Technology

Otherwise you have to reject a multitude of 20th Century Artists — There’s been a lot of debate over whether AI art is ‘real’ art, and whether its practitioners are artists. Jason Allen’s “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” winning the digital art category prize at the Colorado State Fair lit the fuse under that discussion. It’s fair to say many people are angry. But…

There are a lot of tech companies with career promises hiring now. Many of them happen to get rough diamonds and polish them into superstars but others simply turn engineers into zombies programmed to wander around clueless and hungry for real opportunities and career development. I will teach you how…

ESLint is a static analysis tool that is helping Javascript and Typescript developers write better code since 2013 taking over after TSLint, another widely used back in the days, static analysis tool. It comes with a set of static analysis rules that recognize unused variables, typos, and a wide range…

Their power beam demonstrator could spark a renewable revolution. — There are plenty of projects out there aiming to save the world from our self-made climate apocalypse. Consider the multibillion-dollar ITER fusion experiment, which aims to produce carbon-neutral fusion power. But projects like this are moving too slowly, and breakthroughs aren’t happening fast enough. To save the planet and our…

But that’s not what users wanted — are they right to be angry? — I don’t usually cover model announcements. I do exceptions for transcendental downstream implications (like with Galactica and BLOOM) or high interestingness/usefulness. Today’s topic probably checks both: Stability.ai, the king of open-source generative AI, has announced Stable Diffusion 2. The new version of Stable Diffusion brings key improvements and updates. In…