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Re:Bot that uses deep neural networks to generate plausible ... by taliesinb on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:03PM (#11147115)
I think you're missing the point and being quite obnoxious about it too. Chill out and enjoy the whimsy, for chrissake.

This is 'just' a fun project, and there's a veritable cottage industry of fun projects like this to illustrate and play with new ML techniques. They're not meant to be technical contributions, they're playful doodles.

Plus, this one is actually really well done! It's got a great oldschool dictionary typeface, a tumblr reblogging the tweets, nice details like that.

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Re:Bot that uses deep neural networks to generate plausible ... by logicallee on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:45PM (#11147300)
the author didn't seem to mind my review, and I said it's an extremely interesting project. It can be improved considerably, and I don't see any reason the author shouldn't do so if they want.

the other fun things, the typeface, the tubmlr reblogging the details, etc, that you mention would remain even if the etymology generation and some of the techniques on the generation side were improved.

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