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  • gus_massa1 day ago
    Nice! Did you find any weird&#x2F;funny case while training the model? [I remember autotranlation&#x2F;readers inventing stuff a few years ago.]<p>&gt; <i>Drive a real mechanical pen</i><p>&gt; <i>I think it would be fun to hook the output of this model up to a real pen. I&#x27;m not sure of the use case, but maybe you&#x27;re an artist and have some ideas?</i><p>If you get someone to make a few samples and photos, it would be very nice.
    • jbaudanza23 hours ago
      &gt; Nice! Did you find any weird&#x2F;funny case while training the model? [I remember autotranlation&#x2F;readers inventing stuff a few years ago.]<p>Mostly, it was me trying things the naive way, running into problems, and then solving them, usually by copying what Alex Graves did in 2013 (but not always!)<p>For example, to make things simple I first built the model to simply predict the next x, y direction of the pen. This worked for simple pen strokes, but I noticed the model had a difficult time turning corners.<p>To fix this, I changed the model to instead predict an Mixture Density Network (Same as Graves). This is explained better in his paper, but essentially, instead of predicting one x, y direction, you predict 10, and then randomly sample one of those predictions. Also instead of predicting scalar x, y values, you predict a parameters for a gaussian distribution, and then sample from that.<p>It always amazes me how much randomness is involved in intelligence.<p>&gt; If you get someone to make a few samples and photos, it would be very nice.<p>I&#x27;m in Seoul, if you know anyone who would be interested in collaborating, please send me a note! jon@jonb.org