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Holy shit those are close to culture names. Weeeeird. I wonder how Banks thought up the names for his ships? He did a good enough job of it that the Halo writer
by komali2 7y ago
Holy shit those are close to culture names. Weeeeird. I wonder how Banks thought up the names for his ships? He did a good enough job of it that the Halo writers were inspired by it and followed in the same vein. It's a departure - before Banks, sci fi authors (think star trek for example) just followed navy naming conventions.
I really would like to learn enough to play with these tools as the author as, sounds great fun.
- minimaxir 7y agoThe Colab notebook linked in the article (which I made) is designed to make it as user-friendly as possible to finetune GPT-2 and generate text from it. Unfortunately "as possible" is load-bearing in this case, as GPT-2 is slightly more difficult to work with. In the case of short-form content like this, using a single-column CSV with each document as a row will automatically prepend/append the texts with appropriate start/stop tokens, which you can then force the model to generate text within those bounds and regex out the text you want. (this is what gpt-2-simple does with the prefix, truncate, and include_prefix parameters to generate())
- lloeki 7y agoAh I loved the ship names of Halo lore. Truth And Reconciliation, Undiminished Entelechy, Pillar Of Autumn, Forward Unto Dawn, Say My Name, In Amber Clad, Ready Or Not, Glasgow Kiss, Do You Feel Lucky, Tripping Light... https://www.halopedia.org/UNSC_Navy#Vessels https://www.halopedia.org/UNSC_Navy#Vessels