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I agree, it was written some time ago, and the language is hyperbolic, but many of the key points still hold true. Building a skillset to reach $100/hour consulting gigs was key to…

Close to Nsawam, in the village Darmang, I was the chief for 2-3 months, and when I left they wrote on my door, "Never forget your king Nana Darmang", I don't know if I'm still con…

Thanks! I saw your earlier question related to working with AI at FAANG, from the context of being 30ish, and self-taught. I was around 27 when I started learning software engineer…

I wrote a tldr here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=42976187

tldr, most of technology in rural Ghana was considered magic, like phones and tvs, and the only explanation was that it came from "the white man". The chief had recently died and f…

Hey, Emil from the article here. I end-up doing part-time work for Google at the interaction of Art/Culture and ML doing project like this ( https://artsandculture.google.com/story…

True story, happened when I was around 18: https://imgur.com/fNd55hB

Indeed, I realized it's hard to compete with PhD students for grants, and subsidising my work with content marketing does not fit my style, and I prefer owning my work and choosing…

true, thanks for adding context!

i'm planning on doing some sort of API, feel free to ping me at emil@palette[dot]fm with the constraints you have

not yet, these are great suggestions. it's always a dilemma to add features to mitigate the performance of a weak model, instead of making a better model. most of the problems go a…

ty! i'm glad you enjoy the tool. As for whether or not this tool could replace a professional colorist, I think it depends on the specific project. For some projects, Palette could…

lol, thanks! onnx, docker, and fastAPI on CPUs with AWS fargate. although i'm switching to GPUs in a month or two, so if you have any suggestions let me know.

thanks for the feedback! it's made out of two models, one model creates a caption and the second model takes the caption and the black and white image and colorizes it. if you clic…

not for now. i might make a local version in the future, but for now, enjoy!

ty!! yes, 1920x1920. i'm working on an unlimited resolution option, but it will take a few weeks.

cheers! i'm working on a proper privacy policy. I don't store any images that are uploaded. i use google analytics and mixpanel to store user interactions.

Thanks! yeah, a few people have used the tool to colorize videos, frame by frame. For example Lord of the flies (1963): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8eiho4 Although, I'd reco…

thanks, that means a lot!

I haven't made a write-up of this yet, I still need to figure out how to self-fund it. I normally do more layman scientific writing like this: https://artsandculture.google.com/sto…

Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, …

Hi HN, OP here, I wrote a 60-page guide on how to land your first machine learning job without a degree. I added the first few parts in the main submission. Launch Tweet: https://t…

- Jurisprudence: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/jurisprudence-recolo... - Philosophy: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/philosophy-recolored... - Medicine: https://a…