char-rnn

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Giddy up, it's Botober 2026
They're racehorse names generated by a very tiny neural net trained only on 42,000 horses from the Jockey Club.
AI WeirdnessOct 1, 20262 min read
Bonus: Incorrect Christmas Carols
In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support that helps me pay web hosting fees and other things I need to keep AI Weirdness running.
AI WeirdnessDec 18, 20251 min read
Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best
I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it.A little while ago I revisited a
AI WeirdnessOct 28, 20253 min read
Halloween costumes by tiny neural net
I've recently been experimenting with one of my favorite old-school neural networks, a tiny program that runs on my laptop and knows only about the data I give it. Without internet training, char-rnn doesn't have outside references to draw on (for better or for
AI WeirdnessOct 17, 20252 min read