@at @Fawn This is fascinating 🙂 I’d never heard of hedge apple before and so looked it up. Love the pictures I found and all the details, as well as the fact that it’s also called monkey ball or monkey brains 😛

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

@KathyReid You might have something there. I’ve often wondered about how most educational systems are about “teachIng” people rather than helping them to learn for themselves. Most people seem to want others to tell them stuff rather than going out and finding the information themselves.

I’ve found this very puzzling. But my wife says that I’m not “normal” 😛

Sparkling golden #trees of autumn shimmering in the light. It's just a memory now because our trees are covered in snow!

Artwork is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/fall-trees-peggy-collins.html

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@KathyReid Isn’t that what one does? 😛 I get people asking me to explain papers that I boost because apparently they can’t be bothered to read the original paper I mentioned …

Here are some photos from last year's harvest. Aren't they pretty?

@EthanHolmes @AngelaPreston Wasn’t Glen A Larson LDS? I have a vague recollection of that being the case …

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Talking of organising your home timeline, or filtering, I’ve always treated the home timeline as my main source of info. I always read it, and I always read all of it. Which is why I needed filtering in the first place.

Now this might be fairly obvious to others, but I had a complete blindspot as to the fact that I could not look at the home timeline at all. I could simply create lists for all the people I follow, disregard the home timeline and simply look at the lists only. This would have removed a lot of the pain points I had around filtering …

But that’s not what I did.

And there was a reason for why I did things my way. My personal Fedi client has a notification feature which notifies me when the home timeline has posts. It adds a badge with a count to the app icon. Otherwise, I forget to look at posts at alll and might go through the whole day without reading what is going on in the Fediverse.

Sure, this is another *me* problem 😛 But for my personal reading style, just using lists and ignoring the home timeline would not have worked very well. But I guess if you do not have the specific need that I do, you could simply split up all the people you follow into lists and then disregard the home timeline?

#FediClient #Filtering #Organizing

As is usual with most (any?) simple system, as time goes on, it becomes ever more complicated by accumulating new features 😛

The filtering of the home timeline on my custom Fedi-client started out that way. It was simply a matter of filtering out people who were members of my lists so that my home timeline would be less cluttered.

But then I started following high-volume hashtags. So I decided to add hashtag filtering.

But today I noticed that this also removed low-volume hashtags such as #MachineLearning that I did want to see in my home timeline …

So what do I do to fix that?

This is where the system starts getting complicated 😛 I’m thinking of adding a selective feature which lets me specify which hashtags should be filtered. Sounds simple enough, right? And at it’s core, it is …

But to implement this, I’d have to implement a new UI to show all followed hashtags and add a new property to the hashtag data to indicate that it should be filtered, or not.

I don’t know if I’ll implement this or not. I feel like taking the weekend off from coding. But on the other hand, the urge to code might be so great that I do it anyway. I guess we’ll see …

#FediClient #Filtering #Organizing

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Boosted 7 papers out of 77 in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — apparently it’s 7’s all the way 😛

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

"Data-driven Approach for Automatically Correcting Faulty Road Maps. (arXiv:2211.06544v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A method to fix faulty road maps (specifically roads displayed on maps) using machine learning.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06544
Code: https://github.com/soojunghong/image_inpainting_model_for_lane_geomery_discovery

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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GT, Input, and Output denotes t…

"ZITS++: Image Inpainting by Improving the Incremental Transformer on Structural Priors. (arXiv:2210.05950v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Better image inpainting by detecting structures in the source image using techniques such as edge detection.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05950
Code: https://github.com/dqiaole/zits_inpainting

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Left (a)-(e): Comparisons of ZI…

"Designing an Encoder for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models. (arXiv:2302.12228v1 [cs.CV])" — A method to teach text-to-image models new concepts in seconds.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12228

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Our encoder-based method enable…

"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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The steps in our fine-tuning me…

"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

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Qualitative results of Facial P…

@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? 🙂

"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

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The results of the proposed reg…

"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

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Diffusion Prior can be trained …

How heat pumps work.

#HomeHeating #HeatPumps

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1068582/everything-you-need-to-know-about-heat-pumps/?utm_source=pocket-newtab