Jack Hanlon

AI @meta, Professor @NYUStern, retail historian, former @reddit @jet & @google alum, erstwhile musician, lifetime unrepentant nerd

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

Yesterday I learned of a person who uses the email signoff
"Anyway,
(name)"

And my god it's just magnificent. To contain that much 2021 existential dread in EVERY email is just wow. I'm jealous I didn't get there first.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@geetfun @nikitabier @parkerconrad Ehhhhhhh

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@MarcusKlarqvist @AIatMeta Nice analysis, thanks for taking a look Marcus!

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

So proud of all the people who worked to make this happen. and just wait, it's only going to get better!

[AK @_akhaliq]

Meta presents Imagine yourself

Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation

paper page: https://t.co/WVTywILWfH

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy across various image-to-image tasks. In this research, we introduce Imagine yourself, a state-of-the-art model designed for personalized image generation. Unlike conventional tuning-based personalization techniques, Imagine yourself operates as a tuning-free model, enabling all users to leverage a shared framework without individualized adjustments. Moreover, previous work met challenges balancing identity preservation, following complex prompts and preserving good visual quality, resulting in models having strong copy-paste effect of the reference images. Thus, they can hardly generate images following prompts that require significant changes to the reference image, \eg, changing facial expression, head and body poses, and the diversity of the generated images is low. To address these limitations, our proposed method introduces 1) a new synthetic paired data generation mechanism to encourage image diversity, 2) a fully parallel attention architecture with three text encoders and a fully trainable vision encoder to improve the text faithfulness, and 3) a novel coarse-to-fine multi-stage finetuning methodology that gradually pushes the boundary of visual quality. Our study demonstrates that Imagine yourself surpasses the state-of-the-art personalization model, exhibiting superior capabilities in identity preservation, visual quality, and text alignment. This model establishes a robust foundation for various personalization applications. Human evaluation results validate the model's SOTA superiority across all aspects (identity preservation, text faithfulness, and visual appeal) compared to the previous personalization models.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@AndrewKelleyCA @jaycaspiankang It's not *quite* so cut and dry. No extraordinary film or performing arts student is choosing Harvard over NYU Tisch; there is differentiation at the program level (but yes on average you are correct)

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

Make art. Spend time with family. Travel. Volunteer at a local charity. Focus on your health. Create the world's greatest grilled cheese. Learn to sail. Literally just do... anything?

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

Anyone out here responding to that FIRE post by saying they don't understand what people would do after retirement is just showing a tremendous lack of imagination. If you can't imagine enjoying a life where you don't have to work 50+ hour weeks that's a pretty brutal self-own.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

Great founders have power that non-founders can rarely recreate. Satya is uniquely impressive as he is able to run MSFT so effectively despite it having been so heavily founder-driven early on. This is so rare.

OTOH look at Starbucks post-Schultz: they exclusively underperform.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

There are two major problems with Founder Mode:
1. Many inadequate founders will use it as an excuse to micromanage when their issue isn't style, it's lack of leadership
2. When it DOES work, the company flounders after the founder leaves bc they didn't scale decision making

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@inthecompanyof F/K/A (formerly known as)

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@inthecompanyof Chapter 12

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@inthecompanyof Divest

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@X X dropping emo AIM away messages

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@visakanv The Game, Gattaca, both fantastic

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

@BradSpahn Hard agree.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

Just saw someone claim to be a "Design founder @ (company)" but they joined way after the founding of the company. They apparently meant they "founded" the design team 😬

"I was the 20th employee" is great! But it's not at all the same as being a founder.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

The only thing more jarring than this two sentence shot and chaser is when you find out the topic of the article is that "we should ban no-fault divorce"

😵‍💫

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

Truly nothing could have prepared me for the second sentence.

[Laurens van der Maaten @lvdmaaten]

So… we trained a model and we wrote a paper about it. Have fun y’all!

https://t.co/qbD1b9qBwr
https://t.co/Hu3BHlz42a

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

The New York Times spent MONTHS on a crusade saying Dems should push Biden out for the good of the country.

They did, and the first headline is about how Dems are in “disarray” with a candidate who is “out of her depth.”

In case you’re wondering where this is going for the media.

[Jack Hanlon @JHanlon]

This is what people thought y2k would be but it wasn't. Fitting that y2k fashion is so in right now!

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.

Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.

Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26.

All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.