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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

A total of 116 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 82 new, 34 updated.

Away we go to read some more!

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@at Being rather obsessive compulsive, I used to push myself to finish every book and every movie I started even if I didn’t like it after reading/watching for a bit. Took me a long time to wean myself away from that habit … It’s rather freeing once you do 😛
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Depression, Self-Recrimination, Reframing
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@AngelaPreston I know (or possibly know) how you must feel since I am hard on myself if I don’t get certain things done. And then I’ll keep thinking about it and getting ever more anxious since it’s just not done and I wanted it done.

I tell myself when this happens that it’s OK since other stuff will come up. It doesn’t always help, but beating yourself up over it doesn’t help either since that’s time wasted. So better to just get on with it and that’s what I generally do. Not very helpful, but it works for me, at least in terms of handling the short-term anxiety over not getting it done 🙂

Longer term, I generally forget about it since there’s always so much stuff to do 😛
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eyeinhand@fosstodon.org

EyeInHand

Variation on the Lotus theme.

Little lilypads from a walk along the river.



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Fahim Farook

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@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 🙂
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Reply to @hue@sigmoid.social
@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?
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@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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hackerhorse@infosec.exchange

Rain

I give up.
I'm officially desperate.
If you need a security person you can get me at bargain basement cost because I'm gonna be super fucked here in a bit if I don't find SOMETHING.
I've been out of work 8 months.
I can't afford to keep going.

This is my resume
You tell me how I don't have a job yet

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Fahim Farook

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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DriftlessRoots@scicomm.xyz

DriftlessRoots

This is why I let the dill go to seed. It's one of the food plants of Black Swallowtail caterpillars like this one from last summer. Currently it is in diapause out in the garage and will be released in the same garden this spring when it emerges.

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Fahim Farook

"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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Comparison of the proposed mode…
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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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Fahim Farook

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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Reply to @davemark@mastodon.social
@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 …
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Reply to @davemark@mastodon.social
@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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rogward@mastodon.social

Roger Ward

Green Ridge Windmill, Brighton, UK. Also known as Waterhall Mill, it was built in 1885. It was the last windmill built in Sussex, and was working until 1924. In World War II it was used by the Home Guard as a lookout post. The mill was converted into a house in 1963, and externally restored. The sweeps (Sussex dialect for sails) were replaced in 1974. This is my nearest large open space, and I love it.

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drnaturegirl@mastodon.me.uk

drnaturegirl

I suppose you might be fed up with shots of the by now, so I’ll just sneak in this moon photo with the photobombing! 😊

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