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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess 🙂 I've been a programmer, journalist, editor, TV producer, and a few other things.

I'm currently working on my second novel which is complete, but is in the edit stage. I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago but then didn't write much till now.

I post about #Coding, #Flutter, #Writing, #Movies and #TV. I'll also talk about #Technology, #Gadgets, #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning and a few other things as the fancy strikes ...

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Damiansixx_@mastodon.social

Damian

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I wish to be here. I’m going to start tagging all my beaches photos to starting with this one

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SharonCummingsArt@socel.net

Sharon Cummings Art (Official)

Deep spirals of blue.
A Universe in the sea.
Nature's perfection.

I have a fascination with nautilus shells and their beautiful spirals and compartments. There is something about those spaces.

ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-nautilus-shell-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html?product=art-print

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Fahim Farook

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Added a couple of extra filtering options to the home timeline in Tusker and suddenly the timeline is that much more manageable 😃

#Tusker #FediClient #iOS #macOS
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Fahim Farook

Reply to @ethauvin@mastodon.social
@ethauvin Don’t remember. I checked mainly to see if they were somebody I was following or who followed me — neither. Didn’t have posts to indicate what they might be on about (or no posts were federated to my server). Just left it at that and (mostly) moved on … except of course, posting about it 😝
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MicheleV_AK@sfba.social

MicheleV_AK

Check out this gorgeous kitty cat aka Lynx! Just stunning in every way possible. Those paws, the color of the coat...simply gorgeous. 😻

📸 by Katy Doty

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Reply to @ethauvin@mastodon.social
@ethauvin That would track if they had any posts, but they didn’t 😛 Also, this particular person didn’t even have an avatar image set. I tend to disregard those anyway…
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TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

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It's , and I have a story I really wanna share:

In 1691 an 80-something Livonian man named Old Thiess was called to court as a witness in a theft case. As he was sworn in, another witness laughed: "How can he swear a holy oath when everyone knows he is a werewolf?"

The judges immediately forgot about the thief and put Old Thiess on trial. He calmly admitted that yes, indeed he was a werewolf.
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radiofreefedi@musician.social

radio free fedi

radio free fedi is a small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial, attribution promoting, community radio

we are now ready to accept more submissions, and are here to promote sound and music artists, their support links, desired license and fedi presence if they wish in an eclectic and fun radio format

24/7 music from the fedi with "theNews" at the top of each hour

https://radiofreefedi.net

keep fedi weird

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Fahim Farook

Today turned out to be a light day for paper reading — only 7 papers in the cs.CV category, and 3 from other categories on arXiv posted.

But hey, the weekend is almost here 😛

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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Krisss@mastodon.nl

Kris

Spring in the City
By Sabantha

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irisRichardson@mastodon.art

Iris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷

The Promise - a half opened your sunflower. #2023 AYearForArt
https://www.pictorem.com/598336/Half%20Opened%20Sunflower.html

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"Bayesian Metric Learning for Uncertainty Quantification in Image Retrieval. (arXiv:2302.01332v1 [cs.LG])" — A Bayesian encoder for metric learning which, rather than relying on neural amortization as done in prior works, learns a distribution over the network weights with the Laplace Approximation.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01332

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"Dual PatchNorm. (arXiv:2302.01327v1 [cs.CV])" — Experiments with adding two Layer Normalization layers (LayerNorms), before and after the patch embedding layer in Vision Transformers, to see how it affects accuracy.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01327

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

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@AngelaPreston Yes, I’m not sure if I interpreted it correctly either 🙂 I was going by the middle image where I assumed that the strength of the blue colour indicated the strength of the smell …

But that didn’t seem to totally gel with the third image in terms of it going off course yet again … But since the third image doesn’t have the smell overlay (if that’s indeed what it is …) I can’t be sure that it didn’t again land on a cell with no smell and so went off course again due to the randomness …
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Fahim Farook

Reply to @andrey@sigmoid.social
@andrey I guess it all depends on what people are looking for. Some just got annoyed at Twitter but they really want what Twitter offers while others (like me) actually find the Fediverse way much better. The former will leave when they can’t get what they want, the latter will (hopefully) stick around 🙂
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@AngelaPreston My guess would be that the wrong course was dictated by the randomness — it took one step away from the source and then kept making new turns randomly trying to find a stronger smell “signal”?
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"Deep reinforcement learning for the olfactory search POMDP: a quantitative benchmark" — Using deep reinforcement learning to search for a source of odor in turbulence, as applicable to sniffer robots.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00706

#NewPaper #Robotics #DeepLearning

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"Why Combining Text and Visualization Could Improve Bayesian Reasoning: A Cognitive Load Perspective" — An examination of the cognitive load elicited when solving Bayesian problems using icon arrays, text, and a juxtaposition of text and icon arrays.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00707

#NewPaper #HumanComputerInteraction #HC

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@AngelaPreston Yep .. or at least, that's similar to my thoughts. I guess I expect too much of people and this kind of thing just makes me think way too much about the "why" rather than simply just shrugging it off and moving on 😛
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"CrazyChoir: Flying Swarms of Crazyflie Quadrotors in ROS 2" — A modular Python framework based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 which provides a comprehensive set of functionalities to simulate and run experiments on teams of cooperating Crazyflie nano-quadrotors.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00716

#NewPaper #Robotics

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