Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

Someone is rotating the Palmer webcam! new views in new directions, very exciting
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm

Our stack of handwritten postcards, which the ACLU will send out to encourage people to vote.
One includes an apology for a chocolate smudge.

Wondered if this was a new kind of Halloween pumpkin. Turns out they were tarring the parking lot nearby.

Cat is currently sporting one single white whisker and it’s hilarious

Someone on Birdsite rearranged the neural net Neopets foods into an alignment chart, and I have to say I agree.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/178075241522/neopets-foods-might-as-well-be-the-product-of

Several people have mentioned the similarity between neural net inventions and the foods from Neopets. So this had to happen: http://aiweirdness.com/post/178075241522/neopets-foods-might-as-well-be-the-product-of

Now up to 48 knots (55 mph). Clearer now; maybe most of the loose snow is blown away.

40 knot (46 mph) winds at Palmer station. Air is full of snow; camera view is rocking mightily.
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm

Pictured shortly before yolk ended up on my suitcase and shoes.
Still delicious though and a nice way to finish up #xoxofest

For this round of heirloom apple names, I also trained the neural net on metal bands. Perhaps you can tell.

I trained a neural net on the 1910 edition of Apples of New York, and it generated some seriously weird new heirloom apples.

http://aiweirdness.com/post/177838283332/heirloom-apples-youve-never-tried-courtesy-of-ai

Just landed in Portland for #xoxofest !
Impressed by this super pointy thing during descent - what is it?

The neural net's training set also predates The Avengers: Infinity War, so again, it guesses on the review. If anything, its crossover is even *more* ambitious.

It was trained on reviews collected before The Last Jedi came out, so it has never heard of the movie and is guessing wildly here.

This neural net trained for a month on 82 million Amazon product reviews, and now knows all about The Lord of the Rings.

https://github.com/guillitte/pytorch-sentiment-neuron

Good morning, Shop That Wanders!
This morning’s tea is interesting: lemongrass and Sichuan button (buzzbutton) made by Moxie in Louisville CO.
The buzzbutton adds a hint of coolness; none of its usual pins-and-needles tricks

Unsettling shopping malls, as named by textgenrnn and illustrated by AttnGAN.

Read the whole terrifying list: http://aiweirdness.com/post/177587449422/perfectly-normal-shopping-malls-named-by-neural
Textgenrnn: https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn
AttnGAN demo: http://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com/

Here's Palmer Station being pretty again. Cool bluish mini-berg floating to the left.
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm

Wind speed now 47 knots (52 mph), highest I've seen in a while. Whole camera tower is swaying.

32mph winds blowing snow higher than the rooftops at Palmer station in #antarctica
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm