Principles: Life and Work

Experiments with OpenAI’s text-to-image generation AI system DALL-E 2, mini-essays on the creative process and being done, and blogging tools you can use.

Links * DALL-E 2, Explained by Nono (video) * Variations of "A minimalist 3d render of a balloon car" plus "A sunflower" by Edward Hopper by Nono x DALL-E * OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 publication * Google Imagen: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models * Google Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image Model * The meaning of done (post) * If it's not fun, you shouldn't do it (post) * Another one of those (post) * Folio: Nono’s content management system * Substack, Twitter Writer & Medium (blogging platforms) * Ghost, WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo & Next.js (blogging frameworks) * Nono’s sketches and stories * YouTube channel

Books * Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

People mentioned * Frank Harmon * Ray Dalio

Chapters * 00:00 · Introduction * 00:39 · An incoming conversation with Frank Harmon * 01:34 · Episode contents * 01:55 · DALL-E 2 and AI systems * 06:45 · What can DALL-E do? * 09:54 · GPT-3: Language models * 12:05 · Mini-Essays on the creative process * 12:15 · Mini-Essay: The meaning of done * 13:38 · Mini-Essay: If it's no fun, you shouldn't do it * 15:33 · Mini-Essay: Another one of those * 16:51 · Writing series * 17:51 · What does Nono use for blogging? * 22:45 · Outro

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