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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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@jefframes I’ve wondered about this too. As I get older, it’s really hard for me to balance seeing enough of the screen (by having a higher resolution) vs. being able to actually read what’s on screen …

I’ve wondered at why this isn’t being addressed more and from personal experience, it seems to be because most people don’t see this as an issue since they themselves don’t experience it …
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I work for the Center for Integrated Cognition at IQMRI. We're a nonprofit that performs basic academic AI research. We also maintain and develop the cognitive architecture, Soar, that we use in our research.

We have a remote work part time software engineer available. If you are interested, the listing is here:
https://integratedcognition.ai/news/software-engineering-opportunity/

Restriction: you have to be a US citizen residing in the US.

I enjoy working here and I like the people I work with, or I wouldn't have bothered posting this.

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Do you periodically burn out?

I've just learned something while researching that could benefit you...

I was reading the work of autistic researcher Dora Raymaker.

She explained that the functioning of an autistic person running up to burnout can look like a "seneca cliff".

A seneca cliff is a model of a system which shows that growth or functioning is pretty good (even seeming to increase) and then, when decline comes, functioning falls off the cliff...at a rate much faster than growth.

It occurred to me that lots of people say to me "I was fine until I wasn't" or "I felt like I was actually ramping up or doing much more until I burnt out".

With this in mind, if it's hard for you to know when a burnout is coming (we can't always tell when we're in it), then you could reflect on whether or not you've been ramping up or putting in extra effort...this might indicate that a crash could be coming.

If this is helpful, pass the information on to your , or friends and family.

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Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who have liked, boosted and commented on my images, and to all the new followers I have. It's rather humbling. 😊

Today's shot comes from a magical day in the Scottish , a few years ago, when I was photographing red squirrels.

These charming characters are incredibly agile and can jump great distances between trees.

Here I managed to capture one as it appears to be flying down my lens.

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Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its .

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer

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If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2

If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!

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@davemark I’m using a customized version of Tusker. It’s an iOS app and had some very good features that worked for me but the macOS support was via Catalyst and there were a few things I didn’t really like — it wouldn’t remember the window positions for starters.

Since it’s open source, I took the source, modified it to fix all the issues that annoyed me and now I have something I really like. Plus, since I’m using it as a Catalyst app on macOS, I can give builds to my wife to run on her iPad. So we’re both happy. Of course, that doesn’t help you 😛
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@yonomitt They research all the info I believe 🙂 I don’t know if you’ve seen “QI: Quite Interesting” (it’s a British show) and they do a lot of research for the show and what you get on Twitter is kind of repeats/overflow/discards etc. would be my guess …

@qikipedia
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Laurie Ashton Farook

Forest Bears

2023-01-30 day 228 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is a Tatyworks tutorial. I did a few things a bit different than her instructions indicated. I like it!

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
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Laurie Ashton Farook

Boat on a Beach series

2023-01-28/29 day 226/227 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I started with a reference photo, and after I painted the first one, I decided to experiment with various styles and methods. I was curious, and what better way to learn?

I’m curious which one you like most? I mean, I know which one I prefer, and Fahim gave me his vote as well, but what about you?

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
A red and aqua coloured boat on…
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𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖋𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌𝕿𝖗𝖊𝖊❓

Watercolor and ink garden
Midjourney 4 AI Art

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I don’t really do sunsets but this was irresistible.

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LUNAR ECLIPSE

SOLAR ECLIPSE

APOCA LYPSE

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Hi ! New to Mastodon, and flailing around a bit. I am totally blind and still adjusting even though it has been over 4 years. Previously I lived aboard my boat for over 10 years. I am a civil engineer/creative writer/Moth Storyteller.

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Hi! Newbie here. Posting from just south of the Florida sausage factory. :) Twitter scares me and I wanted to check things out here.

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We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Manager!

This role will be supporting a team of around 5 engineers working on building new features across the scope of our core product offering.

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and some awesome perks:
🏝 Work remotely
🗓 4-Day workweeks
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(and there are even more amazing perks we didn’t list here!)

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Mark Tisdale Art 🏳️‍🌈

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Fahim Farook

I really miss having @qikipedia posting facts over here. For a week or so, they did and then they’ve gone back to only posting on Twitter 😞

So I guess I’ll have to repeat their facts since I do enjoy them … but then there is no quoting posts and I have to resort to screenshots .. Ah, well 🙂
There is a termite city underne…
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One of those nights when you look out the window of your house and say, "I didn't realize how close I lived to Mordor."

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