Wikipedia Articles Invented By A Neural Network

Wikipedia articles invented by a neural network

Wikipedia has a page where they list, for entertainment purposes, the titles of a bunch of pages that didn’t meet the cut. These are mostly pages that were submitted as pranks, although a few of them are clever enough that you can’t quite tell. Reader Emily Davis sent me a list of them - here are a few real deleted articles that humans wrote.

List of movie posters with lamps in them How to trick people into thinking you’re a wizard List of people who died with tortoises on their heads People Who delete My Articles have no sense of Humor Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! I like eggs Do scented candles burn faster than unscented candles An article that contains nothing but a full stop List of differences between apples and oranges Category:Farts in literature Category:Political posters using an octopus Woo woo woo woo woo woo wah ooooo wah List of all Wikipedia lists that do not contain themselves

It makes a terrible dataset for a neural network - only 1112 unique entries, some of which are quite long, and big variation in style and subject matter. I decided to try it anyway.

I trained a character-level recurrent neural network (that is, it uses individual letters as building blocks) with a very small memory to prevent it from memorizing the small dataset so quickly. Even so, most of the generated names were either incomprehensible or memorized from the original dataset. Those that weren’t, however, fit right in. It turns out text-generating neural networks are great at mashups and non sequiturs.

Popal chickens List of U.S. pants List of the Hamburgers Category:Athletes with maps Why Inited States Evil chicken Liquid cheese List of bands with pies on them Ant Fields are bear hair fetishism Monster Diseases Why Won’t Space Tire bear (country) What hoop This page is a very short article Poople who don’t have beer from sydney Goat that cookie Near Dogs Donkey words in the cartoons Poople who woo wah the pilot Death of chicken What is the day What fame butt List of fictional characters with the ball Who is not leaders List of parps Proper programming language Turdis programming language Article with a cat Friends and existence How to draw a coconut Tree donkey Category:People who can’t speed Panapple Beer for chickens Tree Wars Pants

Whoever it is who likes to enter long strings of repeated characters as pranks (I’m looking at you, Sand Person), the neural network shares your obsession. Repeated text is easier to learn, and so the neural network tends to latch onto it easily and, especially when I give it a short memory, takes repetition to even wilder excess (see: The Cow With No Lips).

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Note: please do not actually attempt to create these articles on Wikipedia.

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pros and cons of the instruments

violin

pro: really agile instrument capable of large leaps and scale runs

con: open e string

viola

pro: gooood tone quality

con: alto clef

cello

pro: has a deep lower register and a very emotionally intense upper register

con: the players always fucling rush

double bass

pro: super important for helping the orchestra sound full

con: have fun carrying that thing everywhere

flute

pro: can play really fast melodic lines

con: piccolo

clarinet

pro: comes in many sizes, including bass and piccolo clarinet

con: comes in many sizes, including bass and piccolo clarinet

oboe

con: oboe

bassoon

pro: has a very distinct sound and is important in orchestral textures

con: it is a giant toot pipe

trumpet

pro: is the highest-pitched of the brass instruments and has a triumphant sound

con: is a transposing instrument (which goes for a lot of the spit instruments)

trombone

pro: slidey slide

con: I literally know nothing about trombone

tuba

pro: doot do doot do doot do dodododoot do doot

con: it weighs like half a person

piano

pro: works wonderfully as a solo instrument

con: works wonderfully as a solo instrument but composers refuse to believe that performers don’t have more than ten fingers

harp

pro: just listen to it

con: pedals

percussion

pro: provides rhythm and sound effects that the orchestra could not have without it

con: sitting within two feet of the bass drum and the cymbals

guitars

pro: work nicely as solo instruments and for providing chords

con: those people who learn four chords or one bass line and suddenly think they’re god. also for acoustics: dropping your pick into your instrument