I tried to use GPT-2 to help me complete story (it didn’t go well) — GPT-2 is an AI that can process and generate text in multiple ways: GPT-2 translates text, answers questions, summarizes passages, and generates text output on a level that, while sometimes indistinguishable from that of humans, can become repetitive or nonsensical when generating long passages. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-2

Personal notes — Diagrams made with the free Lucidchart app. The class name should be in bold font. Class member visibility (attributes and operations) is indicated by the prefixes +, - and #:

Trying to get an intuitive understanding how they work — I was playing around with a homemade implementation of a neural network with Rectified Linear Units as the basic building blocks. I’d read that a network with a single hidden layer of these should in principle be capable of approximating any continuous 1-dimensional function, but had some trouble intuitively grasping…

Step by step instructions from installation to final image — I was in a situation recently where I needed to paste a number of simple human figures in various poses into an image. Blender is a free and very powerful 3D software that seemed like a great choice to generate the poses. However I had no prior experience with it…

Sci-fi short story — A terminally ill man takes a unique opportunity and becomes the herald of vast changes — Susan followed the nurses as they wheeled Gary’s bed into the preoperative holding area. A thick cable emerged from the back of his head and snaked behind them, disappearing down the hospital corridor. …

A neural network controlled target-seeking rocket — Read part 1 here! Read part 2 here! The JavaScript project on Github In the previous parts of this series I developed a neural network to control a rocket trying to hit a target. In part 1 the target’s position is directly fed into the network. Then in part 2…

Sci-Fi flash fiction — Samuel woke up to the sight of two flies copulating on his pillow. He brushed them away and yawned. He got up and shuffled through his tiny apartment to the bathroom, brushed his teeth. Toaster, bread, butter. Instant coffee. On the 7:50 bus to the facility. The guard at the…

A young man goes on a dangerous journey to confront his grandmother who is afflicted by a terrible magical malady. A fantasy-horror short story — Twelve figures in golden armor came to our farmstead at night. They were here for Gran, of course. In the last years she had fought with the priest every time she visited the village. More and more of the forest she loved so much was being felled, the timber carried…

A neural network controlled target-seeking rocket — Read part 1 here! The JavaScript project on Github In my previous article I built a neural network to control a target-seeking rocket in a two-dimensional space with pseudo-Newtonian physics. Because this had been my first attempt, I deliberately kept things very bare and simple: only the rocket existed in…