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Get working on your April Fools Eiffel Tower
Elevator Surprise: Place a tiny camera in the elevator, and when someone gets in, snap a photo saying, "Welcome to Space Station!" Or build a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower next to it for a dramatic effect.
Tower of Pancakes: Create a giant stack of pancakes and
Bonus: More April Fools pranks from Eiffel Tower Llama
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of people hooking up chatbots to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to open and read documents and spreadsheets, or even edit or delete entire databases. Whether this sounds like a good idea depends in part on how bad
Bonus: Incorrect Christmas Carols
Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best
I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it.
A little while ago I revisited a dataset from 2018,