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Ryan Mather

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spending my time: - prototyping - designing/coding @Sudowrite - hanging out with my wife and our dog - smelling flowers

Hudson Valley, NY
Joined January 2012
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We're making steady progress on poetry camera - a camera that makes poems instead of pictures 🐸🪄 @carolynz
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"a photo of a capybara smoking a cigarette in a hot spring" #dalle #AIart
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Can’t believe this actually worked
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I have a feeling it didn't look like this in the mockup
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A lot of people I've been talking to are either transitioning to a 4 day work week or thinking about quitting (because a 5 day work week is too much)
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4 years
does literally every designer in tech have a ceramics / riso / woodworking side hustle???
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Poetry camera v2.0 is up and running!! Awesome coworking session with @kelin_online today
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I think pianists are not real musicians because they are just telling the little hammers what to do
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How to retain top tech design talent: Buy a riso .... That’s it They also seem to love pottery Give them a neon sign for good measure.
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@AOC Here's my submission
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A floating ship piloting through the abyss
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good news, if you can draw animals *in* balloons your job is safe
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@carmenleelau I tried so many prompts and couldn't get his animal friends in the balloons
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@harriorrihar @KaliYuga_ai @RiversHaveWings It can copy the color scheme and basic composition but fails to copy mark-making, important details, etc. Maybe in the future dall-e 3 will be able to make images which appear equal to this original? but for now it transforms the input image quite a bit.
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@MatthewWSiu We have something like this in Sudowrite! Designed by @superamit , built by @jamesjyu it's like fridge magnets!
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@arvalis this is not accurate - it tried to create what it think commonly goes in the bottom right - a signature. This is not unique to any one artist, it has seen millions of images with signatures and therefore thinks it is statistically likely for *some* signature to go there.
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@AaronsArtRoom funniest thing about this meme is that the person who made it used photoshop instead of an AI art generator
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bro what is happening at tldraw
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just drawing a slider
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Hitting the streets with Poetry Camera Round 2 (by @kelin_online and me)!! It's always fun when the audience of the poem is surprised with how much the camera can pick up from its subject. It's uncanny sometimes.
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@Yaosamo @sdw Optical alignment! Figure ground relationship has more tension on the right when the padding is smaller b/c of the difference in radius, to my eye. The little gap is more attention grabbing when there's more contrast in its width.
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"Tesla pickup truck but instead of being a massive eyesore it looks as beautiful as the rest of their cars, 3d render, unreal engine" #dalle
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Emily and I just watched the Matt Mercer x Stephen Colbert D&D video (it’s great) and I was like “So what do you think of D&D?” (Emily has never seen before) and she goes “Its just FlipTales” lol she doesn’t realize this is the biggest compliment she could give me!!!
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using dalle to help me visualize a town my D&D campaign is traveling to today
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talking to google assistant after getting used to chatGPT feels like time traveling to the 2010s
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@DennisCode idk why I expected the sound to work on this
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Do not underestimate the DM slide!
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"pixel art of elon musk memeing on his phone while buying twitter" #dalle
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axolotl spirits #dalle
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🥬 personal news 🥬 I’m the “lead designer” mentioned in this article and I start on Monday! Super stoked to play with AI and join a company at this early stage for the first time.
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3 years
Funding announcements are often drab but @Haje made ours *riveting*. (Seriously, read it.) Excited to announce we just raised $3M from a veritable DREAM TEAM. Couldn't imagine a better partner in all this than @jamesjyu .
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Midjourney 5 experiments
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"the cutest little pikachu figurine made of polymer clay, photographed in real grass, bokeh, Nikon D5" #dalle
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Poetry Camera IRL!! @kelin_online and I took our prototype out of the lab and onto the streets. Feels so good to see people’s reactions in person 🤗
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It would appear that NINTENDO is using AI art in its shop to represent “anime-style games” big mainstream moment for ai art. Wow.
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@AndySwan Jim Carey is so good at impressions
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@lennysan This paper shredder is delightful for completed to-do lists
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@roshanpateI Gatekeeping learning is lame
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@Peter_Wartman Idk, this is like saying biking is pointless when you can train to run marathons and sprint as fast as cyclist with training. Like yes of course but clearly there are some things the bicycle makes way easier and not everyone wants to put in the time to train like that
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2 years
What if you could "bring your own AI" to apps?
