Category Archives: char-rnn

Chicken soup (for the robot soul?)

Posted on May 24, 2017 by underwhelmingforce

So I did a little more training with the chef-rnn at a lower learning rate to fine-tune it a bit and got some shockingly good results, with some weird quirks. I really just couldn’t resist posting more recipes. These are … Continue reading →

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CycleGAN and Chef-RNN update

Posted on May 22, 2017 by underwhelmingforce

There has been a development in image generation that I find absolutely fascinating. It’s based off Generative Adversarial Networks, which are a very powerful and promising model for image generation. A recent modification to this architecture, the Conditional GAN has been making some … Continue reading →

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Jokebot

Posted on January 22, 2017 by underwhelmingforce

I fixed the problems! It seemed that I needed to update Cutorch, and in order to do that, I had to update CUDA, and in the process I inadvertently uninstalled my graphics drivers. What an adventure. To celebrate, I’ve been … Continue reading →

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The adventures of Robo-Chef

Posted on August 16, 2016 by underwhelmingforce

Since my previous post, I’ve gotten the model better.  How much better? About 22%! That’s pretty exciting. Here, exclusive, and brand new, are some highlights and some dumps from this 404-star recipe bot. At temperauture=0.1, we get the least creative, … Continue reading →

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Char-rnn retro-post

Posted on August 16, 2016 by underwhelmingforce

As with my previous post, this post is intended to serve as more permanent storage for my previous posts regarding the topic at hand– in this case, Andrej Karpathy’s infamous Char-RNN. First introduced to the world in this incredible post … Continue reading →

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