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  1. got distracted and generated some fictional names for discontinued perfumes
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      using: - the list of perfumes that scentmatchers.com/ claims to be able to make dupes of - some regex in Sublime Text to clean the source - and textgenrnn running in google colab minimaxir.com/2018/05/text-neural-networks/
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        it's pretty neat that you can do all this in about half an hour! much easier than getting char-rnn installed & configured locally.
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          fun fact: if you don't generate with temperature set to 1.0 (translation: tell the computer to pick less-likely options), then it thinks every perfume is by Avon
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            (now i am looking at the generated list and imagining a person who would wear each perfume)
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              choose a fictional person to date based upon the fictional perfume they wear: