I’ve often wondered who names makeup colors. If you’ve never browsed the cosmetic aisle at your local drugstore, you might not have noticed the flirtatious labels that distinguish an endless array of lipstick shades. For example, Revlon sells Audacious Mauve, Dare…

One way to deal with the wait for Infinity Wars is to play with some Avengers data. I took the scripts for the last three Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover films (The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and…

I fed a neural network several hundred academic journal titles. Here’s what it produced, with some hand-made mock-ups for when these journals begin accepting submissions.

The Natural Sciences

So yeah. I trained an RNN on the collected tweets of Red Lobster and it just generates forlorn apologies to fictitious customers. Does art imitate life?