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midjourney v4 is so beautiful...
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Valentine's day
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"War" knolling
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knolling with midjourney is pretty fun; gives a quick snapshot of a place
here is SF, NY Paris and Tokyo knolling
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Tutorial: Knolling on Midjourney
This is a rabbit hole, you can knoll anything on Midjourney, so please respond to this thread with your best creations.
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this is niche but I wrote up a quick post on why the best PM Leads are all INTP
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wow. if you haven't seen the MusicLM examples from Google Research you should check them out...
scroll down the page to see the (painting description -> audio) examples... the matisse and klimt ones are amazing
google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm
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This podcast was so inspiring - Salopek is walking the earth (a 15 year project)! Fascinating to hear details of his walk and observations…
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New episode! Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic fellow @PaulSalopek joined @tylercowen to discuss why women make for better walking partners, the key to crossing deserts, the most difficult terrain to traverse, and more: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/paul-
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’s Emergent Ventures fellowships is a version of this approach, placing a large # of bets on "new ideas and projects that are too difficult, too hard to measure, too unusual, too foreign, too small"... more efforts should look like this
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I wrote this post greatly inspired by "Why greatness cannot be planned" :)
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"I have seen the greatest minds of my generation driven mad by endless planning sessions"...
I wrote up a post on how to move beyond "objectives" and be a treasure hunter
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👋🏼 i'm back on twitter. i missed the community here :)
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a good reminder of the perils of absolute monarchies tbh
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This week wrote some reflections on software: “Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous [AI-kind] is! O brave new world, that has such [machines] in ‘t!”
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"formalese" will be one of GPT's first casualties - "wow, that email is so formal that GPT could have written it"
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We’ll come full hilarious circle when people use LLMs both to 1) expand a simple message like “execute faster” into email and 2) summarize an email back into the original simple message. It’s like compression/decompression into formalese twitter.com/levie/status/1…
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using chatgpt as a language tutor
("Explain _foreign language text_ to me")
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the gpt3.5->MJ4 flow is amazing... here is the result from riffing on chicken masks
(so good I had to confirm chicken masks weren't actually a thing)
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"write the transcript from an interview panel on the future of AI with pmarca, Sam Altman, Donald Duck and Barack Obama from Davos. the first question was whether AI would replace panels and conferences in the future"
🤯 (quack quack quack!)
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one of the more interesting things about the response to ChatGPT is that much of this existed in prior GPT-3 only the UX wasn't as conducive to exploration...
similar to Midjourney, interesting that UX modifications lead to different "relationships" with the underlying AI
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Highly recommend this podcast episode - 10/10
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Here's my conversation with Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy), a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator, and former director of AI at Tesla. This chat was super fun, technical, and inspiring. youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9
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just me training the AI...
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anytime I write online now, I give a little prayer to the large language model that will feed my thoughts to future generations
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I knew NEPA was a mess but reading in plain language the detailed bureaucratic burdens it imposes is bananas…
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If you've ever wondered how NEPA works, this is your lucky day.
A new long post from yours truly explaining why NEPA is the way it is and how we got here.
thecgo.org/benchmark/much
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the personalities, the egos, the narrative arc, the 80s and 90s flashbacks... what a fantastic story
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MJ's drive and focus just blows my mind - I've never seen someone want to win anything that bad in my entire life...
"They say there's no I in 'team", but there's an 'I' in "win""
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late to this, but "The Last Dance" is such a fantastic series... totally blown away
also, I didn't have "become Phil Jackson stan" on my 2022 bingo card but here we are...
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“In a jiffy”!!
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using GPT3 for yelp reviews is a game changer…
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This week I wrote some thoughts on 's "The Secret of our Success" including reflecting on its implications...
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This week's newsletter is on how I taught my 5 year old to lucid dream (so fun!) ->
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I wonder what FB's metaverse plans would look like if they'd bought Minecraft in 2014 instead of MSFT... deal would have gone through back then and they'd have a "working metaverse" with 100M MAU...
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me w/ young kids speaking to someone w/o:
them: "when do you have time for yourself?"
me: "oh, nowadays I..."
<kids start yelling... 3 mins later>
me: "so, going back to your question, I..."
<kids start fighting... 5 mins later>
me: "ok, so the thing about having kids is..."
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