Hex Words
When I start a new research project, I usually hardcode a random seed. This enables repeatable experiments. In order to demonstrate that I didn’t somehow “hack” this part of the project, choosing a seed that gives abnormally good results, I normally pick a word and spell it out in hexadecimal, thus:
import torch
torch.manual_seed(0xC0FFEE)
For my own future reference, and to help anyone else who might want to use this system, I got a list of nouns from here and grepped for words that could be spelled using only the letters A through F, plus O, for which you can use 0, and S, for which you can use 5. Post cleanup, and removing everything even slightly unprofessional (“abscess” is a fine word but probably not something you want in a header), I came up with the list below.
0xABBE55
0xACCE55
0xA55E55
0xBA0BAB
0xCAB005E
0xCA5ABA
0xCA5CADE
0xC0FFEE
0xDECADE
0xD00DAD
0xFACADE
0x5ACCADE
0x5EABA55
0x5EABED
0x5EAF00D
0x5EEDCA5E
0x50FABED
(A casaba is apparently a type of melon. A saccade is a rapid eye movement.)