You may have heard of people hooking up chatbots to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to open and read documents and spreadsheets, or even edit or delete entire databases. Whether this sounds like a good idea depends in part on how bad

I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it.

A little while ago I revisited a dataset from 2018,

I've recently been experimenting with one of my favorite old-school neural networks, a tiny program that runs on my laptop and knows only about the data I give it. Without internet training, char-rnn doesn't have outside references to draw on (for better or for worse) but