Samin100 | 2 months ago | on: Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers
This is awesome! Using a CLIP or Dino v2 model to produce image embeddings would probably improve the similarity search a lot - kind of similar to http://same.energy/ .
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Samin100 | 4 months ago | on: Meow.camera
Thank you for your efforts!
Samin100 | 7 months ago | on: Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once
This is very useful! I think the interfaces around models being used in an async manner will look very different than the synchronous chat UIs we are today. Claude Code is the first real “agent” that is providing true economic value, and there’s so much low hanging fruit in making the interfaces far better.
Samin100 | 10 months ago | on: Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
I have a few private “vibe check” questions and the 4 bit QAT 27B model got them all correctly. I’m kind of shocked at the information density locked in just 13 GB of weights. If anyone at Deepmind is reading this — Gemma 3 27B is the single most impressive open source model I have ever used. Well done!
Samin100 | 10 months ago | on: Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated
I agree, I instantly recognized signature ChatGPT-isms. Once I realized it wasn’t written by a person, I stopped reading.
Samin100 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
Wow! I'd love to read a more in-depth blog post describing how to create one of these myself, and maybe even contribute my own splats to a collaborative library for iconic landmarks. I could see interactive splats being added to Wikipedia for popular locations.
Samin100 | 1 year ago | on: Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer
This is great! I wonder how hard it would be to use a pen plotter instead of a thermal printer. You could even use a procedurally generated handwriting font and Claude to make it feel like a handwritten letter.
Samin100 | 2 years ago | on: Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro
Agreed. I keep my iPhone in my right pocket and my Ricoh GRIIIx in my left pocket whenever I go out. It’s such a fantastic camera given its size, especially with the APSC sensor in such a compact body.
I also have a Sony A7C but I haven’t used it since getting the Ricoh. Being pocketable is a massive factor in how much I use a camera.
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: Run CLIP on iPhone to search photos
This is awesome! Could you share more details on how you’re storing the image embeddings and performing the KNN search? Is there an on-device vector database for iOS?
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Open Prompts – dataset of 10M Stable Diffusion generations
Last month Lexica served a little over 1 billion images and the Cloudflare bill (I'm using R2 + workers) was a little over $5k. I've since gotten it down to a more reasonable amount after spending some time to re-encode the images to reduce our bandwidth usage significantly. If Lexica were running on AWS/S3 I imagine our first month's bill would be closer to $100k rather than $5k. This is only image serving, so not including costs to run the beefy CPU servers to run CLIP search, frontend, DB, backend, etc.
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Open Prompts – dataset of 10M Stable Diffusion generations
Great work! If anyone’s planning to use AI generated artwork in their projects, I’ve added an image search API to Lexica, similar to Unsplash. All the images are licensed CC0 and millions more are being added every few weeks.
Docs here: https://lexica.art/docs
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Generated Images?
They're scraped from the Stable Diffusion bot which generated them. People didn't post the images themselves, so they're not cherry picked.
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: Search over 5M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
Ah, that might be because of the backdrop-blur on the navigation bar. Weird that it’s causing graphical issues on your phone.
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: Search over 5M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
Could you take a screenshot or better yet — a screen recording? I’m not really sure what might be causing that.
Samin100 | 3 years ago | on: OpenArt: “Pinterest” for Dalle-2 images and prompts
I’ve used both DALL-E and stable diffusion extensively, and in my experience DALL-E is more forgiving while stable diffusion is more powerful — with a much higher skill ceiling for writing prompts.
Also, stable diffusion’s open source weights are great for self-hosting which can’t be done with DALL-E.
Samin100 | 4 years ago | on: I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
According to Kahneman, when a chess pro makes an “intuitive” and unexplainable move it’s just pattern recognition happening subconsciously.
If language models like GPT-3 are “just” pattern recognizers, wouldn’t that makes them capable of intuition?
Samin100 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep
Here's a similar demo I worked on that lets you generate a podcast from a text description: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1380145070624542722...
The GPT-3 generated conversations were coherent most of the time, and even interesting! However the generated speech via Google Cloud's API was monotonous and could do with a bit more intonation and excitement.
Samin100 | 4 years ago | on: Library Genesis Desktop app, now with IPFS support
I just don’t have a Windows PC to test on. There are also a few Mac-specific quirks like opening the epubs in Apple Books.
Samin100 | 4 years ago | on: Library Genesis Desktop app, now with IPFS support
Ah, I figured out what went wrong. Libgen has two different databases, a fiction and non-fiction one, and right now Alexandria only queries Libgen's non-fiction DB. I'll update it to search both databases later this week. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Samin100 | 4 years ago | on: Library Genesis Desktop app, now with IPFS support
Alexandria [1] is pretty much a UI-based Mac app version of Books. I've been maintaining it for a while now and whenever I share it with someone non-technical Libgen's breadth blows their mind.
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