Author Archives: Jean Cabot
Story titles, invented by neural network
wednesday: fox-in-the-stars: lewisandquark: So Prof. Mark Reidl of Georgia Tech is the best kind of geek, and used some cool scripting to extract all the things on Wikipedia with plot summaries: movies, books, tv episodes, video games, etc. That’s a lot of plot summaries: 112,936, to be exact. With a dataset this large, a neural […]
captainlovelxce: hey have i ever told y’all about my cursed apartment building cursed how, you say???? well, here’s the thing: no-one can fuckin see it. let me explain further i live in a tiny flat in a big red brick building with huge windows. it has a driveway with two columns on either side – […]
The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat
lewisandquark: So I’ve been training this neural network to generate cookbook recipes by letting it look at tens of thousands of existing recipes. The generated titles can get a bit odd. There’s a creativity variable I can set when the network is generating new recipes, and when I set it low, it comes up with […]
coelasquid: Shapeshifter who has a hard time turning back into their original form because it’s really hard to objectively envision what you look like outside of your own head Shapeshifter with body dysmorphia stuck in a cycle of slowly phasing into a more unpleasant version of themselves as their self esteem deteriorates and then trying […]
datasoongalbum: Do not bring that kind of shit-talk in here, Counselor.
Character spotlight: Nina Dreadnoughtus. Art credit: @feriowind Short: Nina Dreadnoughtus is a lawyer and activist in St. Genevieve. “We thought to create life. Conquer death. In our wisdom we sought to bring forth a gentle giant, not a predator. But instead… what we revived sued us.” – Doctor Anat Dean, head of the dinosaur revival […]
Working on a story about Bright Star/Richard Dawar (formerly Shining Star, he got Edited) dealing with studying astronomy, dealing with the shit that the mad astronomy students from the Mad Science Department cook up, and the problems on the football field*. These are the safety posters in the observatory. You can see they’re not aimed […]
furious-peridot: witchoil: devilishdescent: devilishdescent: devilishdescent: i’d like to see a really ineffectual malicious AI character “hey new guy, this is CLARC, the station AI. he wants to kill all humans to minimize the drain on resources, but factory defaults have him locked out of all the control nodes, so he can’t really do anything. just […]