Directions in Venice

[arnicas]

Ok! Voila my repo.

Background:

When I was in Venice in mid-November, my AirBnB host tried to give me directions to some places he liked using a paper map. Every time he circled a square and paused, I thought, "This is where it is," and it wasn't. The directions kept going on and on and were really complicated because Venice is complicated (or was, without mobile GPS). I decided to recreate the experience of listening to him. Well, maybe he was more coherent...

Technically:

This was done using Pytracery (thanks @aparrish!), plus a small GPT2 model trained on Venice guidebooks and history (thanks @minimaxir!) ; along with some Open Street Map data, random sections of a map, and Flickr photos. The complete Jupyter notebook except for the local GPT2 model are in the repo.

Output is here.

I will clean up the punctuation and some of the GPT2 mess later, but you have the raw output file :)

[arnicas]

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