Transcript: What a day. Um, I completely nerd sniped the fuck out of myself by trying to go down this quantization rabbit hole, writing a script, getting it working, and then going to Jordan's house to upload 100 gigabytes of files. Um, and I don't know, hopefully people use them. Hopefully there's some downloads. Like, if there's 10, like, that would be pretty stoke. Um, but I want to go back and just test it on a few more images and show some results. That's pretty legit. Um, yeah.
I had an excellent call with Jordan, which I'll discuss in more detail later. Unexpectedly, I succeeded in quantizing lava, and the initial results look promising despite the script being rough. It seems feasible that I might run something akin to GPT-4 style vision captioning locally. I'm excited to upload these quantized models to see the outcomes and I plan to head to Jordan's house to upload more models soon.
I recently discovered that because my upload speed is only two megabytes per second, I had to go over to Jordan's house with two flash drives to upload our quantized model. I find it amusing that I had to resort to such an old-school method. It's not clear how frequently this will happen, but if it becomes a common occurrence, I'll need to find a better solution than using Jordan's internet.
I've successfully published my work, which was an arduous yet rewarding process. On reflection, I realize I want to express myself authentically in my own voice, while also considering the need to help others understand my perspective. Looking ahead, I plan to maintain a regular output, potentially alternating days, to keep the stream of content going. In parallel, I'm excited to start developing new projects, including making my work easily accessible to others and laying the groundwork for a decentralized social network that supports various types of media.
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Today marked a significant advancement in the burrito project, where the image pipeline, established the previous day, became fully functional and integrated into a webpage, complete with an effective querying system. The visual aspect of the project, particularly the image embeddings, was both intriguing and aesthetically pleasing, although its effectiveness is still under review. The project is now at a stage where the creator is keen to move beyond personal experiments to sharing the results with others, with the immediate goal being to encourage a small group of individuals to test the developments. The focus for the week has shifted to actual user engagement through getting people to sign up and provide feedback, driven by the enthusiasm of witnessing the project's imagery features come to life.
I intended to note last night that I might be overly focused on the technology aspect. Jordan, who has confirmed my significant progress, joined me for burritos and I updated him on my work. I value Jordan's assistance and am grateful for his help. My aim is to get the product into users' hands for feedback, despite any associated anxiety.