Does bribing or threatening ChatGPT make it generate better text?

Max Woolf systematically tries to find out if it responds better to front-row Taylor Swift tickets or all-caps death threats # | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 2 months ago

I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion

The true dystopia of AI is that it can make Ugly Sonic look cool. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 1 year ago

How to Create a Blog Post Title Optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News Data

GPT-3 says the title for this post is very bad. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 1 year ago

Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2

Perhaps AI can provide new and ~unique~ ideas for food content on the internet. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 1 year ago

Analyzing Every Reddit Submission with BigQuery (2015)

With Reddit data in BigQuery, quantifying all the hundreds of millions of Reddit submissions and comments is trivial. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 2 years ago

How to Generate Customized AI Art Using VQGAN and CLIP

Knowing how AI art is made is the key to making even better AI art. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 2 years ago

Fun and Dystopia with AI-Based Code Generation Using GPT-J-6B

At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human's. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 2 years ago

Make High Quality Data Visualizations for Websites with R and Ggplot2 (2017)

In general, it takes little additional effort to make something unique with ggplot2, and the effort is well worth it. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 2 years ago

Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API

GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 3 years ago

How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2

Here's how you too can create an AI bot to parody any Twitter user, even if you're not a coder! | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments

Hopefully, these comments will answer whether Hacker News is experiencing a rise in quality, or if the complaints levied against HN are valid. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions

After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK

Box plots, when used correctly, can be a very fun way to visualize big data. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

Experiments with Making Convincing AI-Generated Fake News

Can the CTRL model create the “fake news” OpenAI was concerned about? Let's put it to the test. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

How to Make Custom AI-Generated Text with GPT-2

Thanks to gpt-2-simple and this Colaboratory Notebook, you can easily finetune GPT-2 on your own dataset! | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Make AI-Generated titles for any Reddit subreddit using GPT-2

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@minimaxir.com | 4 years ago

Predicting the Success of a Reddit Submission with Deep Learning and Keras

Thanks to Keras, performing deep learning on a very large number of Reddit submissions is actually pretty easy. Performing it *well* is a different story. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago

Run Any Scheduled Task/Cron Super-Cheap on Google Cloud Platform

Thanks to a few new synergies within GCP products, it's possible to get the cost of running a scheduled task down to less than a dollar a month. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago

An Introduction on How to Make Beautiful Charts with R and Ggplot2 (2015)

Adding a touch of color and design can help make more compelling visualizations, thanks to ggplot2 syntax and chaining capabilities. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago

Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can't. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago

Things About Real-World Data Science Not Discussed in MOOCs and Thought Pieces

MOOCs and thought pieces overfit to a certain style of data science that is not robust to the vast uncertainties of the real world. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago

Analyzing IMDb Data the Intended Way, with R and ggplot2

For IMDb's big-but-not-big data, you have to play with the data smartly, and both R and ggplot2 have neat tricks to do just that. | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago

How to Quickly Train a Text-Generating Neural Network for Free

Train your own text-generating neural network and generate text whenever you want with just a few clicks! | Continue reading


@minimaxir.com | 5 years ago