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Pokemon generated by neural network

By Janelle Shane On July 22, 2016 - 1 min read

I’ve been playing around with char-rnn, an open-source torch add-on for character-based neural networks by Andrej Karpathy [http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkarpathy%2Fchar-rnn&t=ZTNhNTMxMDJmZjFkMDJiMjI1MDZmZjk2ZGUyN2MxZjhiNTk2MWFjMCw0T1VwUVFXVQ%3D%3D] , using it to generate everything from cookbook recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/tagged/recipes]

The neural network invents fancy new ingredients

By Janelle Shane On March 12, 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 although it sometimes comes up with ingredients that sound like a bad idea, sometimes it invents some that you could plausibly ask for at

Superheroes designed by neural network

By Janelle Shane On March 10, 2016 - 1 min read

I trained the neural network to generate superhero names, based on the list from this site. [http://www.superherodb.com/characters/] I thought the database was going to be way too small, but the network proved me wrong. Speet Stank Red Fart Mister Man Rad Food Sapgirl Woop Ann Man

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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Pokemon generated by neural network

The neural network invents fancy new ingredients

Superheroes designed 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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