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by woolion 4y ago
It's astonishing how recently I saw a thread on Mastodon prompting artists to draw a bicycle and it was not much better than that. What about building a visual library? Now there's a lot of AI results coming up and it's not p
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by woolion 4y ago
Well, sometimes you interact with computer systems and you know how to make something work, but you have no idea why and how that works; meaning your ability to extrapolate from known cases would be limited compared to a true understanding
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The style is never entirely separate. Putting a class "side-image", "inline-image" or "centered-image" is a styling choice. Sure you put a lot of the detailing stuff in the css, but you can as well trivially de
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Org-roam-UI: a graphical front end for your org-roam Zettelkasten(github.com)
2 points by woolion 4y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 4y ago
Very good summary of the situation, I hope something good will come out of it. I've used pipenv, pyenv, poetry and settled for my own use-cases on just pip with virtualenvwrapper. So any program goes into its dedicated folder with requ
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by woolion 4y ago
Do you have references? I'd be interested to learn about the subject. Quick search gave me [0] for Egypt and [1] for China, and both answers seem to be "not really". [0] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions
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by woolion 4y ago
Just a few additional comments from our last exchange, based on https://project-mage.org/elevator . I prefer this elevator pitch because it gives some insight on how to proceed, beyond the stylistic choices. (If not a rant,
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by woolion 4y ago
It seems that virtual desktops have fallen out of fashion, but I still use them and found that they made tiling entirely unnecessary to me. Each program is on its own desktop (Firefox, thunderbird, ...) and the terminal is everywhere throug
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by woolion 4y ago
Well, I think they tend to focus on a particular language as a first step to reduce the scope. I had to refactor a python codebase, and the same function was used in context managers, decorators, and functions. Because of these disparate sy
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by woolion 4y ago
It would be interesting to have such a general project go somewhere. While in principle structural editing sounds like an incredible advance, there are 'good enough' advantages to plain-text tools that make it a much more practica
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by woolion 4y ago
Past a few years in the industry, you can have brilliant friends who are all in more or less okay jobs but are very risk-averse, either because of their situation or simply because of it's too much effort without a guarantee. There&#x2
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by woolion 4y ago
It's an interesting way to put it, and I certainly agree with your sentiment. The other aspect to the strong Reality Distortion Field is the unfair advantages founders might get through VC funding -- a huge amount of money is already a
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Hacker News Genius Catfishing(woolion.art)
53 points by woolion 4y ago|15 comments
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by woolion 4y ago
I think formats are better suited to express certain types of ideas than others ("the medium is the message"). Blogposts tend to be ideal to express fairly short, singular ideas. Books should develop an entire thought system and
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by woolion 4y ago
An alternative approach is to have good shortcuts, Spacemacs being my favourite take on it. The idea is to have shorcuts like `<SPACE> f e d`. The shortcuts tend to be logically organized in levels (f for files, e for editor, d for do
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by woolion 4y ago
Really impressed! I'll recommend it at once to my musician friends. Good idea to recommend PicoCAD at the same time, my first thought was, "he does it again!".
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by woolion 4y ago
PicoCAD is really great. Besides really boosting the lowpoly aethetics, it also managed to get me into Blender, which multiple day-long tutorials failed to do so. The limitations coupled with the approach are really a great learning help.
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by woolion 4y ago
If you're a beginner, I can definitely recommend Adventuron to get started very fast. It has a browser-based IDE and compiler, and gives you a simple portable html file for your game. Last IF jam we took part in, even veterans in Info
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by woolion 4y ago
He means alone for "code supervision". That means you communicate with clients and/or analysts for your specs, but don't get code review or anything else from a senior engineer. No advice on how to architect, when to ref
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by woolion 4y ago
Exactly this. There is no mystical hn user that has a PhD in every single discipline. I feel you first need to learn how to be competent, then you need to learn how to be incompetent. By that I mean recognize your areas of deficiency, know
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by woolion 4y ago
I made a similar post [0], hoping to 'replace myself', but being really underwhelmed with the results. And this is after a few full days of prompt hacking, Dreambooth training on different base models, etc. It's clearly not a
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150 Days of Wobblepaint(woolion.art)
1 points by woolion 4y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 4y ago
A "mediocre" thinker is able to conjure up "powerful truths" if he pretends they were said by somebody else. A "mediocre" artist is able to make "masterpieces" if he pretends they were done by somebod
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by woolion 4y ago
>You correctly classified 28 of 30 (93%) images! >You identified 16 of 17 (94%) AI-generated images. >You identified 12 of 13 (92%) human-made images. I'm pretty sure the errors are the only two times I hesitated a fraction be
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by woolion 4y ago
Interesting magic word. My prompts were often full of 'masterpiece' or 'octane render' (which improves 3D consistency). With regard to your main point, I generated more than a thousand images trough various models, and y
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by woolion 4y ago
Any model, prompts, etc you recommend? I even tried to use DreamBooth to train on my own inputs and the results are not really usable, and that was with SD1.4 and AnythingV3 as base models.
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by woolion 4y ago
>But as the cost of something falls, people consume more of it. That’s a law in economics. This is no different. I don't know such a law, but it's simply false. People have 2 finite budgets they can allocate to entertainment, t
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by woolion 4y ago
I tried Ghibli diffusion to get some decent cartoon styled results with SD, but it's really bad. Results were all hallucinations from the training data, no interesting new combinations, no novel prompts that would work. I stopped after
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by woolion 4y ago
It's a variant on the 'doubt paradox' (somebody telling you "you should not believe everything people tell you") itself a variant of the Epimenides paradox (simply known as the liar paradox): a bunch of people who h
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by woolion 4y ago
Good list of quotes! I would add one by Nietzsche: “Ultimately no one can hear in things―books included―more than he already knows.” Reading can help you formalize, or put established concepts upon what you have already understood, even if

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