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In this post I'm looking into a paper the authors of which promise to make diffusion models simple to understand and implement, called Iterative α-(de)blending 1 , and find out that this promise is only partially fulfilled, at least personally. I reproduce the algorithm from the paper and apply it to the generation of MNIST digits, like I did in the previous series of posts, and find out that…
In the Latent Diffusion Series of blog posts, I'm going through all components needed to train a latent diffusion model to generate random digits from the MNIST dataset. In the third, and last, post, we will finally build and train a latent diffusion model which will be trained to generate random MNIST digits. Read more… (16 min remaining to read)
In the Latent Diffusion Series of blog posts, I'm going through all components needed to train a latent diffusion model to generate random digits from the MNIST dataset. In the second post, we will build and train a variational autoencoder to generate MNIST digits. The latent variables of these models are defined to be normally distributed, something that will later enable our diffusion model…
In the Latent Diffusion Series of blog posts, I'm going through all components needed to train a latent diffusion model to generate random digits from the MNIST dataset. In this first post, we will train a simple classifier to classify MNIST digits. This will later be used for scoring the quality of the generated digits using a variant of the so-called Fréchet inception distance (FID) . Read more……
With the aid of the oscilloscope simulator we built in a past blog post , we will now build CRT TV simulator. Read more… (6 min remaining to read)
Vectron is unique in the way audio, graphics, and gameplay are intertwined. This feature of Vectron meant I had to build a special audio sequencer that also worked as a level editor. Read more… (11 min remaining to read)
The most important part of Vectron is the real-time generation and visualization of audio. In the previous blog post I already built a simulated XY oscilloscope which I'll use to visualize the two stereo channels, and I'll use SDL for the platform-independent playback of the audio. Read more… (11 min remaining to read)
It's been a couple of years since the post where I first introduced the new game I was working on, Vectron. In this post I wanted to tell you a bit about how I programmed the graphics of Vectron. Although I finished the game nearly a year ago, I was putting of releasing it. Compiling it for Windows and MacOS was a barrier I had to overcome, but I can finally say that I released my first game! You…
I first learned Rust back in 2014, before it was stable. Rust is definitely a very interesting language so I have decided to revisit it by programming a simple neural network. For comparison, I also implemented the network in C++, the language I'm looking to replace. Read more… (11 min remaining to read)
It's been a while, a whole year to be exact, and a very eventful one. I'd like to share with you some of the things that happened this year, as well as the things I have been working on and that made me shift away my attention from the blog. Read more… (6 min remaining to read)