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5.5 years ago Emily and I had our first date here! Today we came back for the first time as a married couple 🤗😊🥰
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Revisiting that old prompt series from @zhayitong on #dalle - Visions of the beauty of dense urban housing in San Francisco. This time I added Sakura since we just finished the cherry blossom festival this weekend :^)
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@joekndy I mean it very much is a business problem. Extremely hard to differentiate in a sea of metal rectangles and make something people care about enough to buy.
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4 years
#ttrpg and #tabletop frens I hope you all know about Conor Nolan and his wonderful illustrations! Great for Dungeons and Dragons-y work : )
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@jakereevesart This is a good reminder how random/meaningless rejections can be
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4 years
@RoamResearch @AdamLivesay7 With all due respect, I think this tone alienates potential customers. Maybe others feel differently. Adam was speaking respectfully as far as I can tell. This is not the first time I’ve seen this account making quips at the expense of people offering constructive criticism.
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"concept art: A futuristic concrete and glass midcentury home, with a large glass wall in the middle of the desert in tuscon, on art station, highly detailed matte painting, symmetrical" #dalle
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@jongold lmao please be the leader of the "no one cares why you're leaving san francisco" movement.
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User research is so much easier w/ GPT-4 32k Just be like "what are the findings?" and it works
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"cute pixel art of the sword of everburning flame, resting on an anvil, in a volcano, pastel colors palette" #dalle
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@andrewchen This is like saying "if we make harvard cost a million dollars we'll get only the most driven students!!!"
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@djbaskin Based on capitalization this is about Jesus ?
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3 years
@pragati_verma18 @github Basically, the ai has seen so many examples of functions that it can predict that code that follows will be determined by the function name. And it’s seen enough similarly-named functions to predict how this one should be written specifically.
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@deewhock We really need to get out of this terrible two party system
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@jenistyping I think it comes from feeling detached from directly helping people, and then choosing the most feasible job that would let them directly help people without having to go to school for it. Possibly their friends tell them they are great at giving advice.
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5 years
Hey game design twitter! A client I am working with is looking to bring on indie game designers to create experimental social games. They will purchase IP and fund development, and handle production once design is complete. DM me your email and I can connect you to the manager!
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Say hello to v4.0 poetry camera! Featuring 🔋✨rechargeable batteries 💪📃 better paper reloading experience 🌐🦈 you can connect it to any internet 🤝 by @kelin_online et moi
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Operating system that lets you draw on everything
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“Musicians” who use chords that someone else invented 🚩🚩🚩
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child: Dad why was every movie in the 2020s a multiverse movie? me: well, the 2020s was this weird time where it felt like we were all living in our own different worlds, all while our institutions crumbled
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Okay so the little preview in dispo makes it so that you focus more on whatever is happening *in real life* that you wanna take a picture of instead of how it’s gonna look in the app
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@ETCanada @jimmykimmel @jimmykimmel please don’t We don’t need more egomaniacs running for office.
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Chatgpt is a good reminder that sometimes a solution looking for a problem actually works out pretty well
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Harmony Toolbox beta launched! This is something I've been working on for a while 😅 and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! About 50% sold out so far :)
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@devin_beaman @andrewkimmel Actually it was police killing people that was the catalyst
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Don't worry, #Dalle struggles with hands too.
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"muted colors beautiful pixel art background art of a lonely fishing shack on a bleak river" #dalle
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First major project @sudowrite shipped! It's a new homepage. URL is if you wanna check it out!
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3 day weekend gives you a day each to: see friends / relax, take care of chores, spend time on your hobby/ies
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super fun process deep dive on poetry camera @sequoia w/ @kelin_online unintentionally we both wore hats 🧢
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@HamasakiLaw When my brother visited sf our car was broken into and some irreplaceable nostalgic things were stolen. He went on a trip to Europe recently and told me he was paranoid the entire trip because he was afraid of being stolen from again. So yes being stolen from can be traumatic
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"The heliostone, a device which super efficiently harnesses solar energy for use anywhere, concept art, 3d render, artstation, bokeh, unreal engine" #dalle
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@andy_matuschak On TikTok, day-in-the-life videos are popular. Could you find a way to celebrate how awesome your days are, and the routines you've cultivated? Sharing my favorite images from Porco Rosso that make me feel a kind of process-oriented joy.
