michaelbrave

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by michaelbrave 1y ago
in a lot of ways that is understandable when so much of the news is bad news, if all the highlights of the day point toward the world going to hell even reading a normal newsfeed can feel like doomscrolling.
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by michaelbrave 1y ago
Yesterday I started working through How to design programs, and set up a chat with Gemini 2.5 asking it to be my tutor as I go through it and to help answer my questions if I don't understand a part of the book. It has been knowledgeab
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by michaelbrave 1y ago
I imagine it would be easy for them to do similar to the TV guides of yesteryear(the company that owned it used it primarily for self promotion with just enough competitor promotion to fly under the radar and still seem useful), where it gi
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I choose to put the emphasis on 'is'
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I primarily use excalidraw via a plugin for obsidian, I wonder what amount of effort it would take to get it running on that.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
that becomes more difficult though since older games are in essence collectors items and would be stolen or not returned. It's like if most of the books in the library were out of print books that were highly collectable, a recipe for
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
the AI image generation and 3D printing community had a similar kind of feel from 2021-2023, both are slowing down now though and becoming more mainstream everyday and needing less tinkering everyday. Which is great but disapointing at the
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I personally don't much care for the format, if I save an image and it ends up WebP then I have to convert it before I can edit or use it in any meaningful way since it's not supported in anything other than web browsers. It'
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I have a pet theory that burnout and depression are mostly the same thing, just triggered by different things.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
as a reaction to the current court being stacked, not as an overall it should be done kind of thing.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
it doesn't seem downloadable to run locally, a shame.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I usually imagine extradition being used for people who are dangerous, for someone who at worse encouraged a lot of copyright violations by making software feels like an abuse of power to me.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
You know what else might be cool is a "see related" feature, whenever a paper references another, create a link between them and create an almost recomendation engine based on that. Ideally, you could then look at a kind of discov
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
that's a chicken and egg problem. People change jobs frequently mostly due to two reasons: 1. higher pay 2. to get away from bad management or a bad work environment (same thing really) If it's the kind of place that doesn't
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
it was a bubble, bubbles pop eventually
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
the tech is technically there using 2-5 different AI solutions, it mostly lacks an interface that automatically takes one step to the next
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I've heard rumors of people that don't know how to code using LLMs to make blender addons in python, so this has already started I think.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
I'm still sad about 42 in Fremont closing, but if you live near one, it was quite worthwhile.
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by michaelbrave 2y ago
When I was a kid I had a classic playstation (PS1) it had multiple kinds of video outputs, one of which was S-video, which was a lot sharper than composite, problem was sharper wasn't better, it made pixel games have sharp edged pixels
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
Right now I have a 3090TI so it's not worth it for me to upgrade to a 4090, but I do run into Vram constraints a lot, especially with merging stable diffusion models, especially as the models get larger (XL-Cascade-etc). As I move towa
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
the more interesting use cases I've seen have been real time video filters and uses with music based generation for live performances, which is why the speed matters more than the accuracy. For example it could take an old video game s
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
if you have long term fans that really love what you make I think making most of your money with merch is an area worth exploring. Most bands make their money that way, it's what made Star Wars rich, it's where most of the pokemon
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
Millennials are 30's-40's now, they got skipped too.
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
Brand erosion takes time, so "force awakens" was seen by nearly every star wars fan, giving it a try. But if they were disappointed they were less likely to see it's sequel "the last jedi" which numbers show that I
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
the lego one was well received I think.
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
I would guess likely, it just remind me of microsofts chatbot on twitter that would learn from interactions so some 4chan people decided to turn racist, and they did like within a day or so.
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
honestly we are basically there already. I could take anyone's face and use stable diffusion (maybe combined with roop) to generate a naked body in about a min. Most of those steps could be simplified with a task specific UI where you
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
not all are auto labelled, some are hand labelled, some are initially labelled with something like clip/blip/booru and then corrected a bit by hand. The newest thing though is using llm's with image support like GPT4 to label
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
Brand names carry weight for several years before the damage becomes apparent. Often their cost cutting measures seem positive at first as it creates a profit uptick, but it's usually at the cost of the brand, so 3-5 years later things
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by michaelbrave 3y ago
Maybe something of a compromise then, first time making it creates a 20 year copyright, any additional years have to be applied for with a fee that increases the more years it's kept.

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