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SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community (theatlantic.com)
2 points by kposehn on March 6, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> The neural network knows the stitch names, but it doesn’t understand what the stitches do. It doesn’t know that a k2tog is knitting two stitches together (a decrease) and a yo is a yarn-over (a lacy increase), so it doesn’t know to keep the stitch counts consistent, or to deliberately change them to make a particular shape.”

This seems like the sort of detail that could be learned with sufficient data. 500 patterns doesn't seem like it would be enough. I'm a bit surprised that it managed to learn to number the rows consistently.




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