This Midjourney update looks fantastic. I'm working on a Crafty's Illustrated essay, and plan to give V5.2 a thorough workout when it's time for imagery.
Apt Description of React on Hacker News
“React on the other hand feels like a pot warming up and we're the frogs being boiled alive at this point. You can write some perfectly valid, but naive React code and it's going to have some footguns. We're so used to write idiomatic React code we don't even notice that anymore. You learn to use stable references in callback functions, to be careful using Context, and so on. But the list is not short, and it only grows. --jankiel”
MosaicML's Open Source MPT-7B Model Writes an Epilogue to The Great Gatsby
“I have lived so long in the shadow of this dream that I may never see the bright sunlight of reality. I may look up some morning and find that I am six feet under, and that Gatsby, who gave me the dream and everything else, will have vanished behind me. And so it was. I had hardly crossed the threshold of the old world when my eye caught the headlines of a newspaper; and I knew at once that my dream was over. I knew that Gatsby was dead ....”
Muhammad Usman does a nice comparison of art AIs. To me, the richness of the outputs is amazing. I'm a heavy Midjourney user, and still prefer its output, though the alternatives are impressive as well.
As pointed out by Jesus Rodriguez on TheSequence, "With all the hype surrounding generative AI, we sometimes overlook the thrilling advancements in other areas of the deep learning ecosystem." I-JEPA from Meta research is one such.
A Gnarly Hugo-Cloudflare Build Problem, Resolved
I had Hugo builds running on Cloudflare for a day. Then, mysteriously, they stopped working.
Apple Really Did Ignore the AI Emergence at WWDC
As I watched the WWDC Keynote and Platforms State of the Union from this year's WWDC, I was amazed that Apple appeared to be ignoring the current massive emergence in generative AI. Later, I confirmed it.
Unlimited Stupid Questions
Possibly the most important benefit of ChatGPT ...