Developer, digital marketer, tea lover. A blog by PS Chua.
Recently I watched Bladerunner 2049 on the plane back from Japan. And also I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 last year but didn’t finish it, thanks to some Monster Hunter Wilds distraction. Maybe a separate topic, but do you find it difficult to get back into a game, regardless of how player-friendly and comfortable the game is, after you’ve left for a while? I wasn’t exposed to much of the Cy...
The reduction The adage goes by “Less is more”. While I believe the term is coined to expouse the idea of minimalism, it has taken a dark turn. I think the full version now is “You’ll have less and pay more”, especially in tech. I can think of three examples, but I’m sure there are more: Personal Computers (PC) used to be general purpose machines, while modern personal computers (your pho...
This new update by OpenAI is crazy. Finally image generation is heading towards the usable and practical path. Link to OpenAI press release My experimentation Using pretty basic prompt techniques I’ve learnt while playing around with Midjourney, I managed to generate the following image on GPT-4o’s new image gen. From playing around with several image generation tools so far, I made sure t...
This is a follow up of the previous post. The terminal app I was building when writing the post is now live on my Github page. Here are some video samples: Japanese video featuring interviews with Blue Box (アオのハコ) voice actors: Your browser does not support the video tag. Here is a link to the video file ins...
I had a little fun with OpenAI’s Whisper recently. It’s amazingly simple to use, and I had a very interesting use case in mind. There are many interviews on YouTube with J-pop bands and singers that are totally in Japanese, and not translated into English at all. While these bands and singers also have English interviews, the topic of conversation is obviously different in the Anglosphere vs t...