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NYT Crossword Puzzle 12-5-21 Come Again? Complete (contains spoilers)

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I pulled out 20A With 116-Down, artificial intelligence system that mimics the human brain: NEURAL NET because If you are unfamiliar with Janelle Shane‘s AI Weirdness blog, you are missing out.

She trains her neural net on data and then lets it go. She then changes some parameters and sees what it kicks out. She posts some amazing content like AI-Generated Food Trucks, which includes:

Pasta by the 5th Tree

How Porsche’s waswolf dog shifted to earth. A literal bed of pasta (turned inside out) is served at this pizza truck booth.

They You

Turbo treat and funnel cake awaited anyone accepting the sign. A collection of assorted cardboard tiles.

Bubble Doodle Babies

For the whole family, have your meal of bubble-dumplings in Cinnamon’s Tower.

Dumplings Rope

Anyone who has ever broken the chain should clear their room. Buy enough spare chains so that you need the bag of unbroken chains at least 45 times again.

AI Weirdness AI-Generated Food Trucks

Come Again? is the name of this puzzle.

24A … FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR …: NEVERENDINGSTORY.
32A … GRIZZLY GRIZZLY GRIZZLY …: BEARSREPEATING.
45A … PROPOSAL PROPOSAL PROPOSAL …: PERPETUALMOTION.
72A … COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL …: ADINIFINITUM. For sure my favorite of all the theme clues.
97A … AMBITION AMBITION AMBITION …: RECURRINGDREAMS.
106A … STAIRS STAIRS STAIRS …: NONSTOPFLIGHTS.
115A … CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION …: CONTINUITYOFCARE.

Annoyed note: Two days in a row KATANA is an answer.

Finished this one in 38:19.

NYT Crossword Puzzle 11-25-21 Complete (contains spoilers) #nytxw

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This puzzle has a lot of oddly specifically relevant clues. I’ll expand upon that later.

I pulled out 1A Builder of a papery nest: WASP because wasps were building a nest under the eave of a neighboring building. I didn’t care much for that, but I wasn’t about to go knocking on doors like covid isn’t a thing. So I looked at Google maps and found a photo with the banner outside that advertised open units. I called the number only to find that the building had been sold and was no longer under the management whose number appeared on that banner. I set it aside for a few days to regroup and to be successful in other areas(?), and when I returned to the wasps issue, I did a Google search for newer listings in that building. I got through to the right people! I said either take away the wasps or charge them rent, but status quo is unacceptable. The nest stayed up for months, but activity stopped within a couple days of the call.

There’s a theme, but it’s difficult to write it out on the wp app.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Finished this one in 14:04.