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Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI

By Janelle Shane On September 07, 2018 - 2 min read

It’s apple season in the northern hemisphere! If you’re lucky enough to live in an apple-growing region, you may even be able to get ahold of heirloom apples. These older varieties have fallen out of favor, sometimes because their tree wasn’t robust enough, or they didn’t

Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network

By Janelle Shane On August 31, 2018 - 3 min read

The names of American shopping malls are a carefully calculated combination of bland and grandiose. Even the plainest of strip malls will have a faded sign somewhere proclaiming it to be the “Westbrook Manor Shoppes at Town Center Mall” or something of that nature. What happens if a machine learning

Robotics teams: why not name them with a bot?

By Janelle Shane On August 23, 2018 - 2 min read

There’s a high school robotics contest called FIRST Robotics [https://www.firstinspires.org/] where thousands of student teams compete to build and program huge robots to compete in robots sports. Each team (in addition to, y’know, building the actual robot) has to pick a name and develop their

Neural net does sound effects

By Janelle Shane On August 09, 2018 - 3 min read

The BBC has published their entire archive of 16,000 sound effects [http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/], recorded over many decades and available for public use. Existing sound effects include “Wild boars having tea [http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/07074094.wav]”, “4 batter puddings thrown [http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.

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

New Burning Man camps by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 27, 2018 - 2 min read

Burning Man descends every year on a patch of Nevada desert, turning it into a giant, strange maze of art projects and themed camps. At various camps you may find tea, techno, giant animatronic owls, beans, banjos, giant ambulatory anglerfish, new pants, snow cones, or, eventually, giant flaming things. Each

Nails by A.I.

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2018 - 3 min read

So the folks on Ravelry’s LSG forum [https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1-25] are quickly becoming some of my favorite people on the Internet. They enabled the fiber-wrangling wonder that is SkyKnit [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] , feeding it a dataset of knitting patterns to learn

Nails by A.I.

By Janelle Shane On July 06, 2018 - 3 min read

So the folks on Ravelry’s LSG forum [https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1-25] are quickly becoming some of my favorite people on the Internet. They enabled the fiber-wrangling wonder that is SkyKnit [http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural] , feeding it a dataset of knitting patterns to learn

Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network

By Janelle Shane On June 28, 2018 - 3 min read

The other day I discovered that neural networks [https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn] can learn to name rock climbing routes, when I trained one to generate new names for routes in Boulder and Joshua Tree [http://aiweirdness.com/post/174885047997/rock-climbing-routes-generated-by-neural-network] . This week, I learned that they can name rock

Why did the neural network cross the road?

By Janelle Shane On June 08, 2018 - 3 min read

Can a machine learning algorithm learn to tell a joke? I’ve experimented with neural networks and jokes before, teaching them to tell knock-knock jokes [http://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell] , or to generate April Fools pranks [http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network] . In each case, the results were… underwhelming.

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Heirloom apples you’ve never tried, courtesy of AI

Perfectly normal shopping malls, named by neural network

Robotics teams: why not name them with a bot?

Neural net does sound effects

It’s time for Cooking With Neural Networks!

New Burning Man camps by neural network

Nails by A.I.

Nails by A.I.

Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes via neural network

Why did the neural network cross the road?

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