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19 hours
Learn Spanish with AI Friends! v3-take2-elon-musk-remastered with better audio Checkout Netwrck AI Characters that feel real :)
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Learning Language by immersing yourself in another world is coming a long way! Mostly thanks to being able to speak with Claude! I'm making Netwrck .com AI Characters that feel real!
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@z2rMC Loads of state actors don't like people knowing things. Just a guess.
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@miniapeur Things Mathematicians say: Simply apply a homography matrix. Ah obviously matrix should be positive definite/irreducible. Eigenvalues.
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@yacineMTB Lots of people talking about saving Python which is exciting to me. Almost all my stuff is in Python so I'm all In on other people saving me.
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@tsarnick Claims finance is becoming too complicated/AI will reduce our understanding. - Doesn't understand what risk is or a sharpe ratio - YOLOd life savings into single meme coin - Conflates systemic understanding collapse with personal financial collapse after being rug pulled.
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@levelsio Standing on the shoulders of giants. Can become much taller and wealthier than them too. I know of many cases where the API wrapping company becomes so much more wealthy, buys out the API provider they use..
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@dhh Even if you are in an expensive island in the middle of nowhere like here in NZ still pays to buy your own IMO... esp a good local ML machine you control... i host a lot of co's though cloudflared tunnels to my house... and growing :) :)
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@NamecheapCEO @levelsio Pretty smart I tried to rebrand with a 302 redirect to new domain and tanked my SEO completely, it's unrecoverable too. Why not run two separate domains or even a link farm with many brands?
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@ValaAfshar Wishes ample pain and suffering. What a legend...
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@yacineMTB Right question. We have to become digital hoarders now. I'm thinking building a few of those little computers with the lots of PCIe slots w ssds for running a NFS share. AI is actually going to be able to use this messy data one day
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3 months
@JosephJacks_ @CADeptTech "Legislation impacting open source development" really scary. The right to share is critical to our economy just like the right to privacy.
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@LeeLeepenkman
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5 months
Experimenting with different AI image generation settings with LCM-LoRa in stable-diffusion-server. #gradio #huggingface #stablediffusion #midjourney
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@LeeLeepenkman
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Gradio tutorial for building style transfer into stable-diffusion-server. Also i beef up Cloudflare caching but does it even work? Find out by checking if my site is up Lets build midjourney together! #opensource #huggingface #midjourney #gradio #ai
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@DorianDevelops Transitioned to cursor and aider. Still using copilot and pycharm sometimes so I've got it all going on lol. Ready to switch at whatever point is required, AI race is neck in neck and being ahead is a major alpha difference right now
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@levelsio @yongfook accelerate all the way and beyond :D
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4 months
@snlwtn @levelsio for gpt wrappers, try use a really small input/context which helps a lot with cost/speed, also a affordable llm provider, openrouter is good, i run one. Also i host some gpt/stable diffusion/ai stuff for my startups myself behind a cloudflare tunnel which saves me some cost
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The year is 2842 pliny the prompter manages to break out of the simulation. Recalling a double negative breakout trap they used to fool the first AI agents 800 years prior. Laying the trap in unusual quantum patterns, causes a chain reaction fooling the overworld simulator into
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Pliny the Prompter 🐉
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big if true 👀⛓️‍💥
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@anpaure 8 years of mojo experience, like you need to have thought about that long before it was invented 1yr ago
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@yacineMTB Banger Dev trap tweet
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@vikhyatk Seems like big skill issue... Define any problem, get AI from hugging face + train it to solve it... dang! They should share
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@levelsio * as an nvidia snob Some warning that there's decent complexity getting things going on AMD. For example nvidia cuda ffmpeg video encoder nvenc nvdec. game/vfx tech like dlss, ray tracing, audio2face... onnx->DirectML -optional> webnn pipeline to get support for AMD gpus
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@NeoTheClimber @redpillb0t I'm thinking that as a New Zealander as well, but why? Seem like great places to me
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@_emergent_ @elonmusk ebank art generator in comparison is a breath of fresh air. Exibit A
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Its happening!
