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Watch On In the humorous video above, you can see the who, what, why, and how of the unnamed NFT minting device. The video details don’t quite match up with those more recently penned on Reddit, so let’s take the latter as the newest, most up-to-date info on the project (the Reddit post was published more recently).
Numerous-Dentist-882’s likely real name is David Kramer, as we noticed in a link to his parody magnet fishing book on Amazon (reviews: 3.9 out of five stars). Kramer explains that the NFT minting machine was trained on an Apple Macbook M3 for just four hours in total. The dataset for the DCGAN hallucinatory image software was a collection of 2,480 face photos featuring a mix of 11 diverse personalities. Moreover, the dominant anchor class of 2,000 images ensured that the hallucinated face hybrids frequently have a certain president-with-a-penchant-for-gold theme to them.
Once training had been completed and Kramer was happy with the hallucinated face hybrids, the model was exported from PyTorch to ONNX (float32, 53MB). This made the NFT generator model portable enough for carrying around on a Raspberry Pi 4 . Kramer says that even the puny Pi could run inference and generate a face NFT in 3s, but they’re hardly hi-res digital goods at 128-pixel square.
With the press of a button, the Pi fires a freshly generated face to an ESP microcontroller with a tiny screen, as demonstrated in the video. To complete the NFT creation with a meme-able slogan, whoever you snag on the street is asked to pair their image with a machine-generated phrase of the form “This is a (adjective) NFT and I want to (verb) it."
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/digital-entrepreneur-creates-humorous-physical-nft-minting-device-using-a-raspberry-pi-in-quest-for-infinite-money-machine-contraption-trained-on-m3-macbook-can-generate-an-nft-in-3-seconds-has-so-far-sold-one-for-usd9-92#main
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