In this post I'll be going in a different direction compared to the posts I've written so far. It's been a long time that I have this thought going through my mind, hopefully it will make more sense (to me mostly) in written form. These thoughts center on the role optimism plays in my professional life.
Google's NotebookLM is making the rounds on the internet (at least in my bubble). It's a new AI tool that Google pitches as a "personalized research assistant" but has evolved to be much more than that, including... a podcast generator.
Moved by my curiosity on everything AI related, I decided to give it a try by creating a LoRa adapter on the FLUX.1 model by Black Forest Labs to generate pictures of myself that never happened.
These are some notes on the tradeoffs and best practices between On Demand pricing vs Editions pricing.
A small TIL about Python profiling.