A scientist fed a database of 7,700 paint colors into a neural network. Then, based on her training data, she asked the computer to create a few paint colors of its own.
At first, it the AI created gibberish names:
And names that didn’t correspond at all to the color:
But after a few tweaks to her algorithms, and some time spent training the neural network, the AI started cranking out charming color names like these:
You can read about her full experiment here: (2 minute read)
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- The difference between cookies, local storage, and session storage — and how to interact with them using JavaScript (8 minute watch)
- How to go from hobbyist to professional developer (14 minute read)
Thought of the day:
“If everything was easy, nothing would have significance.” — Jocelyn K. Glei
Funny of the day:
Illustration by Chris Puttick
Study group of the day:
Happy coding!
– Quincy Larson, teacher at freeCodeCamp
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