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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess πŸ™‚ 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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The , located in , China, was the imperial palace for the Ming and Qing dynasties from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. The dragon head tiles are particularly noteworthy and are often carved in great detail, depicting the dragon's open mouth, curled whiskers, and fierce eyes.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-ayearforart-dragon-tile-screen-wall-steve-estvanik.html

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of the Day for February 5, 2023, dug up a walnut for Sunday brunch

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Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

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Edited 3 years ago

Just moved to neuromatch.social, so here it goes (again), :

Hi everyone, I'm a last year undergrad in & at McGill. I'm doing research in the Baillet Lab at The Neuro (MNI), focusing on whole-brain dynamical models of coupled neural masses calibrated to data (more details @ https://neurolife77.github.io/ if anyone is curious).

I am also the VP of the committee at PharmaHacks, a hackathon that blends & with a focus on .
@neuroscience

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Since I have the space to put it in the same post now, thanks to the freedom in post length from this new server, here's a bonus:

I regularly share links to preprints that catch my attention and tag them with:

I started doing this because I thought that the arxiv bots on mastodon were not super efficient, but after doing it for about a month I'd say it's also a good way to keep some form of history of my nightly exploration of the literature in my fields of interest. I usually share stuff about , , , , , etc.

Disclaimer: I usually only read the abstract or skim through them at the time of posting.
Disclaimer 2: I am definitely not consistent.

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Without a lab, access to research libraries/university facilities, entomologist Charles Henry Turner (1867–1923) died with a personal library of 1,000+ books, having published 50+ scientific papers; he revolutionized our knowledge of ants (Earth’s most abundant animal); he was 1st to prove insects can hear& distinguish pitch, alsi 1st scientist to achieve Pavlovian bug conditioning, training moths to beat their wings when he whistled h/t @mariapopova

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A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4699) Monday 6th February 2023.

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I was forgetting to mention, I'll go to @pycon for the first time this year (April 19-27). πŸ€“πŸ

I'll give a talk: ⭐ Introducción a @FastAPI ⭐

Come and practice your Spanish with me. Or just come and say hi, I'm shy. πŸ˜…

Y si hablas español, chévere, guay, copado, buenazo! 😎

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As a kid, I’d eat yeast and sit in the oven.

That’s just how I was raised.

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Whoa, almost stepped on a cladonia city today - and a new species for me I believe, Cladonia verticillata. The pixies really went crazy when they built this one, I counted 5 stories in some of the buildings!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148069331

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They're a Weird Mob.
Hill End NSW

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Alien archeologists digging up the ruins of a long forgotten human civilization. Trying to figure out why they all just disappeared...
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An Alien Quilt made of alien fabrics depicting the history of their world
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Very Silly plants
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Tempest in a tea cup
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@Triflingtree I did the same prompt in Stable Diffusion sometime back but never got images as gorgeous as this πŸ™‚ I think my prompt was β€œstorm in a teacup” but I mostly got tea cups at that point … Should probably try again with one of the fine-tuned StableDiffusion models and see if things are different …
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@aspiringcat Well, that’s one faux pas averted πŸ˜›
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@aspiringcat I’ve just used it whenever β€” even when I was in my twenties … I’d just say β€œYou know how scatterbrained I am, I just can’t remember stuff.” Or something like that. Of course, with age it becomes more believable πŸ˜›

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@aspiringcat That’s what I generally say … or something similar. But I also blame my advancing age πŸ˜› I say, β€œMy memory’s not what it used to be and as I get older, I tend forget things more. So could you please refresh my memory as to how we know each other?”
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@AngelaPreston Since the issue my wife experienced was in a third-party app, I don’t know for sure, but the symptoms sound the same and so I’m hoping it fixes the issue you’re seeing or at least changes things enough to give you a clue as to what is going on … If not, please let me know and I’ll see if I can do a bit more digging πŸ™‚
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