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APRIL 27, 2023

Live 100 Special: Creative AI with Friends

Hi Friends!

I'm hosting a live conversation today with special guests to celebrate my 100th YouTube live stream, Thursday, April 27, at 10:30 AM Pacific Time.

I've invited Adam Menges (ex-Lobe.ai), Joel Simon (Artbreeder), Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo (Harvard, ParametricCamp), and Kyle Steinfeld (University of California, Berkeley) to pick their brains on creative machine intelligence and how it's being used in academia and next-generation design tools.

The conversation will take place in Riverside at nono.ma/live/100.

With that link, you'll join as part of the audience and can participate in the chat. There's an option to "call in" and join the call, which we could use for questions or even to have everyone who wants to join at the end of the call.

Feel free to forward this invite to friends interested in AI & ML.

Thanks so much for being part of my journey.

Warmly,

Nono

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022


In Live 90, we connected via SSH to a Raspberry Pi and took some photos with the Pi Camera, and then trained YOLOv7 on a dataset of hand sketches and detected drawings, text, and arrows from several pages of one of my sketchbooks.


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NOVEMBER 24, 2022


In Live 89, we saw an overview of TensorFlow Signatures and did a hands-on demo to implement them as well as to understand Python decorators.


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JUNE 23, 2022

I recently got access to OpenAI's DALL·E 21 text-to-image beta. In short, this AI system can generate images from text prompts, create semantic local edits by selecting an image region and altering your prompt text, or generate variations of uploaded or generated images.

I've been playing with it and will be doing a live demo today in Live 79 and sharing some of my experiments and thoughts on this tool, which is quite impressive.

OpenAI's DALL·E 2 variations of a hand sketch of an Amazon box by Nono Martínez Alonso.

DALL-E 2 Demo Videos


  1. DALL·E 1 was released in early 2021 and DALL·E 2 in 2022. The latter produces more realistic images. Imagen, Google's version of DALL·E, was recently released but hasn't been opened to the public due to concerns about potentially harmful uses of the AI system, e.g., porn, harassment, etc. 

JUNE 20, 2022

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JUNE 5, 2022

In Live 70—I learned about YouTube's Upload Python API, which allows us to programmatically upload high-resolution videos to YouTube from a client application or the command-line interface.

Among other things, we learned how to create a Google Cloud Platform project and create API keys and OAuth 2.0 credentials to authenticate custom applications to different Google APIs. We also saw how to restrict your client id and secret to a specific IP address during testing and how to scope our application to certain API calls (say, uploading videos to YouTube or changing video thumbnails).

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APRIL 30, 2022

Hi, all! I'm a bit behind with adding chapters and summaries about what we did in the live stream, specifically for Live 70 and 71—I'm working on it! There won't probably be live-streaming the first week of May (that's this coming week). But it seems we'll be back at it on Thursday, May 12.

You can watch my three-minute summary of Live 71.

APRIL 8, 2022

In yesterday's live stream—Live 68—we took a look at the linear regression following Aurélien Géron's Hands-On Machine Learning book. We saw the normal equation, how to calculate the dot product of two matrices and the inverse of a matrix, and saw a few different ways in which, with code, you can solve a linear equation, plus how to do it with Sci-Kit Learn's LinearRegression class.

You can take a look at the Linear Regression Colab notebook.

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