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

shinypone:

Me: Okay, brain, it’s time to go to sleep. 

My brain: 

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Me: Stop that.  It’s time to sleep.

My brain:

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Me: Please?  I just want to be not tired for one day. 

My brain: 

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Me: Oh, c’mon, really?  

My brain: 

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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!

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

ruby-mark-attempts:

ask-glittershell:

cardsforrusty:

@asksweetcream here. I set this account up for those that want to leave messages and submit things for Rusty in a place where it is central.

@technomod is on her way to Ohio and this is my small way of doing something I know I can do.

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3/13/2017

@askrustynail is currently in a coma. This account is meant to be a central location where you can submit things for him, leave messages, tag in this account and we will reblog it, etc. @technomod will read them to him and it will be here for when he wakes up so he can read these in person as well when recovering. I will take the hopeful angle at this. I don’t know the details yet, and it will be up to @technomod to share if she so chooses. This is hard for her, and Rusty’s family beyond what I can imagine. Right now, even the smallest well-wishes are valued immensely.

@technomod will be handed the password to this account when she is settled in Ohio and will be able to convey and read the messages you leave for Rusty to him.

If you have any music or audio you think he might enjoy, feel free to suggest it.

If you want to draw him something, submit it and it will be described to him.

If there are any updates, it will be up to tech to post them, of course, all with discretion for Rusty’s privacy.

In short, feel free to:

*Send messages, submit things, or tag this blog to reblog. If you’d like a message to be private (that is, with me, Tech and rusty the only ones potentially seeing it) put (private) before the entry and we will not post it.

When it comes to physical items, we have no where to place them right now but may gather them in the future for a care package. If you drew or made something  - take a picture of it and submit it for now. 

Rusty and Tech appreciate your heartfelt prayers and wishes for his recovery.

Thank you all.

 Much love.

Rusty is a charming and creative son of a gun, I’ll be making a few things for him over the next few days and you should too.

This is an amazing idea and the main reason I love this community! I’m totally going to do a few things for him! ♥

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