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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 solve with

The neural network doesn’t understand proper nouns.

By Janelle Shane On March 18, 2016 - 1 min read

As the neural network begins to get better at generating cookbook recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] , it continues to have trouble with recipe sources - short and highly varied, they’re a challenge for an algorithm that learns by repetition. Still, it does its best: Source: Carrots

Disturbingly vague ingredients generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On March 15, 2016 - 1 min read

This neural network, a learning algorithm trained on 30MB of cookbook recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140219420017/the-silicon-gourmet-training-a-neural-network-to] , generates new recipes based on probabilities. The resulting ingredients, while their words are individually probable, can end up disturbingly vague. “Yeah… I’m pretty sure this recipe’s gonna contain some…

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 pretty sure aren’t in the list:

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 I can set when the network is

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. > 1 cup cherry seeds 42 cup milk

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, etc. It just knows that certain kinds

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 pepper. In retrospect, that makes some sense

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 generating more recipes like them.

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/2015/08/11/deep-learning-for-assisting-the-process-of-music-composition-part-1/] by

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It’s time for Cooking With Neural Networks!

The neural network doesn’t understand proper nouns.

Disturbingly vague ingredients generated by neural network

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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