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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.

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Fahim Farook

"Web Photo Source Identification based on Neural Enhanced Camera Fingerprint. (arXiv:2302.09228v1 [cs.CV])" — Using a neural network to identify sensor patterns in an effort to identify the source camera for images published on the web.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09228
Code: https://github.com/PhotoNecf/PhotoNecf

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Fahim Farook

"A Pilot Evaluation of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 on Decision Making and Spatial Reasoning. (arXiv:2302.09068v1 [cs.AI])" — An evaluation of ChatGPT and DALL-E2 to assess the spatial reasoning and decision making abilities of each model.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09068

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Fahim Farook

A total of 91 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 47 new, 44 updated.

On with the reading?

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@KathyReid It’s sort of a thread-unravel situation, honestly 🙂 I grew up speaking Sinhalese (which has its roots in Pali and Sanskrit) and hearing my parents speaking Tamil.

When I got to learning Hindi, I realized that it too had a lot of Sanskrit (not sure about the Pali) and some Persian/Arabic words. So it was fairly easy to pick up.

Spanish had a lot of Latin in it and so by way of English, it was again easy to pick up. Written French is easy to understand for somewhat the same reasons, but spoken French is something I have a hard time with.

Malayalam and Telugu again have similarities to Tamil and so again, easy to understand if you look for the connections.

The trouble with most of these is the written part since except for the European languages, everything else has it’s own alphabet and I can read in only some. Though again, a lot of them have similar letters which can help you figure at least some of it out …
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@AngelaPreston I thought it was somebody else but my memory’s so bad that I might be totally wrong 🙂
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@AngelaPreston This is the second time I’ve seen somebody mention Scholomance on here and mention how they liked the magic system. I love magic systems which are done well … So might have to give it a try and see if that will get me back on reading 🙂
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@KathyReid Speak? English, Sinhalese, Tamil, Hindi … Understand to some extent — Spanish, French, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Arabic … Learnt but mostly forgot …Malay
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Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️

in Winter

How many native plants to plant? Consider:

Mass plantings better attract and serve pollinators, which are losing habitat where you live.
Pollinators are beautiful and calming to watch, which you need more of in your life.
The cheap seeds can be sown directly in the ground and pots for those unmotivated due to lack of experience with multicolored butterflies fluttering around.

Help yourself and the . Plant a bunch.

More in alt text.

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@at I think I know of only a couple of clients that work on the Linux side, and as far as I know, none of them have that feature, sorry.

Elk might be one to try since it’s web-based. I haven’t tried it since I think it doesn’t work with Akkoma either 😛 But this whole not supporting Akkoma thing is stopping me from testing out a bunch of things and so I might have to set up a secondary Mastodon account just so that I can be sure of the features available with the various clients …
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@at I don’t know how to do that with the Mastodon web-client (or if that’s even possible) but on macOS/iOS, the following apps support it for sure: Tusker and IceCubes.

There might be other clients around which does too, for example, I have a vague recollection of Ivory maybe supporting it but I used Ivory only for a short time before switching to Akkoma and Ivory does not support Akkoma and so I can’t verify now 🙂
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@wavesculptor I misread what you wrote originally, I thought you were saying that that’s how lists worked, but I realize now that you were saying that that is how it *should* happen. And you are right, that’s how it should have been implemented.

But looks as if it wasn’t implemented that way and so lists are basically a pointless feature at the moment since it duplicates content and is generally annoying 🙂

Will somebody fix it from the server end? I have no idea. But if I can find a good JavaScript open source client (not one with lots of libraries that require yarn or webpack) which is fairly feature complete, I might attempt the task on the client-side using that. Haven’t found such a client yet though 😞 Which was why I was thinking of implementing it on the client that I use now but that would limit the number of people who can use it to people running iOS or macOS …
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@wavesculptor Personally, I wasn’t seeing non-followed people on a list as a rights violation but more of a privacy violation since those people might not know that you are monitoring their posts and they have not explicitly agreed to you seeing those posts …

I know that there are arguments for both side on this but I can see how this can be misused to stalk people without their knowledge. So I do see the issue there.

