Janelle Shane

@JanelleCShane

I blog at . My book "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You" is out now! Research Scientist in optics. she/her.

Boulder, CO
Joined April 2014

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Nov 2019

    My book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You is out today!!!!! I've spent two years writing (and drawing) this book about artificial intelligence, and now it has escaped out into the world! Read more & buy a copy for yourself and all your friends at

    Image: Cover of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You.

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me: how many giraffes are there?

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  2. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    This is an incredible conceptual piece. I'm really taken with the simplicity and the inherent message about adversarial AI attacks.

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  3. Retweeted

    Make real video look like a GAN interpolation by motion smoothing up from 1 fps. The depth based geometry really works in a couple of places -- looks like a model rotating in a scene consisting entirely of 2 or 3 frames.

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    Late to the show, but ’s interview on is so delightful

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  5. these recipes seem to be fond of meat+fruit combinations scanning through the submitted training data I thought I'd seen them all but THIS is a new one

    Honeydew-Turkey Salad Bowl

2 small honeydew melons
2 cups cubed cooked turkey
1 cup sliced celery
1/3 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
1/3 cup spicy sweet French salad dressing
1 teaspoon chopped green onion
1/2 teaspoon celery seed

Slice melons in half using a sawtooth cut. Remove and discard seeds and pulp. With melon ball cutter, remove melon meat. Remove any remaining melon meat with spoon and use another time.
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  6. Feb 1

    So I just found out today that there are a bunch of charity event British bake-off episodes that have never made it on to US Netflix It is imperative that I watch them I will pay money to watch them But googling and waving money at my computer isn’t working?

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  8. Feb 1

    tunics with pockets, suitable for wearing over leggings: where does one find them? bonus points for geeky

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  9. Feb 1

    We are up to about 1000 recipes submitted and the major themes so far are: Jello Bananas ,,,MEAT, Regret

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  10. Retweeted

    I tell people to stop worrying about futuristic runaway smart AI, because it's stupid current AI that will kill us, this is what I mean. Someone bought a product that *literally* text-matched the word "charity" as 'good' and "vodka" as 'bad' and is making hiring choices with it.

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  11. Feb 1

    "nae, it's NEWTS." Just got issue #1 of the NEWTSletter and am pleased with decisions I have made

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  12. Jan 31
    1 cup butter
2 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3  eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup white cocoa
1 cup milk
1 cup horseradish or sour cream

Mix all ingredients.  Spread over grease and make a gently pan mixture
with 1 several hours, turning and boil on high until the mixture is completely golden.

Transfer the short that opan and golden brown. Release the chocolate
accompaniments and cool t
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  13. Jan 31

    I dearly hope people make these! One appealing thing about GPT-Jello is that this is convenience food so most of its recipes will spectacularly work. They will be colorful, they may even jiggle, and you'll probably be able to see the ingredients.

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  14. Jan 31

    i am now on a highly inadvisable mission to make neural net recipes EVEN WORSE if you have a vintage cookbook or a dreaded family recipe or two, you can help

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  15. Jan 31

    Update: someone has submitted another horseradish jello salad and i definitely feel you, poor soul of timestamp 8:29:29

    Green Jello From Hell (that's what my family calls it)  

1 box lime jello
2 cups boiling water
1 can crushed pineapple
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons *HORSERADISH*

Dissolve jello in boiling water, add pineapple & juice.  Chill till partly set (an hour-ish).  Whip with mixer and add remaining ingredients.  Pour into mold.  Chill to set.
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  16. Jan 31

    neural net is now disparaging its own recipes (prompt was the title from here )

    Lord's Honey Fight
Ingredients:
Tumeric, Chamomile flowers, Coconut, Aloe vera gel.
The smell:   
Before this, the first smell in the cup was nothing. Now, it's just bad. It has just a hint of almond, and just a bit of bit of almond extract. It's not really that prominent but I'm talking about 10-15 seconds of just this lingering almond smell (if you turn the burner to low). Once the milk reaches 80C it starts to bec
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  17. Jan 31

    no neural net this is not how bread works this will not work

    Apricot Dream Moles
Ingredients:
Mix 1/2 cup flour with 1/2 cup water. Then add 6/8 tsp cream of tartar to both the flour and water. Mix very well and knead for few minutes. Divide the dough into three balls, then shape the dough balls and roll into tiny circle, flattening each one with the palm of your hand. Put the balls on a greased baking tray and let it rise in a warm place until doubled in size. Preheat the ove
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  18. Jan 31

    To be fair, the first neural net's title of "Completely Meat Circle" was already somewhat disturbing. And then the second neural net made things SO MUCH WORSE

    Completely Meat Circle

Ingredients:
three rashers of bacon, two pieces of bacon, a whole piece of ham, two slices of smoked cheddar, four slices of prosciutto, salt, pepper, allspice, black pepper, onion powder, smoked paprika and paprika, garlic powder, paprika, parsley flakes and coriander.

You can also toast your own bacon at home: we had one of the new wraps try to land on the BACON HOLE.
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  19. Jan 31

    Decided to see what would happen if I pitted neural net against neural net, asking the neural net GPT-2 to write recipes to go with a much simpler neural net's strange recipe titles valiant attempt at "Crockpot Cold Water"

    Crock Pot Cold Water

Ingredients:
Two 4-oz cans full of water
½ cup cornstarch
½ cup granulated sugar
3 tblsp. baking powder
1 tblsp. vanilla extract

Method:
Place water in the bottom of the slow cooker.
Place cornstarch, sugar and baking powder in a small bowl. Heat water over high heat in the slow cooker, whisking until dissolved and thick. Pour over cornstarch mixture. Add vanilla and whisk.
Place butter and lar
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  20. Jan 31

    So many of the human-submitted recipes are ALREADY distressing

    Mustard Custard Salad

7 tbss. sugar
2 tbsp. flour
2 eggs well beaten
1 tbsp. prepared mustard
No. 2 can pineapple chunks
4 bananas
1 c. maraschino cherries

Add the juice from pineapple chunks to sugar, flour, eggs, and mustard and cook until thick. Cool.

Mix pineapple chunks, bananas, and cherries with custard and chill. 4 servings.
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    Reading about curiosity-driven AI in "You Look Like A Thing And I Love You" - great book about AI by It's funny, and I'm learning a lot.

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