[D] How do people find time/motivation to do personal machine learning projects?

Stable diffusion was released and I am seeing a lot of cool stuff being done by the community. I also see, that this is not their job and this is something which they are doing in their free time as a personal project/hobby. I want to understand how they motivate themselves and find the will. What drives them? I want to be like them.

My job takes the majority of my energy and I feel a lack of direction when …

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