Let's get SSH access, instal a package, and run a server.
As of December 2023 on a t2.micro instance, the only one part of free tier at the time with advertised 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk for the first 12 months, on Ubuntu 22.04:
$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           949Mi       149Mi       210Mi       0.0Ki       590Mi       641Mi
Swap:             0B          0B          0B
$ nproc
1
$ df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       7.6G  1.8G  5.8G  24% /
To install software:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cowsay
cowsay asdf
Once HTTP inbound traffic is enabled on security rules for port 80, you can:
while true; do printf "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n`date`: hello from AWS" | sudo nc -Nl 80; done
and then you are able to curl from your local computer and get the response.
qiskit/qft.py by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
This is an example of the qiskit.circuit.library.QFT implementation of the Quantum Fourier transform function which is documented at: docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit/0.44/qiskit.circuit.library.QFT
Output:
init: [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
qc
     ┌──────────────────────────────┐┌──────┐
q_0: ┤0                             ├┤0     ├
     │                              ││      │
q_1: ┤1 Initialize(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) ├┤1 QFT ├
     │                              ││      │
q_2: ┤2                             ├┤2     ├
     └──────────────────────────────┘└──────┘
transpiled qc
     ┌──────────────────────────────┐                                     ┌───┐   
q_0: ┤0                             ├────────────────────■────────■───────┤ H ├─X─
     │                              │              ┌───┐ │        │P(π/2) └───┘ │ 
q_1: ┤1 Initialize(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) ├──────■───────┤ H ├─┼────────■─────────────┼─
     │                              │┌───┐ │P(π/2) └───┘ │P(π/4)                │ 
q_2: ┤2                             ├┤ H ├─■─────────────■──────────────────────X─
     └──────────────────────────────┘└───┘
Statevector([0.35355339+0.j, 0.35355339+0.j, 0.35355339+0.j,
             0.35355339+0.j, 0.35355339+0.j, 0.35355339+0.j,
             0.35355339+0.j, 0.35355339+0.j],
            dims=(2, 2, 2))

init: [0.0, 0.35355339059327373, 0.5, 0.3535533905932738, 6.123233995736766e-17, -0.35355339059327373, -0.5, -0.35355339059327384]
Statevector([ 7.71600526e-17+5.22650714e-17j,
              1.86749130e-16+7.07106781e-01j,
             -6.10667421e-18+6.10667421e-18j,
              1.13711443e-16-1.11022302e-16j,
              2.16489014e-17-8.96726857e-18j,
             -5.68557215e-17-1.11022302e-16j,
             -6.10667421e-18-4.94044770e-17j,
             -3.30200457e-16-7.07106781e-01j],
            dims=(2, 2, 2))
So this also serves as a more interesting example of quantum compilation, mapping the QFT gate to Qiskit Aer primitives.
If we don't transpile in this example, then running blows up with:
qiskit_aer.aererror.AerError: 'unknown instruction: QFT'
The second input is:
and the output of that approximately:
[0, 1j/sqrt(2), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1j/sqrt(2)]
which can be defined simply as the normalized DFT of the input quantum state vector.
qiskit/initialize.py by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
In this example we will initialize a quantum circuit with a single CNOT gate and see the output values.
By default, Qiskit initializes every qubit to 0 as shown in the qiskit/hello.py. But we can also initialize to arbitrary values as would be done when computing the output for various different inputs.
Output:
     ┌──────────────────────┐
q_0: ┤0                     ├──■──
     │  Initialize(1,0,0,0) │┌─┴─┐
q_1: ┤1                     ├┤ X ├
     └──────────────────────┘└───┘
c: 2/═════════════════════════════

init: [1, 0, 0, 0]
probs: [1. 0. 0. 0.]

init: [0, 1, 0, 0]
probs: [0. 0. 0. 1.]

init: [0, 0, 1, 0]
probs: [0. 0. 1. 0.]

init: [0, 0, 0, 1]
probs: [0. 1. 0. 0.]

     ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
q_0: ┤0                                 ├──■──
     │  Initialize(0.70711,0,0,0.70711) │┌─┴─┐
q_1: ┤1                                 ├┤ X ├
     └──────────────────────────────────┘└───┘
c: 2/═════════════════════════════════════════

init: [0.7071067811865475, 0, 0, 0.7071067811865475]
probs: [0.5 0.5 0.  0. ]
which we should all be able to understand intuitively given our understanding of the CNOT gate and quantum state vectors.
quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13202/qiskit-initializing-n-qubits-with-binary-values-0s-and-1s describes how to initialize circuits qubits only with binary 0 or 1 to avoid dealing with the exponential number of elements of the quantum state vector.
The book is a bit slow until Charles K. Kao comes along, then it gets exciting.
Conda install is a bit annoying, but gets the job done. The generation quality is very good.
Someone should package this better for end user "just works after Conda install" image generation, it is currently much more of a library setup.
First install Conda as per Section "Install Conda on Ubuntu", and then just follow the instructions from the README, notably the Reference sampling script section.
git clone https://github.com/runwayml/stable-diffusion
cd stable-diffusion/
git checkout 08ab4d326c96854026c4eb3454cd3b02109ee982
conda env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate ldm
mkdir -p models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/
wget -O models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-original/resolve/main/sd-v1-4.ckpt
python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse" --plms
This took about 2 minutes and generated 6 images under outputs/txt2img-samples/samples, includining an image outputs/txt2img-samples/grid-0000.png which is a grid montage containing all the six images in one:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/Runwayml_stable-diffusion_a-photograph-of-an-astronaut-riding-a-horse.png
TODO how to change the number of images?
A quick attempt at removing their useless safety features (watermark and NSFW text filter) is:
diff --git a/scripts/txt2img.py b/scripts/txt2img.py
index 59c16a1..0b8ef25 100644
--- a/scripts/txt2img.py
+++ b/scripts/txt2img.py
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ def load_replacement(x):
 def check_safety(x_image):
     safety_checker_input = safety_feature_extractor(numpy_to_pil(x_image), return_tensors="pt")
     x_checked_image, has_nsfw_concept = safety_checker(images=x_image, clip_input=safety_checker_input.pixel_values)
-    assert x_checked_image.shape[0] == len(has_nsfw_concept)
-    for i in range(len(has_nsfw_concept)):
-        if has_nsfw_concept[i]:
-            x_checked_image[i] = load_replacement(x_checked_image[i])
+    #assert x_checked_image.shape[0] == len(has_nsfw_concept)
+    #for i in range(len(has_nsfw_concept)):
+    #    if has_nsfw_concept[i]:
+    #        x_checked_image[i] = load_replacement(x_checked_image[i])
     return x_checked_image, has_nsfw_concept


@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ def main():
                             for x_sample in x_checked_image_torch:
                                 x_sample = 255. * rearrange(x_sample.cpu().numpy(), 'c h w -> h w c')
                                 img = Image.fromarray(x_sample.astype(np.uint8))
-                                img = put_watermark(img, wm_encoder)
+                                # img = put_watermark(img, wm_encoder)
                                 img.save(os.path.join(sample_path, f"{base_count:05}.png"))
                                 base_count += 1
but that produced 4 black images and only two unfiltered ones. Also likely the lack of sexual training data makes its porn suck, and not in the good way.
ludicrains/deep-gaze by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
This just works, but it is also so incredibly slow that it is useless (or at least the quality it reaches in the time we have patience to wait from), at least on any setup we've managed to try, including e.g. on an Nvidia A10G on a g5.xlarge. Running:
time imagine "a house in the forest"
would likely take hours to complete.
By default, LSF only sends you an email with the stdout and stderr included in it, and does not show or store anything locally.
One option to store things locally is to use:
bsub -oo stdout.log -eo stderr.log 'echo myout; echo myerr 1>&2'
as documented at:Or to use files with the job id in them:
bsub -oo %J.out -eo %J.err 'echo myout; echo myerr 1>&2'
By default bsub -oo:
  • also contains the LSF metadata in addition to the actual submitted process stdout
  • prevents the completion email from being sent
To get just the stdout to the file, use bsub -N -oo which:
  • stores only stdout on the file
  • re-enables the completion email
as mentioned at:
Another option is to run with the bsub -I option:
bsub -I 'echo a;sleep 1;echo b;sleep 1;echo c'
This immediately prints stdout and stderr to the terminal.
EC2 instance type by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Amazon's informtion about their own intances is so bad and non-public that this was created: instances.vantage.sh/

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