8/11/2023 First tourist in space with Virgin Galactic. It's a quick up and down flight, yet there are now 200 on waiting list with tickets costing $450k.
President Joe Biden this week signed an executive order restricting U.S. investments in Chinese tech sectors, including AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing. This is not surprising, as both Trump would do the same. However, the motives behind the Republicans and the Democrats may be different. Jealousy from the Republicans, Not liberal enough for the Democrats.
8/8/2023 Amazing art work using long string and a wheel to create a portrait of a person. Also interesting fact that despite such effort, people could still break up in the end. This is also similar to works by artist named Petros Vrellis, but this artist, KMMeerts claimed he did it all on his own.
Source code:
https://gist.github.com/kaspermeerts/781f0137b361b51224dcab722ae387b4
https://gist.github.com/kaspermeerts/b6f158b1278de307e48a200a0f42f501
8/7/2023 Want to know every HTML elements/tags? Here's a good intro to it.
Good suggestion for AI for coding.
Cool AI tool that helps analyzes data: i.e. producing charts from database based on questions entered: https://www.vizly.fyi/
There are other tools out there that I have not tested, for example: Hydra, etc.
Looks like these days in 2023 we are bombarded by the fad of A.I. technology. AI chat such as chatGPT, and AI image generators such as Stable Diffusion(Click to see 3 min video instructions on installing) are the most popular ones. I had trouble installing per Royal Skies' 3 min Youtube video and had to install Python 3.11 via Microsoft Store instead of version 3.10.6 per the video's download link. Then I hit an error while starting up the SD's webgui:
AssertionError: Torch is not able to use GPU; add --skip-torch-cuda-test to COMMANDLINE_ARGS
Tried a fix from reddit, didn't work. Then I tried the fix from github and it works: solution by maikelsz:
or in the file "webui-user.bat", change to "set COMMANDLINE_ARGS = --lowvram --precision full --no-half --skip-torch-cuda-test"
In this other project, if there is no nvidia GPU, the operation is done in the CPU, without the need to specify any initial parameters. It would be nice to see how they do it: https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui/