I've long fantasized about implementing a co-op backup system: you host my encrypted backups, I host yours, then if just one of us screws up our storage somehow or forgets to renew our credit card we don't lose all of our data!
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Using StableBoost to refine image generation through visual selection
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e.g. I used stableboost for this earlier tweet 🙂 – the prompt by itself gives bad, too diverse, not amazing results, but once I generated ~1000 I could visually narrow in on the composition I liked. Not sure how I'd get that by tuning the prompt alone
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Visual Iteration Over Text Prompts for AI Image Generation
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Sometimes it's difficult to put the look&feel of what you're after into text. You end up re-rolling results over and over again, looking for the needle in a haystack. stableboost flips it around – you create a large haystack of variations, then narrow in on the needle visually.
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PostgreSQL Simplicity Over Complex Distributed Systems
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Operational simplicity. Running just one or two PostgreSQL instances will always be more straightforward than adding a Kafka and a Redis and so on – especially for companies that have deep PostgreSQL expertise already
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14-Year Data Matching Project Considered as Datasette Plugin
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Sadly my 14 year old project never got any further than this! https://
github.com/simonw/datamat
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Delightful API with comprehensive species search functionality
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Their API is delightful to use, includes full species search
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HyperWriteAI: Best AI Writing Assistant Tool Overview
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@OthersideAI
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HyperWriteAI.com is the best all-around tool… It works anywhere you write, provides the highest quality AI suggestions, and learns from you over time to improve and personalize. -
Building String Distance Matching Tools in JavaScript
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I built something a bit like this once that used Levenshtein string distances in JavaScript https://
github.com/simonw/datamat
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datamatcher tool for data matching and processing
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Reminds me of my old datamatcher tool https://
github.com/simonw/datamat
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iNaturalist AI tool for species identification applications
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It's not specific to diving but would @inaturalist work for this?