[HN Gopher] Show HN: Japanese City Name Generator - Using a Simp...
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       Show HN: Japanese City Name Generator - Using a Simple 3-Layer MLP
        
       I trained and deployed my first model: a Japanese city name
       generator using just a 3-layer MLP under the hood. It runs in the
       browser fully locally on the onnx runtime.  Trained on <2,000 real
       Japanese city names, what's interesting is that on this simple task
       the simple MLP performed better than more complex models which
       tended to overfit and generate existing names.
        
       Author : freemanjiang
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-02-22 16:05 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (citygen.freemanjiang.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (citygen.freemanjiang.com)
        
       | cedws wrote:
       | I got Kanegawa, which is a real place, so I'd say it's pretty
       | accurate!
        
         | fph wrote:
         | Maybe that name already was in the training set tho?
        
       | kazinator wrote:
       | @freemanjiang, you might enjoy jp-hash:
       | https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/jp-hash/about/
        
       | ranger_danger wrote:
       | I'm not sure why ML is even necessary? Practically every
       | combination of characters (kana characters, where there's always
       | a vowel at the end of each mora unless it's an "n") is already
       | valid and doesn't even sound weird.
       | 
       | Can someone explain how a random() function given a list of kana
       | characters could not produce equally as good names?
        
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