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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

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@wadethemaker The costs will probablly depend (at least to some extent) on which flavour of Fedi-software you run. Apparently, Mastodon is a bit of a beast and will need a bit more RAM (and possibly CPU) power.

I ran several different Fedi-flavours (but not Mastodon) because of the above. Based on personal experience, what I can tell you is that GoToSocial will run fine on the lowest end DigitalOcean VPS which I think costs $5 or $10 a month?

However (at least at the time I tried) GotoSocial was missing a few features that I wanted and so I switched to Akkoma, which has all the features I wanted (and a few more besides). It probably needs about 2GB of RAM to be comfortable. I found a server with Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/) which gave me a 4GB RAM VPS for under/around $10 a month. I’ve been hosted there for a couple of months now and happy with things — both their server and Akkoma.
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JanluitPhotos

Today the flower of Orange Hawkweed.
As the name suggests it is actually a weed.
But it has beautiful flowers!

See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/orange-hawkweed-close-up-jan-luit.html

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jeff@phpc.social

Jeff Standen

Hello! I'm Jeff, a software architect near L.A.

From 1994-96 I ran a dialup with >1,000 users sharing 8 lines (oof). By the end it provided MINIX shell accounts + Internet email via FIDO. I've been online ever since.

I've been building Cerb.ai (formerly Cerberus Helpdesk) in + full-time for nearly 21 years. 1000s of teams use it for high-volume shared webmail + workflow automation.

I'm also interested in

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Yesterday's Pratchett novel title was: "The Shepherd's Crown"

And that's the last of the #DiscWorld titles 😞 Sure there are a few others left like "Nation", "Dodger", and the "Bromeliad" stuff (not to mention "Johnny") but those don't really count as much here. I was reluctant to do this one since it feels (almost) like reading the last DiscWorld novel (and I haven't read anything much since then ...)

But time moves on and I guess we must too?

#AIArt #StableDiffusion #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI
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That’s it for papers today — 9 papers boosted from the cs.CV category on arXiv.org out of a total of 93 papers.

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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"Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation. (arXiv:2206.07771v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Synthesis of multiple types of content such as dance-to-music or text-to-image using a new diffusion mechanism, at fewer steps.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07771
Code: https://github.com/l-yezhu/cdcd

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners. (arXiv:2206.07699v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A unified model based on training a model to write and paint concurrently.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07699

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"Towards Reliable Image Outpainting: Learning Structure-Aware Multimodal Fusion with Depth Guidance. (arXiv:2204.05543v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Reliable outpainting using depth-guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05543

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"Text-driven Visual Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Prior. (arXiv:2302.08510v1 [cs.CV])" — Using diffusion models as the generic driver for diverse image generation tasks such as text-to3D, image editing, and StyleGAN adaptation.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08510

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Loren

i boosted this site earlier but i think it deserves more explanation. this is a search engine for images that shows you the copyright status for the image right there front and center and you can filter for them. for instance i grabbed this copyright 0 image of an echidna from there. and it even generated a citation for me: "Echidna on the move" by CazzJj is marked with CC0 1.0. i think this is a really easy way for getting a reference image while ensuring the person who took the image consents to its use! https://openverse.org/

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"3D-aware Conditional Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.08509v1 [cs.CV])" — Using a 2 input such as a segmentation or edge map to generate photo-realistic images from different perspectives/viewpoints.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08509
Code: https://github.com/dunbar12138/pix2pix3D

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2302.08453v1 [cs.CV])" — Controlling text-to-image diffusion models in a more granular fashion by using special adapters to provide extra guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08453
Code: https://github.com/TencentARC/T2I-Adapter

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation. (arXiv:2302.08113v1 [cs.CV])" — Controlling diffusion-based image generation so that you can specify image components, component placement etc. without any further fine-tuning.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08113
Code: https://github.com/omerbt/MultiDiffusion

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"\`A-la-carte Prompt Tuning (APT): Combining Distinct Data Via Composable Prompting. (arXiv:2302.07994v1 [cs.LG])" — Having multiple subsets of data trained on specific prompts and being able to compose the final model based on the prompts you select.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07994

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"PRedItOR: Text Guided Image Editing with Diffusion Prior. (arXiv:2302.07979v1 [cs.CV])" — Structure preserving, text guided image editing using diffusion models without needing a base prompt, fine-tuning of models etc.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07979

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Fahim Farook

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@memetzgz If I wanted to read all of them, yes 😛 But I just skim through the summaries to find the ones that look interesting … At the moment, I’ve found 5 interesting papers and have whittled down the 93 to 39 remaining papers …
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omgshutupjill@mstdn.ca

Jill Hamilton (inactive)

Edited 2 years ago

I saw this little guy yesterday and I can't stop thinking about him. So round. So pink.

(It's an Australian pink robin and the photos are not mine.)

Credits:
1. © Deepak Karra http://instagram.com/ravi_arora/
2. © Ravi Arora http://instagram.com/ravi_arora/
3. © Ambika Angela Bone http://instagram.com/ambikangela/
4. © Tim J. Hopwood http://flickr.com/photos/timjhopwood/

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A total of 93 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 61 new, 32 updated going in to the weekend …

So yesterday’s low paper count was definitely not a slowdown 😛

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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Updated Akkoma on our server to the latest. New graphs, yay!! Hopefully, nothing broke though since I’m always scared of stuff breaking once I’ve updated since I’m always in a rush …
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sdw

I ended up testing our new Neural Telephoto feature by shooting with iPhone SE for a while. I loved the shots I got out of it w/ native RAW and the extra reach of the virtual 2×.

Death Valley / Owens Valley, California
iPhone SE, 1× / 2× (Neural Telephoto), @halide RAW

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