Links for October 22nd

22 Oct 2022

Here are some links I found interesting this week.

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross "The Social Network" Synth Sound

A Tweaker's History of The World - by vers la Lune

sebastiansandqvist/s-rank: Reddit-like "hot" ranking by upvotes and timestamp

Russell Napier: The world will experience a capex boom

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski

DreamBooth Stable Diffusion training in 10 GB VRAM, using xformers, 8bit adam, gradient checkpointing and caching latents. : StableDiffusion

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Zero hour (1945) - Wikipedia

(1) WWDC 1997: Steve Jobs about Apple's future - YouTube

DreamBooth: photos with prompts and training settings : StableDiffusion

TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion: fast-stable-diffusion, +25-50% speed increase + memory efficient + DreamBooth

A Response to SBF and Principled Crypto Regulation — Money and State

Links for October 15th

15 Oct 2022

Here are some links I found interesting this week.

Packy McCormick on Twitter: "There's so much incredible, mind-blowing shit happening in the world that I'm becoming convinced techno-pessimists just don't read, listen, or pay attention nearly enough. Call 'em Incurious Basterds." / Twitter

The Man Who Knew Infinity - Wikipedia

DreamBooth training in under 8 GB VRAM and textual inversion under 6 GB : StableDiffusion

Guide for DreamBooth with 8GB vram under Windows : StableDiffusion

Links for October 8th

08 Oct 2022

Here are some links I found interesting this week.

How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future: Eichengreen, Barry, Mehl, Arnaud, Chitu, Livia: 9780691177007: Amazon.com: Books

Rincón (Short 2018) - IMDb

RINCÓN — WATCHALE

How we design our assets

CIA MKULTRA / Mind Control Collection - The Black Vault

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.

(1) How does Stable Diffusion work? – Latent Diffusion Models EXPLAINED - YouTube

Bantu expansion - Wikipedia

A short history of Uniswap

CrocSwap to chomp competition - cryptus’s newsletter

AI Content Generation, Part 2: Tasks And Models

Stable Diffusion Drawing App | AI Turns my Drawings into Pure Art - YouTube

A Nuclear Zugzwang? - Policy Tensor

We studied 50+ startups on TikTok and here's what we found - Li Jin

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology: Miller, Chris: 9781982172008: Amazon.com: Books

Bad Trade | American Compass

Links for October 1st

01 Oct 2022

Here are some links I found interesting this week.

Inside Pollen’s Collapse: “$200M Raised” but Staff Unpaid - Exclusive - The Pragmatic Engineer

Runit Island - Wikipedia

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America: Ruhlman, Michael: 9781419723865: Amazon.com: Books

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase | Union Square Ventures

Everything Is Broken - Tablet Magazine

JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion: Implementation of Dreambooth (https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12242) with Stable Diffusion (tweaks focused on training faces)

How to make a Minimal/Micro-House on Ableton Live 11 - YouTube

Links for September 24th

24 Sep 2022

Here are some links I found interesting this week.

The hyperinflation gallery: examples of hyperinflationary banknotes from around the world

Arlo Parks - Too Good (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal by Tao Lin ~dacten-sidlyn • by ~bidbel

The Phantasy - My Weekend - YouTube

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China’s Slow-Motion Financial Crisis Is Unfolding as Expected | Center for Strategic and International Studies