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New comment by wimpypistol in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

wimpypistol — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:47:44 +0000

It really sucks that you'd do this.

1SecondPainting: Generate realistic paintings in one click (updated)

wimpypistol — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://1secondpainting.com/app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533879

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wimpypistol in "Keep Up: The first book written by an AI"

wimpypistol — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:13:56 +0000

This is a word predictor fed on billions of tokens of text. Because it has been trained on human writing, it makes characteristically human mistakes (including spelling, grammar, and even some phonetic errors).

New comment by wimpypistol in "Keep Up: The first book written by an AI"

wimpypistol — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 23:42:07 +0000

Incredible! I had no clue this existed. Thank you for pushing me down a rabbit hole for the last 45 minutes :-)

New comment by wimpypistol in "Keep Up: The first book written by an AI"

wimpypistol — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 23:41:35 +0000

I was similarly surprised, but it's true. The original text is essentially the exact same (probably a 99.9% overlap) with the exception of a few spelling mistakes or grammar errors. My editing was about as much as you'd get from Microsoft Word, if that.

Keep Up: The first book written by an AI

wimpypistol — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 03:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://thefirstaibook.com/living-a-meaningful-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128347

Points: 17

# Comments: 9

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:51:29 +0000

Hmm.. I may or may not speak French. Thanks for the idea.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:51:05 +0000

Thanks for the input. I'm working on adding print functionality as we speak - let you know when it's up.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:49:57 +0000

Absolutely! I was planning on providing this, but wanted to keep the model free of commercial services. There are open-source alternatives out there, though, which I may add support for in the future.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:48:14 +0000

These are gorgeous! Great work.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:47:17 +0000

Yes, good point. I think a major part of the appeal is the backstory. I do love abstract art, though, so I'm probably a non-representative sample :-)

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:44:24 +0000

Certainly a good point. Unfortunately, the output size is constrained by the training data (which in this case was ~800x800px). I think it would be kind of a pain to find 14,000 9000x9000 images, though, so I don't know if this will ever be able to fulfill this requirement. ;)

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:40:37 +0000

Thanks for the input! I'll add that functionality and let you know as soon as it's ready.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:40:10 +0000

Definitely something I considered while feeding it a tremendous number of famous paintings (Rothko, Pollock, etc). Considering the nature of random seed generation/traversing through latent space, I don't see a strong legal case to be made for infringement. The law has done crazier things, though, so I'll keep an eye on it.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:33:28 +0000

Beautiful.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:31:29 +0000

Close! I used anime to test the basic functionality/UI of the site. Transfer learning was in fact done on the FFHQ512 dataset from Nvidia (I figured the complexity of its features was a little higher, which would lend itself well to abstract textures).

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:29:17 +0000

Completely fair assessment. Thanks for the input. I look up to Gwern quite heavily, so seeing myself referenced in the same sentence is nice - cheers.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:26:42 +0000

This is correct. I agree with many of the commentators below - I could have been clearer. I simply didn't want to pay for a 24/7 GPU to generate on-the-spot (a little short on funds at the moment), instead opting to replace each series of 10,000 paintings once per month. Glad I could provide enjoyment to as many people as I did in the meanwhile!

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:19:21 +0000

Good thinking. Yes, that is correct.

New comment by wimpypistol in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"

wimpypistol — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:17:12 +0000

Thank you. I love the clear, intelligent user interface of your site - it's given me a lot of inspiration for future projects. Keep in touch!