Jason SalasThe contradiction that makes ‘Joker’ sheer geniusAlthough Joker has been out for over a month and the Internet is ripe with analysis of the allusions to the state of the world, the…Nov 21, 2019Nov 21, 2019
Jason SalasTeaching machine learning to compose Depeche Mode lyricsMany moons ago as an undergraduate, I was a music journalist. Specifically in 1995, a year after I got online for the first time. And…Nov 20, 2019Nov 20, 2019
Jason SalasCan AI predict a movie’s MPAA rating with just its summary?Anyone that knows me knows that I really love movies and the movie industry, and that I’m always thinking about innovative ways to put…Nov 5, 20191Nov 5, 20191
Jason SalasDeploying your machine learning model — and porting a cool exampleI’ve spent the last two weeks in earnest building-out a deep learning image captioning service. I wanted to show how models can be…Oct 26, 2019Oct 26, 2019
Jason SalasReplacing my podcast partner with a custom smart speaker appLast week, the movie podcast I co-host lost one of our founding members, as Asha’s moving on to greener pastures. So, we’ve been thinking…Sep 9, 2019Sep 9, 2019
Jason SalasNerd narcissism: use your social selfies as a dataset to create totally unique profile pics(At least you won’t have to deal with intellectual property issues.)Sep 7, 2019Sep 7, 2019
Jason SalasWho REALLY controls the market in the streaming wars?Who REALLY controls the market in the streaming wars?Sep 2, 2019Sep 2, 2019
Jason SalasRecreating The Simpsons with a DCGANInspired by my progress (and mammoth failures) of my previous deep convolutional generative adversarial network for image synthesis of…Aug 10, 2019Aug 10, 2019
Jason SalasDCGAN for kicks — auto-generated basketball shoe styles via machine learningA lot of literature exists about the mechanics and mathematics behind deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs), and how…Jul 25, 2019Jul 25, 2019
Jason SalasOn ephemeral media and journalistic citationsOne of the curiosities I’ve got as we sheepishly enter the era of visual communication is how multimedia messaging platforms with temporary…Apr 4, 2017Apr 4, 2017