Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

lewisandquark:

Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE MINE”.

I collected all the genuine heart messages I could find, and then gave them to a learning algorithm called a neural network. Given a set of data, a neural network will learn the patterns that let it imitate the original data – although its imitation is sometimes imperfect. The candy heart messages it produced… well, you be the judge.

The neural net did produce some that would pass for – and arguably improve upon – the standard messages.

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DEAR ME
MY MY
LOVE BOT
CUTE KISS
MY BEAR
LOVE BUN

Others were in the same spirit, but perhaps not quite as effective.

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YOU A LOVE
AM GOOD
YOU ARE BABE
ME MY ❤
YOU ARE IT
HEART ME
SWEET PEAR
COOL CUD
FANCY MY HERO

Others were, um, strange. I don’t know what they mean, but some of them might work on me.

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ALL HOVER
OOG LOVE
TEAM BEAR
TIME HUG
PIN A FACE
YOU’RE ME
SWOOL MAT
BOG LOVE
I HONKER
HOW COT
BEAR WIG
FANG
BE A GOOL
TWEET UP BAT
WIRLY OOT
I WANDER
TIME STAR

These will probably not be one of the standard messages anytime soon.

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STANK LOVE
SWEAT POO
LOVE 2000 HOGSYEA
HOLE
HOW U HOT
YOU ARE BOA
CHERT FACE
LICK
SWEAT PEAR
LOO GIN
YOU A GOO
LOOK BIG
YOU ARE BAG
U HACK

There was yet another category of message, a category you might be able to predict given the prevalence of four-letter words in the original dataset. The neural network thought of some nice new four-letter words to use. Unfortunately, some of those words already had other meanings. Let’s just say that the overall effect was surprisingly suggestive. Fill out the form here and I’ll send them to you.

Also, if you need more love help from the neural network, check out the pick up lines it wrote.

Heart pictures made using https://cryptogram.com/hearts/

Some info for your followers, though maybe just UK: Carl’s hour-long Needle Time interview is being reshown on Vintage TV on Fri 9 February at 4.00am! I did request it recently, and they replied, but I’m not sure whether that helped. I watched it when it was first on three years ago but can’t really remember the content, but it’s trailed as “revealing” (but of course). Might go on their website, too?

missoneminute:

Oh that’s great thank you! X

I can’t wait to get home tonight and watch this (as long as my Sky box hasn’t fucked up), I’ve currently no means to get it off the box but expect quote posts aplenty I’m sure

what are some of your favorite Libertines stories?

missoneminute:

Oh man so many. I could go on for days but these stand out to me off the top of my head:

1. The tea story – Carl having a jealous fit and interrupting Peter’s make out session with his girlfriend by angrily making tea and cursing.
2. The door slam – When Carl turned up to see Peter after ages apart and drunkenly brought Anthony with him so Peter slammed the door in their faces in a jealous rage.
3. The turban tale – Carl split his chin open jumping on a street sign the night of the freedom gig, Peter wanted to go in the ambulance with him but was being too rowdy and then Carl refused to be stitched unless the nurses brought him a turban.
4. The busking story – When they were busking for beer money on Waterloo bridge and Steve’s false teeth fell out and sent some Japanese girls running down the street screaming.
5. The top to tail – When they shared a single mattress and one morning Peter claims Carl woke with Peter’s “massive boner in his face” and “couldn’t stop talking about it”.
6. The Jaffa cakes – Carl went to see Peter in prison and brought him two packets of Jaffa cakes but Peter had been transferred to a different jail so Carl sat there eating them by himself in the prison waiting room.
7. Morocco – When Peter burst into tears during an interview because Carl wouldn’t go on holiday to Morocco with him.
8. The fancy flip phone – Carl smashed his own brand new fancy flip phone in a rage during a fight with Peter because Peter wanted them to go to Paris together and Carl didn’t wanna go.
9. The vertical smile – Peter rather graphically describing staring at Carl’s bare ass while they were both shagging girls in a loo.
10. The threesome – Peter’s ex Katie Lewis aka the Katie of What Katie Did describing a threesome she had with Peter and Carl after a wasted night out. She’s low on detail but CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE. Like seriously.
11. The cinema screaming – Peter running around the cinema where he worked screaming like a banshee being chased by his female flatmate after stealing her cheques.
12. The break up kiss – After Peter split with Francesca he and Carl saw her in the street and she ran over to them and snogged Carl.
13. The jealous rant – It was one of many but Peter logging on to the forums complaining that everyone wanted to blow Carl “thrice a morning” was a spectacular tantrum.
14. The bed tying – Look it’s horrible they fought so hard but Carl solving an argument by literally tying Peter to his bed is just madness.
15. The shoe theft – Peter stole Carl’s shoes and Carl was so angry he went barefoot rather than borrowing someone else’s pair.
16. The naked cycle – That time Peter cycled naked back to the tour bus through the streets to try and get to a girl before Carl hooked up with her but failed to make it in time and was forced to watch them snog for hours instead. Also he had no clothes because the girl he had been with had locked him naked in a bathroom.
17. Arcadia and back – When Carl took Peter to his mother’s house and showed him the “wild woods” and “took him to Arcadia and back”.
18. The sniffer dog – Carl arrived in Japan for their tour utterly wasted and mistook a Beagle that was actually a drug detection dog as some kind of Japanese airport welcoming dog and thought it was the cutest thing ever so he sat there patting it while it sniffed him.
19. The poetry competition – Peter’s story about Carl drunkenly dragging him out of his tour bus bed in the middle of the night to have a typewriter poetry showdown and saying, “Everyone says you’re a great poet. This is poetry!” Then presenting Peter with a line Peter claims he actually wrote.
20. What a Waster – The indie amnesty tweet that claims Carl played What a Waster over and over to The Strokes while telling them he is the one who actually wrote it.
21. “I’m a poet!” – It’s ultimately a sad story of them having an awful row but Peter weeping, “I’m a poet!” to a police officer is just so Peter.

Safe mode is now on!

eroticlava:

likkezg:

You can toggle it off following these easy steps

I wonder why did they force it on for everyone xD I dont even see any benefit they get out of that other than just pissing people off :p

might be a good idea to to check your stuff and make sure its off! many of your favorite artist will start to seemingly disappear

Much as I don’t like seeing dicks on my dash, who even knows what Tumblr decide is ~safe~ enough for safe mode