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@victoriaying It is pretty cool for educational purposes though to see what Monet may have seen when making that painting and understand the kind of artistic decisions he made
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Playing MTG in @figma with my brother lol
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spotify needs an "incognito" mode so I can listen to screamo for an hour without messing up my recommendations
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3 years
I hereby submit my design for a @DispoHQ enamel pin cc @boop
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Omg check out this amazing gif @emiibread asked @picogram_art to make!!! <3 I'm... in shock!!!!
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@WarronBebster lols wrong place wrong time I may have proposed to you
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Some beautiful cups conjured by Emily via Dall•E
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Dalle generated tea cups. I feel such a direct emotional connection to these. It is so easy to believe they are human made. I can imagine the fingertips shaping the clay and putting in the time and soul to create them. #dalle #aiart
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@amasad Amjad, I have another idea! Using a language model to help you with important computational thinking concepts - abstraction, decomposition, algorithms. E.g. the highest value thing for someone to tell me when I'm coding is often "just get the X small problem to work first"
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Recently, one of the writers using Sudowrite told us it moved her so much that it brought her to tears. She had gone through a few years of writer's block until she tried story engine.
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🚨 INCOMING BADASS 🚨 @DungeonCommandr Joins the writing team! I met DC at Metatopia and got to play Ross Rifles with them. They're a really kind person with some really inspiring goals for the RPG space so I'm delighted to have them on the team.
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@darylginn I don't see a problem with that. To me "head" means "responsible for" not "manager of people"
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@arvalis I see what you are saying but I have seen AIs put nonsense signatures often, including when there is no artist name in the prompt. I stand w/ you and artists broadly but I think it's important to be precise in the critique of AI and the signature argument is not it IMO
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A year ago a tree fell down in my yard. Now it’s a bench at the gumroad office. Thanks @shl for letting me park it there
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Hello friends As we enter the time of year where everyone reconsiders how they spend their time, id like to share my method, which had evolved a lot over the past year! Step 1: write down your values (these are mine) and give them an icon (optional)
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@lauren_wilford @mrdoob This focuses on translation jobs without also noting the benefit to the general population of mass access to translation 👀 people don’t choose a cheaper option maliciously.
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@MatthewWSiu @superamit @jamesjyu I really like the idea of some kind of scalar controls though, like dragging a slider up and down for "intensity" or "sadness" or something. Nice work!
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✨process tease✨ Been working with @fannyluor on illustrations for Harmony Toolbox while feedback from the alpha kits comes in. This is one of the directions we're looking at that I'm swooning over 🥺
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"the cutest little polymer clay totoro and pikachu hybrid, unreal engine, bokeh" #dalle
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@BohnJai Sorry, due to a large number of applicants, we are not able to move forward with your application at this time.
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after a couple long nights of prototyping: Poetry Camera v4.1 is born 💐 - more prominent viewfinder (makes room for the wifi dongle) - new embossed mode markers around the knob - new battery door which makes it easier to replace batteries 🤝 @kelin_online
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My dad asked me for AI art of "You are not going through a difficult time. A difficult time is going through you". Took a couple tries, but I think René Magritte is the right style for this. #dalle
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3 years
oh my god "Lord of the Rings Mario Kart"
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i know this has already been said but, if you have - a good exercise routine - good sleep routine - manage stress well - get shit done - enjoy life - show up for your relationships how you want to - brush your teeth twice a day and drink enough water I am extremely impressed
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@KyrickYoung OK I have no idea what I'm doing here but - #dalle2 Space hangar Animatic :) Inspired by Overwatch Sojourn announcement video. I had to cut this in adobe premiere, but what if tools like this were integrated 🤯
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Also shout out to @jinjinxsun for vouching for me when Emily asked her who this Ryan guy is. 😤🙏😁
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