I was thinking about the exact same app. Nice. Is each generation guaranteed to be unique ?
It's guaranteed to not exist in the training set (i.e. to not be a real GitHub repo that existed before 2015). But the model can certainly repeat itself.
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#22The blog post is really excellent.
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#23I love how close some of these are to plausible. "HelloWaurd", "ruby-franwork", "Contect-Server", "php-squere", "griend" (friend + grind?). Also: "libdog". A library, for dogs. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
> "griend" (friend + grind?)
"grindfriend"? Sounds like a good way to call people playing MMOs with you. Or an alternative for "coworker". :D.
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#24One thing that I find amazing about this job is how it retarget the purpose of a neural network. This is not a classifier, this is not a here-are-a-bunch-of-fuzzy-images-tell-me-what-character-it-is. This using knowledge, combines the fundamentals to create something new and plausible. A thin shadow of imagination?
It's not a new idea. Since char-rnn came out, people have been using it to generate music, generate fake linux code, write Shakespeare, make chatbots, etc. And before that people were using markov models to do the same things. There have been a lot of markov generators including a fake headline generator, and a subreddit populated entirely by markov chain bots.
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#25I love how close some of these are to plausible. "HelloWaurd", "ruby-franwork", "Contect-Server", "php-squere", "griend" (friend + grind?). Also: "libdog". A library, for dogs. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
Your examples just look like spelling errors ("contact", "framework", "Word", "square".) I got a lot of ones that looked indistinguishable from real repos, at least on first glance. E.g., "WebDashApp", "PlayFrameProject", "check-bat", "language-1", "data-cores", etc. As a random sample of just the first 5 I got.
I wonder what libdog would do. Is it meant to be used by dogs, or used by humans to interface with dogs. Or perhaps an accessibility library to make regular apps usable by dogs.
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#26Found a great name for my next project on the first try. Plugin-plugin is really going to take off.
I'm partial to "hello-bark" myself.
It looks like jashkenas is getting into the soft-serve business with "backbone.dq".
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#27I love how close some of these are to plausible. "HelloWaurd", "ruby-franwork", "Contect-Server", "php-squere", "griend" (friend + grind?). Also: "libdog". A library, for dogs. Does exactly what it says on the tin.
Your examples just look like spelling errors ("contact", "framework", "Word", "square".) I got a lot of ones that looked indistinguishable from real repos, at least on first glance. E.g., "WebDashApp", "PlayFrameProject", "check-bat", "language-1", "data-cores", etc. As a random sample of just the first 5 I got. I wonder what libdog would do. Is it meant to be used by dogs, or used by humans to interface with dogs. O…
What's libdog?
I don't know man, what's libdog with you?
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#28Found a great name for my next project on the first try. Plugin-plugin is really going to take off.
"i_____" will get way more stars.
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#29blooder.js there's a Peter Thiel joke here somewhere.
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#30projectool
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