{"id":32799,"date":"2017-05-21T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=32799"},"modified":"2017-05-21T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:42:22","slug":"the-unreasonable-hilarity-of-recurrent-neural-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=32799","title":{"rendered":"The unreasonable hilarity of recurrent neural networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven't done so already, read Andrej Karpathy, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/karpathy.github.io\/2015\/05\/21\/rnn-effectiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks<\/a>\". And then Janelle Shane, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/lewisandquark.tumblr.com\/post\/160776374467\/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-netw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New paint colors invented by neural network<\/a>\".<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The punch line:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/RNN_PaintColors.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven't done so already, read Andrej Karpathy, \u201cThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks\". And then Janelle Shane, \"New paint colors invented by neural network\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32800,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799\/revisions\/32800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}