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Fermentation & Neural Nets
Mead recipe: dilute honey with water, stir twice a day, wait. Fermentation begins after 24-48 hours. After a week, the fermented honey-wine (mead) can be enjoyed green, low in alcohol yet lively with essence. Or you can let it continue. Generative-poetry recipe: text-corpus analysed by neural net, wait. After each reading of the corpus (a.k.a. ‘training…
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RERITES Archives
RERITES are poems written by neural-nets then human-edited. http://glia.ca/2017/rerites/ RERITES SITE IS NOW HERE For the complete output (often updated daily) visit the RERITES archives. Here are a few samples: Pray For A Moment. In her soft the hill is strewn Across the chaff swift door, That’s her. The steady level calling. The ash, similarly still.…
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Nameless
It’s strange but i sometimes want to give the mathematical models (created by the neural nets) names. I think of them as having personalities like Bob or Eliza or Abnor Malo or Isa Phren, and i want to know them by name, because names convey spirit and character. Names encompass (or tolerate) the eerie uncanny…
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4 hours of Pytorch + 2 hours and 29m of Wavenet for Poetry Generation [SILENT 04-03-2017]
PyTorch word-language-model poetry is more stable and sane than Wavenet. PyTorch is regal, educated, less prone to misspellings or massive neologisms. Wavenet is edgy, erratic, clumped, — its visual dilation more contrite. Yet reading each of these films is like witnessing a collage of avalanched literary modes and moods drift by, icons, tropes, techniques, incandescent,…
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PyTorch Poetry Generation [Pre-WordHack : Epoch 16 Video]
Another day of testing before going to NYC to perform neural-net poems at WordHack [NYC (Thursday 2/16/2017 @ Babycastles . 7-10pm) w. Sarah Rothberg, John Cayley and Theadora Walsh] HOPE In the cold weather going out of the snow, She down the lawn. The air moves and grows, while she walks smooth, When a…
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40 Minutes of PyTorch Poetry Generation [Real-time SILENT]
Promising results that reflect the limits of a machine without empathy, skilled as a mimic of pattern, lacking longterm memory, emulating cadence and inflections, yet indifferent to context, experience and continuity. Code: github.com/jhave/pytorch-poetry-generation 60 minutes of poetry output below the break : A LAND IN SEASON so much a child is up, so much what…
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PyTorch LSTM Day 2 : Killed (after only 40 epochs)
My dream of an immaculate mesmerizing machine to replace all human imagination and absorb it into an engaging perpetual torrent of linguistic cleverness dissipated. Yesterday, I let the GPU run overnight, expecting to return to 120 epochs and a stunning result. Instead, on waking the computer in the morning: —————————————– | end of epoch 40…
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Testing PyTorch on Poems (Preliminary Results)
PyTorch is an early release beta software (developed by a consortium led by Facebook and NIVIDIA), a “deep learning software that puts Python first.” So since I luckily received an NVIDIA GTX TitanX (Maxwell) before leaving Hong Kong under the generous NVIDIA academic GPU Grant program, and having last week finally bought a custom-build to…
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THE ONLY PERSON WHO LIKED THIS WAS A BOT
Wavenet-for-Poetry-Generation [REHEARSAL] An improvised reading, of generated poetry made as it is born, at 201701110-1347.