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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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If there's any marginalised people in AU/NZ that need a new home in the wake of the mastodon.lol shutdown, sing out, Cloud Island would be happy to host you.

If you can please boost this. πŸ™‚

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Fahim Farook

"Is This Loss Informative? Speeding Up Textual Inversion with Deterministic Objective Evaluation. (arXiv:2302.04841v1 [cs.CV])" β€” A study of the training dynamics of textual inversion, with the aim of speeding it up.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04841

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Better Diffusion Models Further Improve Adversarial Training. (arXiv:2302.04638v1 [cs.CV])" β€” Tries to answer the question "Can better diffusion models further improve adversarial training?" empirically.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04638
Code: https://github.com/wzekai99/DM-Improves-AT

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Current mastodon.lol members looking for a new home, I’d encourage you to explore https://vmst.io/about and https://docs.vmst.io and see if we might be the place for you.

Feel free to reach out with any questions about site policy, moderation, or help with moving.

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Fahim Farook

"Adversarial Example Does Good: Preventing Painting Imitation from Diffusion Models via Adversarial Examples. (arXiv:2302.04578v1 [cs.CV])" β€” Exploration into creating an image that is similar to another image for human vision, but unrecognizable for diffusion models to investigate the possibility of creating images that hinder diffusion models from extracting their features.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04578

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Comparison of workflows for adv…
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Fahim Farook

"Efficient Attention via Control Variates. (arXiv:2302.04542v1 [cs.LG])" β€” A look at control variates to show that Random-Feature-based Attention (RFA) can be decomposed into a sum of multiple control variate estimators for each element in the sequence.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04542

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Feature Likelihood Score: Evaluating Generalization of Generative Models Using Samples. (arXiv:2302.04440v1 [cs.LG])" β€” A parametric sample-based score that uses density estimation to quantitatively measure the quality/diversity of generated samples of deep generative models while taking overfitting into account.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04440
Code: https://github.com/marcojira/fls

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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FLS for a generative model that…
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Fahim Farook

"Q-Diffusion: Quantizing Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2302.04304v1 [cs.CV])" β€” A solution to the slowness in diffusion models to generate images by compressing the noise estimation network to accelerate the generation process using post-training quantization (PTQ).

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04304

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Stable Diffusion 512 Γ—512 text-…
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Fahim Farook

A total of 66 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today β€” 51 new, 15 updated.

More papers to read … yay? πŸ˜›

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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I’ve been having a lot of health problems recently which make it difficult to do development work, on both client or personal apps. My last client who provided occasional work has just dropped me. I can’t really take on any big client work due to my health. I am screwed unless I can sell a lot more of my own apps. Can you help me? And boost this thread?

I will reply to this post with links to some of my apps that I think some people might find useful. iOS developers should love some of them.

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Welp, I got hit by yesterday's layoffs at Gusto. This was a bummer, because the app my wee team was working on was really starting to come together, and the people there are all super nice.

However, I'm gonna be fine in the end. If you are hiring for Staff-level iOS, hit me up, especially for things involving GraphQL and SwiftUI. Remote only, but I'm available immediately.

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#SwiftUI so easy to do the easy things, but so much harder to do even moderately non-standard stuff πŸ˜›

Grid views only allow single selection and single deletion, if you wanted to do multiple selection and multiple deletion, have to jump through a lot more hoops and suddenly, the whole β€œyou just update the data and the UI will update by itself” thing no longer works ….

Ah, the joys of coding πŸ˜ƒ

#Swift #Coding #macOS
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Thought I’d put the new #ChatGPT plugin through its paces (I’m not linking to it, given the results, I think I’d be doing everybody a disservice linking to it …) and installed it. The very first Google query I had was for something coding related that I was stuck on …

The ChatGPT answer? Looks convincing but total BS πŸ˜›

PSA: Kids, do not rely on ChatGPT and always verify the info you receive from strangers (and ChatGPT or its ilk).

#MisinformationEngine #ChatGPT #Search
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RamenCatholic 🐒🌈

from work

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Trixter of the Moon Council

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It feels a bit ghoulish to jump in on another server's closure but for those who need a new home now that mastodon.lol is shutting down, we still have plenty of room to grow on retro.pizza! We're a queer-run (but not queer-only) nerd culture instance with a small but healthy community and an admin who is very old and calloused by the Transformers Fandom Message Board Wars of the '00s.

(Was recommended some hashtags! )

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@davemark I thought that the β€œFast & the Furious” franchise would be in there, but I guess that doesn’t have as much of a global appeal maybe? And it’s interesting that half of the six are super-heroes … Are we all just kids who never grew up? πŸ˜›
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If you’re a user of a Debian-based Linux distro, and you’re in the mood to help test a new Briefcase feature, I’d appreciate the help. I’ve put together a draft of a deb packaging backend, and I need feedback on whether it works, and/or meets end-user expectations for Debian/Ubuntu/etc users. https://github.com/beeware/briefcase/pull/1081

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