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by gdubs 4y ago
People in my circles reflexively hate anything if it comes from Musk, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that this ... actually sounds like an appealing offer. Throw in better video compression for us artists and might actually buy it. Fac
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Feels like there's a difference between artists as drops in a vast ocean of training data, vs explicitly creating a model on one person's work. And I think the conversation would benefit from not conflating the two. I'm sort
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by gdubs 4y ago
Lots of great stories in the comments here, but I figured I'd drop a little reference to my time in the saddle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Burner Hard to overstate how large the F-14 loomed in the consc
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by gdubs 4y ago
Those orange and white steam pipes are something I've wondered about since I was a kid. I NEVER realized what a fascinating system they were hinting at.
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by gdubs 4y ago
Looking to the political documents for clues is a fascinating and insightful method — one they say they based on the Challenger Spacecraft disaster investigation. If accurately interpreted, they're like echos and impressions of what ha
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by gdubs 4y ago
One obvious thing I'd be curious about is why those people are heavy users in the first place. E.g., if people with certain conditions are already using more cannabis than the rest of the population to deal with pain management, etc, t
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by gdubs 4y ago
I've worked with some designers who were coming right up on what's typically 'retirement age', who were basically still individual contributors, but just at a very high level. They bring an incredible wealth of experienc
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A Beginner's Guide to the CLIP Model(kdnuggets.com)
4 points by gdubs 4y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 4y ago
Credit to @Stammy on Twitter who shared this over there. Thought everyone here would find this pretty cool. I'm a sucker for this era of advertising. This is a particularly beautiful spread, and super cool to see a snapshot of that mom
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Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for Mac(aresluna.org)
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by gdubs 4y ago
It's relevant to all of us because it's yet another data point regarding how we live on this planet and what it's doing to ecosystems.
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by gdubs 4y ago
I recall my parents being very proud of securing a 7% rate in the 90s when they bought our first home. That said, it was a very very inexpensive house compared to today's prices.
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by gdubs 4y ago
Has anyone tried running this with an AMD card on Mac? At first glance it's able to run on Metal (given the M1 compatibility)...
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by gdubs 4y ago
Wild to me that they are getting bought for $20B yet didn't think they could make it through this macroeconomic environment. Or maybe just too hard to turn down that amount? Figma is one of the most vibrant platforms I've seen in
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by gdubs 4y ago
Feels like the iPhone could use a micro SD card at this point. If I'm gonna use a phone as a cinema camera, shooting 4k and 48 MP stills I don't want to be clogging up my bandwidth uploading a ton of footage to iCloud when I'
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by gdubs 4y ago
Ha! Oh dear. Here's the SFW link to what I was referencing: https://twitter.com/matthen2/status/1566424523125276672?s=20... (And thanks :)
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by gdubs 4y ago
I have a degree in Studio Arts in addition to being a software developer (and recently I've started making a lot of creative work with AI). Back when I was in school, there was already plenty of debate about 'what is "Art&quo
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by gdubs 4y ago
I haven't seen it mentioned in the conversation so here it goes: you really want to survive a disaster? Focus on building a strong community . This individualist approach to survivalism seems to be based on a complete fear of others,
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by gdubs 4y ago
I've been playing around w/ StableDiffusion animation using the "deforum" notebook. It's taken a bit to really understand how to get results I like with it, but I'm super happy with how this one came out: http
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by gdubs 4y ago
Yea fair point! It sounds like you're actually describing an artist using the tool to accelerate their own work, which is a cool use case. But even if something IS completely derivative, some would say it's fair game. I'm not
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by gdubs 4y ago
I asked OpenAI to write it as an "explain like I'm five": [edit: which according to a comment below is a mix of copy paste and a 180 degree misreading, lol. I'd be curious if the synopsis would be better had I pasted his
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by gdubs 4y ago
With StableDiffusion in particular, their business model (so far) is charging for an easy to use front-end. At the same time they've (essentially) given away the model for free for people to develop on. To me, personally, this seems li
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by gdubs 4y ago
Fascinating — but I'd be curious how much of the production was funded with those licensing fees. Maybe they're not legally obligated to keep it public — but ethically?
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by gdubs 4y ago
If one pours gasoline all over the floor, yes, a match needs to be lit. But the gasoline all over the floor raises the risk of a disaster.
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by gdubs 4y ago
You might be disappointed to find out the aesthetic tastes of _most people_ :)
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by gdubs 4y ago
There are things like the Webb telescope, which happen because of all of advanced civilization across the globe collaborating. We need that, and it's an inspiring and beautiful thing to see that collaboration come together and advance
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by gdubs 4y ago
You might like “The Dawn of The New Everything” by Jaron Lanier.
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by gdubs 4y ago
My wife and I bought a farm in the Pacific Northwest where we’ve placed over 12 acres of prairie and oak woodland into conservation with the help of the local Natural Resource Conservation Service. We’re in the process of applying for organ
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by gdubs 4y ago
When we bought our farm it had been conventionally farmed for decades. Not even by the biggest tractors in the world. But the compaction is real, and the hard pan that develops over time is as well. Tiling and aeration release a lot of carb
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by gdubs 4y ago
Amazingly no mention of Andy Warhol, who made a factory to produce art, via silkscreens and assistants. Sometimes he added embellishments of paint on top, other times the work completely called into question the value of authenticity in an

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