• Writing with the machine: Experimenting with RNNs in your text editor
  Building this felt like playing with Lego, except instead of plastic bricks, I was snapping together conveniently-packaged blocks of human intellect and effort. One block: a recurrent neural network, fruit of the deep learning boom, able to model and generate sequences of characters with spooky verisimilitude. Snap! Another block: a powerfully extensible text editor. Snap! Together: responsive, inline “autocomplete” powered by an RNN trained on a corpus of old sci-fi stories...

• PyTorch or TensorFlow?
  This is a guide to the main differences I’ve found between PyTorch and TensorFlow. This post is intended to be useful for anyone considering starting a new project or making the switch from one deep learning framework to another. The focus is on programmability and flexibility when setting up the components of the training and deployment deep learning stack. I won’t go into performance (speed / memory usage) trade-offs...

• The Elvis Presley Jukebox
  Elvis-head heatmap jukebox of his music... We found the approximate tempo for a reasonable collection (close to 400) of Elvis Presley numbers from this youtube playlist. Each grid below is a song. A brighter blue indicates a faster tempo & a lighter blue indicates a slower tempo...

 
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