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animate frames between two images

from thread on Mr Beast

Simpler image variation than stability-ai one, from another random deep learning company.

A quick look at their website and making a text-to-pokemon model looked interesting.

who is paying for all these gpus

3d model generation (or animation of, at least) from single reference image and a pose

Less interested in the mouse input that useful vim tips in HN

everyone loses 10 years to something, somewhere along the line

That’s a fallacy. You didn’t so much “lose” 10 years, it just took 10 years to come to an understanding about a meaningful part of your life. And maybe you really needed all that time to arrive there.

Whatever your goal is, try to stop having 0% days.
You don’t need to have 100% days, Just avoid having 0% days.

the downsides of places optimising for tourism and photography, rather than for being lived in. The problem of everyone wanting a particular special experience.

By the late Saul Kripke.

On mining and building

Still don’t love the obsession with “tearing down the economic system that rejects it”. Funny that something talking about maintenance doesn’t think that existing systems could be improved…

forgot how good discogs was

the supertonic. Second note in the scale that sounds mostly ok with lot of chords in that scale.

Don’t stop at the first sentence like I did on first open.
Unless you want the opposite takeaway

Abstract:

Instrumental variable (IV) analysis assumes the instrument only affects the dependent variable via its relationship with the independent variable. Other possible causal routes from the IV to the dependent
variable are exclusion-restriction violations and invalidate the instrument. Weather has been widely used as an instrumental variable in social science to predict many different variables. The use of weather to instrument different independent variables represents strong prima facie evidence of exclusion violations for all studies using weather IVs. A review of 288 studies reveals 192 variables previously linked to weather: all representing potential exclusion violations. Using sensitivity analysis, I show that the magnitude of many of these violations is sufficient to overturn numerous existing IV results. I conclude with practical steps to systematically review existing literature to identify possible exclusion violations when using IV designs.

questions:

• what is an instrumental variable?
• what are exclusion results?
• is 192 variables in 192 studies, or are some shared
• what else is included in weather?
• what is sensitivity analysis?
• what are IV results

Very easy to follow setup guide for Stable Diffusion, and for running python apps on windows.

Installed windows terminal, setup anaconda prompt to auto init directory. Just some good stupid little tips like that

.1% improvement per day is apparently 43% per year

I enjoyed this opening for some reason

Although best known for his monumental trilogy The Civil War: A Narrative (1958, 1963, 1974), Shelby Foote’s preferred genre is the novel. Much as his hero, friend, and fellow Mississippian William Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha, Foote imagined Jordan County.

adult-like children and childish adults

things to make you feel better about your own codebase

Coming back as someone different after a traumatic brain injury, and overcoming symptoms.

On the wonderful thing that is the www, and his introduction to it (I didn’t notice who the author was until the end!).
I sometimes forget how shielded I am for the ad-covered dumpster fire that is many pages; either from blocking them or not visiting them. Enjoyed the upsides he mentioned: easy to contact the author of something, cross-referencing without stacks of books, and the ability to pulish things yourself.

Try to verify things you read (lies are rampant online, fact-checking is easier than ever!), write and contribute things, stay out the political trench fights.

Changing norms of intimacy and love over time, and the modern shift to people who are in love want to have sex.

Archived version

“the latter is a stylistic variation of the former”

Excellent review and discussion of Couples Therapy.

One rare instance where it’s better to knock it down and rebuild than try to repair/remodel.

The dataset used to build krea.ai.
Also discussion of Lexica.
Finding and learning prompts continues to be a whole thing.

So many smallish bits it seems hard to make a dent in this. Also troublesome is the difficuly of measuring.

Still curious of how to estimate or measure the impact of things like switching to EVs - what is increase on existing residential power use, determining emissions from that. There are other benefits of it, like improving neighbourhood air quality, but there isn’t a zero-cost switch. Land use for different energy types is another one.
Also interested in some macro estimates of energy requirements per day (i.e. 9MJ of food, production and travel costs of that alone).

Excellent Ezra episode with Jesse Jenkins touched on a lot of the questions I had about this.

Great point that inputs and prompts are actually more like search queries, and great explainer of mapping tagged images to dimensions.

Is searching a boundless space creativity? If all images are represented as numbers, and you are basically picking a number, are you creating or finding? Common twitter sentiment I have seen recently is that it isn’t creative work, that feeding/refining prompts is really just more like search. Or that it’s like gambling.

Where and with whom you have sex a bigger determinate on income than education or career.

Key things are it being repairable, with materials that can be sourced locally, and techniques that can be taught/learned.

avoid reading the short little articles and threads on improving things. Instead, do the thing.

Good thread, too.

don’t need to hyper optimize every moment all of the time

Studies all seem pretty loose. Lot of self-reported, correlational studies with the unsurprising result that people with happier dogs punish them less.
A UK study that used dog trainers and didn’t self-report, but they didn’t measure baseline recall!