Sam Postelnik

Experimenting with AI and Product | CS @binghamtonu

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Excited to share a preview of Swiggle, a playground for creating unique Nouns characters by adjusting feature strength.

Our goal: creating better interfaces for image generation.

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I built Hedge My Beer.

Inspired by @TheJeffreyNYC's $5,000 Knicks hedge for Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

A simple tool for restaurants and bars to model promotions and see how prediction markets can hedge the risk.

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@felixleezd @ADPList Design

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Paper visitor logs are tedious and time-consuming for nursing home staff to manage.

Inspired by @BallerIndustry’s bank statement converter, I set out to make sign-ins easier and more efficient.

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Last month, I visited a nursing home and noticed something: they were still using thick binders for visitor sign-ins.

It made me wonder—could this process be simpler?

This week’s hack: turning handwritten sign-in sheets into Excel spreadsheets.

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@moritzkremb builder

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I built an AI credit card assistant that lets me know what credit card I should use to maximize rewards.

“Shopping for groceries at Walmart” → 6% cash back on Blue Cash Preferred Card from Amex

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Uploaded Perplexity’s and MyMind’s beautiful graphics to my Lock Screen

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Can you imagine designing a house, website, or artwork with just words?

The tools we use should be built for us, not for a model.

We need to build tools that connect people to their work.

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A gorilla sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper in a large posh bathroom...

A picture is worth 1,000 words. Why are we creating art this way?

Text alone is missing something. It’s missing the creative touch artists bring—that takes their work from good to great.

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What’s next?

We’re taking this approach further to work on interpreting diffusion models. The hope: better interfaces and deeper insights into how these generative models really work.

Full technical blog: https://t.co/66SulcOhH2

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Excited to share a preview of Swiggle, a playground for creating unique Nouns characters by adjusting feature strength.

Our goal: creating better interfaces for image generation.

[Sam Postelnik @sam_postelnik]

We also implemented a RAG system to control these features with natural language prompts. Want a pixel art character with a different head? Just ask, and it adjusts the relevant features—all without retraining the model!

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I also added version control to make it easy to go back to previous versions of code if something stopped working or if the user prefers a previous version.

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I love zapping websites using Boosts from @arcinternet.

What if AI helped me write JS code to take website customizations to the next level?

So, I prototyped a Boost AI Assistant:

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Online shopping websites use pricing tactics to make their products seem cheaper.

I told Claude to write JS code to round the prices of items with a classname, switching between Claude and Arc to test if the code worked.

What if an assistant was built right into Boosts?

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@skalskip92 Nice demo! What screen recording tool did you use to make this?