@Rjdlandscapes
My favourite from a very cold morning in July 2014. These have been very good earners for us as stock and prints.

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

Winter at Lake Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand, with birds roosting in the single tree and mist rising from the water.

#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

Charles Henry Turner was a pioneer in entomology - and he couldn't get a job in higher ed, so he taught high school biology.

"Across his distinguished 33-year career, Turner authored 71 papers and was the first African American to have his research published in the prestigious journal Science."

His simple but elegant experiments in public parks revolutionized understanding of bees.

https://theconversation.com/charles-henry-turner-the-little-known-black-high-school-science-teacher-who-revolutionized-the-study-of-insect-behavior-in-the-early-20th-century-184030

#BlackHistory #BlackFriday #BlackHistoryMonth #Science
📷 Charles I. Abramson, CC BY-ND

Flowering Succulents 💟 watercolor & colored pencil

Loved drawing and painting every detail of this composition. Inspired by a very special garden. Fine art prints, home decor, gifts available in my shop. 🎨 https://society6.com/elizabethkennenwatercolors

#art #artwork #artist #watercolor #painting #drawing #flowers #nature #garden #spring #MastoArt #AYearforArt

Some good news about western #monarch #butterflies (not the ones that @migrate to @Mexico):

“Volunteers who visited sites in #California and #Arizona around Thanksgiving tallied more than 330,000 butterflies, the highest number of these #insects counted in the last six years. It was a promising rebound after the annual winter count in 2020 recorded fewer than 2,000 butterflies.”

As noted in the article, though, this isn’t thanks to better #conservation practice.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/02/01/news/monarch-butterflies-rebound-wintering-california

How can I get any work done when this is going on outside my office window? 😍

You know it's cold when the ghost freezes.

#MeanwhileInCanada

We will make them pay

Good Morning.

Finally! A resource to help understand the menagerie of open source LLMs, fine-tuning techniques and publicly available datasets: The Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13688v1) #NLP, #AI

Fantasy Elves enjoying spaghetti 2
I somehow missed this one when postings the others 🤷‍♀️
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle  #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney​

Fantasy Elves enjoying spaghetti
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Mister Clean actually doing some housework
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney