Cody, I really have no idea. The site that I signed up for is called Deep Dream Generator <https://deepdreamgenerator.com>, and it supposedly exists to give users hands on experience with image generation with neural nets. It is setup like the typical social media site, allowing users to make their `dreams` public and for others to `like` the `dreams`. Experimenting with different images and styles is starting to give me some heuristics to work from and some ideas for how features are extracted.
My current working theory is something of a metaphor. I imagine that when a `style` image is uploaded the neural net is like a teenager in a punk band. It has maybe three favorite bands, but one that really really is the best. The teenagers memorize and test themselves on all the idiosyncrasies of this favorite band, deconstructing the lyrics and the moves on stage. Then when teenager and band of friends go to cover a song by anyone else, this song is effectively reconstituted from all of this training on the bands favorite band. Meanwhile, what is actually happening? Well, you know, weights on edges in a database are increasing when nodes `fire` together, and weaken when Hebbian accuracy is not achieved. Jon
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