(Michael Chinen)

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AI coding progress

The AI-assisted coding environment is moving so fast, it all feels like a blur. While there is most definitely hype, there is also no lack of critics and skepticism. The top-down push of AI has made it sort of something that not all employees and coders want to use by definition. Yet it is clear, […]

How much should I value browsing the web?

A frugal mindset can develop anti-frugal tendencies, or ‘cheapness’, that optimize for lower cost at the expense of too much time or accepting poor quality or discomfort. True frugality should consider the tradeoff beyond all of these factors. Personally, I still struggle with analysis paralysis in the metaphorical candy aisle. It’s helped to have a […]

Trying Out Stable Cascade Local Image Generation

Stability AI released Stable Cascade on GitHub this week. It’s very open, and allows not only inference on a number of tasks from text prompting to in-painting but also allows training and fine tuning. It’s a three stage diffusion model, and they also provide pretrained weights you can download. Here’s what I needed to do […]

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