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The Epic History of the Earth

By Janelle Shane On December 29, 2020 - 2 min read

“When a Billion Years Disappeared [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R_NAV8Ieuo]” “That Time It Rained for Two Million Years [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4]” “When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQXTXbuLYo]” One thing I like about the PBS Eons show

Alternate Rudolphs

By Janelle Shane On December 23, 2020 - 5 min read

I’ve been experimenting with generating Christmas carols using machine learning algorithms of various sizes. The smallest AIs, trained from scratch on a set of carols, tended to get confused [https://aiweirdness.com/post/168770625987/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-network] about what exactly the carols are celebrating. GPT-2, larger and with some internet pretraining…

2020 Headlines

By Janelle Shane On December 16, 2020 - 4 min read

Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020. We started to get headlines such as: > Mysterious alien-like monolith discovered in

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

By Janelle Shane On December 02, 2020 - 5 min read

I’ve used various neural networks to generate recipes, to varying degrees of success. My earliest [https://aiweirdness.com/post/163878889437/try-these-neural-network-generated-recipes-at-your] recipes were generated with char-rnn, which had to learn everything - spelling, punctuation, words - entirely from scratch. Its recipes were terrible (Swamp Peef and Cheese, anyone? Or

Post-human flirting

By Janelle Shane On November 23, 2020 - 3 min read

In Henry J. Wehman’s The Mystery of Love, Courtship and Marriage Explained (1890) [https://archive.org/details/TheMysteryOfLoveCourtshipAndMarriageExplained/page/n33/mode/2up] there are charts of secret messages Victorian flirters could send with fans, parasols, gloves, and handkerchiefs. Whether the handkerchief codes were ever in use (or mainly used

What to do with your time

By Janelle Shane On November 13, 2020 - 2 min read

In Leonardo DaVinci’s diary you can find his to-do lists [https://jrbenjamin.com/2018/01/05/da-vincis-to-do-lists/], the kinds of broad-ranging investigations the famous polymath would use to occupy his time: > Draw Milan. Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle Ask Giannino

Splorts Teams

By Janelle Shane On October 30, 2020 - 3 min read

There is a game called Blaseball [https://www.blaseball.com/]that started online in summer 2020. Gameplay is both entirely straightforward [https://www.gains.af/blog/blaseball] and profoundly confusing [https://catacalypto.substack.com/p/i-am-all-love-blaseball-and-so-can] - a rulebook is now available, but is almost completely redacted, and what is

High-visibility costumes for distanced viewing

By Janelle Shane On October 15, 2020 - 3 min read

I’ve used neural networks to generate Halloween costumes in the past, but the early ones struggled with their complete lack of context for the training data. Why is Statue of Liberty a plausible costume yet Statue of Pizza isn’t [https://aiweirdness.com/post/166814009412/a-neural-network-designs-halloween-costumes] ? Those neural networks,

What color are you?

By Janelle Shane On October 09, 2020 - 2 min read

I’ve been having fun using GPT-3 to generate weird versions of internet memes. Even if it’s a meme that didn’t exist when GPT-3’s training data was collected from the internet (which was October 2019 for the version I’m using), most memes will fit within its

This blog is not a blog of honor

By Janelle Shane On September 28, 2020 - 4 min read

Last time I used GPT-3 to suggest forbidding landscapes [https://aiweirdness.com/post/629516384194461697/a-10000-year-warning] that would repel future civilizations from our nuclear waste disposal sites. There’s something about taking a subject that’s very very permanent - some kinds of nuclear waste remain deadly for over 250,000

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The Epic History of the Earth

Alternate Rudolphs

2020 Headlines

A big neural net reviews a smaller neural net's recipes

Post-human flirting

What to do with your time

Splorts Teams

What color are you?

This blog is not a blog of honor

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