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Evaluating models without test data (Practical AI #194) Sep 20, 2022

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WeightWatcher, created by Charles Martin, is an open source diagnostic tool for analyzing Neural Networks without training or even test data! Charles joins us in this episode to discuss the tool and how it fills certain gaps in current model evaluation workflows. Along the way, we discuss statistical methods from physics and a variety of practical ways to modify your training runs.

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Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Ladybird, how QR codes work, GitUI, software vs systems & Stable Diffusion ported to Tensorflow (Changelog News #13) Sep 19, 2022

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Andreas Kling’s new cross-platform browser project, Dan Hollick’s nerdy deep-dive on QR code tech, Stephan Dilly’s Rust-based terminal UI for Git, Miłosz Piechocki’s opinion on junior vs senior engineers & Divam Gupta’s Tensorflow port of Stable Diffusion.

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Stable Diffusion breaks the internet (Changelog Interviews #506) Sep 16, 2022

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This week on The Changelog we’re talking about Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and the impact of AI generated art. We invited our good friend Simon Willison on the show today because he wrote a very thorough blog post titled, “Stable Diffusion is a really big deal.”

You may know Simon from his extensive contributions to open source software. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework (which we don’t talk about at all on this show), he’s the creator of Datasette, a multi-tool for exploring and publishing data (which we do talk about on this show)…most of all Simon is a very insightful thinker, which he puts on display here on this episode. We talk from all the angles of this topic, the technical, the innovation, the future and possibilities, the ethical and the moral – we get into it all. The question is, will this era be known as the initial push back to the machine?

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Simon Willison on Wikipedia
Stable Diffusion is a really big deal
Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator
Exploring the training data behind Stable Diffusion
Stability.ai
Greg Rutkowsk on ArtStation and on Twitter
Stable Diffusion Launch Announcement
Stable Diffusion Public Release
The full text of the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
Twitter thread about the ethics of the Stable Diffusion release from Joshua Achiam who works on AI safety at OpenAI
Lexica.art - that really good search engine for 10m+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts
Simon’s Twitter thread about Stable Diffusion - I keep on adding new things to this as they happen, the thread has been running for a few weeks now
4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything - a great post that talks through the process involved in getting good results out of Stable Diffusion using image2image and multiple round-trips through the model
This tweet from Simon has a animated GIF of the Stable Diffusion Discord scrolling by during the 1.5 model preview
Textual Inversion also see this thread on Twitter
This tweet talks about the Stable Diffusion concepts library, using Textual Inversion
This tweet has great examples of Textual Inversion in action
Simon’s Datasette Cloud preview - Check it out and signup
Compressing images with Stable Diffusion
“neuromancer” on Lexica
Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images
The Changelog #296: Burnout, open source, Datasette

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Smile! HTML can access your camera (JS Party #243) Sep 16, 2022

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Austin Gil joins the show and KBall continues an old email correspondence about the JS community and growth. Then, the gang plays a round of TIL where Austin shares his learnings about the HTML capture attribute. Finally, Austin shares what it’s like to have a blog post blow up.

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Stay agile out there (Go Time #247) Sep 15, 2022

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Inbal Cohen, Product expert and Agile evangelist, joins Natalie & Angelica for a conversation about all things Agile. Inbal lays out some agile tips for Go devs, discusses if and how remote work changes things, describes some downsides of the methodology, and more.

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Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog

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Gerhard, Lars, Adam & Jerod — **Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)** Sep 14, 2022
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In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an *upgrade the world* kind of scenario. Since Lars Wikman did all the heavy ID3 lifting, he joins us in this episode.

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Lars Wikman – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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What is ID3 in the context of MP3?

PR #417 - ID3vx-based episode tagging

id3vx - Elixir library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags

PR #423 - Upgrade Elixir from 1.12 to 1.13 (and all the other things)

The failing CircleCI build that resulted in removing the integration

erlang/otp issue #6241

PR #421 - What to do if the Wireguard tunnel stops working in GHA

PR #418 - Notify Slack when a deploy succeeds

GitHub SSH commit verification now supported - thanks Marcos Nils!

Signing Git Commits with SSH Keys

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alt text — **Stable Diffusion (Practical AI #193)** Sep 13, 2022
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The new stable diffusion model is everywhere! Of course you can use this model to quickly and easily create amazing, dream-like images to post on twitter, reddit, discord, etc., but this technology is also poised to be used in very pragmatic ways across industry. In this episode, Chris and Daniel take a deep dive into all things stable diffusion. They discuss the motivations for the work, the model architecture, and the differences between this model and other related releases (e.g., DALL·E 2).

(Image from stability.ai)

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Announcement blog post

Stable diffusion paper

Blog post about the model from Marc Päpper

Stable Diffusion on Hugging Face

Hugging Face Diffusers library

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Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web (Changelog News #12) Sep 12, 2022

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Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he’s always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack’s Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here!

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Typesense is truly open source search (Changelog Interviews #505) Sep 09, 2022

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This week we’re joined by Jason Bosco, co-founder and CEO of Typesense — the open source Algolia alternative and the easier to use ElasticSearch alternative. For years we’ve used Algolia as our search engine, so we come to this conversation with skin in the game and the scars to prove it. Jason shared how he and his co-founder got started on Typesense, why and how they are “all in” on open source, the options and the paths developers can take to add search to their project, how Typesense compares to ElasticSearch and Algolia, he walks us through getting started, the story of Typesense Cloud, and why they have resisted Venture Capital.

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InfluxData – All of the open source software InfluxData creates is either MIT-licensed or Apache2-licensed. These are very permissive licenses. But why are they all for permissive licenses? Paul Dix shares his thoughts on the spirit of open source and why freedom, evolution, and impact drive them to license InfluxData’s open source software as permissively possible. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
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Seth Godin is the new Mark Twain (JS Party #242) Sep 09, 2022

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Jerod, KBall & Nick “Holla!” at React India, share what we’re excited about these days, and then take up a KBall topic that goes off the rails but manages to climb back on them, power through, and end up in a good place.

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