I seriously wanna know. Did ya’ll do something interesting? Did something happen? Anything else you wanna share?
I tried my first Stable Diffusion AI embeddings training. It made impressive Picasso’s. I was not training for Picasso.
You did what? That first sentence is entirely meaningless to me. Mind explaining some more?
Stable Diffusion is a popular offline, open source text to image AI model. You type text, it makes images. It is like ChatGPT but for images, where ChatGPT is text to text chat.
Basically it is a similar type of neural network model that takes an image with mathematically random static and processes it in a series of steps that slowly create an image based on the text prompt.
If you follow so far, Stable Diffusion is trained on billions of images that all have descriptive captions. This means you can only generate images using text that was in the captions of the original model data set. If, let’s say, you want to generate images of yourself in places around the world, it is very unlikely that you are already defined in the model unless you are a public figure or celebrity. However, it is possible to add yourself into the AI without retraining the entire neural network. If you had to retrain everything, it would basically require you to own or rent some serious data center level hardware that runs around a half million dollars. It is possible to kinda patch on a layer onto the neural network of the model so that it knows what you look like and associates it with text.
If you get the settings wrong for one of these patched training layers, you can get all kinds of crazy errors, like turning people into abstract art. This was the result of my first test. Maybe I’ll do better today. I found some faster training tools to try. The first attempt took 4 hours.
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Had an early start to my day to meal prep before me and the family head to the beach today. I was up a couple of hours before everyone so I had time to get some Starfield in while things were in the slow cooker.
My family likes to get all out long weekend activities out on the first couple days so our last day is just a lazy day to reset ourselves.
It has been a good day so far. After wasting away the last few days I finally went out to take a shower, walk the two kilometres into town for groceries, took a swim and did some cleaning.
Today’s interesting event: watching the supply ship being towed out of the harbour, with a delivery van and a small car sitting on top of the containers.
Good to hear you’re taking care of yourself. You’re important enough for that. Also, anything that involves large machines and such is interesting as fuck.
It’s my youngest first birthday today, I have 2 older ones, it’s 6pm and I’m fucking exhausted
Send help
Oof, good luck mate. Bet you’ll still enjoy the hell out of it, even if it’s exhausting
Pretty decent. Made a loaf of bread, cleaned, chilled with my kids, visited another family.
All I did so far was go grocery shopping. I feel like I’ve wasted the day off.
I made bombs for survival mode in my fighting game to make it more difficult. But, at the same time since I’ve been working on it for so long now I have a headache and my eyes are tired…
Went to a plant nursery and refreshed one of my 2 large planters with new vines, flowers and plants. 👨🏽🌾
Attending PAX with my family. My kids have managed to have fun and not get too punchy despite having been walking around the convention floor for six hours.
And we’ve found three games we’re insta-buying so far!
