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gorkemyurton Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model

wow! latency is insane

gorkemyurton Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

also no signup for the optimized endpoint on fal https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux/schnell

gorkemyurton AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3

https://x.com/ostrisai/status/1811620901420429441

gorkemyurton Stable Cascade

we have an optimized playground here: https://www.fal.ai/models/stable-cascade

gorkemyurton Image inference faster than you can type

https://twitter.com/gorkemyurt/status/1724485367892709526

gorkemyurton Real Time Sketching –> Image Generation

thanks for the feedback codingwave! yes there is so much to add! wanted to highlight the potential with this demo

gorkemyurton Generate Portraits with the Style of Fernando Botero

Earlier this week, we lost one of my favorite artists, Fernando Botero. I've always admired the whimsical and accessible nature of his artwork.

We trained a LoRA on his art style, and I am truly impressed by how effectively it captures his essence.

Some of my favorites: https://twitter.com/gorkemyurt/status/1704903418035454448

gorkemyurton Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

incredible job @ykhli! thank you for the fal.ai mention on the stack! https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town#stack

for anyone eager to generate their own simulation head to https://serverless.fal.ai/lora to create your own pixel art game characters

gorkemyurton Segment anything and Stable Diffusion showcase app

thanks for the interest, had some downtime but should be working now!

gorkemyurton Segment anything and Stable Diffusion showcase app

Sharing our reference application that we built using Stable Diffusion and Segment Anything.

Stable Diffusion + Segment Anything - https://www.editanything.ai/ (try out the app!)

We believe chaining different models can lead to impressive user experiences and as an AI product owner you can really differentiate yourself from others if you use several models in creative ways.

https://github.com/fal-ai/edit-anything-app

In the example there is python code to do the model inference as well as the javascript code to build the application. I believe this would be a great reference implementation for people trying to build their own AI apps.

Made a short video explaining the application: https://youtu.be/ob_WOogJn_A

If there is interest would love to do a walkthrough of the codebase with a video as well!

gorkemyurton Building language model powered pipelines with dbt

LLM models can still be leveraged to solve everyday problems of analytics engineers and data engineers. Transformation of unstructured text is a notoriously complicated problem almost every business faces every day.

Would you jump on the AI bandwagon if I told you that you that you can get rid of that 15 line regular expression that you keep around to do entity resolution or detect addresses?

gorkemyurton The Unbundling of Airflow

Hi, I am the author of the post which parts did you find hard to follow?

gorkemyurton The Unbundling of Airflow

High Resolution Version of the diagram if anyone is interested

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1btZ0yck9SdgsUdNom0WXgHcSQvO...

gorkemyurton Launch HN: Castled Data (YC W22) – Open-Source Reverse ETL

I think its still "coming soon"

https://airbyte.com/blog/airbyte-strategy-to-commoditize-all...

gorkemyurton Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices?

AI, VR and crypto all require GPUs and coming of age at the same time..

gorkemyurton I hope work from home continues

How do you carry your monitor? this has been a problem for me during covid. also there is the work chair problem..

gorkemyurton Who Owns the Nile?

"Egypt's military is the strongest in the region minus Israel." and minus Turkey

gorkemyurton Who Owns the Nile?

well Egypt is the downstream country in this case..

gorkemyurton Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

Outside of germany and poland most jews died in greece in the Holocaust. Salonika had a vibrant jewish population in early 1900s and now virtually no jews live in Salonika. During ottoman times greeks and jews were fierce enemies and killed each other in many occasions in Istanbul, Smyrna, Alexandria and Salonika.. Jews, mostly loyal to ottamans during the greek independence war were punished (aka murdered) by the greek army in many occasions.

gorkemyurton Almost one in five Americans may have been infected with Covid-19

Until very recently Turkey was only reporting symptomatic patients. After some pressure from healthcare unions they started reporting all positive cases.

gorkemyurton An abandoned seaside town in Cyprus is about to reopen

Colonization was an internationally accepted standard doesn't mean it was fair.

Turkey and Ottoman Empire before her, was forced to sign many deals that hindered her development and let European counties pillage all the resources, this is just another one.

gorkemyurton An abandoned seaside town in Cyprus is about to reopen

Well mainland Turkey is also inhabited by Greeks for a millennia they all converted to another religion and not called Greeks anymore. I don't think we can decide what's right and what's wrong by trying to analyze flimsy political identities.

gorkemyurton An abandoned seaside town in Cyprus is about to reopen

UNCLOS is problematic when it comes to islands, disputes are usually solved on 1-1 agreements between countries or not solved like South China Sea. Google "Kastellorizo", a small island between Rhodes and Cyprus. Greece claims EZ on almost all the waters between Cyprus and Rhodes because of these 3 small islands.

Cyprus should not have been admitted to EU before accepting the Annan plan, unfortunately they were and now the last generation of Cypriot Turks and Greeks are getting old a solution is still far away..

Countries have no problem recognizing "British Overseas Territories" scattered around the world, conveniently 2 large town sized military bases in Cyprus, but when it comes to a less powerful country like Turkey using military power, this is reason for international isolation. Erdogan is taking it way too far now but it's been like this before him too. It's ruthless out there.

gorkemyurton An abandoned seaside town in Cyprus is about to reopen

Have you been following the ridiculous Maritime EZ claims from the Greek nationalists? This is just a bargaining chip on the table.

gorkemyurton Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

https://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/10/12430444/sf-apartment-constr...

And San Francisco? Our 4,100 new apartments is just one per 204 persons. Only three cities managed to do less: San Diego (225), Chicago (324), and New York City (396).

gorkemyurton Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

LIC is one of the few places New York NIMBYs allowed development

gorkemyurton Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

In case you didn't know SF has been building more housing/per capita than New York City for a while now..

gorkemyurton PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation

Banks don't like to lend money to company with no tangible assets.

gorkemyurton Apple becomes the first $1T company

Probably lifted thousands of people out of poverty!

gorkemyurton San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch

This is not Scranton, Pennsylvania no one drives 10 miles for lunch in San Francisco, city is only 7 miles wide