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Nov 7, 2022

Why creativity flourishes in Japan

Over the last 2 decades, the creativity I’ve come across in Japan repeatedly induces awe and wonder and tickles my brain. Manga, anime, games, music, movies, shows, ads, architecture, paintings, installations, fashion, funky commercial products… one favorite of mine is art by Takashi Murakami. There are several reasons why creativity…

Japan

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Why creativity flourishes in Japan
Why creativity flourishes in Japan
Japan

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Oct 27, 2022

Trying out AI music generation with Dance Diffusion

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

Generative Music

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Trying out AI music generation with Dance Diffusion
Trying out AI music generation with Dance Diffusion
Generative Music

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Oct 23, 2022

Positive trends in Japan

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…

Japan

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Positive trends in Japan
Positive trends in Japan
Japan

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Aug 25, 2022

How Stable Diffusion (Latent Diffusion) works

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…

Machine Learning

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How Stable Diffusion (Latent Diffusion) works
How Stable Diffusion (Latent Diffusion) works
Machine Learning

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Aug 17, 2022

Easy blog migration from Medium to your own site using Python

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…

Python

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Easy blog migration from Medium to your own site using Python
Easy blog migration from Medium to your own site using Python
Python

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Aug 11, 2021

Crypto and DeFi useful resources

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!

Cryptocurrency

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Crypto and DeFi useful resources
Crypto and DeFi useful resources
Cryptocurrency

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Jan 1, 2021

My resolutions for 2021

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…

Self Improvement

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My resolutions for 2021
My resolutions for 2021
Self Improvement

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Jun 12, 2020

How machine learning may “save” humanity

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…

Machine Learning

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How machine learning may “save” humanity
How machine learning may “save” humanity
Machine Learning

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·Oct 12, 2019

The nature of human intelligence from a computer science perspective

I’m tremendously curious about the long-term future of artificial intelligence. Understanding human intelligence better may be key to predicting the future of artificial intelligence. Thanks to both old books and recent research, my thinking and predictions have evolved quite a bit in the last few years. …

Artificial Intelligence

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The nature of human intelligence from a computer science perspective
The nature of human intelligence from a computer science perspective
Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 26, 2019

Guide to working with me (a data science manager)

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…

Data Science

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Guide to working with me (a data science manager)
Guide to working with me (a data science manager)
Data Science

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