Friday, October 18, 2024

Jake Paul will be Fighting Mike Tyson on November 15

Jake Paul and Mike Tyson will be fighting on November 15.

Jake Paul is advertising on his Instagram account that he will be opening up multiple Dog Haus locations on the day of his fight with Mike Tyson.

Excellent marketing.

I think many tech entrepreneurs can learn from this type of clever advertising and marketing for their tech services, apps, etc.



Static Code Analysis in Python

 Use the pylint package for static code analysis in Python.


iPhone 16 Pro Max

I'm thinking whether I should switch to the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Currently using the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

The screen on the 16 is bigger, which is always good news for the eyes.

But, does that justify a switch?

Apple intelligence may run better of the 16, but are there any features that are truly useful yet?


Fireworks at Taipei 101

As usual, Taipei 101 will celebrate the new year with fireworks this year.

If you want to go see the fireworks in person, it would be a good idea to book a restaurant or hotel ahead of time.

Hotels in the area like the Grand Hyatt Taipei and W Hotel Taipei have special "New Years Fireworks" packages for people that are interested.

Experience New Years Eve and New Years celebrations in Taipei.

Jay Chou in Taipei Dome

Jay Chou will be having a concert at the Taipei Dome in December.

Tickets will be on sale October 23 and are expected to sell out fast.

Will try to get my hands on some tickets.

Jay will be the first pop artist ever to hold a concert in the newly opened Taipei Dome.


Justin Bieber and P Diddy

Feel sorry for Justin Bieber when hearing about previous interactions between P Diddy and him.

He was relatively young at the time.

Some of the videos that of them that have surfaced on the internet recently seem somewhat disturbing.


Bill Gates' New TV Series on Netflix

Bill Gates is introducing a TV series on Netflix in which he discusses various important issues of our time.

This seems interesting.

I will be watching, especially the episodes on artificial intelligence and the like.



Apple Vision Pro for About 2000 Dollars?

There are rumors about the possibility of Apple introducing a 2000 dollar Apple Vision Pro next year.

If they do, I would kind of feel ripped off because I just bought the 3800 dollar version a few months ago.

But, It would be good for overall adoption if Apple lowers the price point of the device, since it currently is quite high.



Coding in a Coffee Shop Like Starbucks

Coding in a location like a coffee shop such as Starbucks can be fun.

Fun to watch people waking by and doing their own things.

Its also convenient to be able to order a cup of coffee or something to eat whenever you feel like it.


Bitcoin back above 67000

The price of Bitcoin is back above 67,000 USD

Is this the beginning of another bull run?

Thinking of increasing positions in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.


Cursor Code Editor

 The Cursor Code Editor is a fork of VS Code

It is being built with ai-assisted code editing in mind (artificial intelligence)

Will be trying out cursor

Saw a podcast by Lex Friedman interviewing the four founders of Cursor

They seem like interesting people



Monday, February 12, 2024

DALLE E (Chat GPT) Does Not Seem to Recognize or Understand Chinese Characters

 When asked to generate images with Chinese characters in them, the Chinese characters in the images generated are not real Chinese characters but are "things" that kind of look like Chinese characters but actually do not correspond to any actual real Chinese characters.


It's kind of funny, actually.


It seems to be imitating the looks of Chinese characters, but cannot tell what is actually a Chinese character, and it probably does not know the meaning of any actual Chinese characters. For example:

















To the contrary, DALL E seems to "understand" the meaning of English text within the context of the images it generates better. For example:




Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Ai Tools (Artificial intelligence)

The following are some AI tools:

1. Google Bard

2. Chat GPT

3. MidJourney

4. otter.ai - transcribe meetings and more

5. AIVA - Ai music generation assistant

6. DALL-E

7. Jasper

8. Copilot

9. OpenAI Playground


Saturday, February 3, 2024

Executable files

 Executable files on Windows have the .exe file extension.

Executable files on Mac have the .app file extension.