Nvidia AI Image Generator Fits on a Floppy Disk and Takes 4 Minutes to Train

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11 points·uptownfunk··9 comments

This looks interesting but the size isn't a fair comparison, from my skim it's storing embedding generated by an existing model, the 100kb is some embeddings that the procedure needs, it still needs a full on text-to-image model to go with it. It's closer to saying i can store some prompts in a 100k text file. Not to diminish the work, just the presentation exaggerates meaningless comparison points.

Related: Paper: "Key-Locked Rank One Editing for Text-to-Image Personalization":

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.01644.pdf

What is a floppy disk?

Way to make a fella feel old.

Before Threads or Tiktok, before ChatGPT, before Stack Overflow, before Google, before the Internet, before USB flash drives, before CD-roms, we had floppy disks to store and move data around on. They came in 8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy sizes, and held 2 MegaBytes, tops*. They were loud and slow, and prone to corruption, but that's what we had, back in the day.

https://obsoletemedia.org/data/floppy-museum/

* 2 MiB raw, 1.44 MiB formatted, the way I recall, for the 3½ ones. There were later formats but they never quite caught on.

I should change my username name to AncientArtifact :/

And you could boot a small linux to act as a firewall/nat service [0] for your brand new cable modem service on a cheap 486. Ran that for 3-4 yrs before nat routers became a thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

A 3D printed save button :)

Wait, are you serious?

It’s happening

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