Shownotes

In this episode of Pain Points and Pull Requests, Fatimah and Carla give an intro to Long Short-Term Memory models and some of their useful applications. In addition to breaking down some concepts, they give an overview of a fun project they completed, generating valentines day messages using PyTorch and LSTMs.

 

Timestamps

2:14 An intro to LSTMs

10:20 Applications of LSTMs

12:10 Generating Valentines Day messages using PyTorch and LSTMs

 

Extra Resources

Why use LSTMs?

https://www.carlaleal.net/post/a-blog

Understanding LSTM networks

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/

Text Generation Tutorial with PyTorch

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/07/pytorch-lstm-text-generation-tutorial.html

Valentines Day Message Generator

https://github.com/CarlaLeal/valentines-message-generator