The images show two separate iterations of the same app — the first is a SwiftUI app for doing #StableDiffusion image generation using #CoreML. That took several weeks of work to create and it never really worked right — I could only do single selection of images, couldn’t drag and drop more than one image, and it took a fair amount of time to implement even trivial stuff.

The second is the same app implemented using AppKit. It took essentially one day (yesterday). Multiselection was built-in, drag and drop (for multiple items) was a couple of lines of code, and I implemented a bunch of other things I wanted to do fairly easily.

On top of that, the app feels faster, lighter, and more responsive than the SwiftUI version for the exact same task, using the exact same models.

SwiftUI has a long way to go still, if it will even ever get there …

#Coding #macOS #Swift #SwiftUIvsAppKit
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@AngelaPreston Not a fan of sports but I can relate to listening to the radio 🙂 When I was growing up, that used to be the only form of entertainment — going to the cinema was expensive and was a “special occasion” thing …

We’d wait the whole week for a particular radio drama to come up and so on. I still remember my Dad and his brothers crowded around the radio listening to sports events …

Another D&D session podcast released - traveling through Wildspace.

Our podcasts have shifted to more "cinematic" replays with lots of background music and sound effects.

Hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZmwWu4LX5QmQyVuSLIoYZ

#dnd #podcast #spelljammer

Sportscaster: I hope you're all ready for Super Bowl Sunday.

Me: No, but I am ready for Superb Owl Sunday haha

Owl: We get one single holiday and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.

I only go to Legoland for the discount plastic surgery.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

This is a fascinating article on the increasing use of #subtitles, by Claudia Forsberg for ABC #Ballarat - the way that sound is designed for movies intended for cinema means that it doesn't play back optimally on mobile devices or streaming services - and this is one factor driving the adoption of #ClosedCaptioning or #Subtitles.

But, these #Subtitles are often inaccurate or mis-transcribed. They use #ASR technology - and this is another case for having good #voice #data #voicedata

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-12/subtitles-popular-among-general-population-change-tv-film/101956758

@icanzilb You need a bit of timeline pruning 😛 I start filtering people and #hashtags when I start seeing stuff on here that I don’t like to read about. Once you do that and follow a few hashtags of interest, your timeline becomes so much better …

Oh yeah, having the ability to filter replies (in case you use a Fed instance which sends you all replies like mine does) helps too. Why get into other people’s conversations that aren’t relevant to you?

It takes a bit more work, but honestly, except for news (both tech and world — though I don’t care much for the world part) I get more content here than I did on Twitter. And once I get rid of the irritants, it is also much nicer 🙂

@jefframes

@Mrfunkedude I haven't been to Yosemite since the '80s - damn, I have to get back there.

My favorite place in the world is Red Rock Canyon, near Las Vegas, Nevada. I always feel at peace there.

"When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women. That's the main conclusion of a new study that compiled information about 20,860 pictures drawn by students age 5 to 18 over 5 decades."

https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-scientist-look-children-are-drawing-women-more-ever #science @psychology @sociology

Genius.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Opera is going to use #ChatGPT to shorten articles — so that people have to read less and think even less —, Microsoft is building ChatGPT into their Office tools — again, less thinking —, we already have ChatGPT in search engines ..

So this is how the world ends — everybody growing stupider because we are too lazy to think for ourselves, and not with a bang?

I guess SkyNet did arrive but not in the way we thought … 😛

#TheAIRevolution #MisinformationEngine
Engadget article — Opera is add…

#silentsunday

So many columnar and prismatic minerals.

#TucsonGemAndMineralShow2023

My rosemary is blooming beautifully! #gardening

axo.dev is finally hiring rust devs again -- one or two people to help me with cargo-dist (and other tools we're spinning up related to it I GUESS): https://www.axo.dev/jobs/rust-engineer

For those of us outside the Dole/Chiquita hegemony, bananas can have a variety of tastes — sweet, sour, bland and all the other stuff in between 😛 So when you say “water bugs taste like banana”, which banana are we talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
Chefs who cook with insects rep…

I just migrated to a new instance, which is a good occasion for a formal #introduction.

So, hi! I'm wrapping up my PhD in #sociology; I use digital and #computationalsocialscience methods to study experiences of community for #LGBTQ / #queer people and places.

I've done lots of work with #Rstats / #tidyverse, and I'm getting better with #Python, especially for #nlproc and text-as-data methods as they relate to applied social science questions.

Can't promise to be super active on here while I'm dissertating and interviewing for jobs, but I might share some snippets of my in-progress stuff.

Any young data scientists with R skills based in Africa available for hire?

Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Moz, Namibia, Angola, SA etc

Hit me up!

#rstats community pls retoot as I have more or less zero followers

Code with swearing is better code.

Jan Strehmel: We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. We hypothesise that the use of...
https://jwz.org/b/yj95

@jefframes I’m in the same boat in that I have progressives too. Yes, reading glasses would be better but I can’t be bothered to switch between two pairs of glasses 😛

Now that I’m mostly in one place (home) and don’t actually go out (ever, if I can help it) I probably should think about getting reading glasses. Thanks for reminding me/making me realize it 🙂