“How We Built the Waifu Vending Machine”, 2019-07-23 (; similar):
[Design company Sizigi Studios discusses their creation of Waifu Labs, a deep learning GAN website for interactive generation of anime faces, and their experience running a prototype of it at the Anime Expo (AX) 2019 anime convention in Los Angeles, where it was a popular exhibit. Laptops were setup attached to printers in an enclosed booth, making a ‘vending machine’.
Challenges included: no electricity outlets and no WiFi. Multiple laptops were cycled through as batteries wore out, while a gaming PC ran the neural network GANs locally rather than in a cloud VM. The failed WiFi was bypassed by using a smartphone as a local router.
Further bugs were discovered in the code while many users waited in a long line. but were fixed in time, and the waifu vending machine was a success.]