In late September the Dance Diffusion music generation model (beta) was released by Harmonai. …

There’s a neverending onslaught of bad news of negative trends in Japan. Depreciating yen, aging population, ballooning debt, stagnant GDP, lower ranking in digital competitiveness, dwindling fish population, declining music industry, political scandals… it seems everything is worsening. But the news media tends to give a negative bias to everything…

The Stable Diffusion model, just released a few days ago, is all the rage right now, with tons of people generating all sorts of amazing high-quality images, sometimes on par with or even better than OpenAI’s DALL-E 2. UPDATE 2022–10–07: a new, more beginner-friendly article on Stable Diffusion was posted…

Recently I migrated my existing articles from Medium to my own new website (https://jerrychi.com) in a quick, low-code way. I wanted to have both blog articles and permanent pages (e.g. “About Me” page) and high customizability while spending minimal effort and money. You can do this too! Here’s how: Register…

I’ve made a google doc listing out useful resources / tools / links for those interested in cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and DeFi (decentralized finance). This doc is meant to be newbie-friendly but should also contain some useful tidbits for experienced people as well. I’ll keep updating it periodically. See you down in the rabbit hole!

Better health. Including both physical and emotional/mental health. Meditate regularly. Study / play with machine learning. Including fun, non-work-related stuff, such as the GANs specialization from deeplearning.ai. Aim lower to aim higher. Most of my life has been busy with trying to hit short-term goals: get an A on the…

I think humanity will end eventually (whether it takes hundreds or thousands of years). So what’ll we do when the end is near? We’d want to leave our legacy; in other words, we’d want to save humanity’s knowledge and history as data and send it into space, hoping that aliens…

This document is mainly for sharing with my colleagues and anyone I might work with in the future. But hey, I might as well post it on Medium; maybe someone will find it useful. Below are principles, values, and best practices I tell myself to follow (both for working at…