Jason Shen

This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth... See more

Key features of the 2.0 release

• New text-to-image diffusion models  using a brand new text encoder (OpenCLIP). Result: improved image quality, although not everyone likes the style.


• Super-resolution upscaler diffusion models  which enhance the resolution of images by a factor of 4.


• Depth-to-image diffusion model  which infers the depth of an input

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1. RESULT Result thumbnails feature a visualized result Whether it's a physical product or a skill, the curiosity is driven by the questions: "How did they do it?" and commonly, "How can I do it, too?" The more sought-after the... See more

There was a period in his career when Seth Rogen would feel terrible after watching a great movie. A writer, actor, and director himself, he’d burn with envy, measuring his writing, acting, and directing against the writing, acting, and directing of whatever brilliant thing he’d just watched. Then he’d go back to his own work and start twisting and

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Let’s say airships captured half of the 13 trillion ton-km currently served by container ships at a price of 10¢ per ton-km. That would equal $650 billion in annual revenue for cargo airships, notably much bigger than the $106 billion Boeing reports for the entire global air freight market. I

IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO ONE HEARS . . . WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?

It’s an old epistemological debate, older, actually, than the koan about the tree in the forest. Plato weighed in on it, and philosophers for two millennia afterward: What is beauty? Is it a measurable fact (Gottfried Leibniz), or merely an opinion (David Hume), or... See more