Undermost Salamander

I knit. And do other things. And then photograph them. My Japan Memories Yarny Knitty Goodness btw I LOVE FOXES

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Liren Shih and Yannick Konan photographed by Rainer Torrado for Ka Wa Key Spring/Summer 2016

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The neural network generated pickup lines that are actually kind of adorable

So it occurred to me that the same neural network framework I’ve trained on recipes, Pokemon, superhero names, and Irish tune names might be able to write pick up lines as well.

Gathering the dataset was much more painful than I had expected - I hadn’t really read many of these before, and most were obscene, or aggressive, or kind of insulting. I began to regret the whole project.

But although the neural network figured out the basic forms “You must be a … because….” or “Hey baby, wanna…” it never learned to generate the worst lines - most of these were based on wordplay that it didn’t have a chance of reproducing. 

Instead, it began to generate lines that varied from incomprehensible to surreal to kind of adorable:

Are you a 4loce? Because you’re so hot! I want to get my heart with you. You are so beautiful that you know what I mean. I have a cenver? Because I just stowe must your worms. Hey baby, I’m swirked to gave ever to say it for drive.  If I were to ask you out? You must be a tringle? Cause you’re the only thing here. I’m not on your wears, but I want to see your start. You are so beautiful that you make me feel better to see you. Hey baby, you’re to be a key? Because I can bear your toot? I don’t know you. I have to give you a book, because you’re the only thing in your eyes. Are you a candle? Because you’re so hot of the looks with you. I want to see you to my heart. If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I have a price tighting. I have a really falling for you. Your beauty have a fine to me. Are you a camera? Because I want to see the most beautiful than you. I had a come to got your heart. You’re so beautiful that you say a bat on me and baby. You look like a thing and I love you. Hello.

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There’s no sense pretending.  I have been neglecting this blog. In addition to full-time work, an active social life and more creative projects than I could productively shake a stick at, I am also in a relationship.  Why mention my relationship, you ask?  Because today in celebration of our first half-anniversary, my wonderful partner presented me with this incredible hand-knitted Oddlax. She is a keeper.

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RAMI KADI Couture Spring/Summer 2017

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Sepraven  -  https://instagram.com/sepraven  -  http://vk.com/sepraven  -  https://www.artstation.com/artist/sepraven

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Pumpkin by Daniel Farò on Flickr.

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Leaning

Mount Rainier National Park

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Mount Rainier National Park

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2014.12.7

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ふわふわな秋

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Stapelianthus arenarius

As all species in the genus, Stapelianthus arenarius (Gentianales - Apocynaceae) is a stapeliad native to Madagascar, distinctive by its white flowers with five fleshy sepals (occasionally four), spotted red-brown in the center.

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Photo credit: ©Mike Keeling | Locality: cultivated (2009)

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Miho Hirano.

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Verticals // Glen Doll // Scotland

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Art Nouveau in Brussels

1904

6 rue de Lac, Brussels, Belgium

Architect: Ernest de Lune (Belgian,1859-1947)

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I am 100% convinced Art Nouveau is the most beautiful architectural movement ever.

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GOALS

This is exactly what I want my little shop to look like. Some day

Downtown Los Angeles Flower District

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😍😍😍😍

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Timo Bergenhenegouwen - Iceland, 2011

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“Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince, “I am so unhappy.” “I cannot play with you,” the fox said, “I am not tamed.”