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Adventures in Wordsmithing — In Short …

I’ve always loved words and reading. In fact, some of my earliest memories are of wanting to read but not having the words — once when I was about three and wanting to read a comic in Sinhala and a couple of years later, discovering English comics (TinTin and Marvel comics on two separate occasions) and not knowing English.

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13 November 20228 December 2022 — 5 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering — Communities and Conduct

I have been developing software for over thirty years and for around 20+ of those years I have been involved in open source and free software. In fact, for most of my software development career, I’ve released software for free because I believe that if it is something I like and find useful, then it might help others too.

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9 October 20228 December 2022 — 6 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering – How GUI is it?

At this point in time, there are a lot of Stable Diffusion codebases and GUIs out there. But, as far as I know at least, there aren’t a lot of GUIs for macOS. In fact, getting Stable Diffusion working on macOS is itself problematic for two reasons:

  1. On Intel macs there isn’t any GPU support
  2. On the Apple Silicon side, while there is some support for MPS (Metal Performance Shaders) the support is still nascent and is a little buggy.
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18 September 20228 December 2022 — 4 MIN READ

Adventure in Imagineering – Getting Random

As I’ve written previously, I’ve been working on a GUI for Stable Diffusion since I prefer working with a simple UI that allows me to do everything in one place. The trouble with that is that I don’t get as much time for doing other Stable Diffusion development since I only get to do any of this work in my spare time and on weekends.

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17 September 20228 December 2022 — 3 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering – Getting GUI

I previously talked about how I had been working with Stable Diffusion and that I also was creating a GUI for the image generator. Well, I re-wrote the GUI again since I wasn’t happy with how the previous version worked 😛

The thing that annoyed me the most was that wxPython sliders had no way to display floating point values.

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10 September 20228 December 2022 — 3 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering – the AI Backlash

I’ve loved technology for the longest time. I can’t put an exact date to it, but the earliest recollection I have is that I wanted to work with computers when I was in grade nine … that would have been when I was about fifteen?

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8 September 20228 December 2022 — 5 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering — Stable Diffusion, the Unstable Bits …

I figured out a more or less functional set up for running Stable Diffusion on my Apple M1 MacBook Pro a couple of days ago. Since then, I’ve mostly done Stable Diffusion tasks on my local machine instead of doing things on Google Colab (or Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab).

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4 September 20228 December 2022 — 9 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering – Where do the GPU-less go?

I’ve been writing a lot about Stable Diffusion (and image generation using AI) lately. That’s because providing a text prompt, getting an AI generated image back after a few seconds, and then improving upon your prompt to get the exact image you want can be so very addictive 🙂

But there’s a flip-side to the coin — those who can’t run AI systems like Stable Diffusion because their machines don’t support it.

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3 September 20228 December 2022 — 4 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering – Mining the Apple Silicon

When I heard about Stable Diffusion, the first thing I wanted to do was install it on my Apple Silicon MacBook and try it out. Unfortunately, at that point, I couldn’t do so because Stable Diffusion required GPU support and there was no complete Metal GPU support at that point for PyTorch that you needed in order to test out Stable Diffusion.

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2 September 20228 December 2022 — 6 MIN READ

Adventures in Imagineering – I’m Outpainting the Discworld!

It’s been a pretty interesting few weeks for those interested in AI image generation. Things are happening fast and it might even be a bit hard to keep up with all that is going on. First, there was the arrival of Stable Diffusion.

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1 September 20228 December 2022 — 5 MIN READ
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