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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin
Aug 9, 2017
Aug 9, 2017
She got no standing ovation. She got no mainstream media lauds for her heroism. She got no kudos for leaving home, a much longer journey than that other senator, the one from Arizona, to get to DC, and there are no mainstream media stories on it that I can find… I only found out from a friend who spotted it on Twitter. She didn’t do it for publicity. Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii was just doing her job as a good politician, voting not to repeal the ACA so as to protect her constituents. She has Stage Four kidney cancer — that means scarce chances of survival — is recovering from a second surgery to remove part of a rib, and made sure she got to her seat in the Senate Chamber to vote “no” to whatever Republican wealth-care crap was thrown at her. But you’ll only find out about it on social media. Because she’s not a pale male, maybe?
The heroic Senator with severe cancer who interrupted treatment to vote… NO (via wilwheaton)
(via @tittybats on Instagram: “@sobaone made @gypsy_kweeeen a lifer 😎”)
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Does anyone know who the artist is for this image?
(via josearoda — PAPERCUT YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS)
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(via Agne Gintalaite photographs Lithuania’s Soviet-era garage doors in Beauty Remains.)
New paint colors invented by neural network
So if you’ve ever picked out paint, you know that every infinitesimally different shade of blue, beige, and gray has its own descriptive, attractive name. Tuscan sunrise, blushing pear, Tradewind, etc… There are in fact people who invent these names for a living. But given that the human eye can see millions of distinct colors, sooner or later we’re going to run out of good names. Can AI help?
For this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values. (RGB = red, green, and blue color values) Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?
One way I have of checking on the neural network’s progress during training is to ask it to produce some output using the lowest-creativity setting. Then the neural network plays it safe, and we can get an idea of what it has learned for sure.
By the first checkpoint, the neural network has learned to produce valid RGB values - these are colors, all right, and you could technically paint your walls with them. It’s a little farther behind the curve on the names, although it does seem to be attempting a combination of the colors brown, blue, and gray.
By the second checkpoint, the neural network can properly spell green and gray. It doesn’t seem to actually know what color they are, however.
Let’s check in with what the more-creative setting is producing.
…oh, okay.
Later in the training process, the neural network is about as well-trained as it’s going to be (perhaps with different parameters, it could have done a bit better - a lot of neural network training involves choosing the right training parameters). By this point, it’s able to figure out some of the basic colors, like white, red, and grey:
Although not reliably.
In fact, looking at the neural network’s output as a whole, it is evident that:
The neural network really likes brown, beige, and grey.
The neural network has really really bad ideas for paint names.
tag urself i’m dorkwood and/or horble gray
I miss the Sahara.
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I just saw Mitski at Boston Calling. She was totally amazing. I 🖤 dig chicks who rock and sing and play bass. It could only have been better if the cunts behind us would have shut the fuck up.