#textgen

As gardeners know, a tomato is not just a tomato. They come in all shapes, sizes, and especially colors, from tiny red gems to big and purplish brown to pear-shaped with zebra stripes. And their tastes and textures vary wildly as well, with some sweet and soft, some tough-skinned and tart, and some dense and destined for processing.

These varieties all have names, of course, and good names are at a premium. Darren Abbey, who runs the blog The Biologist Is In, breeds new tomatoes and needs to name them from time to time. He gave me a list of 11,629 existing names, ranging from the highly experimental (Rts-119) to the classic (Sungold).

I used these names to train a recurrent neural network, which is a kind of algorithm that learns patterns that let it imitate the data it sees. Could it learn to produce plausible tomato names?

Yes, as it turns out! On Darren’s blog post you can read his expert opinion, but the verdict is: these are totally usable names.

Floranta Sweet Lightning Speckled Boy Flavelle Pinkery Plum Market Days Fancy Bell Mountain Gem Garden Sunrise Honey Basket Cold Brandy Sun Heart Flaminga Sunberry Special Baby Golden Pow

However, not ALL the names were plausible. These are a lot weirder.

Birdabee Sandwoot Shampy Bear Plum The Bango Grannywine Sun Burger Bungersine First No.4 Smoll Pineapple The Ball Golden Cherry Striped Rock Eggs Old German Baby Frankster Black Bumbertime Ranny Blue Ribber Adoly Pepp Of The Wonder Cherry, End Students Small Of The Elf Champ German Ponder Pearly Pemper Green Zebra Pleaser Flute First

These *seem* weird, but they aren’t actually all that weird for tomato names. There are at least 50 oxheart tomatoes in the original dataset.

Matt's Sandwich Indigo Tree Sun Burger Striped Hollow Potato Leaf Lelly's Yellow Stuffers Terra Pink Strain Greek Boar Ton's Oxheart Babla's German Paste Mortgage Lifter, Honey Blues

These however? These tomatoes don’t sound promising.

Speckled Garfech Green Dork Cluster Gall Shirve's Gigant Bullburk True Grub Black Crape Caraball Roma Wasting Star Scar Giant Bug Beauty Banana Placente Bananana Stoner Speckled Bake Ruck Green Boor Wonder Bagg Sun Bung Bellende Bolosavyi Scarling West Colon Panterosa San Blue Tard Red Krap Shart Delight Solad Piss

For more in-depth analysis of these names, check out Darren’s blog.

I also trained a neural net on fruit names earlier - read the results here.

And this post’s bonus content is well worth checking out, because not only does it contain many more tomato names, but I also tried an experiment where I trained a neural net first on tomato names, and then on the names of metal bands. The results were glorious, including such wonders as:

Angels of Saucing Serpent Green Market Death Sweet Sever Devil Potato Large Death

In this blog post, we'll walk through the process of deploying a text generation web UI using the Docker image atinoda/text-generation-webui on a Kubernetes cluster. We'll cover everything from creating a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) to setting up a Kubernetes Service for port forwarding.

Prerequisites

A running Kubernetes cluster

kubectl installed and configured to interact with your cluster

Step 1: Create a Namespace

First, let's create a namespace called text-gen-demo to isolate our resources.

kubectl create namespace text-gen-demo

Step 2: Create a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC)

We'll need a PVC to store our data. Create a YAML file named text-gen-demo-pvc.yaml with the following content:

apiVersion: v1 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim metadata: name: text-gen-demo-pvc namespace: text-gen-demo spec: accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 100Gi storageClassName: standard

Apply the PVC:

kubectl apply -f text-gen-demo-pvc.yaml

Step 3: Deploy the Pod

Create a YAML file named text-gen-demo-pod.yaml with the following content:

apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: text-gen-demo-pod namespace: text-gen-demo labels: app: text-gen-demo spec: containers: - name: text-gen-demo-container image: atinoda/text-generation-webui ports: - containerPort: 7860 - containerPort: 5000 - containerPort: 5005 env: - name: TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST value: "7.5" volumeMounts: - name: text-gen-demo-pvc mountPath: /app/loras subPath: loras - name: text-gen-demo-pvc mountPath: /app/models subPath: models volumes: - name: text-gen-demo-pvc persistentVolumeClaim: claimName: text-gen-demo-pvc

Apply the Pod:

kubectl apply -f text-gen-demo-pod.yaml

Step 4: Create a Service

Create a YAML file named text-gen-demo-service.yaml with the following content:

apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: text-gen-demo-service namespace: text-gen-demo spec: selector: app: text-gen-demo ports: - name: "webui" protocol: TCP port: 7860 targetPort: 7860 - name: "api" protocol: TCP port: 5000 targetPort: 5000 - name: "api-stream" protocol: TCP port: 5005 targetPort: 5005

Apply the Service:

kubectl apply -f text-gen-demo-service.yaml

Step 5: Port Forwarding

Finally, let's set up port forwarding to access the web UI locally.

kubectl port-forward svc/text-gen-demo-service 7860:7860 -n text-gen-demo

You should now be able to access the web UI at http://localhost:7860.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues with port forwarding, make sure:

The pod is running and healthy (kubectl get pods -n text-gen-demo)

The service is correctly configured (kubectl describe svc text-gen-demo-service -n text-gen-demo)

The service has endpoints (kubectl get endpoints text-gen-demo-service -n text-gen-demo)

Conclusion

Washington D.C. - Reports have surfaced that President Donald Trump's new ice cream brand, Trump Man Milk, has been caught donating money to Palestinian warlords.

This is not the first time that the Trump Organization has been caught donating to questionable causes. In the past, the company has been linked to donations to white supremacists and the Russian government.

When reached for comment, a spokesperson for the Trump Organization said that the company is just trying to do its part to help rebuild the Middle East. "Trump Man Milk is committed to helping rebuild the Middle East," said the spokesperson. "We believe that by donating money to Palestinian warlords, we can help create a more peaceful and prosperous region."

Critics have slammed the Trump Organization for its donations, saying that they are nothing more than a publicity stunt.

"The Trump Organization is only donating to Palestinian warlords because they know it will get them some good publicity," said one critic.

It's kinda boring to write about the same things again and again, but I don't want you to miss some things, so here is a general list of non-news I somehow mentioned before: * The annual Christmas lecture from Donald Knuth recently published. * The AI/ML Creativity Workshop is taking place on NeurIPS today (the same one, on which we presented our album Neurona two years ago). * Books gradually appear on Amazon in official co-authorship with GPT-2. * Video of talks from Strange Loop 2019 and Roguelike Celebration 2019 are already published. * The annual NaNoGenMo took its place.