What the Mastodon issue I linked to in the previous reply discusses is around the fact that you can require following to add a user to a list but that if the user is on a list, their posts are filtered out from the main timeline. That seems like a good compromise to me, but unfortunately, I have no idea if they’ll actually implement that or not 🙂
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@wavesculptor To be fair, most people won’t be able to engage since they might not know what to do about it either 🙂

There is an open issue for Mastodon for this feature but I’m not sure if it’s being actively worked on:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6982

If it’s not, then some of the things that can be done would be:

1. Implement it yourself (I do realize you’ve said that’s not an option for you but just listing it for the sake of completeness …)

2. Get a build from somebody who implemented it (If you are on macOS I’d be happy to share my build if you want it … provided I get it implemented right)

3. Lobby your favourite Masto/Fedi client developer(s) to implement this feature for you …

I originally thought that this didn’t work for unfollowed Akkoma accounts but I’m not absolutely certain now since I’m getting some posts on the list I created for accounts that I’m not following. But I’m not sure if this is Akkoma, a fluke, or some sort of federation delays. So I’ll have to give it a few days and then see what might need to happen. But if it works for Akkoma, then you also have option #4 — set up your own instance of Akkoma or move to an Akkoma server since that might resolve the issue for you.
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Short post.

I work as a scientist / data science consultant mostly on natural language processing and tabular data (though getting more into the space lately).

My passion is , primarily and . Also a beginner in , reader and interested in all things .


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Fahim Farook

Aargh!!! Haven’t watched YouTube videos for a while but I think they actually make you even dumber now 😛

In the space of like 10 minutes, I saw two videos — the first tells me that servers are designed to run only one service at a time (e-mail, web server etc.) and you can’t really run more than one on one server and that you have to add more servers if you want other services …

Then I have somebody telling me that you don’t need to look at videos or follow courses but you can have ChatGPT teach you how to program! That it will go on the Internet and pull the information (this is absolutely false as far as I know …).

Sure, ChatGPT will teach you programming, but it’ll also put in a healthy amount of imagined commands whenever it feels like it and if you don’t know anything about programming, you would have no clue as to what you’re learning is accurate info or if it’s BS.

I think it’s time for me to retreat from the world …

#YouTube #Stupidity #RelianceOnAI #Misinformation
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@mairhart My guess would be that was “SimEarth” 🙂 Now that you remind me, I kind of vaguely recall Gaia and looking it up on Wikipedia seems to (somewhat) confirm this in that the game was based on James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis …

I think I played most of these on an early laptop with 5MB of RAM and a black-and-white screen. So I have no colourful images in my head, but I do recall my absolute disappointment with “SimLife” because I had expected something magical … but I was young back then 😛

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Fahim Farook

Is Ralf Little leaving “Death in Paradise”? Will we get our first female inspector on the show?

Haven’t done any checking online about these, but just random thoughts floating through my head after the latest “Death in Paradise” (hopefully, the above are not considered spoilers since they haven’t happened yet …) and seeing Ralf on “Would I Lie to You?” this week …

I think Ardal O’Hanlon appeared on “QI” or “Would I Lie to You?” after he stepped down as the inspector …. (as opposed to the Dr.) Is it just me who feels as if “Death in Paradise” is following “Dr. Who” a little bit too closely? 😛

#TV #DeathInParadise #Theories
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Fahim Farook

It was a quicker run through than normal, but boosted 7 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org that I found interesting out of a total of 94 new and updated papers today.

On to other stuff …

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Fahim Farook

""Help Me Help the AI": Understanding How Explainability Can Support Human-AI Interaction. (arXiv:2210.03735v2 [cs.HC] UPDATED)" — A study of how explainability can support human-AI interaction using a real-world AI applicaiton.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03735

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