In my previous post about experimenting with Stable Diffusion, I left out a couple of important things.
The first, is to link to this blog post. It has some excellent info on how to set up Stable Diffusion, how to run it, and the various parameters. In fact, it was the main basis for my own article. So, just citing my sources 🙂
The second is to mention that I used the same seed to generate each of the six images in my output.…
All of a sudden, all that anybody seems to talk about when it comes to AI-based image generation is Stable Diffusion from Stability AI. Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you 🙂
Till Stable Diffusion came along, if you wanted to do any image generation using AI, you either had to use the limited (in terms of free) image generation provided by Dall-e or MidJourney, or look at Google’s Imagen and simply hope/wish that one day you would have access to that kind of quality when generating images 😛
Sure, there are other alternatives like Craiyon, but the quality isn’t as good as that of Dall-e or its ilk.…
Till a few months ago, I didn’t think a fitness tracker would be of any benefit for me.
I thought a fitness tracker was something somebody who led an active life-style — a jogger, a swimmer, or somebody who went to the gym regularly — needed but not for somebody like me, someone who sat at the desk (or rather on the couch) the whole day in front of a computer.…
I had originally planned to write this post to introduce this new blog. But real-life events intruded in the form of AirBnB guests and not getting much sleep (you can read all about that here). But here’s the original post … finally!
As long as I can remember, my Dad has maintained a diary. When I was young, I used to see him scribbling away every day and had no idea what he was doing.…
iOS 14 is here upon us — or at least, for those of us who use (and develop for) Apple devices. And with its arrival, it brings along a host of changes to how things are coded for iOS devices.
One thing that appears to have changed that I didn’t notice at all at first was the new way to handle list views.…
As you might have realized if you read my post on the Oculus Quest 2 and Business Apps, I’m very excited about the possibilities presented by the Oculus Quest 2 😃
So, I was just waiting for my new Oculus Quest 2 to arrive so that I could try it out. It arrived yesterday, but due to how deliveries are handled at our apartment building, I could not get my hands on it till early in the morning today.…
The image above is of a message that I received just a little while ago on LinkedIn.
Now some of you are immediately, going “scam” 😃 If you are in that category, read no more — this post is probably of no use to you. If you thought, even for a fraction of a second, that the message might be legit, then read on … I have a bridge to sell you 😀
Kidding … I don’t sell bridges, I sell specialized services 😀
All kidding aside, this kind of message should be setting off all kinds of alarms if you received it.…
Recently, I came across a job posting which said something along the lines of: remote part-time work, $1K to $2K, located in Europe or America, collaborative work etc.
Being curious, I responded expecting some sort of a part time development opportunity. But what I heard back was a little bit different 😃
Basically, I was told that the person who posted the job — let’s call them OP — was representing a group of people who had been finding remote development work on places like Upwork, but that they were being discriminated against by potential employers because of their geographic location.…
When you are planning a new project, you might be tempted to get a leg up on the long road ahead by downloading and/or purchasing the source code to an app which does some of what you want and then modify it to get you the rest of the way.
That is a perfectly fine (and smart) way to go.
However, if you get your source code from an unknown source, you do have to beware of hidden traps.…
Sometimes, working with Unity can be a bit trying 😀
I was doing a fair amount of house-cleaning on a project where I was moving scripts around, changing file names etc. At some point, I apparently touched a file which was associated with game data.
Just to set the background, you can have objects in Unity which are sub-classes of ScriptableObject.…