There have been numerous attempts to make Stable Diffusion plugins for Adobe Photoshop. Many are not well baked nor free at this point but some are worth taking a look at.
KerasCV is another implementation of stable diffusion. It offers some interesting features that makes it one of the fastest implementations of stable diffusion:
jit_compile=TrueCheck out this setup, feature walkthrough, and comparison guide.
You can get stable diffusion to work on the new Mac M1 (and M2’s). Above is me getting stable diffusion running on my Mac Mini M1 with 16gb of ram (using these instructions).
It’s definitely not as fast as dedicated GPU’s, but it does have the advantage of not running out of memory like you will with graphics cards that only have 8gb or 16gb of memory. Most GPUs require at least 24gb of ram to run 512×512 stable diffusion images (without using lower resolution models). I was able to generate 512×512 and 768×768 images with my 16gb mac mini m1
This is one of the really big advantages of a unified memory architecture in which the CPU and GPU can access the same memory without needing to be transported across a PCI bus first.
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What are the fastest/best growing jobs for entry-level jobs?
This study by Indeed looked at entry-level roles (with an average salary of more than $40,000) to find those with the strongest demand across the US. Entry-level jobs were defined as those require no more than three years of experience, and demand was measured by assessing the growth in the share of postings for each role from September to February compared with the same period the year prior.
The top 3 college jobs are not nearly as sexy as years past (sales representative, transportation coordinator and quality auditor) and the average salary for the college grad was $69,000. For non-grads the average salary was $54,200.
As has been noted by many, trades make some great career paths now with faster-than-average rising salaries and high demand, while college degrees might have reached oversaturation in some fields. A problem that some see as one of the causes of recent sociopolitical stress as many educated people cannot find work in their field and turn to protests/political disenfranchisement.
Here’s the breakdown summarized on Bloomberg:
First we had simple cut-and-paste. Then intelligent selection cut-and-paste. Then content aware cut-and-paste. Now we have select-and-replace with completely auto-generated art via Pair-Diffusion. Amazing times we live in.
Did you know that Stanley Kubrick’s last film Eyes Wide Shut was the movie version of a German story called Traumnovelle (Rhapsody: A Dream Novel, or also known simply as Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler? The book was even made into a movie in 1969 and is free on Youtube. Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut is a near identical re-creation with some updated scenes but same themes.
If you want to read the original book, it’s available for free.
A great little video about observation
This didn’t happen this year, nor hasn’t happened in many years, but always good info for new/visiting priests:
The original Tron movie came out in 1982 – and was a huge reason I became a computer programmer and got into real-time graphics (thanks Sid Mead). Before the Tron: Legacy movie came out in 2010, Monolith game studio came out with the game Tron 2.0. I still have my big box version of this game, and right now it’s only $2.09 and the Steam version appears to work on Steamdeck just fine.
I remember many good hours with this game. It was a really good spiritual successor to the original movie, had a great soundtrack, and even had some interesting early graphics effects like real-time glow.
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Karolina Żebrowska knows a ton about historical clothes. Sadly, she has to put up with largely ignorant modern period showmakers who make incorrect accusations about sexism of women’s fashions from the past. Here she re-enacts what happens when writers/self-styled designers try to bully experts like Karolina by (as one person put it) ‘basically wanting to produce a slightly altered fanfic they wrote when they were 13.’
Definitely check out her other videos on how modern sensibilities, including many modern gender commentators, actually get what was going on in the past completely wrong. But can you blame them? After all, almost none of those gender and similar degrees actually study the actual history, design, or the societies they are denouncing. They just study the criticisms of them.