Strange Animalia - Intent to participate about 2020

[acgillette]

Tonight I wrote a script to take in each animal name, cleaned them up a bit and use the names to construct a grammar. I then generated about 500 new names into a csv file, cleaning up by hand some small things I missed. Some of my favorite names so far are:

MEGA Pigeon
Bull Vasa Raven
Munchkin Red Cat
Spiny Weasel

[acgillette]

Election anxiety is good for throwing myself into a project, at least.
Last night I tried to clean up the post bodies a bit, shoved them all into a text file and use the resulting file to train a GPT-2 model using RunwayML. I have never used machine learning before and so I was curious to try it out.

Some example output from the trained model given a prompt "You are a ____":

You are a Hairless Western Deer. Nip fur is an amazing stimulus to your being. It sounds natural but you have a very dramatic and pocky voice. When you like something or you just like being around others you have a very clear purpose in life that gets you a lot of attention. You are very into dancing and high playing games. You are extremely proud in the eyes of many. You are definitely not shy when it comes to being around others but it can get to you a lot of times just because you have your own little edifice or you want to be very big. You have a distinctive gait with which you can be spotted or spotted in areas that are very easy to find. Males will hide their young and guard them. Like any rascal the mule deer has its defenses and defend them against predators all day. However mule deer don t tend to bite people because they have what they call nectar glands. During the breeding season when it s not in season you will have males sit on one of the ground on the ground while the females stand by them and watch the cubs.

You are a Frilled Wolf. You dont live in very many cramped quarters. You d rather have your own small house or have your own living room. There are no boundaries to those that are here for you. How does one cope with an alien without intruding into your life? Your work life can last up to five hours a day. Everything you do is done yourself. Your dream can last 20 to 30 years. Can you believe youre still using this method anymore seeing the benefit in it. Youres a fierce individual as well you dont miss much. Youre simply not a bird to be tried and determined. You love your own group youve never been so special and you love being in a group. What you do is literally not important to you or your group. Youre constantly improving your physical fitness or being the one who calls attention to it. You dont put up a fuss and keep all of this up until youd need to. People will call you crazy if you dont put it out there. Can you relate to an unappreciated sapphire e.g. by shedding your coat or whatever else In one of your most desired.

The grammar is a bit funky because I accidentally stripped out all non alphanumeric characters to get rid of forum type stylings.

Currently using the hosted model feature in RunwayML to generate a json file with all the names and their descriptions. Will probably use a combo of scripting and by hand to clean the output up.

[acgillette]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TZkZg5idJ74wp3kkRx8dsO8Hvt4BpmpJ/view?usp=sharing an output turning the generated lines into a haiku per animal.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OeRhU0yS2n3bVWl9ybNn8H_cAK9uqVCG/view?usp=sharing a more straightforward rendering of the output, about 60000 words.

Still figuring out how to share the source code because it is a mess, and then I need to make end pages attributing the forum posters and it's done.

[greg-kennedy]

any progress on getting the code posted?