Hemipenthes webberi

#Diptera #Fly #Flies #Insect #Insects
#ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CreativeCommons #CCBYSA
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemipenthes_webberi_-_Mississauga,_Ontario_2018-06-15_(01).jpg

In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt."

Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/ellen-harding-baker-solar-system-quilt/

Any time somebody posts about how great ChatGPT is and how it’s going to power their next system (or powers their current system), I feel like asking “And do you know that ChatGPT is a liar and is delusional?” 😛 (Disclaimer: Just a turn of phrase, I do not believe that ChatGPT is conscious …)

But I guess people will believe what they want to believe. They always have. Current state of the world is a case in point …

#MachineLearning #ChatGPT

This Black-headed Gull flew pretty close to see what was going down on Heron Island, so took opportunity to get this photo.

#nature #NaturePhotography #birds #Wildlife #naturecommunity #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #birdphotography

Newbie here! A friend told me that she couldn't see my bunny artwork (I forgot to post it at first!) so I'm reposting this...

As the owner of two bunnies as pets in the distant past, I was stoked when I heard that 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit. So of course I've set out to create some rabbit artwork.

To see it larger and to buy prints, home decor, and more click on https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/year-of-the-rabbit-orange-and-blue-peggy-collins.html

#YearOfTheRabbit #rabbits #bunny #bunnies #rabbitart #animalart #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery

Baby Chimera
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Funny cartoon Lobstrosities from the Dark Tower (Stephen King)
Midjourney 4 AI Art#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Spiraling to Space
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Can we have some sweets?

#aiart #AIArtwork

From last summer. In our garden!
#UrbanFox #peckham #se15 #foxes #foxcubs #fox

It makes it all those hours waiting in the cold worthwhile when you get the flight shot & they are looking straight at you. 😛 😀

#birds #birdphotography #photo #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #Friday #BirdsofMastodon #owl #owls #snowyowl #eyes #flight #wings #cold #winter #snow

#FungiFriday

Gorgeous sunrise before the cloud veil drops again #pnw #wawx #salishsea #sanjuans #nature

Hey!

I was recently laid off and I need help finding a new job. I'm a (primarily) PHP dev with experience in ETL, consuming APIs, writing docs, and some amount of experience with refactoring legacy code and building APIs.

I'm looking for a remote, mid-level position where I can continue to learn and grow as a dev and human, within a team of other devs.

I prefer working with PHP, but I'm open to other programming languages.

I also contribute to the PHP manual when energy permits.

New instance, new #Introduction !

My name is Jürgen, and I translate old German folk tales into English - not just tales from the Brothers Grimm, but from the hundreds of other 19th century German folklorists out there.

To date, I have translated more than 440 tales. You can learn more about my project here (and you can get a free ebook version of my first book if you subscribe to my newsletter there):

#Germany #folklore
https://sunkencastles.com/

Hi all! My first work-account mastodon post! I'm a prof at University of Maryland and researcher at Microsoft Research NYC, working broadly in human-centered AI #hcai #nlproc #ml #dl #hci #machinelearning #nlp. You may know me from @haldaume3 on that other website :).

The 3rd Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI is happening at #CHI2023 (but virtual)

Papers due Feb 26

Commence paper writing in 3... 2... 1... go

https://hcxai.jimdosite.com/

I just got laid off from Okta, so if you are looking for a very good cybersecurity risk manager with 20 years of experience and a great track record, hit me up.

https://linkedin.com/in/rachaellininger/

Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in Ontario to formerly-enslaved parents from Kentucky. They saved enough to send him to Scotland to study mechanical #engineering. When he returned and couldn't get work in his field, he took a job as a train oilman and invented a method of automatic lubrication that eliminated the frequent stops trains had to make to oil up axles & bearings. Railroad companies asking for his product rather than copycat devices spawned the phrase "the real McCoy." #BlackHistoryMonth