How did this begin?
I read a tech site called "Ars Technica" and one day they ran an article about an RNN creating names for paint colours. You can read about it here https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/an-ai-invented-a-bunch-of-new-paint-colors-that-are-hilariously-wrong/ and I was instantly hooked on the idea of creating my own Neural Network. So I followed the link from Ars, back to the original site, which is here http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/ and started reading from the beginning. The lovely and talented Ms. Shane linked to the Karpathy site where the program could be obtained from. Seemed simple enough, it need a Linux OS, and I was already familiar with Linux, so this would be a walk in the park. Right? Oh so very wrong... Read on.