Hack: Deep dreaming of a white Christmas

There is no formal talk or reading group today, since it’s past the end of term. Instead, a challenge:

Can we use recurrent neural networks to write Christmas messages? Come and talk about how you trained them! If you want Azure credits, ask djw1005@cam.ac.uk. I’ll prepare some datasets this week:

• Lyrics for Christmas songs and carols
• 50k tweets from Christmas 2016 (utf8-encoded)
• A Christmas Carol, Dickens

Walkthrough for setting up an Azure virtual machine

• Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
• Tuesday 05 December 2017, 14:00–15:00
• Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.
• Series: Mathematics and Machine Learning; organiser: Damon Wischik.