Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

I got to playing around with recurrent neural networks and made a site that generates Crossfit "Workout of the Days (WODs)". It's trained on the workouts from crossfit.com.

My motivation were to learn more about how character-based RNN's work, remember how to host a site on my Digital Ocean VPS with flask, and do some fun frontend work. It posed a few unique challenges, like scraping the crossfit website, experimenting with different network architectures, and finding ways to validate the efficacy of those networks.

It's terribly overfit and will sometimes generate workouts verbatim from the crossfit.com database, but since it's just a fun project, it was more important for me to get consistently good, grammatically correct results and some overfit ones rather than a bunch of nonsense text and a few hidden gems.

My next step is to sum up the key takeaways in a blog post about the full stack of the application and call it finished, or continue to play around with network hyper-parameters and training techniques, since nurturing my neural network knowledge for NLP was a huge goal.

Always looking for feedback and happy to answer any questions!

https://github.com/joeycato/boundlessvideoplayer

Add a repository and select the branch you want to read from and it will grab the markdown files, store them and provide a table of contents and reader view.

https://gitdocs.page

Still in heavy beta, and currently supports github and azure devops repos.