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Prime Intellect ML researcher kalomaze recalls first encountering neural networks at age 13 through anime upscaling software waifu2x

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somewhat funnily my earliest exposure to any neural network ever was a software called "waifu2x" (an illustration upscaling model pre-transformers, with a silly name) when i was like ~13

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"wtf howd it know how to sharpen the miku" ahh, the frontier of structured image transformation from like ~2017-2018

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somewhat funnily my earliest exposure to any neural network ever was a software called "waifu2x" (an illustration upscaling model pre-transformers, with a silly name) when i was like ~13

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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

@kalomaze They were unironically great

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somewhat funnily my earliest exposure to any neural network ever was a software called "waifu2x" (an illustration upscaling model pre-transformers, with a silly name) when i was like ~13

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