Bonus: AI Shakespeare vs. AI Trump, call for Listener Questions

Bonus midweek edition, coming to you as close to LIVE as is
humanly possible...

Inspired by last week's episode, Seduced By A Robot, I downloaded
a neural network and started to play around with it. See what
happens when I feed it:


The works of Shakespeare

My Facebook conversation history

A biography of Stalin

and, of course, the twitter feed of President Trump



 


The neural network I used was the tensorflow char-rnn -
an open-source framework by Chen Liang - and I got the idea from
Janelle Shane, who you can find at
www.lewisandquark.tumblr.com. 


Also: an appeal for listener questions!

I want to do a listener questions episode, but to do that, I
need... listener questions.

Tweet us @physicspod, email us at physicspod@outlook.com. Any
question will be considered, no matter how outlandish, and the
ones that work out will be featured on a future episode. Here are
some ideas:


Something you wanted to know about physics

Something you wanted to know about seduction (which I achieve
masterfully in 100% of cases)

Something that's been bothering you in your personal life or
in the world at large

Hateful abuse phrased as a question




Send them in! And see you Saturday for a regular episode.