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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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Fahim Farook

A total of 71 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 45 new, 26 updated.

On with the reading!

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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This is why I always carry cash.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

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@RandallHawes @AngelaPreston Neither did I till I mentioned here that I had no access to the tech news sources that I used to use all the time on Twitter and that was about the only thing I missed from there. Then somebody pointed me to it and now I’m a very happy camper since I can get all my tech news right in my Fedi client 😛
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Hatching a Teeny Tiny Zebra Finch. Great little video featuring the incubation of an abandoned egg and the hatching of a bird smaller than a human fingernail. I was riveted by the birth and first feeding. https://kottke.org/23/02/hatching-a-teeny-tiny-zebra-finch

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Not to brag, but I was spewing out hilariously incorrect information before huge tech companies decided to create AI chatbots and ruin the internet.

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@davemark @TheChrisPaduan Yep, I think that’s why I like the big screen too … these old eyes can’t handle small screens any longer 😛
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@RandallHawes @AngelaPreston I discovered a couple of days ago that I can follow particular Twitter accounts right here from the Fediverse using ActivityPub and this site:

https://bird.makeup/

Has been a game changer for me since now I can follow tech and news sites directly here and not wonder if I’m missing out on something important 🙂
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@davemark I enjoyed it, but never got to finish it. I forget why though … I think we were moving countries a lot at that point and then my wife started playing it as well and we were both playing on one Switch and I just stopped — or something 🙂

Do you play just in hand-held mode? Or do you play on the TV? I think I finish more games on TV than in handheld mode and that might have had something to do with things when it came to “Breath of the Wild” …

@TheChrisPaduan
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@davemark I’m torn … to buy the game, I’d have to buy a new Switch since we left our old one in Canada when we moved the last time. But it’s a new Zelda game … Plus, “Diablo IV” will be coming out soon after that … Do I have time to play two games? I don’t know …

#DevilsAdvocate

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I've always wondered why barns are red.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

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People who don't speak a word of German are far too confident in their ability to assassinate baby Hitler if given the opportunity to time travel.

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I swear typos are gonna be the depth of me.

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Fahim Farook

And as if we didn’t have enough misinformation around (and lots of people going ga-ga over #ChatGPT and how great it is at beating search engines …) apparently Google now has their own misinformation engine — Bard.

Predictably, on one of its first public appearances, it spouted misinformation. But then again, probably a lot of people didn’t notice. Heck, people at Google probably didn’t notice since they showed it off proudly 😛

I’m going to call all these AIs (which is a misnomer anyway) MEs (Misinformation Engine) from now on …

https://www.engadget.com/google-bard-chatbot-false-information-twitter-ad-165533095.html

It’s only going to get worse …

#ChatGPT #Bard #ConversationalME
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@trode Have fun and if you wanna talk about any of this stuff, I’m always around — I don’t like larger communities and so don’t frequent Discord etc. but do miss the shop-talk 😛

At the moment the one I like the most out of the web clients is InvokeAI but there are a lot of nice web clients around. Apparently there’s also a bunch of native macOS clients but they seem to be not so well-known, at least in the circles where I read stuff …
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@trode I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. I had major issues with the Apple code and was going to spend the weekend breaking it down and re-working it to see why it failed. Guernika saved me all that … but then I realized that even that didn’t do what I wanted since I wanted an EINSUM compiled version of Dreamlike Diffusion but apparently the EINSUM version doesn’t work on macOS … I don’t know why but I saw a note to that effect on HuggingFace.

Ah, well 🙂
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@trode From what I can tell based on my very limited research, it doesn’t look as if they are very interested at all. I tried several conversions the Apple way (or using other approaches based on the same approach) and all of them failed for me.

I then found the Guernika Converter (https://huggingface.co/Guernika/CoreMLStableDiffusion) and that actually worked correctly … for some models. Some would convert but didn’t work correctly with (at least) my Swift code.

But it is slightly better overall than anything else I’d tried before.
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Since I’ve moved instances, I guess it’s time for another !

I’m a scientist and engineer based in . I don’t really like making my employer part of my identity, but I currently work at Flatiron Health, and I was previously a quantitative finance researcher at a hedge fund. My career has brought me into communities for , and , where I usually go by Eigenfoo 🧑‍💻📚

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Red Flowers

2023-01-16/17 day 217/218 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is me having fun. I think it could be done better, but I'm not there yet. I'll work on it.

I've uploaded a Timelapse for this piece. You can view it here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/YrdI0iCoauk

If you want to view older artworks I've done, I'm posting them to my blog at https://LMAshton.com. It'll be a little while until I've got them all posted.

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
A digital painting. In the fore…
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