Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

@mcpaccard Yeah, it does help! If I don't have tea at least, then I start chewing on my knuckles instead.

@bethskw Yeah, seltzer's a good one!

It's more like I need something for my hands and/or mouth to do, not that I'm actually hungry. I can make 1/2 cup of cereal last more than an hour, and it doesn't get my hands messy.

@lrhodes I am DONE with wasabi after the horseradish brownie incident.

Tea is solid, though, and good point about the dried fruit. Those can be eaten in little nibbles!

@mithriltabby yes! Popcorn is a good one! Though at some point I have to hide the partially popped kernels from myself

@imani maybe I have never had fresh celery, because it wouldn’t occur to me to look for a certain degree of freshness!

@ben I guess by taking tiny nibbles one could make a serving of almonds last a long time

Anyone got a recommendation for desk snacks? Low-cal & slow to eat, more to keep hands & mouth occupied than anything else.

My current favorites: string cheese and dry lucky charms

Here's what it generated for "bookshop"
I love this so much

OMG this is AWESOME!! You can get it to generate images from hundreds of categories & even interpolate between two images.

Here's a cross between a border collie and a bullfrog, and a cross between a garter snake and a stopwatch

https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/hub/blob/master/examples/colab/biggan_generation_with_tf_hub.ipynb

@penguin42 For some reason these neural nets don't seem very averse to repeating words. I'm not sure why!

That's not to say that the neural net predictions were always believable, though. It also predicted these. (Can someone draw Kylo Ren in a lime blazer?)

I fed over 8,000 CNN Business headlines to a neural net to see which new headlines it would predict.
For some reason, it predicted companies behaving rather badly.

http://aiweirdness.com/post/179938486347/cnn-headlines-according-to-a-neural-net

@dconley @rabbitclaw Yup, this phenomenon is literally why I have to filter all the neural net's output before I post it anywhere. It has no idea what these words mean.

@janellecshane update: first agent is swamped with requests but in this Birdsite thread, multiple other agents are offering the same deal (!!) https://twitter.com/sethasfishman/status/1059252474173829120?s=21

Anyone live in a US swing state and want a free critique from a good literary agent? See this really generous offer (and a list of states) at this birdsite post: https://twitter.com/PantherFist/status/1059155158662148096

@kistaro Hey, if you can get me a dataset (might have to go outside Seattle; I'd need at least a couple hundred), I'll do it!