I have used fasttext for language detection a few times, but I always seem to forget how to install and predict the language, so I created this little gist to remind myself of how to download, instantiate the model and predict the language of a piece of text.
Category: Code
The Painting Dataset
In my continuing exploration of generative adversarial networks, I found “The Painting Dataset” and wrote a short script to extract the images from it. Only about 1200 paintings seems to be valid, but it is at least something.
2 + 2 with neural networks
Some weeks ago, I was at a get together with my old university friends that we call “the hack day”. It usually revolves around drinking lots of coffee and soft drinks, eating loads of chips and candy, as well as working on the occasional masterpiece project like Zombie Hugs. At the end of the day,… Continue reading 2 + 2 with neural networks