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I can definitely use this blessing!

Ummm yes I am guilty

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Ladies, I Present You The Smartest Idea Ever.

My husband nixed the idea

Science appreciation post

Reblog if u think science is cool (and deserves some rad funding)

@disexplications, in case you haven’t seen this yet, and want to hear some of your game titles read out loud, go to 3:46.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll watch it eventually.

(It’s generally a safe bet that I haven’t seen things like that. I actually don’t follow video game culture very much)

Saying them out loud makes them 10x funnier. I couldn't do it with a straight face

The neural network generated pickup lines that are actually kind of adorable

So it occurred to me that the same neural network framework I’ve trained on recipes, Pokemon, superhero names, and Irish tune names might be able to write pick up lines as well.

Gathering the dataset was much more painful than I had expected - I hadn’t really read many of these before, and most were obscene, or aggressive, or kind of insulting. I began to regret the whole project.

But although the neural network figured out the basic forms “You must be a … because….” or “Hey baby, wanna…” it never learned to generate the worst lines - most of these were based on wordplay that it didn’t have a chance of reproducing. 

Instead, it began to generate lines that varied from incomprehensible to surreal to kind of adorable:

I can’t not picture these pickup lines being spoken by really pathetic robots. So… I couldn’t resist:

Awww the little wheels on the one with the flower!

I used the "you look like a thing and I love you." On my fiancé. He laughed. These are so cute

“Pocket Guide to the Missing Forever” is actually an awesome title, although I don’t know what one would or could use it for.

Keys, phones, glasses, jewelry, thugs that people lose really, really often all the time

The neural network is more of a foodie than you are.

I’m training a neural network to generate recipes based on a database of about 30,000 examples, using the open-source char-rnn framework. It sometimes hallucinates ingredients that it’s quite sure definitely exist and you desperately need them for your recipe.

Try asking your foodie friends if they know where to find the following:

The neural network invents fruit names that may not catch on.

I’ve been training a neural network (based on this open-source neural network framework from Andrej Karpathy) on datasets from  recipes, to lists of Pokemon, to superhero names. I decided to see if it could invent names for new fruit varieties - I fed it a list of apple, peach, pear, plum, and cherry varieties, and asked it to generate more.

It obliged. But I’m not sure any of these are going to catch on:

Video game titles created by a neural network trained on 146,000 games:

(part one, part two)

Spork Demo is either really innocuous or really violent.

I bust out laughing at spork demo