{"id":3406,"date":"2017-11-14T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2017-11-14T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:14:39","slug":"simsheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/ann\/simsheer","title":{"rendered":"SimSheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, one of the things I&#8217;ve been learning about is ANNs. I&#8217;ve tried playing with several different frameworks and several different topologies, and one of the ones I&#8217;ve been playing with is Darknet. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to train a Darknet RNN on a corpus generated from all the text in my blog. So far the results have been less than stellar &#8211; I think I need a bigger neural network than I&#8217;ve been using, and I think in order to do that I need a bigger GPU because I&#8217;m running out of patience. I was astonished to discover >1 teraflop GPUs are now in my price range, so I&#8217;ve ordered one. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping soon to have simSheer available as a php endpoint that people can play with. All of this is building up to using Darknet for some other purposes, such as image recognition.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to think that even if simSheer manages to sound like me, it will be doing so with no sense of aboutness at all &#8211; well, I *think* it will be doing so with no sense of aboutness. It has no senses, and no other data to tie my writings in with, so I don&#8217;t think that any of the neurons in it can possibly be tagged with any real world meaning. Or can they? This is probably a subject that some famous philosopher has held forth on and I should probably go try and find their works and read them, but in the meantime it&#8217;s certainly fun to think about.<\/p>\n<p>I really wonder to what extent the aboutness problem (borrowed from Stephenson&#8217;s Anathem) applies to NNNs. Would the cluster I have for the concept of love even remotely resemble the clusters other people have? What would the differences say about me and them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, one of the things I&#8217;ve been learning about is ANNs. I&#8217;ve tried playing with several different frameworks and several different topologies, and one of the ones I&#8217;ve been playing with is Darknet. I&#8217;ve been trying to train a Darknet RNN on a corpus generated from all the text in my blog. So far the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}