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Re:Tailor-made AI image generation on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:41PM (#33142818)
Hey @ilaksh Let's talk over email. We have a lot of different options and details re the API that we're still considering and trying to improve with our partners
Re:Tailor-made AI image generation on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:39PM (#33142790)
there is a download link in the fine-tune page
Re:Tailor-made AI image generation on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:41AM (#33140462)
We're trying to streamline the process and explain it. Running the infra for this is hard. We are running on expensive A100 machines which are not easily available and not part of Google Colab infra. There are lots of hyper-parameters one could toy with, and we're trying to hide those and give optimal results automatically. Obviously this could all just be the start of it, and we might continue to develop on different directions where we see it's most fun :)
Re:Tailor-made AI image generation on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:38AM (#33140440)
We're relying on Google's Dreambooth paper which differently from Text-Inversion, it does full model fine-tuning. This should help achieve higher fidelity results if you're trying to replicate the distinct features of your subject
Re:Tailor-made AI image generation on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:37AM (#33140435)
Indeed we're working on that and explaining the technology behind is one of the things we're working on. Currently we're training a Stable Diffusion image-generation model, to the custom images that the user provide so that he can generate images of his specific subject consistently. This relies on a paper by Google called Dreambooth. So thank you mainly to Nathaniel Ruiz
Re:Tailor-made AI image generation on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:35AM (#33140421)
Hi all, great to see someone posted our service :) We started working on this 3 weeks ago and are having real fun with the response. People are creating amazing stuff, and doing great experiments.
Why is this needed if you implement SCA 3D secure?

Show HN: I'm doing (software) engineering consulting for 5$

Hi,As part of dog fooding my own platform, Strmr.com - I decided to try to do remote online consulting for 5$ per session (mostly one hour slots).I'm hoping this can be an interesting experiment as I'm hoping to get a wider view of what kind of problems the industry is dealing with, as well as expand my network, possibly with like minded founders.Strmr.com is a platform for online professional...

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Yep. I'm looking forward to finish our implementation using WebDNN. It's super fast
Indeed I had a problem converting the latest model to KerasJS

Show HN: Open source Deep Learning Background removal service

Me and my colleague have been working on a small POC for Background removal. We used semantic segmentation trained on selfies, and documented the process of training and deploying a Keras model with Docker, Heroku and a Gitlab CI in 3 posts:https://greenscreen-ai.boorgle.com Server side implementation https://greenscreen-ai-client.boorgle.com Client side implementation using KerasJSTraining...

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I'm wondering if some kind of mind-map/graph mashed-up with a wikipedia model and "likes" on each node, can help drive decisions or is it just too naive/simplistic and low adoption
Here are my thoughts

1) Free p2p money transfers / gateway to bitcoin or other crypto-currency so that it's more widely adopted

2) Better open bank accounts - allowing open transparent accounting for organizations and companies

3) Solve democracy - better analytical tools for mass discussion, arguments and decision making which will encourage use of facts and science, and discourage politics

4) Human-Machine interfaces - memory augmentation

5) Solve the common cold and influenza

6) Robotics - better batteries, finer motors and sensors - possibly through the usage of biological systems

7) Public access to satellites - realtime security monitoring, crops analytics and forecasting

8) Solve weather or create private air-conditioned jackets ;)

BoardingBot https://boardingbot.boorgle.com Is a tool I made few weeks ago over 4 days. I started it as a Facebook chat bot which sends TestFlight invitations and then realized it's also worth turning it into a more complete tool which creates a website and invitation request form which automatically sends TestFlight invitations. It was featured in ProductHunt and I was generally surprised with the positive feedback. I'm wondering if it's worth investing more time into it...
Re:Show HN: BoardingBot sends TestFlight invites on Friday September 23, 2016 @10:15AM (#12564765)
This bot will help you send TestFlight invites through your App's Facebook page. This way you can create a good seed of beta testers and increase the volume of beta testers
Re:My site is down because my domain registrar shutdown on Saturday December 20, 2014 @03:34PM (#8777833)
I'm getting this email:

"Below is the password for the domain you requested. Password is If the password is empty please contact the reseller at: [email protected]"

Re:My site is down because my domain registrar shutdown on Saturday December 20, 2014 @07:55AM (#8776525)
I was able to obtain EPP for domain transfer but this is going to take about 7 business days, and in the meanwhile the site is loosing its user base.

My site is down because my domain registrar shutdown

My domain, Giraffelist.com was registered at Nameterrific.com a reseller of ENOM.Nameterrific has "sunset" however it did not transfer its domains, and keeps running its half baked dashboard. No renewal emails were sent. Renewal is currently not functioning (They charged my paypal account for two more years, but the domain still shows as expired even though the invoice shows as paid).No...

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Ask HN: Am I doing it wrong?

This is the second month that I've quit my job as an engineer in NYC and am now busy bootstrapping a new startup. A few days ago, I met for coffee with another entrepreneur who is also bootstrapping his own service in the same domain. At this point I had a full beta product working, and working full steam to iterate on it, while he had 2 more technical guys aside him but no product or anything...

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Re:Ask HN: How to find a user acquisition person on Sunday March 16, 2014 @09:37AM (#7409356)
Thanks. What would be a good resource to start learning marketing and conversion?

Ask HN: How to find a user acquisition person

I am an engineer who has built a full working beta of a new startup in the e-commerce domain. The service still hasn't launched and has almost zero traffic.In the past I've made few projects that have failed with traction. This time I'm hoping to improve: I received very positive feedbacks and from the few beta testers that used the service there's even tiny revenue which is very encouraging....

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