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I am building https://photorealisticultrasound.com/ - an automatic tool to convert 3D ultrasounds of babies into photo-like images.

I was playing with Stable Diffusion and stumbled upon a post in r/PhotoshopRequests looking for people to do such editing manually. I tried Stable Diffusion and was surprised how good the result was. So I made it into a service.

It was challenging to kickstart the project from the marketing perspective. But there was quite some virality, which helped.

Another big challenge is number of factors affecting the quality of the results. The number of degrees of freedom to tinker with is large, so experimenting and iterating is tricky. However, I did learn a lot from this project - both technically and marketing.

Currently I am focusing on rewriting the generation pipeline to dramatically improve quality, especially on obstructed ultrasounds.


I am working on https://photorealisticultrasound.com/ - an automatic tool to convert 3D ultrasounds of babies into photo-like images. Currently I am focusing on rewriting the generation pipeline to dramatically improve quality, especially on obstructed ultrasounds.


I am working on https://photorealisticultrasound.com/. It converts 3D ultrasounds of not yet born babies into photo-like images using AI.

I am experiment with the funnel - how aggressive the preview quality needs to be.


How did you manage to source training data?


Google stock is flat (https://i.imgur.com/TpFZpf7.png) = the market is not impressed.


They can keep releasing these cool tech demos as much as they like. They clearly don't have the confidence to put it into consumers hands.


Benchmarks: https://imgur.com/DWNQcaY ([Table 2 on Page 7](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...)) - Gemini Pro (the launched model) is worse than ChatGPT4, but a bit better than GPT3.5. All the examples are for Ultra (the actual state of the art model), which won't be available until 2024.


Gist:

A new federal law requiring that sesame be listed as an allergen on food labels is having unintended consequences—increasing the number of products with the ingredient.

Food industry experts said the requirements are so stringent that many manufacturers, especially bakers, find it simpler and less expensive to add sesame to a product—and to label it—than to try to keep it away from other foods or equipment with sesame.


Could you check whether there are any errors in developer console (Ctrl + Shift + I and then "console"?

(I am not affiliated with Stripe, just trying to help)


How to bootstrap side projects.

I have a strong hypothesis that working on my side projects full time would make me happier. These days I focus on noticing my own problems and exploring whether others have them too.


Reminds me of https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortality-death-cl..., which does the same but on the new tab page in Chrome. The only problem is that one gets adapted to it and stops noticing it.


What a cool plugin. Didn't know it, thanks :)


This looks exactly like https://jointoucan.com/. I struggle to see any difference. Really surprised that you have 9000 users already. Perhaps I miss some important difference from Toucan?

Funnily enough I also never heard about Toucan before. I made https://vocabboost.online/ (which uses a similar idea, but for making languate tests out of webpages) and only then users told me that it was similar to Toucan.


Have you heard of Migaku? It is a browser extension, currently only available with a Patreon "donation" that operates in a similar manner. It looks pretty cool.


What languages do they offer? Whatever I choose, I get "Specific content for <lang> is coming soon!"


You might have better luck watching their youtube videos to find out. This one from March says English, French, German, Spanish, Mandarin (2), Portuguese, Cantonese, and I think also Japanese although he did not say as much: https://youtu.be/Z71md2rjGjE?t=494


Thanks for showing the Toucan service. I'm trying to learn Portuguese and so few tools offer it.


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