Beautiful (and I love the hidden nerd-cred). In the late '90s I bought a PCB briefcase in Germany and thought I'd reached the pinnacle of nerdom but this is clearly better.
Looks great but I'm surprised they aren't way noisier. Is that just a result of having a limited number of neurons compared to the number of pixels, or is there some specific trick to it?
I think at least some of the structure is down to the update equation, roughly 'new = sign(gate * old + ...)'. Since 'gate' is always positive, this means that even when the network is randomly initialized, the state is more likely to stay the same between two time steps than to change.
I tried "deep transitions" which repeats this equation a couple of times, and the results were indeed noisier.
Not OP, but I imagine you can set maximum limits on the rate change of the RGB vector so it doesn't create a static but a more fluidic appearing image.
It might work to reorder using some heuristic based method similar to the AMD methods for matrix factorisation reordering which is used to minimize infill for sparse matrices.
I've wanted to try out sorting neural net dimensions for visualizations via a travelling salesman problem solver over the correlation matrix among the dimensions. Has anyone tried something like this?
Nearly indistinguishable from noise. Subtle art, and hidden meaning. Inspiring stuff, though I can't help but wonder if noise + a stupid algorithm couldn't be even more interesting.
Very cool! I love generative art, and especially when it's backed by some cool concepts.
Yesterday I made this https://i.imgur.com/MqJGt4P.png
Abstract image, but it's a circle packing algorithm (borrowed from d3) running on hierarchical data where I work. Thought it looked cool.
For a second, I was hoping the image on the phone case was an adversarial one, intended to jam up facial-recognition other surveillance-related AI. No, nothing so extravagent, just a visualization of internal state.
I’m pleased he has made an artsy phone case he likes really, but this is another round of Raspberry Pi feeblemindedness. Why would someone with a powerful skill in recursive neural networks make a phone case? - when there are so many areas to focus on, challenges we’re facing together, where even failure would deliver real value to the community. What’s up with these hobbyists and their cute blinking LED projects? You don’t have to change the world but choose some objective that at least has a chance of delivering real value and utility. What am I missing? Tell me I’m wrong and how
I mean he enjoyed making it! Not only is he increasing his skills making his next project better he is also sharing it with others potentially getting more people interested in that field both of which are helping the "community"!
Really whats the point in living if all you do is work for the "grater good" without ever having fun? I got into programing purely because I wanted to create something for a video game that was missing. In zero way was this productive for society! I'm 99% sure that Doug got into programing for a similar reason: because it was fun for him!
Well he’s free to do whatever he wants. But creating someone with that education is a type of investment society makes. There’s a high cost to the community and yes of course the group expects something in return. It’s kind of like the lying flat movement in China. They can do what they please, but wouldn’t it be nice if they enjoyed helping the people around them? Is that too much to ask?
But isn’t that exactly what we are? Complex biological machines designed by the group through natural selection manufactured in volume in a distributed factory with the express and only purpose to serve our creator - since we were made in its image. (I’m atheist but that fit so well)
No we are not machines. You can tell a computer to try and solve a problem for years on end without a problem. Try and get a person to spend their entire lives trying to "improve" the world without any diversions or fun in the slightest and they'll burn out within a week.
Why are you wasting the investment that your community made in you, by spending time trolling on hackernews? You’re not helping further anything for society with these comments.
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