Everyone seems to overlook how FUNNY word2vec is! GPT-2 has gotten lots of playful attention, but word2vec never had its day in the sun. Everyone mentions the example king man + woman = queen , but no one mentions the delightful yeti snow + economics = homo economicus . We know word2vec is rather good Continue reading Word2vec: fish + music = bass
Neural Style is pretty neat. Let s play! Here s the original image: Alex Grey: Circuits: Crochet: Dollar bill: Brains: Pixel art: Wood grain: Pebbles: Stained glass: Murals: Dishes: Black and white: And a bunch of different art styles:
[Cross-posted as a Gist.] alias accio=wget alias avadaKedavra='rm -f' alias imperio=sudo alias priorIncantato='echo `history tail -n2 head -n1` sed "s/[0-9]* //"' alias stupefy='sleep 5' alias wingardiumLeviosa=mv alias sonorus= set -v alias quietus= set +v alias colloportus= openssl enc -aes-256-cbc # locking spell! $colloportus -in unencryptedName -out encryptedName alias alohamora= openssl enc…
[Cross-posted at The Hackerati.] Principal Component Analysis and Fashion Any set of images can be broken down with Principal Component Analysis. This has been done pretty successfully with faces. Here we’ll take a look at style. Our dataset is 807 pictures of dresses from Amazon. They have a standard image size, but unfortunately do not Continue reading Eigenstyle
[Cross-posted at The Hackerati.] In our deepnightmares, we’ve seen monstrous slugdogs, shoggoths of endless eyes, creatures beyond all reckoning. Wherever we look, a dog’s face stares back at us, with their cohort of unflinching finches, all beaks and eyes. We try to escape into different layers, but we are still confronted with monsters of lizards, Continue reading Deepdreaming Without the…
[Cross-posted at The Hackerati.] Humans have always been compelled by faces. We like to look at them, we like to draw them, we like to take pictures of our own face, we see them in the moon and in our toast and in a random outcropping of rocks. We look at a friend’s face and Continue reading A Thousand Years of the Painted Face
How to Make a Settlers of Catan Hexaflexagon! Print out these two pages: Page 1 Page 2 Then follow the instructions in the video: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFeAGhnp7lQ
Tired of hexagons? Try playing Settlers of Catan with some Penrose Tiles! Print out as many as you need, then cut along the black lines. When placing tiles (either initial placement or later fog-of-war placement) the little blue and yellow marks MUST match up with the marks of an adjacent tile! Click to enlarge.
A new scarf I made! 1-up mushrooms from Super Mario Bros. Here s the pattern: Row 1: With Green Thread: Ch 7. Ch 1 turn, sc 7. (= 7 sts) Row 2: Ch 1 turn. (2 sc into next stitch), 5 sc, (2 sc into last stitch). (=9 sts) Row 3: Ch 1 turn. sc evenly Continue reading Mushroom Scarf Crochet Pattern