#arizona #poppies #photography #nature

Quite a few Indian movies are either political/crime thrillers or a slice-of-life/family story. Then, there are the love stories which usually occur in the intersection between the above two categories …

"Vinaro Bhagyamu Vishnu Katha” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21338696/) seemed to have all of these elements in some measure and at first, it looked like a movie that I’d really like. But as the plot progressed, it kind of bogged down in way too many plot elements that mixed in confusing ways …

I haven’t finished the movie yet, but I’ve hit the portion of the movie where just too many absurd things happen and so my guess at the moment is that this might not be one of my favourites … but I guess we’ll see once we get to the end 😛

#Movies #MiniReview #Telugu

I haven’t been posting much recently, or doing my daily #MachileLearning paper readings, since the wife and I got sick. I’m mostly recovered (the wife a bit less so) but then the month of Ramadan began, and with it, fasting.

So I’ve been taking things a bit easy and not adding more to the workload. I love reading the new stuff that’s happening in #DeepLearning and machine learning, but going through all the papers each day is time consuming and I get a little obsessive about completing stuff. So I figured it might be time to take a break while fasting 🙂

There’s a bunch of exciting things happening with LLMs and I’d like to try some experiments but that’ll probably have to wait till next month.

For the time being, I’m trying to catch up on my missed out Indian movies and there’s quite a few mini reviews that I’d like to write … and perhaps I will do a few of them as time permits?

Pine on a Ridge

2023-03-02 day 258 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is complete experimentation on my part. I see things I would change if I were to do it again, and yet, I still like it.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/pine-on-a-ridge/

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A digital painting of a lone pi…

Northern Lights

2023-02-28 to 2023-03-01 day 256/257 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I’m not entirely happy with this, but I wasn’t making it any better, so I said enough and I’m calling it done. No doubt I’ll try this again. Later. Sometime.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/northern-lights/

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Digital painting. In the foregr…

Mountain Mist

2023-02-26/27 day 254/255 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is another tutorial by Joel Create.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/mountain-mist/

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@greysemanticist Interesting, and thank you again 🙂 Will try this out and let you know if I manage to make it work for me.

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was like 12 or 13 but recently it’s become more of an issue since I can’t now read without glasses either (originally I was near sighted). So am looking for solutions that don’t involve lasik since I am not quite comfortable with the idea of eye surgery …

@greysemanticist Ah, thank you 🙂 I got an e-mail sometime back which said that it can help you figure out how to restore your vision to 20/20 (the e-mail was in the spam folder, incidentally …) and that led me down several YouTube searches which led me to some videos but none of them were particularly useful.

So when I saw your post, I was intrigued. Will watch the video and give it a try and see how it goes …

@greysemanticist I’m curious, is this something you learnt online (where there might be a link perhaps?) Or, something that you discovered on your own?

From 1974 to 2003, the head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines was Cardinal Sin. When he had visitors, he greeted them with the words ‘Welcome to the house of sin’.

Colorful #Spring image of a rustic cape cod barn digitally painted I watercolor effect.

#SpringForArt #SpringIntoArt #MastoArt #FediArt #CapeCod #FediGiftShop #BuyIntoArt #GiftThemArt #Coastal #Photography #BeachLife #BeachHouse #WallArt
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Full image and more here: https://pixels.com/featured/cape-cod-blue-door-watercolor-lorri-m-barry-photography.html

I love #Spring on #cape cod The beautiful dune Daisys bloom in early spring and brighten my days!

#BuyIntoArt #SpringForArt #SpringIntoArt #AYearForArt #Photography #MastoArt #mastodon #FediArt #FediGiftShop #GiftThemArt #Beach #Flowers

Full image and more here: https://pixels.com/featured/beach-dune-daisys-lorri-m-barry-photography.html

Hopped off the shuttle at Yaki point for sunset.
#NativeLand #GrandCanyon #Sunset #Landscape #Photography

sometimes I come home with leaves and petals in my hair. maybe spiders. I like spring. #photography

Judge Wyndham's Oak is well documented to be 1000 years old and it's still putting out new leaves and buds #treesofmastdon #veterantrees #silentsaturday #oak #veteranoak #dorset #tree

We have a couple of daffodils in our yard. I'm not sure how they got here. So pretty. #Gardening @plants

Cave Sunset

2023-02-24/25 day 252/253 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I followed a Joel Create tutorial.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/cave-sunset/

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Pink Tree

2023-02-22/23 day 250/251 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

This was a Joel Create tutorial. If you watch the timelapse, you will see that I change my mind a fair bit and redo things. I change the leaves entirely at least three times until I was happy. I’m sure there are faster, more efficient ways to get things done, but I am not there yet. 😀

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/pink-tree/

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A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

Happy to share the early online version of our new study (#OpenAccess): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a

We use #machinelearning to detect the emergence of distinguishable climate patterns in a new model experiment simulating stratospheric aerosol injection relative to a moderate future emissions scenario.

I have a summary of the paper at https://zacklabe.com/climate-signals-and-explainable-ai/. More on this all soon! #OpenScience #SciComm