Episode Details

Hugging Face hosts nearly three million model repos, and 85.6% have under 200 downloads. This episode wanders the long tail of AI: auto-generated "woolly sedate snail" swarms, a hotdog-not-hotdog classifier, a Trump-tweet device detector, and a Tiny Pirate that beats the Yoda. Then it goes back further — Janelle Shane's paint-name network producing "Stanky Bean" and "Turdly," a guinea pig rescue naming animals with a neural net, Subreddit Simulator's all-bot comment threads, and MENACE, the 1961 noughts-and-crosses machine built from 300 matchboxes that literally resigns when it runs out of beads. Plus: BowLingual's dog translator, a graph neural network that learned to smell, facial recognition for salmon, and a visit to Edinburgh's North Sea View Guesthouse (the sea is a painting, screwed to the wall). Episode 6212 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6212 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/089616)