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AI ART PROMPT ENGINEERING TOOLS
I’ve been enjoying working with text-to-image AI tools like Dall-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion recently, and one thing that really helped me generate more interesting images were tools that help you come up with prompts. Lexica Lexica is a stable diffusion search engine, so you can search for things, and then look at the related…
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THE DOOR-TO-DOOR SALES GAME: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SOLAR SALES REP IN FLORIDA
Many years ago I used to work as a door-to-door salesman, selling event tickets and experiences to companies. I wasn’t particularly successful at it, but it was a good challenge, and an experience I cherish even know, because it taught me a lot. The Tampa Bay Times recently published an interesting article about door-to-door salesmanship…
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That physics paper with “Never Going To Give You Up…”
This is one of the reasons why I love the internet: This is a pic of a physics paper a student handed in. This happened in 2014, but thanks to the internet, we still get to enjoy it today.
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Peppertype.ai review for AI-assisted long-form content writing (November 2022)
I’ve been trying out various AI-writing tools. I’m generally not a fan of AI-generated content, because quite frankly: the last thing we need is machines that churn out more content. So while I don’t like AI-generated content, I think AI-assisted content can be a great thing if used mindfully. Artificial Intelligence has been making major…
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Stable Diffusion 2.0 released
Stable Diffusion 2.0 has just been released, and it again shows how fast this technology is evolving and improving, especially when it’s open-sourced. You can read the complete announcement here, but here’s the tldr: Want to play around with Stable Diffusion 2.0? It’ll be available in a couple of days on https://platform.stability.ai/ and DreamStudio
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What are transformer models in AI?
Transformers are machine learning models that the Google Brain team introduced in 2017 in an article titled Attention Is All You Need, and that paved the way for many of the amazing advances we’re seeing in AI today. Google itself is using transformers to improve their search results, and OpenAI uses transformers to create the…
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The most randomly ecclectic blog ever?
This blog is going to be about all kinds of things, and there’s going to be very little rhyme or reason to it. I’ll write about whatever comes to mind here, without much planning or afterthought, and in this way, I’m writing it mainly for an audience of one: myself. It’s a kind of public…
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