16:47, ready for action!
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ZeroVariance.
Dall-e is in public beta, so Carlos was excited about using the API
Place to draw&chill
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Talking with Luisa from Modash and Dasha from ClickAndGrow.
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Super hyped from caffeine from NOCCO
After splitting responsibilities and convincing Carlos to allow me deal with video processing (which he considers really difficult problem) I started my journey: (Saturday, 00:13AM)
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Made an example run from https://github.com/anajetli/python_video_editing. Doesn’t do what I want, but it’s a start.
In about an hour (01:19 I had beautiful video of Carlos over some screen recording I had laying around on the mac:
% time python lt3.py
python lt3.py 37.18s user 17.06s system 111% cpu 48.471 total6 second video. So 8 second per second.
But this was single-threaded work. Can be parallelised, if I would bother. For real-time demo 6seconds is clearly a limit. For submission magic of video editing will help.
Saturday, 12:08. Discussed with Smartly team. Carlos didn’t want to share preliminary demo with Dall-E and other fun stuff.
Went for lunch/breakfast, but door was still closed. Too early and too late at the same time 😉
Found cool repo – https://github.com/mayeaux/nodetube. Looks promising – black background, should have upload and stream functionality, dockerised. Let’s try to adapt it
The joy of M1 Macbook:
[Warning] The requested image’s platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested
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Docker builds super slow
in the end, flask is our everything. Had to fight few issues since I initially used TurboFlask, and had enough dummy UI issues.
At 17:14 I was able to render 6 videos in parallel with overlaying text in different places, and image of user’s choice.
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We even missed Alpakas around the campus, while trying to make everything work.
It was great to take a 20m power nap in sleepind pod by Reaktor -> their challenge about mental health was so popular – more than 50 teams have chosen to work on it! Talk about competitiveness.
To see how well our software works so far -> enjoy Auto-generated video with AI-generated “energetic jumping dog”
Of course, when partners came to see what we were doing, I got an unexpected error when rendering videos.
Good that I have a “read-only” page where I can view existing videos.
After a bit of cotton candy and prettifying the results page, my energy went down to 20%. So walk at 3 degreee weather was needed.
Time to think about user flows and about what and how to demo.
(and maybe make things look a bit pretty)
2AM Sunday, things finally work together. Awesome AI generational thing by Carlos is connected with video generating pipeline, whole website is navigatable :tada
Video… Just demo of the product will be very cool. Or will it?
3:36. The first 15 seconds of the video make me laugh really hard, with this “talented content creator”.
5:03, feeling strong still.
Carlos fixes all possible and impossible bugs, he’s unstoppable.
Demo efffect – when Smartly partners came, of course we had an error when applying AI generated turtle, and I redid rendering on my laptop and using existing images.
After reviewing 13 projects, my job is done. Lots of projects with cool demos, some with nothing.
Only 2 people came to view us directly, but youtube views were growing (maybe from my insta story)