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A Recurrent Neural Network for Wolfrat Bot

Written Dec 20, 2016 - Projects

For fun, I decided Wolfrat Bot needed a bit more, err, personality. So, I set off to make him one. After training an RNN for a few hours on my desktop’s GPU, I had interesting results but ultimately failed at achieving quite what I wanted. Anyway, I encountered some huge hurdles I found out AFTER training for ~8 hours that the way I was encoding the characters for the network input (and thus, the way I was decoding the network output) behaved non-deterministically between Python 3.5 runtimes!

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Wolfrat Chatbot

Written Apr 5, 2016 - Projects

My friends and I primarily communicate through a GroupMe chat that we named Wolfrat. To liven the place up, I thought I would add a chatbot. So, I quickly threw together (over a day or so) WolfratBot, which uses the GroupMe bot API. The API HTTP POSTS a given callback URL, which is set to a WSGI script that decides on the appropriate reply. The program is very modular, and new functionality can be added without disrupting any other modules.

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