rbm
AI
generative model demo
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
17 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 12 for, 3 againstDocs: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Generated names are funny and often plausible
From 3 comments
I love how close some of these are to plausible. "HelloWaurd", "ruby-franwork", "Contect-Server", "php-squere", "griend" (friend + grind?). Also: "libdog". A library, for dogs.…
camtarn on HNYep, I got tons of normal-looking ones as well - had to dig to find some of these, after I found HelloWaurd and was tickled by it. The thing I find interesting and amusing -…
camtarn on HNPretty nifty! Less than a minute's worth of click reload yielded some pretty good ones.
zeveb on HN
Blog post and visualizations are excellent
From 3 comments
The post behind it has the show-stealing line, and it was written by the author. > Practical Applications > None whatsoever. Excellent write-up, and great visualizations of the…
spdustin on HNI love this, the blog post is a great write-up. Not a trivial algorithm to implement (although a theoretically interesting one), kudos!
dasboth on HNThe blog post is really excellent.
erubin on HN
Hidden unit zoo is a helpful window into the model
From 1 comment
I really like your Hidden Unit Zoo here http://colinmorris.github.io/rbm/zoo/ as a window into what this thing is actually "thinking" about. The "top matches" for a given hidden…
wxs on HN
Objections
Training data included many non-JavaScript repos, lowering quality
From 1 comment
I wish this was restricted to just the 3.9 million repos of the JavaScript build systems and task runners. The remainder of the repos just tainted the training set.
IgorPartola on HN
Not a new idea; Markov models and char-rnn did similar things
From 1 comment
It's not a new idea. Since char-rnn came out, people have been using it to generate music, generate fake linux code, write Shakespeare, make chatbots, etc. And before that people…
Houshalter on HN
Some names are just spelling errors
From 1 comment
Your examples just look like spelling errors ("contact", "framework", "Word", "square".) I got a lot of ones that looked indistinguishable from real repos, at least on first…
Houshalter on HN
Requests
Add options for language, repo category and similar filters
From 1 comment
it will be great if you can add some optional features to the interface, like the programming language(python, ruby, java, etc.), the category of the repo (game, development,…
criloz2 on HN
Generate names from startup domain names with availability checks
From 1 comment
Someone should build something like this, based off startup domain names, cross-checked with availability.
whatupdave on HN
Questions
Are generated names guaranteed unique?
From 1 comment
I was thinking about the exact same app. Nice. Is each generation guaranteed to be unique ?
spriggan3 on HN