"Cross-Architectural Positive Pairs improve the effectiveness of Self-Supervised Learning. (arXiv:2301.12025v1 [cs.CV])" — A novel self-supervised learning approach that leverages Transformer and CNN simultaneously to overcome the issues with existing self-supervised techniques which have extreme computational requirements and suffer a substantial drop in performance with a reduction in batch size or pretraining epochs.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12025

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"Improved knowledge distillation by utilizing backward pass knowledge in neural networks. (arXiv:2301.12006v1 [cs.LG])" — Addressing the issue with Knowledge Distillation (KD) where there is no guarantee that the model would match in areas for which you do not have enough training samples, by generating new auxiliary training samples based on extracting knowledge from the backward pass of the teacher in the areas where the student diverges greatly from the teacher.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12006

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"RGB Arabic Alphabets Sign Language Dataset. (arXiv:2301.11932v1 [cs.CV])" — An Arabic Alphabet Sign Language (AASL) dataset comprising of 7,856 raw and fully labelled RGB images of the Arabic sign language alphabets which might be the first such publicly available dataset.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11932

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Sample images from the dataset

A total of 89 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 37 new, 52 updated.

Lots of updates today ... So on to seeing if there's anything interesting in there 🙂

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The worst thing about having your password stolen is having to rename the dog.

@Miteroni Thanks for the encouragement 🙂 I’m fairly (80%-ish?) sure that I’ll do it, just need to get the logistics together and then actually start writing … Hopefully, this weekend.

@davemark Personally, I want everything I build to work on both macOS and iOS since if I use it, then my wife will want to use it and she’ll generally be using it from her iPad. So SwiftUI is the preferred option for me most of the time these days.

Went through several Mastodon clients because of this actually 🙂 I liked Mastonaut because the source was available and it was native macOS, but then my wife wanted the features I was building. Looked at at least one which was pure SwiftUI and modified it a bunch but kept hitting issues getting certain things to work — like the UITextView thing I mentioned previously.

Now I’m using a Swift app (with some SwiftUI code) which was mainly written as an iOS app with Catalyst support and I’m modifying the Catalyst part to work for my needs on a Mac. Working out OK so far but it’s a bit of a struggle with Catalyst.

So based on this particular experience, developing for iOS with Catalyst support for macOS would seem to be the the way to go … But my heart is set on trying to get pure native apps on both sides of the fence if I can and so I’d really want it to be SwiftUI cross platform. But that takes a lot more work … and I’m lazy 😛

I’m thinking of writing a serialised story on here since Akkoma gives me plenty of space for writing. Maybe do something where each instalment is about a 1,000 words, accompany it with StableDiffusion images (or images generated by StableDiffusion that my wife modifies/tweaks — we talked about it, but still figuring out that part …) and do a part every few days or something?

I have a story brewing in my head which is perfect for this but just need to find the time. What with work and the AI papers, weekdays are kind of full and I really need the time for things to percolate properly if I want to write and it’s fun. So maybe write over the weekends and publish over the week?

Still thinking about this … It’s a fun story that both my wife and I have worked on for years, but this is a totally different take on that, and so essentially, a new story 🙂

Tusker is really coming into its own for me. I’ve done a bunch of changes to make it work better on macOS as a Catalyst app (mostly to do with remembering placement of the windows and such) and have added in notifications since I forget to check for new posts if there’s no badge on the app …

Still have a few things I’d like to fix but overall, I still like the app and how much easier it is to modify than most of the other Mastodon app code I’ve looked at recently.

So looks as if I’m going with Tusker and will continue to tinker with it. Most of the stuff I’ve added is rough and needs polishing but then I need to find the time to do that, don’t I? 😛

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Hey Mastodon, I’m trying to help find someone doing research involving human facial EMG recording. (e.g. levator labii and corrugator signals) You know anyone? Heard any rumors?
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@davemark Personaly, for any new projects where cross-platform is a requirement, I try to go with SwiftUI since it makes life easier overall. Catalyst works great most of the time, but on the macOS side you get a few idiosyncrasies which just makes things a bit annoying … (This is based on having worked with both SwiftUI and Catalyst Mastodon client in the past few weeks 😛)

For work, it really depends on the environment I guess. At work, I have a boss who loves SwiftUI and wants me to convert existing code to SwiftUI. I personally find UIKit faster to get going with since you can build a UI fast and for smaller projects, UIKit (but not AppKit so much, but that again might be my personal biases) faster to get started.

But if the project is cross-platform, I generally reach for SwiftUI. For smaller, less-complex stuff, SwiftUI works well,. But if you try to do some complicated stuff cross-platform, SwiftUI becomes a bit of a learning curve. Generally, it still gets the job done these days and there’s usually somebody who’s faced the same issues as you already, but it does become a bit more work … For example, supporting a specific type of view (say a UITextView analogue with particular functionality) on both iOS and macOS ….

Arturo, chilly this morning but making an effort to be adorable as ever.

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“[E]verything is a challenge. You have to answer challenge with creative effort. That’s the only thing you can do.”

— Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American artist, sculptor, designer, landscape architect (1904-1988)
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Happy hummingbird zoomies

Alien babydoll
Midjourney 4 AI Art
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I looked at her and said.. I think that's enough, it's but Monday - chill. However her body language stated she was on a mission. ( or he)!

Photo pd ~ that be me
I leave my camera on the table for unexpected visitors such as she/he.

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I created a story in my mind’s eye about these two when I saw them fishing on this little bayside dock. I imagined that they’ve grown old together & still enjoy doing the little things in life as a couple ... things that are the glue that make a relationship last.

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Cute skunk really for Winter
Midjourney 4 AI Art
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The highest mountain of the Lviv region of Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Mount Pikuy. 1408 m
In winter, everything is covered with frost.

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