#vuurwerk

[minarachelle]

Roeselare, Belgium - 2025

[polldermodel]

Omdat dit jaar het laaste jaar was zonder vuurwerkverbod in Nederland, vraag ik me af of mensen daar iets van hebben gemerkt. Hoe was deze jaarwisseling qua vuurwerk, vergeleken met jaren hiervoor?

Veel meer vuurwerk Iets meer vuurwerk Eigenlijk hetzelfde Iets minder vuurwerk Veel minder vuurwerk Ik merk nooit zo veel van het vuurwerk dus ik weet het niet Ik woon niet in Nederland

Hoe was deze jaarwisseling qua vuurwerk, vergeleken met jaren hiervoor?

Veel meer vuurwerk

Iets meer vuurwerk

Eigenlijk hetzelfde

Iets minder vuurwerk

Veel minder vuurwerk

Ik merk nooit zo veel van het vuurwerk dus ik weet het niet

Ik woon niet in Nederland

Voting ended onJan 8

[kutautist]

flikker OP MET DA KANKER VUURWEKR

[amsterdaminpictures]

Happy New Year, Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar, Bonne Année, Frohes Neues Jahr, Buon Anno, Feliz Año Nuevo, Godt Nytåru

[pasparal]

People run for cover as smoke rises over the Om Sakthi Fireworks Industries fireworks factory on the outskirts of Sivakasi, on September 5, 2012. In the tragedy 40 people were killed and more than 70 injured.

[aiweirdness]

A neural net names fireworks

I am always amazed by all the corners of life that have their own naming conventions. What makes a name sound like an heirloom apple, or a cookie, or a Pokemon?

Here’s one I had never thought much about: the names of fireworks. Bruce Preston spends the New Year in the Netherlands where fireworks are a big deal. He collected the names of over 3,000 fireworks from vuurwerkbieb.nl, ranging from “Important Pyro Show” to “Super 8 Cake Blue Star” to “Kinder Pakket Groot XXL” (some of the names are in Dutch, which just made it more interesting).

Now the reason people send me datasets like this is because I like to give them to algorithms called neural networks, which can learn to imitate the words they see. Without any direction from me, and without any prior knowledge of the words and what they mean (or even that they ARE words; they might be knitting patterns), the neural network (here, textgenrnn) produces its best imitation.

In this case, its best imitation of fireworks sounds a lot like, well, an artificial intelligence trying to imitate fireworks names.

Happiness Rockets Gold Mini wow Flaming Thundersplont Box Crackling Shapes Bright Blue Stoppers Soundd Box Red flashing cake Machine Blinking Display Code Rumble Smile Rockets Extreme maxied whistling None Star Thunder Excellent Rain What Crackling 16 Silver Pirate Counters

Some of the imitations are particularly poor. Or awesome, depending on how you look at it.

Pronk XL B2B Torch All-Dang Shark Whistler 1 Darner Box  Far Exploring Palm Black Moo Sheeperstrike Senior Fountain Just Timmy Hurricane Said Bang Shaming Bulls Big Doo Cake Spent on the Bun Stragfalmed

And some of its fireworks sound more like they’re from the post-human era where machines dimly remember what humans were like, and celebrate them with commemorative explosions.

Medium mushing box Green Event Shorts I just looked Definite Box Into Eggs Oh Fountain Event Badger One Assortiment Sneaking Veet Box 3 Black Hall is released Golden Strink is 4x Original Cat Pix Budget 2 Boom

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[bohinj000]

Feuerwerk 2012 über Bohinj-See ( Oberkrain - Slowenien )

Diese Feuerwerk ist wenn in Bohinj eine Veranstaltung mit dem Name "Kresna noč" (Johannisfeuernacht) beim Bohinj-See. im August ist. Im August 2012 das w...

Diese Feuerwerk ist wenn in Bohinj eine Veranstaltung mit dem Name “Kresna noč” (Johannisfeuernacht) beim Bohinj-See im August ist. Auf dem See ebendann sind freischwimenden Kerzen in Eierschalen.  Feuerwerk 2019 = 10. 8. 2019

[mitchel999]

Een gelukkig 2018 iedereen! :)