I seriously wanna know. Did ya’ll do something interesting? Did something happen? Anything else you wanna share?
I got a new job which is great so far. I’ll talk about it later.
I wanted to change and learn the Colemak keyboard. I ordered and received my Colemak stickers from Keyshorts.com. Some small bubbles are stuck in the keys 5 and 6 because I didn’t put them properly, and the stickers are a bit sharp on the edges, but it’s OK. For $20 I like my new keyboard. Colemak is fun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemak).
It took me 10 minutes to write this fucking message with Colemak but I’ll get better! https://monkeytype.com is free.
Edit: this message is not a meme, or generated by an AI, it’s sponsored by Colemak though. Feel free to ask questions.
Good luck with colemak! I was practicing pretty regularly, but fell out of it. I should pick it back up. I got decent at typing regular text. I couldn’t get over the hump for writing code though.
Are you using any of the mods for the layout, like the dh swap?
Yesterday my SO spend all day with a raging headache and throwing up every half-hour or so.
Today she is better, which we are both very pleased about. My day, consequently, has been largely focused around excursions to get ‘recovery’ foods, doing double duty on household chores, and generally looking after her.
Not what I had planned, but I am very happy that she is better, and I will be settling down with a pizza (she is having baked potato and not sure yet) and we’ll be watching an undemanding film this evening.
This doesn’t seem to be a migraine as such - or at least she is not normally subject to them. She has had something similar in the past, but not for about a decade.
We considered quite a few, but in the end she decided on Stardust - we are currently paused for a tea refresh. I have seen it in the past, probably soon after it came out. Fun and entertaining but not outstanding as a Gaiman tale overall.
Fucked up my laptop yesterday, had to reinstall and today at midnight I remembered that I didn’t push the code I’ve been working on for the last two weeks, so today I’ve been rewriting it.
I tried my first Stable Diffusion AI embeddings training. It made impressive Picasso’s. I was not training for Picasso.
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.
Good so far. Just on the internet I’m boring
