Don’t get into a relationship simply because you don’t want to be single. That’s not a healthy basis for one. I know it can be hard waiting sometimes, but you will find the right one with time. Date for the right reasons, not because you don’t want to be alone.
There’s a kind of neural network that learns to imitate whatever text you give it, whether that’s recipes, song lyrics, or even the names of guinea pigs.
Their imitations are often imperfect (they only know what’s in their dataset and therefore end up accidentally coming up with things that they don’t know are bad ideas). But one area where they tend to do well is inventing new species of things. The neural net’s birds were entirely believable, and its fish were generally no stranger than the species that already exist. So for my next project, I decided to generate some snakes.
I collected English common names for about 1,000 snakes and started training.
The first thing I noticed is that its snake names were a lot more noticeably fake than its birds or fish – the snake dataset is way smaller, so it had much fewer examples to learn from.
Tostlesnake Sine cobra Snoked snake Cancan rattlesnake Chippen’s putter python Southern coat snake Pinkwarm’s Copperanada Smart sea snake Western Nack Blonded snake Ham’s Pattlescops Green tree nosh Snake Hecker’s sea snake Ned-scaled tree viper Barned dater Snake Smalle’s mock ractlesnake Bland brown snake Corned python Common bust viper Smorthead Garter Snake
Some snakes did approach the level of believability. You might be able to bluff some herpetologists into thinking these are real.
Texan farter snake Shite snake Spitty rattlesnake Thing snake Brown brown Black Snake Tamestail farter Snake Black-neded tampon Madeshine spite- racer Bognia scat snake
I also decided to see what would happen if I trained a neural net both on snakes AND on Halloween costumes. Pleasingly, here are some of the snakes it came up with:
Wonder snake Fairy rattlesnake The Spacer Snake Robo snake Sexy cobra Bob dog tree Snake
I had way too much fun generating those, and ended up generating more than would fit here. If you’d like to read the rest of them (and optionally get bonus material every time I post), enter your email here.
I’m particularly fond of the “Common Bust Snake” which sounds like it lives ina particularly rube goldberg “booby trap”
I really hate that mammals as a class of animal are named after our ability to ooze milk from our bodies. That seems like a classification a perverse type of alien would give us but WE DID IT TO OURSELVES. WHY
You’re projecting humans perverse ideologies onto innocent aliens. We ARE the perverse alien, and we had to do it to ourselves.
I really don’t like posting on her blog myself but I’m in a situation that warrants it. Me and my girlfriend were kicked out by our roommates a couple of weeks ago, so I drove to Los Angeles with her to try and find a programming job there. However, we don’t have the money to last us much longer, so I’m posting here to ask for help.
My paypal is mraof@mraof.com, if you could donate there I would greatly appreciate it. I also have a patreon at https://www.patreon.com/mraof, but as I have a more immediate need for money I would prefer donations to my paypal.
Me and my girlfriend Ashley also need temporary housing, we are both trans women and both have cars.
If you have any leads for programming jobs in the LA area (or remotely), contact me at mraof@mraof.com. Other than sbnkalny, I’ve written the Minecraft mod Minestuck and various other mods and small projects, you can check out the source of a lot of what I’ve done (including sbnkalny) at https://github.com/mraof/
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