Canal Creek
oregon
Hello Oregon
Fake Oregon Placenames
Dan Hon recently trained an A.I. to generate British placenames. I followed his recipe and did the same for Oregon placenames.
I found a list of real Oregon placenames at the US Board on Geographic Names. I did a round of A.I. training with the raw data and found the output too noisy. So I did a little data massaging and gave it another shot, this time with cleaner results.
I set the whole thing up on a free AWS instance with the torch-rnn docker image. It was a snap. A slow snap. It would be faster with more processing power.
Without further setup, plan your next camping trip and imagine the vistas you'll see in such artificially imagined Oregon places as:
I found a list of real Oregon placenames at the US Board on Geographic Names. I did a round of A.I. training with the raw data and found the output too noisy. So I did a little data massaging and gave it another shot, this time with cleaner results.
I set the whole thing up on a free AWS instance with the torch-rnn docker image. It was a snap. A slow snap. It would be faster with more processing power.
Without further setup, plan your next camping trip and imagine the vistas you'll see in such artificially imagined Oregon places as:
- Thkewood Meadows
- Cookstop Lake
- Thedrel Springs Cemetery
- Water Reservoir
- Rogah Butte
- Newar Creek
- Willaning Creek
- Dazian
- Booper Summit
- Pister Creek Ranch Spring
- Josspor Ridge
- Bickmass Log Pond
- Trout Bucktuby
- Monnnit Hellant Plant Creek
- Pitter Cip Number One
- Seven Creek
- Giam Creek
- Hemil M Creek
- Hug Waterhole
- Dukapin Meadows
- Bensbush Creek
- Malow Creek
- Lattle Lake Recreation Meadows
- Mule Park
- Road Ranch
- Bruck Creek
- Gregley Park Recreation Site
- Forent Well
- Kench Bed Reservoir
- Indian Slide
- Sinkhawk Trail
- Tondyle Canyon
- Spilling Pond
- Syn Reservoir
- Pieson Reservoir
- Thirn Mountain
- Fence and Swalich
- Lower Spring Cemetery
- Bolard Creek
- Coney Butte Park
- Skihino Peak
- Laix Spring
- Clenmill Creek
- Oshers Forest
- Fork Slow Spring
8:00
Country Fair Scenes
Country Fair Stage
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Oregon crowdfunding. You can buy $10 digital shares in local companies.
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This is Andy Baio's annual round-up of online movie piracy. This year: HD video makes leaked screeners irrelevant. "Already, with a month to go before the ceremony, 89% of this year’s nominated films have already leaked in high quality online, more than last year."
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I had no idea that Oregon tried to keep minorities out in its early years. It's a depressing article but it's important to understand our history.
OCF Canopy
Corvallis 4th of July
I posted some photos from the 4th of July parade in Corvallis.
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Andy put together a handy list of geeky Portland spots. Wish I could be up there for ROFLcon tomorrow.
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A great blog about futures past has moved to the Smithsonian Magazine. Seems like a good fit.
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huh, Corvallis has the largest percentage of bicycle commuters in the country.
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Matt was profiled in the McMInnville paper. I snuck into the picture somehow.
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Images from around the Web. Looks like a fun way to browse, but I wish the images were a bit bigger.