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Kevin Frans
Personal blog · kvfrans.comaiscience
Kevin Frans writes kevin frans blog, a personal blog at kvfrans.com about ai and science. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “CLIPDraw: Exploring Text-to-Drawing Synthesis”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite Kevin Frans's GAN work on automatically colouring and shading anime and line art as an example of neural networks applied to images. No comment praises the posts directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- CLIPDraw: Exploring Text-to-Drawing Synthesis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-29
- Generative adversial networks explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-29
- Variational Autoencoders Explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-03
- Deepcolor: automatic coloring and shading of manga-style lineart2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-04
What Hacker News says?
Neural Networks are really good at identifying patterns in data. As a classic example, if you wanted to predict housing prices, you could build a data set that maps features about houses (square feet, location, proximity to Caltrain, etc) onto their actual price, and then train a network to recognize the complex relationship between features and pricing. Training happens by feeding the network features, letting it m…
Comment linking /generative-adversial-networks-explained/
on “Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, Variation [video]”Submitted Deepcolor: automatic coloring and shading of manga-style lineart as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCreating images with radar sounds like a fun GAN project. I mean we are already coloring animes [1] and line-arts [2, 3]. [1] http://kvfrans.com/coloring-and-shading-line-art-automatical... [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.03240.pdf [3] https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints
Comment linking /coloring-and-shading-line-art-automatically-through-conditional-gans/
on “Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper”Submitted A Mathematical Definition of Interestingness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variational Autoencoders Explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative adversial networks explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To extract information from language models, optimize for causal response as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CLIPDraw: Exploring Text-to-Drawing Synthesis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CLIPDraw: Exploring Text-to-Drawing Synthesis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variational Autoencoders Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
