Nov 17Predicting the outcome of the World Cup in 150 lines of PythonIt seems like Machine learning and Deep Learning are everywhere these days. AI can do anything! From writing essays to cheat tests to generating to having an infinite image generating machine running on your local machine, the possibilities are endless. …Qatar 20225 min readQatar 20225 min read
Sep 4Automating Image Generation with Stable DiffusionIt’s hard to imagine that it was only January when OpenAI’s DALL-E-2 took twitter by storm by showing a new way to generate images from text. Initially there were only a very limited number invitations were available. …Stable Diffusion2 min readStable Diffusion2 min read
Jul 3Use DALL-E to create infinite zoom moviesEver since DALL-E launched a few months ago, OpenAI’s machine learning tool has been blowing the Internet’s mind with its uncanny ability to convert any sentence into an image. I’ve been playing around with DALL-E and one of the things that I stumbled into, is making zoomable movies. A number…Dalle 24 min readDalle 24 min read
May 31Visualizing Poetry using DALL-EOver the weekend I ran an experiment to use DALL-E 2 to automatically illustrate poems. I had been playing with this thing a few months ago, but was using a different image generator and though it was interesting, it never came out well. The new results are more promising. We…Dalle 25 min readDalle 25 min read
Apr 20Tool building organizationsLast time we talked about the superpower of being able to build your own tools. This might be a bit of a lost art with the Industrial Revolution replacing artisans with laborers doing standard jobs. And now it looks like in the data economy building your own tools is going…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Mar 17Toolmakers and Tool UsersToday I wanted to talk about the superpower of building your own tools. Animals who have been using tools since way when of course have always had this power. …Innovation6 min readInnovation6 min read
Feb 23The Clever Bit and the Gold RushIn my last post I lamented the fact that it sometimes seems that fewer tech companies have a clever bit and that it seems it is more and more just about applying some known tricks to existing industries while driving software’s mission to eat the world forward. And that maybe…Economics5 min readEconomics5 min read
Feb 16What’s the clever bit?My last day at Sidewalk Labs, the company where I worked on making cities better for the last four years, was December 31st 2021. I’m going to do something new. It’s cool and exciting and I’ll write about it some other time. Today I want to talk about the clever…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Published in MLearning.ai·Oct 18, 2021Deep Travel: AI as a Travel WriterWhen I was at Google Zurich for a while I was part of the crew that introduced new hires. As part of that we’d always ask them what their hobbies were. The most common reply was “photography, hiking and travel”. So it’s no wonder that people in tech often come…Gpt 35 min readGpt 35 min read
Published in MLearning.ai·Sep 7, 2021Visualizing Sea level riseSomething like 15 years ago I put together some geographical data I found online containing European elevation and created a GIF out of it showing how Europe would be impacted at various amounts of sea level rise. …Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
