We recently read The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks by Andrej Karpathy, and had to give it a try ourselves. If you saw our Markov text generation post, you can probably guess what’s coming next… we used Andrej Karpathy’s code to train a character-level recurrent neural network model on Moby-Dick.
Here’s some generated text after 10,000 training steps:
Ahab, clearing with a heart easy, seeing the three planks found impatience to the pointed tracess of the skin, Ahab strength, ships and dead.
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