Charles Chen

Jan 21, 2025 | avpn.asia | Charles Chen |Wyrlo Agsalud

As Taiwan embarks on its journey toward becoming a leader in impact investing, the Taiwan Impact Investing Association (TIIA) has declared 2025 as Taiwan’s inaugural year of impact investing action. By fostering global dialogue on sustainable finance, TIIA is driving impactful solutions to the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Taiwan and beyond.

Nov 10, 2024 | chrlschn.medium.com | Charles Chen

Charles Chen·Follow7 min read·--Many folks who have not worked with LLMs to produce some complex output tend to see most AI startups as simple wrappers around third party models and APIs.However, this is the wrong way to think about LLMs and AI. A more accurate analogy is to think of LLMs and AI as an (admittedly magical) oven — an appliance that transforms the input mixture of ingredients into some intermediate product.

Jul 13, 2024 | chrlschn.medium.com | Charles Chen

Google Cloud Storage has a really nifty feature that allows you to . This can be really useful if you're performing ETL-like tasks across a large dataset and you want to add resiliency to your process by allowing you to "checkpoint" you work by simply dumping out state into a storage object. For example, imagine that you are moving data from an API and processing a large resultant CSV file (think tens of thousands of records). That API call may be costly and may be subject to rate limiting.

Jul 7, 2024 | chrlschn.medium.com | Charles Chen

If you've used TypeScript or F# or any language that natively supports DUs, then you're already familiar with it. C# currently does not natively support discriminated unions as a language feature, but it has been on the roadmap now for several months (years?). Today, it is possible to easily add DU-like patterns to your C# codebase using two .NET libraries:Both make it easy to progressively adopt DUs in C# codebases.

Feb 5, 2024 | nature.com | Charles Chen

AbstractClassical swine fever virus (CSFV) and porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) are two of the most devastating and economically significant pathogens affecting pig populations worldwide. Administration of a combination of vaccines against swine pathogens has been demonstrated to be as efficacious as the administration of single vaccines. In this study, we developed and tested a novel bivalent subunit vaccine against CSFV and PCV2.