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I really wanted to illustrate long stories with Stable Diffusion! So, hacked together this pipeline:

Long text -> GPT-3 suggests illustration ideas -> GPT-3 translates from English to "prompt-English" -> Stable Diffusion outputs images

Open source: https://github.com/sharonzhou/long_stable_diffusion

Here's a published story, illustrated by this repo, titled "Never Hire a Herd of Goats to Mow your Lawn": https://storiesby.ai/p/never-hire-a-herd-of-goats-to-mow

That story is AI-written, AI-narrated, AI-illustrated story, which a couple friends and I have been generating.

An earlier story made the top of HackerNews a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652673. I was too slow to illustrate that earlier week's piece, so it became clear to me that I had to automate myself with this repo... definitely not overengineering the solution.

Anyways, hope you like it or parts of it. Pull requests veryyyy welcome. This was just a weekend project to keep my GPUs company.

Tweet with more stuff, if at all interesting: https://twitter.com/realSharonZhou/status/156703103573259468...

Crowd anonymization AI to fight police use of face recognition. Detects faces among huge crowds of BLM protesters and shields their faces with a BLM fist. http://blm.stanford.edu

HN was hugely important in helping me and my cofounder validate and start a program for employed engineers to start companies (Sidepact). We started to validate whether start Sidepact with this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17008044

With the initial feedback + response, we were able to a) solicit 100+ applications and validate our idea, and b) decide to actually run the program (complete with speakers, investor events, and a 'demo day'). Over half of the first cohort heard of Sidepact through HN, and we're definitely thankful to have been able to reach the niche of folks who read HN!

Yes, absolutely, we think that’s extremely relevant. We welcome you to bring ideas, and just ask that you be open-minded too, as you iterate on them.

Cofounders of Sidepact here.

Applications for the next cohort of Sidepact are now open! Sidepact does the work of matching you with a team, establishing shared commitment, and working on a problem you care about.

Over the last few weeks we’ve received some great applications, signed on advisors from the first batch of YC and the Stanford GSB, and had top-tier VCs commit to Demo Day.

We’re hoping to bring you from product validation to the launch of your startup. Hope you’ll join us!

Sidepact applications close Sunday, June 17th. If you or someone you know might be interested, chat us at sharon (at) sidepact.com or kevin (at) sidepact.com to learn more!

The equity is also there to ensure that the organization has aligned incentives. From our conversations with people that have just a desire to start a company, but may lack the experience, team, or social capital to do so, we believe the equity stake asked for is reasonable.

We've thought about charging more to ensure commitment through the program, but we'd like to make the program as accessible as possible (especially for our first cohort).

As for the VCs and angels coming to pitch week, we're actively working on this and hope to have more to share over the coming weeks.

That makes sense; and we will have more information on this front.

As a side note, aside from the above sources of value mentioned (essentially access), one thing that we're looking to provide is some structure and community to those who are also looking to start a company. We recognize that this is not something necessarily every founder needs

We really hope that people feel inspired to do that too! We've found that for some founders, having structure and shared commitment go a long way and we'd like to support that part of the process. The equity is also there to ensure that the organization has aligned incentives and skin in the game.

We aim to provide teams access to relevant angel/seed investors on the demo day at the end of the program.

That would be awesome. Maybe you can start one :)

The program is 12 weeks, so the fee extends through that duration. At the end of the 12 weeks, there's a demo day (similar to YC). The fee aims to cover basic venue costs, snacks, and shared social events to build camaraderie.

Absolutely!

We have interviews ;)

That's wonderful! We only ask that you come in with an open mind to other ideas and share the ownership of what you build together.

Yes, you fit the bill! :) We ask that you come in with an open mind to others' ideas and share the ownership of what you build together.

We anticipate that mileage will vary by team, and that we'll support teams to reach these milestones. This includes helping find those customers and prioritizing feature development.

Thanks so much! Fixed. :)

Cofounders of Sidepact here.

We’re looking for ambitious engineers with or without full-time jobs, who want to start a company. Sidepact does the work of matching you with a team and establishing shared commitment on a meaningful problem. It’s like an extended hackathon, with the goal of bringing you to the validation and launch of your startup.

That’s our vision, and we hope you’ll join us!