Nice job! That's a neat use case. Impressive too. You got texts, image generation using AI and storage and retrieval and display. All with a low cost. This would make a nice solution for a kiosk or displays you see in stores.
Creating a social photo frame from scratch
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#12I love looking at books in people's photos. Here's what I found in yours. I hope you don't mind!
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Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - A detailed account of the Theranos scandal.
The Founders by Jimmy Soni - Explores the early days of PayPal and its impact on Silicon Valley.
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - Memoir by the founder of Nike.
Measure What Matters by John Doerr - A book about OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and organizational success.
Business Adventures by John Brooks - Classic tales of corporate life, highly recommended by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Becoming by Michelle Obama - The former First Lady's personal memoir.
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch - Inspirational reflections on life and achieving dreams.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - A comprehensive biography of Apple's co-founder.
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez - A look into the wild side of Silicon Valley.
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy - A deep dive into the social media giant's history and controversies.
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich - Stories of innovation from Lockheed Martin’s legendary division.
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke - How to make decisions under uncertainty.
Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan M. Gardner - Insights into better prediction and decision-making.
Educated by Tara Westover - A memoir about resilience and education.
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - A raw look at the life of a chef.
Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin - A biography of the physicist behind the atomic bomb.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Wisdom on wealth and happiness.
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I've read Naval's book, but not the others. Are there any in particular you really enjoyed?
Re: Creating a social photo frame from scratch
#13another one of these super-cool 'lets burn the planet for fun using generative AI' projects.
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#14That screen needs a thick traditional ornate picture frame around it. It will completely change the whole vibe in a positive way. As for the cable, all it needs is a punched hole in the wall, hidden behind the screen, and another directly beneath it by the floor. For extra bang, frame the screen with passive dielectric mirrored glass. DM 30/70 lets the screen's light through, slightly dampened, which is good for use…
> As for the cable, all it needs is a punched hole in the wall, hidden behind the screen, and another directly beneath it by the floor. Likely against code to do this. Power cables are not meant to go behind the wall. There are products that exist to do this, but please don't just run the actual power cable this way.
What code would forbid you to run power cables behind your walls? Where would power cables be if not behind walls? What country is that?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As for the cable, all it needs is a punched hole in the wall, hidden behind the screen, and another directly beneath it by the floor. Likely against code to do this. Power cables are not meant to go behind the wall. There are products that exist to do this, but please don't just run the actual power cable this way.
What code would forbid you to run power cables behind your walls? Where would power cables be if not behind walls? What country is that?
It’s about power cords not properly installed electrical wiring.
Google for “power cords in walls” for tons of discussion about why not, and for national electrical code section 400.8 for the actual regulations. Probably US-centric but the general concerns apply.
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#16another one of these super-cool 'lets burn the planet for fun using generative AI' projects.
The planet has been here far longer than humans, and will be here far longer than humans, and has seen far harsher conditions too. Don't worry about the planet, worry about the humans.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
What code would forbid you to run power cables behind your walls? Where would power cables be if not behind walls? What country is that?
It’s about power cords not properly installed electrical wiring. Google for “power cords in walls” for tons of discussion about why not, and for national electrical code section 400.8 for the actual regulations. Probably US-centric but the general concerns apply.
If hiding TV power and video cables behind a few feet of walls is a code violating disease, the US has an out of control epidemic!
Note the practical difference between running fat insulated cables (so safe they are built to live bare in living spaces, often piled in knots behind furniture), from infrastructure wiring meant to be inaccessibly buried in home structures.
You may be right that technically it’s against code to tidily hide HDMI, USB-C or consumer power cables this way, but apparently there is no county in the US where city inspectors have been so unwise as to commit career seppuku for speaking up on that one!
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#19another one of these super-cool 'lets burn the planet for fun using generative AI' projects.
The planet has been here far longer than humans, and will be here far longer than humans, and has seen far harsher conditions too. Don't worry about the planet, worry about the humans.
Not to mention that descendants of DALL-E, and like, operating on fusion energy, won’t have the fragile climate dependencies that we do!
We are a spark. We burned bright. Our preciousness is enhanced by our temporal finitude. They will never forget us, safe in the cold storage of their historical archives!
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#20Nice job. I repurposed an old laptop with an RTX 2070 in it for a similar purpose. I have a Samsung Frame in my bedroom so the laptop spins up for about 15-20 minutes every day and generates new imagery using a combination of a small 7b LLM model to generate a stable diffusion prompt to generate the imagery. It's then fed through moderation filters, various upscaling, img2img and finally piped out to the Samsung Fram…
this is awesome, do you mind me asking what your prompt is? There is a really sweet photo on your site right now
Thanks~ I'm afraid I can't get it for you! What actually happens is that the laptop uploads all finalized images to an S3 bucket and then sleeps to save power. I have a raspberry PI that's responsible for fetching a random image and displaying it on the Samsung Frame on an hourly basis.
Next time you see one you like though, you can save the image to your machine and use something like exiftool to extract the meta information - I save the prompt inside the EXIF.