Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

Odonata sent me these amazing SkyKnit patterns!! This is Fishcock, which somehow ended up as a huge hyperbolic surface.

The Kealing Middle School students shared their ice cream dataset with me - so I made some new neural net-generated flavors.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/173990761332/generated-ice-cream-flavors-now-its-my-turn

Ms. Johnson's middle school coding classes kicked my butt at neural network ice cream naming. Please enjoy their flavors:
http://aiweirdness.com/post/173797162852/ai-scream-for-ice-cream

#skyknit is famous in Japan!
Google Translate says they called it "a pleasant catastrophe project".
I like it.
https://newspicks.com/news/3010220/body/

Repotted my tomatoes! They'll be clawing at the windows soon.

Storm!
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm

Storm's coming!
Palmer Station webcam https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm

For #MayTheFourth please enjoy these Star Wars character names generated by a neural network. http://aiweirdness.com/post/163491778652/darth-net-star-wars-characters-invented-by-neural

I posted the original dataset and a huge export of generated characters.
Including 94 named Dave.
https://github.com/janelleshane/DnD-characters

Crowdsourced a dataset of D&D character names for training a neural network.
I think it captured the spirit of these.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/173546448332/dd-character-names-generated-by-a-neural

This is "Head’s Spangot Candy", a SkyKnit pattern transformed into a hat by OldTrout.
Trying to figure out what kind of organic structure this reminds me of. A walnut shell?
https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/1776-1800#1790

Package arrived from Australia today with SkyKnit patterns from MeganAnn who is a wonderful wonderful person. Look at them! These are especially weird because she followed the algorithm's instructions as closely as possible. Note all the tentacles!

I trained a neural net to describe NFL draft picks, but it had a little trouble with the grammar.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/173324149972/nfl-draft-picks-as-described-by-a-neural-network

My friend Kelly Manley made these awesome meringues for the Denver Cloud Appreciation Society

I am absolutely floored. HMSChicago sent me this scarf, made of 20 SkyKnit-generated patterns that she debugged & knit herself. Loook at it!
It's a work of art.

SkyKnit! Read about a collaboration between the LSG knitters of Ravelry & a neural network algorithm
http://aiweirdness.com/post/173096796277/skyknit-when-knitters-teamed-up-with-a-neural

Someone made an "Ale or A.I.?" quiz using neural network craft beer names.
http://www.depotdevoid.com/twine/aleorai/Ale-%20Or%20A.I.-.html

Managed to take a picture of my latte for once before taking a sip. Not pictured: octave mandolin lying on the table to the left.

I'll be on a free panel tomorrow (April 11) at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder at UMC 235 on CU campus. Topic is "Science: How Far is Too Far?"

There will be a livestream! At 2pm US Mountain time (4pm Eastern), the panel should be playing at the U235 link here:
https://www.colorado.edu/cwa/livestream
(cartoon from http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/)

Tried some content-aware rescaling on my cat - photoshop filter that tries to preserve the most important pixels as a photo is rescaled