Apple in Oil

2023-01-20 day 221 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

Some friends commented about a previous piece, titles Oranges in Oil, and how they expected oranges swimming in oil, like a food item. Totally fair. This piece was titled prior to their comments, so it stays. Just because.

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A red apple on a dark blue tabl…

On the Lake

2023-01-18/19 day 219/220 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is a Tatyworks tutorial.

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Tutorial: https://youtu.be/H09NKFSBGIQ
Surrealist digital painting. Tw…

As the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean west of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) beautiful blue and pink rays project upwards from the horizon. A moai (statue) is silhouetted in the foreground. See more here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rapa-nui-moai-and-sunset-2-joan-carroll.html
#rapanui #easterisland #moai #statues #pacificocean #palmtrees #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #BuyArtNotCandy #giftideas @joancarroll

I made another terrarium. #mossyMoment #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #terrarium #houseplants #plants #botany #ferns #creativeplanting

Baroque Style Spacesuit with Helmet
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Honestly, how does anybody get anything done with #SwiftUI for non-trivial apps? You can’t do multi-selection in grid views. So if you have an app with a lot of items and want to delete multiple items, the user has to delete them one by one?

Say you get beyond that issue by adding some sort of a selection list, but then you hit the issue of deleting multiple items at once not updating the grid.

And if you get beyond that too, but then you want to do drag and drop with your multiple selections? As far as I can tell, no real way to do that at all! Multiple drop is supported, but not multiple drag. How does that make sense?

I had an app which had progressed to functional level before I hit all these issues. Now I’m seriously thinking of going back and re-wrting from scratch with AppKit since apparently SwiftUI is really not yet ready for this kind of usage …

After almost four years of SwiftUI, I would have hoped Apple was further along than this 😞

Or am I missing something obvious? (That’s always possible …)

#Coding #macOS #Apple

Hey there, major re- #introductions

I’m a cishet #autistic cubanx dad. Relocating to Chicago, but gonna be a lifelong Philly boy.

I party. I sing, play bass, keytar, drink coffee, rye. I go to shows.

I'm in HR for National Archives; over the last two decades I was leading #eLearning #technology like #SCORM and #xAPI :)

Talk to me about #career success, #autism and #neurodiversity and like *anything* that is #music.

Has strong #StarWars opinions

That’s the end of another set of paper readings for the week 🙂 9 papers boosted today out of a total of 66 new and updated papers on arXiv.org under the cs.CV category …

See you next week, I guess?

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

I guess I should start sharing some of my art here. This is a tiny murmuration of birds that I painted for my bird-loving partner. #MastoArt #Art #BirdsOfMastodon

My poor wife has the patience of a saint and I am guilty of such heinous crimes against humanity, that I should have been murdered long ago 😛

Case in point …

My wife says, “There’s a jam jar on the table.” which is code for, “there’s an almost empty jam jar that you can clean out by eating the last of the jam."

Of course, I simply respond with: “There are some boxes on the table.”

She gives me the look that’s reserved just for me — “Are you daft? Or are you intentionally mistaking what I said?” is what it says.

“What? I thought we were making observations,” I respond, smiling innocently 😀

No matter how dark it seems, there is always a path forward.

#Aotearoa #nz #Photography #Nature #naturephotography #LandscapePhotography #NewZealand #LongExposure #astro #astrophotography

New day, new opportunity to share what's good/funny/calming. Nobody here needs convincing there's a whole lot messed up. I have nothing new to add to that discourse. People with far more empathy and wisdom have been voicing what needs to be said. It's up to the rest of us to listen, introspect and apply.

Maybe someday we will see ourselves for who we are - each a unique instance of the same base class - life. Our differences are the spicy exceptions, our similarities, the filling rule.

"UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2302.04867v1 [cs.LG])" — A unified corrector (UniC) that can be applied after any existing DPM sampler to increase the order of accuracy without extra model evaluations, and derive a unified predictor (UniP) that supports arbitrary order as a byproduct.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04867
Code: https://github.com/wl-zhao/UniPC

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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The main idea of UniPC. We prov…

"Trading Information between Latents in Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders. (arXiv:2302.04855v1 [stat.ML])" — A generalization of VAEs to application domains beyond generative modeling (e.g., representation learning, clustering, or lossy data compression) by introducing an objective function that allows practitioners to trade off between the information content ("bit rate") of the latent representation and the distortion of reconstructed data.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04855

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Left: trade-off between perform…

four seasons: one creek. #photography #YEG #Edmonton

My child told me they need a topic for an argumentative essay they have to write for school.

I am happy to announce they are now writing an essay on how cash bail for non-violent offenses merely serves to deprive the poor of their right to a presumption of innocence and the ability to effectively defend themselves.

Do you have experience in #fairness, #accountability, and #transparency in socio-technical systems? Sign up to join the #FAccT2023 program committee and help shape the future of the field! (@facct) #responsibleAI #AI
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc71_qqhSTZ8LF73PGlrOyI--aYeKMUcU8Kxqg_JK6Xv7N78w/viewform

"Robot Synesthesia: A Sound and Emotion Guided AI Painter. (arXiv:2302.04850v1 [cs.CV])" — An approach for using sound and speech to guide a robotic painting process by encoding the simulated paintings and input sounds into the same latent space.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04850
Code: https://github.com/pschaldenbrand/Frida

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Our robot painting sound guidan…

Good folks of #academia, I am looking for an endorsement to #arxiv in the field of CS.cy - computers and society - to upload a preprint of some work.

My ANU page is:
https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/people/kathy-reid/

Is there anyone who would be willing to endorse me?

Endorse link is:
https://arxiv.org/auth/endorse?x=LZFMQK

If there's any marginalised people in AU/NZ that need a new home in the wake of the mastodon.lol shutdown, sing out, Cloud Island would be happy to host you.

If you can please boost this. 🙂