Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

"My Rear's on the Sexy" - an AI-themed burlesque show named by neural network. If I was in Seattle on Saturday, I would SO go to this.
https://sexyrear.brownpapertickets.com/

There's going to be a Murderbot NOVEL!! Murderbot is one of my favorite AI characters. If you haven't read the novellas, you are in for a treat. https://www.tor.com/2018/07/16/more-murderbot-on-the-horizon-announcing-a-new-martha-wells-novel/

Once in a while the Palmer webcam zooms way in on some chunk of the antarctic landscape. This one's particularly nice.
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palWebCam.cfm

In which a neural network struggles to name burlesque shows
http://aiweirdness.com/post/175848043097/ai-does-not-understand-sexy

My #Physics World article was published today, and I got to include lots of fun anecdotes of #machinelearning gone wrong. https://physicsworld.com/a/neural-networks-explained/

@jankoekepan It's some kind of evergreen, if that helps. I didn't realize resin could be so dark.

Not sure what this is we found in the woods. Fungus? Dangerous flatsquirrel?

@Andy_P And they make the cutest noises!
Although I'm discovering that cardinals make clucking noises as they hop around and THAT's pretty cute too

Watching the vigorous bird activity at my parents' feeder, and have decided that nuthatches are my very favorite.
And competition is fierce: cardinals, hummingbirds, red-bellied, downy, AND hairy woodpeckers, tufted titmice, and (close second) carolina wren.
But nuthatches just land on the underside of a tree branch like it's no big deal.

I trained a neural network to invent new names for nail polish. Some of them are very strange indeed.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/175608335057/nails-by-ai

@unwary hahaha I love this idea!

I trained a neural network to generate new names for fireworks. Here are a few of my favorites.
H/T Bruce Preston for the training dataset of Dutch fireworks
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@aparrish This looks like so much fun! Let me know if you post it somewhere.

@scalzi Looks like he's got a relative who's in a band.
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@ansate yes. no question.

Hello, everyone! Am writing while sitting near the coffee grinder at this shop. Every time they start it up, the smell is toe-curlingly good.

Via @UKClimbing , the experts weigh in on the future of neural net-named climbing routes.
@McHaffieJames and Visual Chatbot would get along well.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/neural_network_trained_on_ukc_logbooks_-_the_results-10970

Thanks to UKClimbing.com I had a database of over 427k rock climbing routes to feed to a neural network. It did pretty well. http://aiweirdness.com/post/175339699997/blue-boulders-problem-1-more-rock-climbing-routes

Visual Chatbot doesn't do knock knock jokes.
demo.visualdialog.org/