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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

"Aligning Text-to-Image Models using Human Feedback. (arXiv:2302.12192v1 [cs.LG])" — A fine-tuning method for better aligning generated images to the input text prompt when using diffusion models.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12192

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Evaluating the Efficacy of Skincare Product: A Realistic Short-Term Facial Pore Simulation. (arXiv:2302.11950v1 [cs.CV])" — Simulating the effects of skincare products on your skin (specifically the pores) to gauge efficacy of the product.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11950

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Qualitative results of Facial P…
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@at So far I’ve just been ignoring them since it seems to indicate a lack of reading comprehension on their part, or just lack of general interest. But I keep wondering if perhaps I’m being too hard/harsh and maybe they are genuine … My guess is not, but who really knows? 🙂
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Fahim Farook

"Region-Aware Diffusion for Zero-shot Text-driven Image Editing. (arXiv:2302.11797v1 [cs.CV])" — A region-aware text-guided image editing method which aims to replace one entity with another.

What I always wonder with these approaches is whether you can replace a larger entity with a smaller one, or vice versa, (say a horse with a cat) in a way that looks realistic?

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11797
Code: https://github.com/haha-lisa/RDM-Region-Aware-Diffusion-Model

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Controlled and Conditional Text to Image Generation with Diffusion Prior. (arXiv:2302.11710v1 [cs.CV])" — Using a Diffusion Prior to constrain the generation to a specific domain without altering the larger Diffusion Decoder in a memory and compute efficient way.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11710

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

I started reading papers on arXiv.org because I enjoyed learning about generative machine learning models. Then I started boosting papers that I liked because I thought it might be helpful to others …

Now, I sometimes get people asking me to explain the paper to them because they can’t be bothered to read it 😛 What do you do in such a situation?

Would explaining the paper actually do any good? If they can’t be bothered to read the paper, are they going to bother reading my explanation? Is it worthwhile spending the time to explain something to such a person?

I don’t know … It feels as if it’s just a drive-by thing — either because they think it’s funny or because people are like that. Or are there people who are really like “I can’t be bothered to read a paper but if somebody gives me bite-sized info, I’ll take it”?

I think people confuse me 😀

#MachineLearning #Papers #People
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Fahim Farook

A total of 77 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 58 new, 19 updated.

On to the Friday paper reading …

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos

It's small and round, and you rarely find them on the ground.

The wonderful Long-tailed tit.

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What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the Titanic?
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Halfway.

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This young network engineer at Project Waves is doing amazing things in Baltimore

My story here on how Devin Weaver designed, built, and operates a network that brings free gig speed service to low-income apartment buildings in one of the nation's most disconnected cities

https://communitynets.org/content/making-waves-baltimore-community-driven-connectivity

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Fahim Farook

I tweaked the home timeline filtering a bit yesterday and with the observations overnight, I can say it is mostly a success 😛

What works? Again, my filtered home timeline was about 50 posts but my actual timeline was around 200+. So it is helping me keep my home timeline cleaner/clearer.

What didn’t work? Well, turns out that the post fetching on Tusker goes a little wonky if the whole fetched batch is filtered out. This appears to be a UI bug which doesn’t take the filtering into account since I added a new option yesterday to not totally hide filtered items but to show a tiny row indicating an item was filtered out. Then the UI works fine. Maybe I’ll spend the weekend trying to figure out where the bug is.

But for the moment, seeing what is filtered out visually is kind of useful since I can see which hashtags/users generate the most content that’s filtered out and consider if perhaps I should organise things differently etc.

#FediClient #Filtering #Organizing
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There were about eight or ten hunkered in the backyard late yesterday afternoon, anticipating the chilling winter winds that shortly began to blow through, sharp and tinseled with ice, as the cold clouds blurred out the moonrise. So chonky and floomfed (those are both words, right?).

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Bread puns happen when you yeast expect it.

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Mark Tisdale Art 🏳️‍🌈

Based on multiple memories of watching the sunset on the Pacific from trips to North America's west coast. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm not a morning person so I love seeing the sunset in the ocean more than rise over it. So these are fond memories.

Find it here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/sunset-dreams-on-the-pacific-mark-tisdale.html

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The Milky Way over Snow Capped Himalayas
Credits: Tomas, Havel

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀

The older I get, the more I regret all the people l've lost over the years.
Maybe being a trail guide wasn't such a great idea after all.

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Breaking hydroponic cherry tomato news.

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