Jason Shen

"When I was young I took my father and my three uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else wasn't like them. Later on, I found that this was a mistake, but I've never quite managed to adapt myself to it. I suppose they were unusual, but I still think that they were right, and insofar as the world disagrees with them, I... See more

Penelope Fitzgerald

Defying Convention

Penelope Fitzgerald on rejecting expectations

Key features of the 2.0 release

New text-to-image diffusion models using a brand new text encoder (OpenCLIP). Result: improved image quality, although not everyone likes the style.

Super-resolution upscaler diffusion models which enhance the resolution of images by a factor of 4.

Depth-to-image diffusion model which infers the depth of an input

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The untold story of what fuels Michael Jordan's legendary fire

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Authentic Pride

"We had field days in elementary school where in May you'd go out and have a 100-yard dash," he says. "Even then, Mike, he hated losing. Some of the memories I have on activity buses going to football, basketball, baseball games. There was many times we'd have a game of cards on the activity bus. And we'd get to the school we were playing, and Mike hadn't been winning the last few hands? He wouldn't let anybody get off the bus."

twelve years a slave, from his birth, in Dallas County, Alabama, in 1853 or so, until Union cavalry swept through the cotton plantation where he was owned, in 1865. Sixty-four years later, in 1939, homeless on the streets of Montgomery, he became an extraordinary artist, making magnetically beautiful, dramatic, and utterly original drawings on... See more

The Utterly Original Bill Traylor

Outlier Exemplars and Creativity

Bill Traylor, the ultimate late bloomer

Don't flash owls!

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Wanna know how they get birds to stop chirping on movie sets?

we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.

This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock

Transitions / pivots

The pain of change

Imagine being able to have a language conversation about anything with a computer. This is now possible and available to many people for the first time with ChatGPT. In this episode we take a look at the consequences and some interesting insights from Open AI’s CEO Sam Altman.