Posts by aparrish@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9gdbtDLECvCykZn6vo by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-02-02T19:20:49Z
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by contrast, results of feeding normally-distributed random numbers into the decoder on the RNN without the VAE:flfingengaughumsalohondismh'sh'sautabovagakeleghearh'salliltallesbarngnongh'smookshewstlatscrethhuthurecheltharth'snot as good! which is encouraging, since it shows that the VAE model does actually have a "smoother" space than the non-VAE model.
(DIR) Post #9gdbtDVVahQpGSbJxI by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-02-02T19:25:40Z
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(I have to admit that when I started this project I was like, "why do you even need a variational autoencoder, if just plugging random vectors into the decoder was good enough for jesus it's good enough for me," but there really is something magical and satisfying about being able to get more-or-less plausible generated results for basically any randomly sampled point in the distribution)
(DIR) Post #9gdbtDhYrt4ZrqEwk4 by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-02-05T19:21:54Z
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progress: at 50 epochs, even w/KL annealing, 32dims is not enough for the VAE latent vector to represent much of anything. leads to reconstructions that are probably just the orthography model doing its best with next-to-noise, but sometimes amusing, e.g.cart → puachliotta → pinterajanintellectually → achingcapella → pellakaphotometer → aughsympathizer → disteghwaybutrick → jorserichbotha's → szineclayman → tsantierschesparkles → trenlewcalamity → mulissthermoplastic → tphare
(DIR) Post #9gdbtDrqFfIQNj39lY by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-02-05T19:24:08Z
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(posted this mainly because "butrick → jorserich" seems like something mastodon people would like, e.g. "my name is Butrick Jorserich, follow me at jeans.butrick.horse/@rich")
(DIR) Post #9gdbtE1lelEgsVh5Em by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-02-12T23:33:35Z
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apparently the trick to training a VAE w/annealing is to *never* let the KL loss go below the reconstruction loss. otherwise you get beautifully distributed, wonderfully plausible reconstructions that have almost nothing to do with your training data, i.e., "allison" becomesuszecuinauruselin-timerellefleighcarmistachubaralsaahoughtrodhanasceareddingearpughihtioz
(DIR) Post #9gdbtEDSxGarSnAQTI by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-02-19T14:51:07Z
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exploring the latent phonetic nonsense space around "typewriter"—using the best model I've managed to train yet (100 epochs on HPC, managed to keep the reconstruction loss fairly low while also getting some semblance of a low KL loss)
(DIR) Post #9gdbtEKuVaY3pseN4i by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-10T19:35:23Z
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using the phonetic VAE to interpolate between US state names in a grid
(DIR) Post #9gdcaPf0HWFPPPdiYS by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-10T19:46:50Z
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@kragen that's the idea!
(DIR) Post #9h0dtVQbKIhRWpbEdE by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-21T21:52:37Z
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take: when you call it "Take Our Children to Work Day" and you send a mass e-mail about it to a group containing people who don't have kids, it sorta comes off as a presumptuous command
(DIR) Post #9h0dtVgYMzSaKJ3yUq by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-21T21:59:10Z
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reading the "our" as exclusive ("ours" as in "mine and those of the others in my group, but not you") in this case is kind of absurd, I know, *and* I know many not-straight not-cis people have kids.but the inclusive reading of "our" in "our children" can be interpreted in two ways—the first is that the e-mail is implicitly addressing only the people who have kids, but because it's a mass e-mail, that sets up a norm of "people in this group probably have kids"..
(DIR) Post #9h0epSK71lPIhBCHqq by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-21T22:30:19Z
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@ctrlaltchaos I definitely don't think there was malicious intent! just something I'm sensitive about lately.
(DIR) Post #9h0fjI4YKM1L7SXkFE by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-21T22:03:16Z
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the second being that the "our" means "all of our children, because children belong to all of us, right?" which feels kinda belittling to me as someone who belongs to a particular gender minority that often faces significant medical and bureaucratic barriers along the path to being a parent (if I even wanted to be a parent to begin with). I sorta prefer "bring *your* children to work" since the "your" there seems to have an implied "if you got 'em/if you want to"
(DIR) Post #9h4GoCs5N6dyDMnbVo by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-23T14:20:55Z
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could really use some media that playfully mythologizes and glorifies the lives of single women in their late-thirties the way eg scott pilgrim does for men in their early twenties, that ISN'T focused on sex (eg _Sex and the City_) or trauma (eg _Russian Doll_)
(DIR) Post #9h4GoCzAwkJaZM7GYy by aparrish@mastodon.social
2019-03-23T14:23:09Z
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i guess what i'm saying is why won't someone mary sue me into some cool comic book fights dammit
(DIR) Post #9xaKupXjg5LgEGIA0e by aparrish@mastodon.social
2018-07-18T19:49:58Z
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javascript, the language where you have to do a web search whenever you want to write a for loop because there's already like fifty ways to write a for loop and you're pretty sure they've probably added a new one since you looked last
(DIR) Post #A1VrKYaPfHvGwRNTDk by aparrish@mastodon.social
2018-09-28T15:20:09Z
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@kelbot i feel like bamboo would be attractive and functional
(DIR) Post #ABCnxHthAZRDkmpjSS by aparrish@mastodon.social
2018-03-09T00:39:26Z
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since the dawn of the written word people have made amulets and talismans from holy texts and in this sense a pinned toot is like a horseshoe you hang over a barn door
(DIR) Post #B15gFLU5oVwk8FTemu by aparrish@mastodon.social
2018-07-27T17:03:38Z
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I have to say that I really dislike the trend of tech tutorials titled "X for poets" (e.g., https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/tensorflow-for-poets/#0) when what they mean is "X explained with short clear sentences and care taken to explain some context" or whatever
(DIR) Post #B15gFM8VOGGy9aNvmK by aparrish@mastodon.social
2018-07-27T17:04:29Z
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a real "X for poets" tech tutorial would be about how you can smash X to bits or use X to smash other things to bits
(DIR) Post #B15gFMpknSrqJicTBo by aparrish@mastodon.social
2018-07-27T17:05:35Z
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a real "X for poets" tutorial would just be like "prove to me in ten words or less that X isn't complete bullshit, because I can tell from the look on your face that it is"