Imagine if you trained it solely on route names thought up by John Redhead!
"Chocolatrance Problem (aka The Boom Sag Poodle Boys A Pill-Bob) " is a great route name
> "Chocolatrance Problem (aka The Boom Sag Poodle Boys A Pill-Bob) " is a great route name
Not as good as 'Route 1'
Fun but's got a long way to go to catch up with evocative meaningful things like
A Dream of White Horses
Cemetery Gates
Gaia
Right Unconquerable
> Imagine if you trained it solely on route names thought up by John Redhead!
There is a second theory that states that this has already happened.
If you fed it a UK guidebook it would start to look like those
True. My initial reaction was probably rubbish.
I'd love to see what would happen if UK names were fed in. Maybe UKC could arrange this? Get all the trad routes from the database and snip off the sub-VS stuff (to get rid of the bulk of the Route 1s, A Buttresses etc). Likewise with UK sport routes over 7a.
The article that's linked to has a couple of good ones but most of them are quite Americany.
Fire On The Lookout and Velvet Quarter are both great.
I lost it at this one: Choset Hungocatter’s Loo Up the Poodles
I lost it a 'Mumbles and conception'
We've suggested that. I wonder if our names are any less vulgar! They used 10,000 names and we have 432,000.
> Fun but's got a long way to go to catch up with evocative meaningful things like
> A Dream of White Horses
> Cemetery Gates
> Gaia
> Right Unconquerable
How many of those names are evocative and meaningful because of the climbs they represent as opposed to the names themselves?
Mehmet
> Not as good as 'Route 1'
"Route 2" has more character, and "Route1.5" is a result of people straying off the other two.
Then there's "Original Route", "Ordinary Route" and "Direct Route" all of which can inspire the climber to venture onto the unknown.
I thought Johnny Dawes always had good, imaginative names for routes:
Sad amongst friends
Lllanberries
Silk
They're quite playful and poetic. I always wanted to do a Dawes route but never got good enough.
I agree, which is why I decided my initial reaction was wrong
> Imagine if you trained it solely on route names thought up by John Redhead!
Or the old Creag Dhubh and Dunkeld guidebook.
"Slapshot Lizards" is *fantastic*.
Please, someone, climb something hard and name it that.
Also, if taken as Scots, "We Ken of the Air" is nicely evocative and enigmatic.
> I lost it a 'Mumbles and conception'
Are we sure that isn't a Redhead route already?
Janelle has replied and is keen to process the UKC names. Watch this space!
Also, I think guitar pedal names would be another good set to look at.
Thanks I think it will be interesting! Some of them will probaly sound quite plausible. It would be interesting to do it with cave names as well, suprisingly there isn't a good list of caves in te UK as many caves are lumped together into a singly-names sytem, a bit like saying Stanage rather than listing the routes there, but these were the best I could find.
http://cavemaps.org/cavesnc1.htm
> Also, I think guitar pedal names would be another good set to look at.
I know someone who did a dissertation on boat names.
> We've suggested that. I wonder if our names are any less vulgar! They used 10,000 names and we have 432,000.
I could do this. Just waiting for a rainy day, somewhat unusually.
The craft beer list on the same website is also worth a look: http://aiweirdness.com/post/163753995072/craft-beer-names-invented-by-neura...
Is it just me or did it do way better on the stouts than the other two?
I particularly liked: Morning Dave - Vanilla Coffee Stout
> I thought Johnny Dawes always had good, imaginative names for routes:
The End Of The Affair is one of my favourites.
James McHaffie isn't impressed. His names are very topical and witty, so a network would have a tough time matching up to those.
https://twitter.com/McHaffieJames/status/1009353432128475136
> I thought Johnny Dawes always had good, imaginative names for routes:
Braille Trail is a brilliant name too
I've sent them the data from UKC split into country and discipline. Should be interesting to see the changes in the results.
What a load of rubbish. This thing is pretty much coming up with random words joined together. Words that aren't even words..."Wark Fly Dorf". This is irrelevant to climbers in every possible way, although it might be of interest to someone who is involved in neural networks.
Climbers are no more or less "crazy" than any other group of people.
Come on, how can you not like "Raging Action" and "Ego's Boys"?
Better names than I could come up with, but then my imagination is poor.
Better names than I could come up with, but then my imagination is poor.
Really? I have larger supply of potential route names than I'm ever going to be able to use but obviously it helps if there's a theme to the buttress, or something memorable happens during the ascent. Song lyrics, book titles, puns, quotations... I don't need a random word generator.
I was only thinking this morning that 'A Chorus of Supposes' would be a good name for the right route.
Yes perhaps something would come to mind if I'd actually put up a new route!
I'd have to resist the temptation to use one of these...would be a shame if there wasn't a "reason" for the route name (whatever that reason). That's part of the joy of them!
Edit: I'm afraid you've lost me with "A Chorus of Supposes". Perhaps part of the problem is I'm culturally ignorant
I'm sure someone will spot the reference and, if not, Google will find it!
The thing I like best about UK route names is the punning that goes on. Do other languages have this? I don't think I've noticed anything in the handful of foreign guides I've seen.
Néanderdalle (6b) where dalle = slab
Loads in French. They're particularly fond of word play.
The best route name, surely, is "Dick Van Dyke goes ballistic"?
Haven't we already got a route name generator by the name of Garry? And they even make sense!
I know a few people who live in Splot(t)
https://goo.gl/maps/tjFaoHU46Vx
Not far from Boulders
The next lot to feed it would be Strava segment names - if that doesn't make it sting itself to death I don't know what will.