“Ogbogu wasn’t familiar with Hollie Mengert’s work at all. He was helping
another Stable Diffusion user on Reddit who was struggling to fine-tune a model
on Hollie’s work and getting lackluster results. He refined the image training
set, got to work, and published the results the following day. He told me the
training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai,
and cost less than $2.”
posted 11/19/2022 8:00pm ∞
“This shift away needing to add ‘more emoji’ to creating more experiences that
leverage the existing set is an important evolution for the future of emoji
relevancy. Unicode can’t encode every concept in the world, every ingredient in
the planet, every muscle contortion of your face.”
Jennifer Daniel ,
Introducing: Emoji Kitchen
(July 18, 2022 ,
via Andy Baio )
posted 10/24/2022 8:00pm ∞
“I’ve never felt so conflicted using an emerging technology as DALL·E
2 , which feels like borderline magic in what it’s capable of
conjuring, but raises so many ethical questions, it’s hard to keep track of them
all.”
posted 10/11/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Veil’s website hadn’t been saved, and Pictures for Sad Children was hard to
track down in its entirety. The last, tangible vestige of the comic came from
those who had ordered a copy of the book. … They resolved to share the
collection, mailing copies to whoever hadn’t cracked its spine yet.”
posted 8/23/2022 8:00pm ∞
“For the next handful of years, his work was passed by millions of cars, with a
precious group of them aware of the quiet rebellion whizzing by above. For
some, it was a statement about doing it yourself; for others, a statement about
the nature of art in a highway-ruled metropolis.”
Nate Rogers ,
Sign From Above
(TheLAnd ,
August 5, 2021 )
posted 8/20/2022 8:00pm ∞