@hue Unfortunately, people generally tend to take the easy way out. And they will also generally not bother to tell you their reasoning (which might have given you context) since that’s just too much work 😛

Based on what you said, I assumed you were not Iranian. So I did the same thing. We all do it in one form or another. The best we can hope for is to learn from it and possibly adjust our expectations? At least, that’s what I do since hoping that everybody else will change is too much to ask for 🙂

@hue That’s a different thing and understandable (in a way) 🙂 I’m a Sri Lankan and I’d prefer not to work with (most) Sri Lankans due to cultural issues which inevitably come up at some point or another, but if I simply said “I don’t want to work with Sri Lankans”, people might not get what I’m talking about …

So, just wondering if the people in question knew the history/backstory or not when they warned you?

@hue Pardon me for jumping into a conversation that might have been intended to be private, and do let me know if you’d rather not have my opinion 🙂 But without any context, when I see the words “I don’t like to work with Iranians”, I see it as a prejudiced statement …

Perhaps, there’s context behind it, but to classify a whole race as people you’d not want to work with, instead of individuals seems a bit strange to me. Would you feel OK if I said “I will not work with white people” or “I will not work with Americans”?

This might have been the reason for warning perhaps? Just my thoughts, (which is totally your prerogative to tell me not to bother you with 😛)

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Despite the large number of new papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today (136), I only boosted 5 papers out of the lot since those were the ones I found interesting 🙂

Reading done. On to other stuff!

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"Meta Learning to Bridge Vision and Language Models for Multimodal Few-Shot Learning. (arXiv:2302.14794v1 [cs.CV])" — Rather than using a frozen language model to communicate visual concepts, this method uses a meta -mapper to act as a bridge between large-scale visiona and language models.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14794

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"TextIR: A Simple Framework for Text-based Editable Image Restoration. (arXiv:2302.14736v1 [cs.CV])" — Using text input to restore damaged images by specifying how to fill in the damage areas by way of text descriptions.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14736

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"Towards Enhanced Controllability of Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2302.14368v1 [cs.CV])" — Creating a diffusion model that is easier to edit/style based on input images by conditioning the model on a spatial content mask and a flattened style embedding.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14368

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"One-Shot Video Inpainting. (arXiv:2302.14362v1 [cs.CV])" — A method to inpaint videos where instead of having to provide masks for each frame, you only need to provide the object mask for the initial frame in the video sequence.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14362

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"Deep Learning for Identifying Iran's Cultural Heritage Buildings in Need of Conservation Using Image Classification and Grad-CAM. (arXiv:2302.14354v1 [cs.CV])" — Using machine learning to identify damage and defects to cultural heritage buildings using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14354

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A whopping 136 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 96 new, 40 updated.

If there’s more than the usual number of interesting papers there today, I’m in for a long wade through papers today 😛

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@davemark I’ve been waiting all this time for somebody to do that 🙂 My wife and I watch/play (almost) everything together and we’ve never had a shared solution which works well both at home and when we are on a plane etc.

We use shared headphones and a single iPad currently when traveling but the ideal would be to have glasses which give us a big screen display and lets us both see the same movie, pause it at the same spot when we want to stop etc.

I was thinking that SharePlay was Apple’s way of achieving this for AR glasses, but I don’t think it works on a plane? I might be wrong …

@davemark Being able to share the same content with others (for example, watching the same movie together or playing/watching a game) so that I can do away with a big-screen TV 🙂

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Winter sunset silhouette at the Lorain West Breakwater Light in Ohio on Lake Erie. Photo by Tony Psaltis.
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Tom Hanks movies can go either way — there are ones that I’ve absolutely loved, and then there are ones that I care nothing whatsoever for (and I’m looking at you, “Finch” …)

But “A Man Called Otto”, what can I say? It feels like his best movie ever, at least right now just after watching it, feels like one of his very best 🙂 I loved everything about the movie and how the story unfolded. It was a brilliant performance, and a great story!

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