Insight The Reality of 'Continual Learning' ― Can AI Truly Evolve on Its Own?
As many AI services claim 'continual learning' capabilities, here's how to distinguish genuine self-learning from glorified note-taking.
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Insight The 'Cancel SaaS and Build Your Own' Era: Lessons from IDX Advisors and the Rise of Edge Platforms
IDX Advisors saved $150K/year by replacing SaaS subscriptions with AI-built custom software. I examine what this means for the software industry and why edge platforms are emerging as winners.
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Insight US 'AI Development' vs. China's 'AI Utilization': Lessons from the Pre-Lunar New Year Model Blitz
Looking at the contrasting AI strategies of the US and China — one focused on building foundational technology, the other on turning existing tech into business value.
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Insight AI Models Are Becoming Commodities: How OpenClaw and Palantir's Ontology Point to the Agent AI OS
As AI model competition heats up, the real value is shifting to orchestrating and governing agents. Looking at what OpenClaw and Palantir's ontology tell us about the future.
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Insight Beyond the 'Death of SaaS': Where Rule-Based Precision Meets AI Agents
AI is shaking up the SaaS business model. Based on hands-on development experience, I explore how combining rule-based systems with AI agents points the way forward.
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Series Part 1: From Photo Booths to Virtual Try-On — The 20-Year Quest
The origin story of META FIT: how a decades-old vision of seeing yourself in clothes before buying evolved from hardware kiosks to GAN-powered virtual try-on, plus a comprehensive survey of 15+ VTON research models.
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Series Part 3: Inside PF-AFN — The Try-On Engine in Code
A code-level walkthrough of the Parser-Free Appearance Flow Network: Feature Pyramid encoding, CUDA-accelerated correlation kernels, optical flow warping, and the ResUnet generator that composites garments onto people.
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Series Part 2: Understanding GANs — The Engine Behind Virtual Try-On
A deep dive into Generative Adversarial Networks: how the generator-discriminator dynamic works, why GANs dominated image generation before diffusion models, and how they power virtual try-on systems.
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Series Part 4: Pose Estimation, Body Measurement, and 3D Reconstruction
How OpenPose skeletal detection, Graphonomy human parsing, and custom body measurement algorithms work together to enable accurate virtual fitting — plus an exploration of PiFu for 2D-to-3D reconstruction.
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