(Low) Latency is All You Need https://
lexica.art/aperture @sharifshameem
's Lexica Aperture quietly became my favorite @StableDiffusion variant for quick thumbnails/visuals. It's fast, free, and doesn't take a Distinguished Principal Senior Prompt Engineer to get something good.
@swyx
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Lexica Aperture: Fast and Easy Stable Diffusion Alternative
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Microsoft deal benefits clear but OpenAI imbalance raises concerns
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everyone understands this deal is good for MSFT. the problem is the extreme imbalance for OpenAI is actually concerning
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OpenAI exclusivity won’t last long according to @swyx
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i dont believe the “specifically for openai” line will remain true for long
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OpenAI’s $10B funding raise signals potential internal problems
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the previous rumor was that they were raising 300m at 29b on conventional terms. I’m sure they could get 3b more from any number of late stage and xover funds. OpenAI doesnt randomly need 10b and onerous deal structure for fun. Either @semafor is dead wrong or all is not well
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OpenAI-Microsoft Deal: Questionable Economics or Strongarm Tactics?
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Why are people celebrating the Godfather-like economics of this OpenAI-Microsoft deal like it’s a good thing? 49% ownership with 33% of funds? with 75% cut of profits to EARN OUT the investment? Was OpenAI strongarmed into this deal? wtf? We do NOT know the full story here.
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Evolution of Function Keywords Across Programming Languages
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also if you are designing a language and need a keyword for functions, take heed on the trends over time javascript: function
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RLHF reduces prompt engineering needs but unlocking full LLM potential requires prompting
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useful counterpoint – RLHF diminishes the need for prompt eng for the median usecase, but the capabilities of LLMs are much more vast and will be unlocked with some amount of prompting (remains to be seen HOW MUCH engineering is required; is @langchain a feature or bug?)
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OpenAI API calls with Pinecone embeddings dependency concerns
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wait so you still have to run every api call thru openai after the embeddings are done? what is pinecone doing then? seems like an unreliable dependency
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2022 Visual Text States of the Art from LAION and SavvyRL
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Couple more 2022 visual text States of the Art from @laion_ai and @savvyRL et al (which was even more slept on!!)
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Text-to-Image Visual Text Rendering Problems Solved Early 2023
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I am still not over how we are 1 (ONE) week into 2023 and the big Text-to-Image visual text rendering problems of last year appears to be completely solved… (with a new architectural approach to boot! Rumors that hands might be solved too) Diffusion models are so 2022?