Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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So I had this photo guy and a lot of people using it. There was like a million or more photos a month being generated. And I discovered I was testing parameters, like increase the step count of generating a photo or changing the sampler, like a scheduler.
Like you have DPM, two caras, all these things I don't know anything about, but I know that you can choose them when you generate an image and they have different resulting images. But I didn't know which ones were better. So I would do it myself, test it. But then I was like, why don't I test on these users? Because I have a million photos generated anyway.
So on like 10% of the users, I would randomly test parameters. And then I would see if they would, because you can favor the photo or you can download it. I would measure if they favor it or like the photo. And then with A-B tests and you test for significance and stuff, which parameters were better and which were worse.
And then if it's significant enough data, you switch to that for all the users. And so that was like the breakthrough to make it better. Just use the users to improve themselves. And I tell them when they sign up, we do sampling, we do testing. on your photos with random parameters. And that worked really well.
I don't do a lot of testing anymore because it's like, I kind of reached like a diminishing point where it's like, it's kind of good. But there was a breakthrough, yeah.
Yeah. But actually, so like Stable Diffusion, I used 1.5, 2.0 came out, Stable Diffusion XL came out, all these new versions, and they were all worse. And so the core scene of people are still using 1.5 because it's also not what you call neutered. They neutered to make it super with safety features and stuff. So most of the people are still on Stable Diffusion 1.5.
And meanwhile, Stable Diffusion, the company went like... the CEO left, a lot of drama happened because they couldn't make money. And yeah, so they gave us, it's very interesting. They gave us this, this open source model that everybody uses. They raised like hundreds of millions of dollars. It all, they didn't make any money with it or not a lot. And they did an amazing job.
And now everybody uses open source model for free. And they did, you know, It's amazing.
No, and the strange thing is that this company raised hundreds of millions, but the people that are benefiting from it are really small. People like me who make these small apps that are using the model. And now they're starting to charge money for the new models, but the new models are not so good for people. They're not so open source, right?
It's kind of like those frameworks, but then they didn't, you know, bribe enough influencers to use it. And they didn't charge money for the platform, you know?
Man, mostly you don't know. Like, mostly I choose the ones that are most viable for me to build. Like, I cannot build a space company now, right? Would be quite challenging.
No, I think asteroid mining would be very cool. Because, like, you go to an asteroid, you take some stuff from there, you bring it back, you sell it. You know, it's... But then you need to do... And you can hire someone to launch the thing. So all you need is, like, the robot that goes to the asteroid. You know, and the robotics is interesting. Like, I want to also learn robotics. So maybe...
We do this not because it's easy, but because we thought it would be easy. Exactly. That's me with asteroid mining. Exactly. That's why I should do this.
Yeah, but it seems, man, I sound like an idiot probably now, but it sounds quite approachable, like relatively approachable. You don't have to build the rockets.
Yeah, you hire SpaceX to send your, you know, this dog robot or whatever.
No, I used, back then I used Trello. Trello. Yeah, but now I don't really. I use Telegram. I write down like saved messages and I... Have like idea right down there. You type to yourself on Telegram. You know, like, cause you use WhatsApp, right? I think. So you have like message to yourself thing also. Yeah.
Yeah. Use like a notepad, not forget stuff. And then I pin it, you know.
Man, I saw some YouTubers doing this, like, There's a lot of these productivity gurus also, and they do this whole like iPad with a pencil. And then I also had an iPad and I also got the pencil and I got this app where you can like draw on paper, like draw like a calendar, you know, like people, students use this and you can do coloring and stuff. And I'm like, dude, I did this for a week.
And I'm like, what am I doing with my life? Like I could just write it as a message to myself and it's good enough, you know?
That's really interesting. I wrote it wrong because I don't know. I'm not native English, but it emerges from your subconscious, right? It comes from the, like a water is your subconscious in here is boiling. And then when it's ready, it's like, ding, it's like a microwave comes out and there you have your idea. You think you have ideas like that?
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