What tools are you referring to and how are they being automated?

TBH I am not familiar with today's Midjourney, but I am thinking of things like face restoration, tiled VAEs for better high res generation, and self attention.

But many tools (like controlnet, or using images as input) require more manual control.

I'm currently running things locally on my MacBook Pro. The models aren't too big, just a few atoms for now as I'm still testing things. But the optimization codes runs for a couple of hours, and I wish it went down to less than a half hour. I am running GPAW.

Ok, so each instance takes a a "reasonable" amount of time and the whole structure optimization is taking hours? If you can get a setup with MPI and/or CUDA you may be able to cut the instance runtimes, but if the optimization is just slow to converge it won't help much. If it's the former then a higher end workstation or a small cluster could get you there. Cloud could be an option here too if you can aggregate the compute resources.

I'm not as familiar with GPAW but if you're able to share a minimal example I could try to take a look.

Here's a small example https://gist.github.com/killah-t-cell/d9425435732a155c8f0e72... (feel free to reach out to me at gbbinbum@gmail.com as well)

Would love to hear your thoughts

Extremely thoughtful reply. This type of argument completely undermines the reality that a small number of highly-productive companies generate most of the GDP. It is not about the amount of workers.

Thanks! I am 23 and live abroad so I always told myself I owned a smartphone to stay connected to family at home. But I just started to realize that it owns me. Plus during COVID I don't go out anyway. So why not try...

By all means, stay connected to your family--just try and do it through other platforms. In similar circumstances to yours, I stayed in contact with my family through Ring, Tox (toxic), and XMPP. I always preferred audio and video calls over texting them, which I almost never did. Stay connected to those that care about you the most, through healthy means. No need to own a smartphone, you are right about that one, but do know that there are meaningful connections worth maintaining.

It gets you hooked so quickly. I have no FB and a pretty tame Twitter. But it is so mindless that it gets me every now and then.

Inspiring set up. This is basically what I am gravitating towards.

Maybe the rule should be: no phone while at home? Lock it on arrival or something. All the practical/non-attention-sucking benefits of phones happen outdoors I reckon

I mean, you can still have an old phone that you can use for rendezvous - it is mostly an attention issue.

Thank you :) LMK if I can help you understand it. Onboarding still needs a bit of work.

Hi everyone. We built Wcurl as an internal tool after spending hours a day responding to outreach messages on LinkedIn. Our ultimate goal is to automate all outreach-related things up until the first call. We'd love to get your feedback. It is very MVP-ish – we just connected the dots between Slack, LinkedIn and Dialogflow :)

Does LinkedIn actually allow this? I thought they didn't allow bots on their platform...

It's a bit of a grey area. But there are other LinkedIn Automation tools already available.