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Using parameters and seeds in DALL-E 3 is a gamechanger.
It allows you to easily modify generated images, and instantly change image ratio settings.
Here's a quick guide on how to do it directly in ChatGPT: https://t.co/ewT3F4KYqw
Tweets From Rowan Cheung
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With the onset of the Axial Age, a threshold of socio-political complexity was crossed and ideas that had previously been local to one group were now awash in a vast memepool of competing doctrines and creeds. In order to survive in this all-against-all struggle, systems of thought had to adapt—they had to become logical, sensible, memorable, and, most importantly, universal. The success of a meme now depended more on its “contagiousness” than its phenotypic effect on any particular person or tribe. In other words, gene-culture coevolution was effectively decoupled.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
Newly liberated from monastic library shelves where they were often literally kept chained by monks, books became mobile, personal possessions, which their owners used to define themselves. As Grafton felicitously puts it, humanists personalized their books the way California teenagers of the 1950s personalized their cars, by systematically annotating as they read. Annotations themselves became a quasi-formal literary genre, with Montaigne’s marginal responses to Plutarch and Guicciardini being including in his famous *Essays*.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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