<story><title>Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow</title><url>http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fake-chinese-characters-in-vector-format-with-tensorflow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Stroke order is very important to Japanese culture, in a society where the process matters just as much as the end result. Some calligraphists take stroke order very seriously, and will probably explode if they see someone writing a Kanji with incorrect stroke order.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;One might phrase this &amp;quot;Stroke order is assigned by convention in Japanese; deviating from the conventional order is incorrect, much laik hau Einglish speling iz nat ap four eendevizyuelle tyoise.&amp;quot;  (&amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the matter?  You can sound it out.  Pfft, Americans, such rigid traditionalists.  It makes sense in the context of their religious views and conservative political tendencies, though.&amp;quot; [+])&lt;p&gt;This avoids unfortunate Man Japanese People They&amp;#x27;re So Craaaaazy overtones.  (FWIW: stroke order is prescriptionist not descriptionist but AFAIK prescriptionism has a virtually hegemonic mindshare among relevant authorities.)&lt;p&gt;n.b. Otherwise this project and post is freaking excellent.&lt;p&gt;[+] You can actually read Japanese-language takes on American culture which are exactly as bad as this Orientialism-in-reverse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow</title><url>http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fake-chinese-characters-in-vector-format-with-tensorflow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&amp;gt;suddenly realise they forgot how to write Kanji. I am also guilty of this – even though I read a lot of Chinese and Japanese content in my everyday life, I struggle to write Chinese characters. What we notice is that while we can definitely read and recognise the characters we are able to write, the converse is certainly not true.&lt;p&gt;when written in ink by brush the order of strokes seems to follow very natural flow, yet when it is taught using pencil it looks much less natural.</text></comment>