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Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?

104 points by jonplackett ↗ HN
I have temporary access to a monster PC (32core thread ripper + 2x2080ti).

I've been playing with deep fakes which is fun (I look good as Neo fighting Morpheus).

But what other fun + awesome open source projects can I run with it before I have to give it back?

I'm a programmer (making apps, websites, games etc). But don't have a lot of deep learning experience though want to learn.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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synaster
Finetuning a GPT-2 model on logs from a chatting server like IRC or Discord you're active in, then writing a bot to generate messages from a prompt using the model.
jonplackett
Great idea thanks! Are there any other Generative models that are (relatively) easy to use? I find generative AI the most interesting.
bulldog13
Any good tutorials on this you recommend ?
thomasfromcdnjs
I recently played around with a lib called Detectio which was super fun and met my needs.

Like you, I have barely any ML experience so it was nice to be able to still finish what I set out to achieve.

I write a simple tutorial and sample code base -> https://ajaxdavis.com/post/An-Open-Source-Computer-vision-mo...

p1esk
LOL, that's not a monster PC for deep learning :) I was going to suggest https://github.com/openai/jukebox/ but with 2080Ti it's going to be tough. You might be able to do some sampling with the smallest lyrics set, idk.
jonplackett
Guess I need to do some deep learning learning...
fermienrico
Missed opportunity: deep Deep Learning learning...
Igelau
Sounds like they need to do some deep deep deep learning learning learning.
jonplackett
it may not be a beast to you guys, but it's a pretty big step up from my Macbook Pro 2013 + GeForce GT 750M 2 GB
StavrosK
How do you generate deep fakes? I'd like to play around with that.
ArtWomb
https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
jonplackett
or https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab
tmaly
which of those two are easier to get started with?
jonplackett
Face Swap has a graphical interface and the other is command line, but it has .bat files for you to just click and run so both are pretty easy to start with.

The main work is preparing the training data. Making sure the faces are detected correctly and not accidentally one of another person. It is very tedious work!

freedomben
Can I ask how/where you got access to that PC? Purely curious :-)
jonplackett
Through work. It's not needed currently, but I'm presuming someone will want it again soon!
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tlack
I've been playing with reinforcement learning on simulated robots, using OpenAI Gym[0] and PyBullet[1].

I find it interesting because, in theory, the learned policies transfer to real-world robots, and the time is nigh for development in that area. Plus you get to watch it do funky robot shit and slowly get better.

If you want a quick way to dive in, I have a repo[2] I've been using to train on a variety of PCs and Google Colab[3]. The task is a Panda robot pushing a randomly placed object. I had some trouble getting it all working with recent Keras at first, so my repo might save you time.

Email me[4] if you get stuck.

[0] https://gym.openai.com/

[1] https://pybullet.org/

[2] https://github.com/tlack/rl-experiments

[3] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HGmKMGwW_emok157ENr...

[4] lackner@gmail.com

lamroger
Have you done the https://www.fast.ai/ course? Paperspace also offers free Juypter notebooks once you need to return your computer.