Author Archives: underwhelmingforce
Unexpected results in ML & project updates
There was a recent paper that caught my eye that I think is worth sharing with anyone interested in the themes of my blog: The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial … Continue reading
Sentiment Translator
Introduction A very common problem in natural language processing is that of sentiment analysis, or rather, attempting to analytically determine if a given input has an overall positive or negative tone. For example, a positive string might be “I really enjoyed this movie!” whereas … Continue reading
Automated topic extraction with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
During last semester, I became aware of a really interesting NLP algorithm called LDA, short for “Latent Dirichlet Allocation.” The goal of the algorithm is to create a set of “topics” which represent a specific human-interpretable concept The core assumption … Continue reading
Making art with neural style and fractals
I recently attempted to see if I could create art with Neural Style using only photos I’ve taken and fractal flames I’ve created with Fractorium and Apophysis. I must say, I’m very happy with the results! I generated the outputs … Continue reading
Steam Games
While I work on my next big project, I decided to generate some random steam game names. All of these are games that don’t actually exist: Happy Panic Unraveled Land Mad Sharkness The Heart’s Medicine formic innocence Heroes Over Europe … Continue reading
Espresso is the marshmallow of coffee (fun with Word2Vec)
In exploring the recipe dataset, I decided to have some fun with Word2vec, an algorithm originally created by Google. For the layperson, this algorithm works by looking at the context in which a given word appears and learns vectors to … Continue reading