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Lj V. Miranda
Personal blog · ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook · on HN as ljvmirandaprogrammingdata
Lj V. Miranda's personal blog at ljvmiranda921.github.io covers programming and data. Since 2019, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The Illustrated VQGAN”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Lj V. Miranda's notebook for technical notes on AI image generation, such as how VQGAN and CLIP work, and for writing on pen-and-paper note-taking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A collection of notes, projects, and essays.
Most-linked posts?
- The Illustrated VQGAN5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-08-10
- Show HN: Generate 8-bit avatars using Cellular Automata3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-05
- What can Avengers: Endgame teach us about Git?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-11
- Kubernetes clicked when I learned about Deployments and Services2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-15
- Reimagining Philippine mythical creatures using VQGAN+CLIP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-28
- How to Use Jupyter Notebooks in 20202 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-10
What Hacker News says?
Create personalized and unique 8-bit sprites from your name using Cellular Automata! https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/sprites-as-a-service Github: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/sprites-as-a-service Perfect substitute for Github avatars or random profile pics! I learned Vue and frontend just for this hehe. Good experience so far! Lmk your thoughts!
Comment linking /sprites-as-a-service
on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”Submitted Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019) as a story · 345 points
HN discussionDue to how VQGAN + CLIP works, it can't memorize its inputs in the way language models like GPT-3 do. VQGAN does the generation work, CLIP just says if it's good not, improve the latents, repeat. Here's a good technical writeup: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqg... And of course, the most-common VQGAN was trained on ImageNet, which likely doesn't have every movie poster as training data. (…
Comment linking /notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqgan/
on “AI movie posters”Submitted Thinking with pen and paper as a story · 187 points
HN discussionIf you have a notebook / sketchbook / journal and it needs to be held open with an object look for another notebook [1]. It seems trivial but that is a poorly designed notebook. 1. https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/assets/png/pen-and-paper/bla...
Comment linking /assets/png/pen-and-paper/blank.jpg
on “Thinking with pen and paper”Submitted Kubernetes clicked when I learned about Deployments and Services as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI also wrote an explainer for VQGAN here: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqg... to coincide with the growing interest in these models
Comment linking /notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqgan/
on “Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator”Submitted Show HN: Generate 8-bit avatars using Cellular Automata as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI once wrote a survey of tools within the Jupyter Notebook ecosystem: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2020/03/16/jupyter-... (it’s a three part series and that link is Part 2). The topic of production notebooks often shows up. I’ve seen tools like papermill and dagster being used for notebook prod, just like in Netflix. I concluded that using notebooks for prod is always a tech decision, often influence by…
Comment linking /notebook/2020/03/16/jupyter-notebooks-in-2020-part-2/
on “Why we do machine learning engineering with YAML, not notebooks”Submitted Reimagining Philippine mythical creatures using VQGAN+CLIP as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Jupyter Notebooks in 2020 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automate Python workflow using pre-commits: black and flake8 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Create unique 8-bit avatars from your name using Conway's Game of Life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Notebooks in 2020 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes clicked when I learned about Deployments and Services as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Train-test split may be doing you a disservice (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can Avengers: Endgame teach us about Git? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Illustrated Vqgan (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Illustrated explanation of VQGAN (used for AI-generated artworks) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can Avengers Endgame teach us about Git? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Illustrated VQGAN as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to improve software engineering skills as a researcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generate 8-bit avatars using Cellular Automata as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generate 8-bit avatars using Conway's Game of Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Burnout Barometer - Mindfulness throughout the day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use Notebooks in 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostScript: Idle Frontier and on developing games with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My personal framework for flourishing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards a Tagalog NLP Pipeline as a story · 1 points
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