BruceS Graphic whimsy via Bruce Sterling, bruces@well.com. http://blog.wired.com/sterling Graphic whimsy via Bruce Sterling, bruces@well.com. http://blog.wired.com/sterling rss archive 80′s action figures, designed by neural network lewisandquark : Part of the power of a recursive neural network is that the same framework can teach itself to generate text in a huge variety of styles. So far I’ve used it to generate things like recipes , Dr. Who episode titles , D&D spells , story titles , metal band names , Pokemon , and paint colors . But could the neural network learn to generate names for 1980s American action figure toys? Trent Troop, an indie toy designer who blogs at therobotmonster.tumblr.com and bmogtoys.tumblr.com and also runs https://www.facebook.com/prizeinsidetoys/ , gave me a list of about 3,700 action figures from the 1980s and 1990s, from lines in...