@at My job isn’t to automate stuff but that’s something I always try to do — in fact, I think I got into programming because I wanted to automate most of the stuff I do 😛

This mostly results in me spending like 2 weeks coding a solution for a task (that I find to be Ireally boring) that I can complete in 15 minutes manually … But I do enjoy doing that kind of thing — the coding, not the manual task … So I guess it all evens out in the end? 🙂

@brohrer

Layoffs have been hitting some folks I know pretty hard, either directly, or through having to add others' responsibilities on to their own.

My company is hiring for a half dozen positions. One of the positions (Sr Systems Engineer) is on my team. Each of them is a real position that we're actually interviewing to fill.

Domaintools is a great company, filled with some of the smartest and best people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I've been with FSI and DT (FSI was bought about a year and a half ago by DT) for a total of over 9 years now, and I'm still hyped about my job, the learning opportunities, the people, and the impact we make on the world.

If the layoffs impacted you, and there's a fit, come work with me. If you're unhappy with your position, but the move still sounds like a good idea, come work with me and open your spot for someone else!

Reach out to me with any questions, or if you'd like to ask me to officially recommend you for the position to the hiring manager.

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The international #conference on #MachineLearning ( #icml2023 ) has 30 associated workshops, and all of them are calling for contributions right now.

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Apple now has Rapid Security Updates available for users running iOS 16.4.x … they are smaller and faster updates for security vulnerabilities.

The update download took like 10 seconds but preparing the update took around one and a half minutes. The update itself was very fast and the phone restarted and was done in around 30 seconds …

The current update is 16.4.1 (a) and if you want to be sure that you are protected against the latest vulnerabilities, you might want to give it a try …

There’s apparently one for macOS as well, but I haven’t installed that yet.

#Apple #iOS #macOS #SecurityUpdates

@jann I thought the issue might have been a new sensor like the blood oxygen saturation one but that wasn’t introduced till series 6. There seems to have been no major changes in terms of series 5 and so I’m curious as to why it started with Series 5 …

I’m also curious as to why there is no mention of this anywhere. Are we that rare a case? Sounds a little improbable to me. Ah well … 🙂

@jann Yeah, this would be v6 or v7 on our side and I suspected the sensors since I got painful bumps exactly under the sensors … Good to know that wearing on the inside of the wrists might be an option. Thanks! 🙂

@docbraines Not that I know of, but then again, I don’t generally wear any accessories and so would probably not know anyway 🙂 But a good thing to be aware of and to compare against any other issues … Thanks!

The Apple Watch — my wife and I got Apple Watches a year (or is it two) ago since we wanted to track our health.

Now I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere widely, but both of us got rashes/painful bumps from wearing the watch. And this wasn’t a one off either — my wife tried it several times, and also switched hands, but the issue would come back every time. So there’s something wrong with the Apple Watch, at least for us. I gave up on the watch at that point and have been vehemently against the Apple Watch since then.

We started talking about health stats recently and we decided to give a fitness tracker/watch another chance but no Apple Watches, no sireee Bob! We aren’t going that route again 😛

So we gave the Mi Band 7 a try. It did most of what we wanted but the screen was a little too small for our agin eyes 🙂 So we tried the Amazfit Band 7 and that has a slightly bigger screen and better battery life than the Mi Band 7 and at a fraction of the cost of the Apple Watch.

I’ve moved on to an Amazfit GTS 4 mini since then and I have to say that I’m actually very happy with Amazfit and the functionality you get for a very low price. But it’s still just a couple of weeks and I’m curious to see if the Apple Watch issues surface with this one too …

#HealthTracking #AppleWatch #Amazfit #MiBand

Decided to give DeepFloyd a try today on macOS.

The good news? It works … kinda 😛

The bad news? It doesn’t work all the way … as was to be expected 🙂

I took the following code from their GitHub repo (https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF) and modified for an Apple Silicon (M1) Mac. Here’s the actual code I ran:

from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
from diffusers.utils import pt_to_pil
import torch

# stage 1
stage_1 = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("DeepFloyd/IF-I-M-v1.0").to("mps")

# stage 2
stage_2 = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("DeepFloyd/IF-II-M-v1.0", text_encoder=None).to("mps")

# stage 3
safety_modules = {"feature_extractor": stage_1.feature_extractor, "safety_checker": stage_1.safety_checker, "watermarker": stage_1.watermarker}
stage_3 = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stable-diffusion-x4-upscaler", **safety_modules).to("mps")

prompt = 'a photo of a kangaroo wearing an orange hoodie and blue sunglasses standing in front of the eiffel tower holding a sign that says "very deep learning"'

# text embeds
prompt_embeds, negative_embeds = stage_1.encode_prompt(prompt)

generator = torch.manual_seed(0)

# stage 1
image = stage_1(prompt_embeds=prompt_embeds, negative_prompt_embeds=negative_embeds, generator=generator, output_type="pt").images
pt_to_pil(image)[0].save("./if_stage_I.png")

# stage 2
image = stage_2(image=image, prompt_embeds=prompt_embeds, negative_prompt_embeds=negative_embeds, generator=generator, output_type="pt").images
pt_to_pil(image)[0].save("./if_stage_II.png")

# stage 3
image = stage_3(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=generator, noise_level=100).images
image[0].save("./if_stage_III.png")

You have to make sure that diffusers, transformers, and accelereate (at least in my own trial) are fully up-to-date. The larger models probably work too but it took too long to download/test and so I opted for the smallest models.

Stage I and II generated images but stage III errored out. I will need to figure out what happened there later …

Resulting images are attached …

#DeepLearning #MachineLearning #DeepFloyd #ImageGeneration

Stage I image — 64 x 64 in size…
Stage II image — 256 x 256 in s…

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“Citadel” looked interesting on paper — the Russo brothers, Priyanka Chopra, Richard Madden, and a story about a global spy agency — but the initial story (before the credits) was so full of holes and logic issues that they’re going to have to work really hard to convince me …

I guess we’ll see how the first episode plays out.

#TV #FirstTakes

@yonomitt Yep, I’m curious about the stats too 🙂 Maybe at some point we’ll get some info?

At the moment, I’d be happy with just the weights so that I can try some stuff out 😛

Been gone for a while... here is one from my archives.

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Get a print and take it home with you!

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@trode Custom GUIs like InvokeAI would have to be updated to work with this one since the current stuff is written to support the standard StableDiffusion models would be my guess …

The weights for DeepFloyd IF have not been released yet and so my guess is that the people who tinker with stuff will get to work only once the weights are released … Otherwise, you’d need to train from scratch to get anything useable 🙂