his email and they are hilarious. Anyway, Strong Bad just emailed this

Welcome to Word Vector Space

By Janelle Shane On March 29, 2019 - 4 min read

On this blog I’ve posted a lot about neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Unlike other kinds of computer programs, they don’t rely on step by step instructions from a programmer - instead, they’re given a goal, like a score to maximize or a list of

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By Janelle Shane On March 29, 2019 - 4 min read

Welcome to Word Vector Space On this blog I’ve posted a lot about neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Unlike other kinds of computer programs, they don’t rely on step by step instructions from a programmer - instead, they’re given a goal, like a score to

Learning to hack like a faulty AI

Physics acronyms: there was an attempt

Discount Strong Bad emails

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