The Technium

Weekly Links, 08/26/2022


  • That was fast. There is now a marketplace for prompts. You can buy prompts for Dalle or Midjourney to create specific art, without all that messing around and trial and error. You know, hire prompt artists! PromptBase
  • Now things are moving very fast. Here is a search engine for prompts for generating images. It searches Stable Diffusion for use of your words in a prompt, to see what others have done, to save you cycles. https://lexica.art
  • Classic Moore’s Law has been dead for a while. Progress continues with modified Moore’s Laws. The latest regime in chips are task specific chips, such as those for AI or even AI self-driving cars. Here’s an accessible overview of “heterogeneous compute”. Heterogeneous Compute: The Paradigm Shift No One is Talking About
  • Recently I’ve been getting a lot of “wrong person” spam texts. Here is a great explanation of what the intended scam is. What’s the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?



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