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balivandi | 8 months ago | on: Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

Because it is extremely time consuming (and expensive) to do that. The logistics are very challenging with finding a variety of child models, environments/studio, outfits, lighting, cameras, photo processing, etc...

And then you have to do it all over again every few months as the products and the seasons change!

balivandi | 8 months ago | on: Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

My wife and I started a children’s jewelry business, and I’ve wanted to use AI to show children wearing our jewelry. Every time I try, I get either ridiculous results or hit some artificial censorship wall about making images with children.

I would really like to find a way to do this (either online or locally) if anyone has any tips for giving a model some images of real jewelry with dimensions (and if needed even photographed or generated children) and having the model accurately place the jewelry on the kids.

balivandi | 11 months ago | on: MusiCoT, a chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique for music generation [pdf]

About 30 years ago in a creative 2-week fit I wrote a mini-symphony. I’ve always envisioned expanding it into a full-length orchestral piece but don’t have the skills to do so.

I would love to use a music model that could help me do that.

I’m imagining feeding it my score and then iterating with it to create the final piece I’ve had stuck in my head all this time.

balivandi | 2 years ago | on: The entrance fee to America’s museums keeps rising

Protips: Museum networks with reciprocal memberships and passes from local libraries

There are a few networks of museums such that once you join one museum in one network you get member benefits (or discounts) to the other museums in that network.

The networks break down into: Arts [0], Science [1], and Children's museums [2] [3]. Bonus network: Zoos! [4]

These can be a great value - especially for families with kids that like to do these things frequently. Our family travels between the MA, NC, and FL and the memberships have been a big help.

[0] https://narmassociation.org

[1] https://www.astc.org/membership/find-an-astc-member/passport...

[2] https://findachildrensmuseum.org/reciprocal-network/

[3] https://childrensmuseums.org

[4] https://www.aza.org/join?locale=en

Join the local institution you will frequent the most as you sometimes get better discounts/value at your "home" location.

Finally, check your local library - many have free or reduced cost tickets/passes for local museums and other institutions.

balivandi | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

McKinsey & Company | Senior Software Architect | New York, NY; Boston, MA; Waltham, MA | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://www.mckinsey.com/

We are building a Design System to implement our Firm's new Visual Identity across all digital content and products. You will help us define and develop a host of components, libraries, and generators to enable our development community to rapidly and consistently produce modern web applications that are speedy, scalable, maintainable, and adheres to our design system. Your skills and opinions will help shape the next generation of digital products at our Firm and beyond.

Looking for: - 7+ Years of hands-on experience in building and deploying web applications and systems

- Expert knowledge of core web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

- Expert knowledge of React and Webpack

- Strong proficiency with middle tier and microservices architecture (Node)

- Strong visual and aesthetic sense – a portfolio of past projects is a plus

Good to know: SASS, LESS, CSS pre-processors, Grunt, Gulp, NPM, Underscore,D3, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Heroku, Cucumber, Karma, Mocha, Jasmine, Jenkins, Travis CI, StyleDictionary, StoryBook.

Apply at https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/seniorsoft...

Note: the posted description is a bit off. I'm the PM for the team. Please apply to above link or forward resumes/questions to me at [email protected]

balivandi | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

McKinsey & Company | Senior Software Architect | Waltham, MA | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://www.mckinsey.com/

We are building a Design System to implement our Firm's new Visual Identity across all digital content and products. You will help us define and develop a host of components, libraries, and generators to enable our development community to rapidly and consistently produce modern web applications that are speedy, scalable, maintainable, and adheres to our design system. Your skills and opinions will help shape the next generation of digital products at our Firm and beyond.

Looking for:

- 7+ Years of hands-on experience in building and deploying web applications and systems

- Expert knowledge of core web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

- Expert knowledge of React and Webpack

- Strong proficiency with middle tier and microservices architecture (Node)

- Strong visual and aesthetic sense – a portfolio of past projects is a plus

Good to know: SASS, LESS, CSS pre-processors, Grunt, Gulp, NPM, Underscore,D3, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Heroku, Cucumber, Karma, Mocha, Jasmine, Jenkins, Travis CI, StyleDictionary, StoryBook.

Apply at https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/seniorsoft... Note: the posted description is a bit off. I'm the PM for the team. Please apply to above link or forward resumes/questions to me at [email protected]

balivandi | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

McKinsey & Company | Senior Software Architect | Waltham, MA | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://www.mckinsey.com

We are building a Design System to implement our Firm's new Visual Identity across all digital content and products. You will help us define and develop a host of components, libraries, and generators to enable our development community to rapidly and consistently produce modern web applications that are speedy, scalable, maintainable, and adheres to our design system. Your skills and opinions will help shape the next generation of digital products at our Firm.

Looking for:

* 7+ Years of hands-on experience in building and deploying web applications and systems

* Expert knowledge of core web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

* Expert knowledge of React and Webpack

* Strong proficiency with middle tier and microservices architecture (Node)

* Strong visual and aesthetic sense – a portfolio of past projects is a plus

Good to know: SASS, LESS, CSS pre-processors, Grunt, Gulp, NPM, Underscore,D3, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Heroku, Cucumber, Karma, Mocha, Jasmine, Jenkins, Travis CI, StyleDictionary, StoryBook.

Apply at https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/seniorsoft... Note: the posted description is a bit off. I'm the PM for the team. Please apply to above link or forward resumes/questions to me at [email protected]

balivandi | 7 years ago | on: Captain Marvel throwback site

Haha! You’re right - I missed it as I was instinctively jumped to the bottom of the page. Now where is my “Back to top” link?
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