Notices by Janelle Shane (janellecshane@wandering.shop), page 2

“I’ve just discovered it. I can’t believe it. It looks like it’s made of some kind of chemical that’s very dangerous.”
- how neural net thinks scientists talk in stories

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04833.pdf

I fed a neural net 270,000 words of Trump campaign speeches for the New Yorker and nobody can ever make me do it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFHyzuqjaok

Some unexpectedly beautiful images from a 1998 paper on a machine learning bicycle learning to drive.
Here, the paths it took as it learned to balance (left) and drive toward a target slightly off to the right.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Learning-to-Drive-a-Bicycle-Using-Reinforcement-and-Randl%C3%B8v-Alstr%C3%B8m/10bad197f1c1115005a56973b8326e5f7fc1031c

@roseveleth me too, a bit. This looks like a comprehensive guide: https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/

When you let #machinelearning evolve a new floor plan for your elementary school
Interesting work by Joel Simon http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html

My #Physics World article was published today, and I got to include lots of fun anecdotes of #machinelearning gone wrong. https://physicsworld.com/a/neural-networks-explained/

I trained a neural network to generate new names for fireworks. Here are a few of my favorites.
H/T Bruce Preston for the training dataset of Dutch fireworks
[image: extreme gupperspack & blink, power thunk-7, magical tripe, gold apotionator distroctive XXXXXL 230 stars]

I posted those #rollerderby names earlier and one thing led to another and... these are Sith lord guinea pigs.

Floof tree is coming back! Very Excited to plant this when I found out it's a remnant from the days of mastodons. It relied on MASTODONS!
It's a Kentucky coffeetree, currently native to a few swampy river drainage areas in the Midwest.
It's got super hard seed pods whose seeds don't germinate unless they're chomped open by megafauna.
Nowadays they only germinate if they fall in wetlands that can rot the pods open. That seriously restricted their range.

I did some experiments that really highlight how heavily image recognition algorithms depend on probability - and how unprepared they are for surrealism. #machinelearning
http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep

I'm training a neural network to generate new knitting patterns, in partnership with a bunch of folks at Ravelry.
This is "Mystery lace", test-knit by DataSock. https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/426-450#442

May I draw your attention to this hilarious example of fooling an image recognition algorithm with a small patch of carefully engineered noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02608

I trained a neural network on the list of thesis titles from MIT. Need a research topic? http://aiweirdness.com/post/169581821297/thesis-titles-generated-by-neural-network

Anyone want to watch a neural network fall flat on its face trying to make knitting patterns?

I just started a new project crowdsourcing knitting patterns. Once I have enough, I'll train a neural net and post the results to a Ravelry thread, asking for opinions on the neural net's progress.

More, and a link to the form, here:
https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/51-75#74

I was the only one in my group who dressed up, but I found a friend!

I trained a neural network to generate Disney songs, but only gave it a 5-character memory. It tried its best.

http://aiweirdness.com/post/167596678562/disney-songs-sung-by-a-neural-network-with-a-very https://wandering.shop/media/d_UU8SztasevfguiQz4 https://wandering.shop/media/S6rhJVbUU011jcIZMFU

@chuckwendig Yesss the SNOOG
So magnificent that legally only half may be displayed to mortals.