Fahim Farook
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867I'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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@at Till today I thought that Paw Paw was just a different spelling of papaw/papaya which is found all over Asia 🙂 I just realized that they were a totally different fruit …
The texture and the seed in the Wikipedia article does kind of remind me of soursop/custard apple, but the flesh of the soursop is usually white. I’m really curious now to see what the taste is like but probably not gonna happen 😛
The texture and the seed in the Wikipedia article does kind of remind me of soursop/custard apple, but the flesh of the soursop is usually white. I’m really curious now to see what the taste is like but probably not gonna happen 😛
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@at It looked like several different fruits I knew of from Sri Lanka in different ways, but the fact that it is in the mulberry family makes sense since (after the fact) it does look like mulberry fruit 🙂
Cut open, it reminded me a bit of guava, probably because of the distinct inner/outer areas. But it also looked like breadfruit from the outside, though breadfruit has more distinctive spikes/rideges on the outside.
It also reminded me a bit of soursop/custard apple, but only in passing …
But all these similarities is what got me interested in looking it up. But given how it’s native range is so small, I’m now curious to see if these similarities are just visual or if there are indeed connections … This could be a rather deep rabbit hole 😀
Cut open, it reminded me a bit of guava, probably because of the distinct inner/outer areas. But it also looked like breadfruit from the outside, though breadfruit has more distinctive spikes/rideges on the outside.
It also reminded me a bit of soursop/custard apple, but only in passing …
But all these similarities is what got me interested in looking it up. But given how it’s native range is so small, I’m now curious to see if these similarities are just visual or if there are indeed connections … This could be a rather deep rabbit hole 😀
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When I was young I loved reading accounts of travel in far off, oft forgotten places. Things like Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels with a Donkey”.
I loved learning about now gone places, the feel of the dust on the road, the texture of the food they ate, or just how a tuft of grass felt between your fingers. Anything that gave me a feel for a place that I’d never been to …
Later, when I was still young, I read “Destiny’s Road” by Larry Niven, which to me personally is one of the greatest #ScienceFiction novels ever because of the imagery and the feelings it evoked. It was like reading one of those travel novels, but for an alien planet. Niven gave me details about the flora and fauna of the planet that still paints vivid pictures in my mind 25+ years later …
So why am I talking about this now?
Well, today I heard about hedge apples from @at and @Fawn and that took me down a rabbit hole of reading to discover more about hedge apples. For some reason, reading the Wikipedia entry about hedge apples reminded me of “Destiny’s Raod” and led me down a twisted lane of memory pathways 🙂
A long, long time ago, I read this book by Yakov Perelman called “Fun with Mathematics” (I think?) The USSR put out a lot of books back then (mostly Progress Publishers) and there were a lot of interesting science and maths books from them. This book (or possibly something similar, the details are hazy in my mind since this was 40 years or so ago) talked about a greatest tall tale competition.
One guy comes in and tells a tale of Baron Manchausen (or maybe it was the baron himself) about some feat where he does something which sounds patently impossible. Then another guy comes in an tells a rather prosaic sounding story about an ordinary day where some perfectly ordinary sounding things happen with regards to fruit on a bush, birds singing etc.
The judges say that what the Baron talked about (possibly a journey to the moon) was possible but what the other guy talked about was impossible because that particular fruit did not grow in that season and those birds were not found in that area etc. They were trying to make you realize that perfectly ordinary things could be impossible and that things that sounded impossible could actually be fact.
So why am I dragging that hazy memory out, kicking and screming?
Because reading about the hedge apple made me wonder if you could perhaps combine all of these things, perfectly normal bits of information from our ordinary world, into a science fiction tale of travel in a far off planet with just a few changes in detail. Create a story like “Destiny’s Road” where strange plants and wondrous creatures are revealed and they are all based on things that we find right here on earth but don’t really know about, or do know about, but don’t really think are that strange to others from another part of the world?
This has got the gears in my brain turning extra hard … 😛
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%27s_Road
#Writing #Stories #Memories #Books
I loved learning about now gone places, the feel of the dust on the road, the texture of the food they ate, or just how a tuft of grass felt between your fingers. Anything that gave me a feel for a place that I’d never been to …
Later, when I was still young, I read “Destiny’s Road” by Larry Niven, which to me personally is one of the greatest #ScienceFiction novels ever because of the imagery and the feelings it evoked. It was like reading one of those travel novels, but for an alien planet. Niven gave me details about the flora and fauna of the planet that still paints vivid pictures in my mind 25+ years later …
So why am I talking about this now?
Well, today I heard about hedge apples from @at and @Fawn and that took me down a rabbit hole of reading to discover more about hedge apples. For some reason, reading the Wikipedia entry about hedge apples reminded me of “Destiny’s Raod” and led me down a twisted lane of memory pathways 🙂
A long, long time ago, I read this book by Yakov Perelman called “Fun with Mathematics” (I think?) The USSR put out a lot of books back then (mostly Progress Publishers) and there were a lot of interesting science and maths books from them. This book (or possibly something similar, the details are hazy in my mind since this was 40 years or so ago) talked about a greatest tall tale competition.
One guy comes in and tells a tale of Baron Manchausen (or maybe it was the baron himself) about some feat where he does something which sounds patently impossible. Then another guy comes in an tells a rather prosaic sounding story about an ordinary day where some perfectly ordinary sounding things happen with regards to fruit on a bush, birds singing etc.
The judges say that what the Baron talked about (possibly a journey to the moon) was possible but what the other guy talked about was impossible because that particular fruit did not grow in that season and those birds were not found in that area etc. They were trying to make you realize that perfectly ordinary things could be impossible and that things that sounded impossible could actually be fact.
So why am I dragging that hazy memory out, kicking and screming?
Because reading about the hedge apple made me wonder if you could perhaps combine all of these things, perfectly normal bits of information from our ordinary world, into a science fiction tale of travel in a far off planet with just a few changes in detail. Create a story like “Destiny’s Road” where strange plants and wondrous creatures are revealed and they are all based on things that we find right here on earth but don’t really know about, or do know about, but don’t really think are that strange to others from another part of the world?
This has got the gears in my brain turning extra hard … 😛
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%27s_Road
#Writing #Stories #Memories #Books
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@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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
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@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” 😛
I’ve found this very puzzling. But my wife says that I’m not “normal” 😛
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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
#treeart #fall #art #tree #landscape #landscapeart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #mastodonart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #fediart #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery
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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 …
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Here are some photos from last year's harvest. Aren't they pretty?
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@EthanHolmes @AngelaPreston Wasn’t Glen A Larson LDS? I have a vague recollection of that being the case …
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So I'm back on the #JobHunt. If anyone needs a great programmer and software architect with 20+ years of experience, let them know where to find me!
I'm fully remote, have been for many years, have managed international teams, and am fluent in #csharp #rust #typescript #python and more! I speak, read, and write fluent English, a little Spanish, a little German, and a little simplified Mandarin Chinese. I've worked previously in healthcare, insurance, chemical engineering, and marketing.
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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
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
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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
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
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"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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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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"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…
Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05950
Code: https://github.com/dqiaole/zits_inpainting
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"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
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Our encoder-based method enable…
Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12228
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