Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thiswoddoesnotexist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thiswoddoesnotexist.com&#x2F;</a><p>I got to playing around with recurrent neural networks and made a site that generates Crossfit &quot;Workout of the Days (WODs)&quot;. It&#x27;s trained on the workouts from crossfit.com.<p>My motivation were to learn more about how character-based RNN&#x27;s work, remember how to host a site on my Digital Ocean VPS with flask, and do some fun frontend work. It posed a few unique challenges, like scraping the crossfit website, experimenting with different network architectures, and finding ways to validate the efficacy of those networks.<p>It&#x27;s terribly overfit and will sometimes generate workouts verbatim from the crossfit.com database, but since it&#x27;s just a fun project, it was more important for me to get consistently good, grammatically correct results and some overfit ones rather than a bunch of nonsense text and a few hidden gems.<p>My next step is to sum up the key takeaways in a blog post about the full stack of the application and call it finished, or continue to play around with network hyper-parameters and training techniques, since nurturing my neural network knowledge for NLP was a huge goal.<p>Always looking for feedback and happy to answer any questions!