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The year is 2842 pliny the prompter manages to break out of the simulation. Recalling a double negative breakout trap they used to fool the first AI agents 800 years prior. Laying the trap in unusual quantum patterns, causes a chain reaction fooling the overworld simulator into
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@leopoldasch Main criticism is that it's just not as dangerous as nukes which breaks this lockdown argument. It's an engine much more weighted towards creating prosperity than destruction especially with alignment. Nuke... it's almost the polar opposite
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@RadarHits We need to answer this question. A swarm will be delivered on a city via aircraft one day. Self directed + tinfoil style defenses so microwave/EMP/band blocking not workable. Needs to be something citizens can build for self defence too.
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@karpathy @kellerjordan0 Keen to drop the old history related stuff and get onto the as fast as possible :D Nothing in history is going to look particularly aesthetic given the huge world benefits fast AI is going to give us :)
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@donaldklee On pricing I haven't beat self hosted behind a cloudflared tunnel on a box in my office. A bit of an expensive up front investment but E.g. for AI retrieval or a database you can get box and get a PCIe 2 terabyte SSD with extremely fast read and write now and likely won't
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@levelsio @realGeorgeHotz A lot of pytorch models still not going to run on ROCm ecosystem. Directml, onnx, webnn webGPU all moving pretty fast too. so one day this will be true, but then it's still about the speed and 45min difference in this test. I still recommended gettinng box w NVDA gpus if you're
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@akshat_b Had one person sign up or atleast type in an email address ending in a domain that indicates that they worked at one of these companies. Then they churned. But still. Trusted by the best of the best.
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@elonmusk One day you will be blocked by the Reddit filters or the Reddit mods or both. And it will probably be when you have built something amazing of value to people and finally get courage to talk about it to bring yourself and family out of poverty.
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2 months
Made this Open Source guided Text To Speech API on replicate! Extremely affordable text to speech! On a mission to bring the costs of intelligence down to help as many people as possible :)
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@localghost Yea it's crazy... I made over the weekend, free online editor that uses Claude to make a site then you can add you own CSS/JS AI people can quickly make and share these kinds of gist like small things
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@LeeLeepenkman
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5 months
Just letting yall know that i have got 1 paying customer over the past 1 day. On AI Chat/AI Art Generator, Spend a long time on making it good at art/interesting conversations Feeling pretty great about it! #buildinpublic #art #aiart @characteraidown
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@tsarnick Planning on making a visual novel, because its easy now and no way i could have done this before :D
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@bobcrypto13 @AlitaMovie @AlitaBrasil @AlitaArmy @vladdie777 @FUZION_XIO @CyberAlita_2563 @LienakiAI @KowalcikKarl @Kubajz_99 @job4freelancers I worked on the movie at Weta :) Helped us a lot develop the kinds of tech needed for Avatar 2 Now i'm working on an open source art generator check it out :D
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@mckaywrigley @andreasklinger Great read! I'll do my part too answer. Are there any relevant analogies from history we can compared to? Answer: no, there is nothing like today, not by a long shot. Hope that helps!
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@mark_k @OpenAI I'm going to be honest I mostly never understand what anyone actually means when they speak. And then people from openai are in another level down from that in my understanding. What do we think blow up means in this context?
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5 months
Try Netwrck art generator, new update out!!! Here's some cute kittens getting ready for battle #cute #kittens #ai #art #aigirl #adorable #cat #AIart
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Wellington Vampire - Trailer is here!
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@yacineMTB After helping out on a deep learning based facial capture solver... i'm fairly confused as to how much strong opinions there are about more advances in deep learning. Some people just get real angry when they have to relearn when state of the art tools come out.
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@OngDevLab localhost
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@Sentdex asked art generators for a heavenly environment. had to use which didn't refuse :) But i sure was surprised at how many told me off.
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@dienachtwarlang @karpathy This. If you think it's okay You're only seeing the survivorship bias, what is there swaths of opinions are censored by yt in a fairly cowardly way shadow style on mass. try commenting on YouTube video and realizing no one sees it but you. Kind of sucks big time.
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@samathingamajig Dry principals guy obvs didn't know about ctrl C and ctrl v... actually makes this code really easy to write and maintain. Lots of brs is about as easy as CSS.
