Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat

birokaput:

biff-donderglutes:

noseforahtwo:

lewisandquark:

So I’ve been training this neural network to generate cookbook recipes by letting it look at tens of thousands of existing recipes.

The generated titles can get a bit odd.

There’s a creativity variable I can set when the network is generating new recipes, and when I set it low, it comes up with its best guess at the most quintessential recipe titles:

Cream Cheese Soup
Cream Of Sour Cream Cheese Soup
Chocolate Cake (Chocolate Cake)
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chips
Chocolate Chips With Chocolate Chips

When I tell it to get creative, things get even weirder.

Beef Soup With Swamp Peef And Cheese
Chocolate Chops & Chocolate Chips
Crimm Grunk Garlic Cleas
Beasy Mist
Export Bean Spoons In Pie-Shell, Top If Spoon and Whip The Mustard
Chocolate Pickle Sauce
Whole Chicken Cookies
Salmon Beef Style Chicken Bottom
Star *
Cover Meats
Out Of Meat
Completely Meat Circle
Completely Meat Chocolate Pie
Cabbage Pot Cookies
Artichoke Gelatin Dogs
Crockpot Cold Water

I’m Whip the Mustard.

There are tears in my eyes

this little computer is trying so hard to understand

broken-pen-draws:

@post-cactus, @discordsparkle, @chaotic-conundrums, and @me recently met up in and explored Philadelphia ad there was this time when Chaos and Cactus were making plans for going to Baltimore and I was trying to take photos of everything that looked vaguely American and DS was sitting on a chocolate milk cloud and drinking cotton candy and apparently some variation of My Little Pony character Apple Bloom must have been there, too, so I tried to re-capture this moment as a gift for Cactus’s birthday.

Happy birthday, Cactus! May we meet again not too far in the future!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art folder update!

Spread across three locations, I now have 75.33 GB of art files, in both paper scans and digital files.

22.65 GB of those is Post Crusade.

I know I’m on Tumblr because it’s only on this site where I can see a long post calling out the laundry detergent industry.

Plant horse more like trojan horse.

Here to gain your trust and sneak in your back patio door. Stealing all your metadata houseplant data and selling them to shady herbicide contractors.