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Painting Video with Neural Networks

The music video for Take On Me by A-ha features a mix of sketched animation and live action. It was done by hand drawing 3000 frames, and took 16 weeks to complete. The video ended up winning 6 awards in the 1986 MTV Music Video Awards. This effect is pretty striking. But who wants to [ ]

Clickotron is now on Twitter

A few people thought it would be a good idea for Clickotron to get a Twitter handle. So here it is: @clickotron_com It will tweet the top voted stories from Clickotron a few times per day. If that sounds fun, you should follow it.

Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks

Hey! If you are a web developer, you should know about CatchJS. It s a service for tracking and logging errors in JavaScript, with some pretty exciting features. F.D.R. s War Plans! reads a headline from a 1941 Chicago Daily Tribune. Had this article been written today, it might rather have said 21 War Plans F.D.R. Does [ ]

The WTF Factor: Quantifying JS Library Weirdness

Evaluating JavaScript libraries is hard. It’s fairly easy to tell if a library is popular, but it s hard to tell if it’s any good. One useful metric to have would be the average number of questions a user of the library has while using it. We can’t measure that directly, but some recently released work [ ]

AngularJS: The Bad Parts

Hey! If you do front end development, you should know about CatchJS. It s a JavaScript error logging service that doesn t suck. Below is a graph over the amount of searches for AngularJS versus a bunch of other Single Page Application frameworks. Despite the flawed methodology, the story seems to be pretty clear: Popularity wise, Angular [ ]