August 2023

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Wind Chime Festival at Ofusa Kannon

2023-8-25 I heard that the wind chime festival is held in every summer at the Ofusa Kannon in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, then visited the place. Many wind chimes (over 2,500 pieces) were hung in the garden of the temple. The deep blue summer sky seen through glass chimes with their sounds was very comfortable. […]

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Watercolor painting like images converted by “stable diffusion”

1-hour free courses are provided on the deeplearning ai site, so tried some. (the link is here. you can learn LLMs also) Among them, “How Diffusion Models Work” was awesome for me. (jupyter notebooks can be downloaded also!) I learned about the name of “stable diffusion” for the first time in that course and immediately […]

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Sunflowers in Umami Hillside Park

2023-8-4 Recently, so hot and not willing to go out easily, but it's sunflower season. I visited Umami Hillside Park in Nara prefecture, as I learned the sunflowers are in full bloom right now. Although the temperature was high, the humidity was not so high, and I was able to see many kinds of sunflowers. […]

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