Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow

Re:Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector... by xiaoma on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:16AM (#10805341)

There are some minor differences in stroke order by region, but the basic rules are always the same (e.g. top before bottom, left before right, etc).

It's genuinely hard to read people's writing if the stroke order is off.

If you write super slowly and deliberately it may not matter much, but in my actual real-life usage I've found that it does. If you're learning, you're definitely better off learning the standard stroke order for the area where you live.

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Re:Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector... by timr on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @03:14PM (#10808785)

I mean, sure...there's a gray area here. I could theoretically write all of my latin characters from right-to-left, but it would be wonky and hard, if only because english is written from left to right.

I believe there's a reason for the rules and that you need to know them. I think patio11's metaphor is the correct one -- it's a lot like english spelling.

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