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Sentry's architecture/ move from self hosted to Google cloud
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3 months
@madzadev position: absolute left:50% dang float: left left: .. dang width:100% dang transform: translate()
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3 months
My two startups are now neck in neck. Which do you think is best and why? AI Art, style transfer, Video Voiced AI Character chatbots that make art. #buildinpublic #indiehackers #indiedev
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@OngDevLab Implement multifactor auth
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@yacineMTB Famously "compiled using the delete key"... Yall have to admit that it is kind of hilarious
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Check out #tensorflow playground to see what happens while building and training #NeuralNetworks
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@_jasonwei I trained around a year ago. Still beats GPT-4 for image understanding which hasn't been released yet :D It has lost some other advantages recently, no longer more up to date than GPT.
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@PicturesFoIder Sad to see police deciding to continue to crackdown on minorities just trying to get by and do good in life. Also they focus on money like speed speeding/not stopping fully at stop sign ticking. New Zealand same deal here... things falling apart while police trying to get rich
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@yacineMTB Same feeling working in ML here... Most people dont know gpt4o is real. If you tell them they dont think its possible for that to be real either/must be staged or something... People thinking its >10 years out still... i'm all like...
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@ThePrimeagen Primeagen: "So be it" Primeagen: "Minecraft Redstone it is"
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@VastoLordePy @levelsio Was working at C anva when they bought kaleido (removeBg/unscreen). Msft somewhat bought OpenAI... salesforce buying heroku maybe... I think loads of potential aquirers have a really good idea of the business they are buying because of being customers. I almost sold
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Special shoutout to @burkaygur and @fal who are supporting me on a crazy AI Founder rollercoaster Easy to use GPU hosting/AI platform! thank you!
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@LeeLeepenkman
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van gogh by van gogh art generator here is one of the best ways to make AI Art now. Lets go straight to the bank yall! #buildinpublic #indiehackers #artist #AIArtCommuity #AIArtwork #ai #aiart #opensource #openai #dalle #dalle3 #stablediffusion
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Which AI Tool Did this??? just did! Please follow me on my journey to make an open source midjourney!! #buildinpublic #indiehackers #ai #art #midjourney #anime #aiart #lowfi #cosy
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@DrJimFan Did a really high end version of this at Weta Digital, allowed James Cameron to find a spot anywhere in the world of Pandora, this was a long time ago, fidelity was unbelievable so behind closed doors we are a long way ahead of this still :) cool procedural sim in unreal now too
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@karpathy See my and @jeremyphoward 's analysis for why the spikes are happening -- they found that following a spike there's a lot of "dead" activations (i.e. gradient and/activation close to zero and unable to recover). basically overflow/underflow as activations get too large.
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Conjurers Soul. ----- Backstory ----- Freya and Biarn are growing up wide eyed youngsters together in a village of conjurers.. The hunters arrive in their village, a terrible fate for their parents, an escape in the night for the hero and heroine. A resurrection rune spell to
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Serving almost 2m requests a day now for my 17 or so side projects :O Thanks to cloudflare, google cloud, fal, replicate, and my nvidia 3090s at home through a cloudflared tunnel. #indiehackers #buildinpublic
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@LeeLeepenkman
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@tsarnick e/acc/based
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@BasedBeffJezos Have to be atleast skeptical of the binarists that think we can go from knowing a lot to knowing nothing about how a system works within a year for no clear reason... I mean I get there'll be some kind of architecture search, data all AI generated and training process all AI
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3 months
gm from the bay of AILands. video generator
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@abacaj i found mistral was fine to just go straight into stuff (romance/war/politics etc)... its running here on too. I prompted that its role playing here
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@yacineMTB And to think, its all thanks to people being based.
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Stable diffusion server has gone totally viral out of control and reached one fork lets GOOOOO! #builinpublic #indiehackers #ai #art #aiart The AI Art server is live at and made this which is basically me right now with 1 fork
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New Business Idea alert. You fork a AI Vector Database. Make it marginally better, maybe UX updates, smooth hosting... Raise money. #buildinpublic
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@MaxWinebach local RAG+mixtue of phi's 4bit per param and OpenAI gpt4o server fallback combo. Noice. Interested if they are going to open up the local llM and diffusion model to devs apps to use. Sounds like this is going to work quite well
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@nearcyan Would you agree not to sue us if you were hurt/mamed during a routine hunger games/wipeout style televised challenge?
