What happens when really old advice meets really new technology? A recurrent neural network (like the open-source char-rnn framework [https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn] used here) can teach itself to imitate recipes [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140508739392/the-neural-network-has-weird-ideas-about-what] , paint colors [http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network] , band names