Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow
<i>Stroke order is very important to Japanese culture, in a society where the process matters just as much as the end result. Some calligraphists take stroke order very seriously, and will probably explode if they see someone writing a Kanji with incorrect stroke order.</i><p>One might phrase this &quot;Stroke order is assigned by convention in Japanese; deviating from the conventional order is incorrect, much laik hau Einglish speling iz nat ap four eendevizyuelle tyoise.&quot;  (&quot;What&#x27;s the matter?  You can sound it out.  Pfft, Americans, such rigid traditionalists.  It makes sense in the context of their religious views and conservative political tendencies, though.&quot; [+])<p>This avoids unfortunate Man Japanese People They&#x27;re So Craaaaazy overtones.  (FWIW: stroke order is prescriptionist not descriptionist but AFAIK prescriptionism has a virtually hegemonic mindshare among relevant authorities.)<p>n.b. Otherwise this project and post is freaking excellent.<p>[+] You can actually read Japanese-language takes on American culture which are exactly as bad as this Orientialism-in-reverse.