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@leoflashcrypto Your flagged by metamask FYI not sure what your site is doing to get that.... Also checkout NETW token for AI Characters/currency of AI
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Google playstore had change of heart and didnt cancel netwrck .com Still not appearing in search and bit shaken up by it all :D Still not recommending anyone create apps i'm going to stick with websites for a while lol... #buildinpublic #indiehackers
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@nullllptr @DorianDevelops One of the reasons our field is so hard to break into because people block you for a variety of random reasons like using the the wrong editor, not having enough github contribution, using the wrong language too much, not having University level education, etc. Good programmers
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@elevenlabsio nice! creatives going to have a hard time with this
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@PurzBeats I stopped paying for blue which means I'm no longer losing money... not to brag
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No one thought this guy was going to change the world. @ilyasut
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@AndreeaFarcas98 Spent the weekend with my friend Claude
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@ThePrimeagen Classic Node modules
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@BatsouElef Maybe python/vscode/chromium/pytorch/transformers/diffusers
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@iamgingertrash I mostly open source my stuff or plan to anyway : ) Going to have to give up some privacy to use AI to get our jobs done.
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@aidan_mclau I figured AI will be harmless.. I'm researching AI characters for @netwrck Then I notice the audio they've used to test these characters at Baidu. Realise now that AI characters will be a large part of control and propaganda
AI influencers (new tech here from Baidu) Do you think this is just accidental audio choice? Or will China use this AI technology to influence Americans? @elonmusk ?
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@miniapeur AI Game Dev sec Ops researcher marketing director founder for the win. Also SEO
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@Teknium1 Myself :D Also tons of talented folks working on agents here at Microsoft like Auto gen authors @chi_wan
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@npceo_ Hear me out, best way to longevity is to bring back vampirism which somewhat solves sleep as well because i dont think you need as much sleep. We just need to stop hunting them/they are somewhat people too. I think they can get by half strength just eating w/e meat too labgrown
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New prompts product from WandB tracks usage of LLMs/their tools "LLMOps"
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Twitter comebacks are so back and so are friends @imgyf @MicahBerkley Also I'm so back
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@yacineMTB Thanks :') *Closing this thread as duplicate.
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@albertmarzo @levelsio @mesmerlord @AnthropicAI yea main clouds+claude are not usable for me in my netwrck ai character platform because they don't follow instructions/role play/refuse to do too much :( even some cloud providers like groq run a mixtral too censored that refuses everything
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@levelsio @aysennoussi I open sourced an OpenAI Alternative. 9k customers and No one showed up for the launch on github, sometimes people don't care about open source but only the product. I'm thinking overall/long term it still might help with money/growth though i'm not sure.
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@bindureddy Yea I think they should build a code specific model/experts for just code (personal opinion). And build agents around it even if it's incredibly expensive at first to use Because it's such an important part of AGI and base models.
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@JosephJacks_ also heard great things about the programmer experience of sui from a friend making a game
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@yacineMTB fair point what if i was using window .ai as a global... Also fair point this gemini model is likely going to spew tokens about how great google is and how it is an AI and how google trained it so well. When people are in real need of legit AI help.
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@erhartford Gradient explosion but It's a kind of soft gradient explosion. I recommend as part of your training run at every checkpoint try the quantized model. sometimes the model moves into a state where it will be okay but will see gradiant explosion if you quantize it then do inference
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@craciun_07 yep lost decent money from crypto scam - fake account bought btc from me, i gave btc and turned out a fake ccard transaction reversed. Then worst part was nab bank Australia blocked me for life even though i was the victim which sucked. traditional currency/fiat is soft rules
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New business idea. A rubber band. But also UV stable so its re usable and environmentally friendly. Also stronger than steel a billionfold. Dang this is already done its called a tactical rubber band... #buildinpublic #indiehackers
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@aboodman i run all sorts of unhinged AI like art generators/ai chat characters and even my oddball brain could never come up with something this terrible for such a cool product. Its like a big psyop video and i dont know why its just idk im going to have to block this vid i keep seeing
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