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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess πŸ™‚ 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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i think it's an upside-down day, what do you think?

Golden-crowned Kinglet

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Underappreciated skill of the day:

Keeping your mouth shut when it's not going to help.

This skill is not easy to learn, and I've personally found it practically impossible to master.

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I'm looking for a remote job. I'm based in SΓ£o Paulo/Brazil, and had titles such as ("software design dynamics facilitator" as I liked to describe it) at a Brazilian Fintech, for the developer experience team at an EdTech startup, and more recently at a cyber security company. I've been working since the 2000s with , and I'm interested in , and systems.

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Jai Half-Elven πŸΉπŸœπŸ‰

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The SyFy Sistas "where science fiction meets Afrofuturism"

"The Sistas are kicking off season 3 w/ the woman that started it all: Sonequa Martin-Green. Sit back & enjoy being the proverbial fly on the wall for a conversation of love, support, pride & laughter between 5 Black women. Let's Fly!"

➑️ "3.01: Oh Captain, Our Captain!"
https://syfysistas.libsyn.com/301-oh-captain-our-captain?tdest_id=2645312

Pls BoostπŸ™πŸ––

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Edited 2 years ago

Stable Diffusion & OpenCV for Face Detection and Automatic Compositing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISr_gTkO42M

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When I was about ten, I noticed an infrared sensor in our VCR and became convinced that it was a hidden camera that my parents were using to spy on me.

I wasn’t a bad kid so I wasn’t worried, but I convinced myself that if I sang and danced for the camera, my parents would FINALLY see my talent and help me get on Star Search.

For the next month, I did super weird performances in front of that VCR until I finally acknowledged that they hadn’t provided any feedback on my skillz, at which point I determined that the only logical conclusion was that the camera wasn’t working, so I…

DISMANTLED THE VCR to examine the camera.

Once everything was opened up and pulled apart, I realized I had no idea what I was looking at so I just screwed everything back together with a bunch of loose, rattling parts inside.

About a week later, I remember watching my dad trying to play a VHS tape to no avail and silently thinking β€œthis is YOUR fault for not seeing my full POTENTIAL, daaaaad!”

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Forrest Rabbit as Gaia, Mother Earth
Midjourney 4 AI Art

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A forest in a terrarium
Midjourney 4 AI Art

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Kitchen Monsters love dirty dishes
Midjourney 4 AI Art

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Fahim Farook

This particular #StableDiffusion prompt based on Terry Pratchett novel titles was in the works for a few days β€” I just wasn't sure about the results since most of them were fairly similar ...

The prompt? "Wintersmith"

Predictably, most of the results were people in winter-wear. I just didn't like the monotony and hence the inclusion of the fox from what looks like the cover of a box of pencils πŸ˜›

#AIArt #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI #DiscWorld
Stable Diffusion prompt: "Winte…
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Stable Diffusion prompt: "Winte…
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Gung Hay Fat Choy - Year of the Rabbit
I wish to credit the artist but unfortunately have not successfully identified this person. It’s a beautiful graphic.

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Fahim Farook

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At this point, β€œThe Last of Us” is the TV show I anticipate the most. Maybe that’s not saying much, but still … πŸ˜›

Without spoiling anything, I love how they’ve portrayed zombies and want to learn more about the world with each episode.

We are huge fans of Naughty Dog games given that we played through all of the β€œUncharted” games and β€œThe Lost Legacy” too as fast as we could … and loved the story of β€œUncharted 4” to bits.

But I didn’t know if we’d like β€œThe Last of Us” since we kind of shy away from killing games and based on the premise, that’s what it sounded like … Now, after starting the TV show, I’m wondering if we should go back and play the game too … Also, there’s apparently a remake and so maybe it really is time to try it?

#TV #Gaming #PlayStation
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Fahim Farook

And that’s a wrap on the start of a new week of paper reading after moving to a new server πŸ™‚

I posted 8 papers out of a total of 51 new and updated papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today.

I must say that the ability to post more than 500 characters on the new server is a huge help since now I don’t have to spend a lot of time cutting down my summary to fit within 500 characters πŸ˜›

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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Fahim Farook

"Model Complexity-Accuracy Trade-off for a Convolutional Neural Network. (arXiv:1705.03338v1 [cs.CV] CROSS LISTED)" β€” A study of the model complexity versus accuracy trade-off on MNSIT dataset, providing a concrete framework for handling such a problem, given the worst case accuracy that a system can tolerate.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03338

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"MemeTector: Enforcing deep focus for meme detection. (arXiv:2205.13268v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" β€” A methodology that utilizes the visual part of image memes as instances of the regular image class and the initial image memes as instances of the image meme class to force the model to concentrate on the critical parts that characterize an image meme.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13268
Code: https://github.com/mever-team/memetector

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models from Multimodal Time Series Data. (arXiv:2204.10419v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED)" β€” A self-supervised generative modelling framework to jointly learn a probabilistic latent state representation of multimodal data and the respective dynamics to improve prediction and representation quality.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10419
Code: https://github.com/utiasstars/visual-haptic-dynamics

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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We learn a sequential latent va…
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Fahim Farook

"REx: Data-Free Residual Quantization Error Expansion. (arXiv:2203.14645v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" β€” A quantization method that leverages residual error expansion, along with group sparsity and an ensemble approximation for better parallelization.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14645

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Novel-View Acoustic Synthesis. (arXiv:2301.08730v1 [cs.CV])" β€” Given the sight and sound observed at a source viewpoint, synthesizing the *sound* of that scene from an unseen target viewpoint using a neural rendering approach.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08730

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Hey folks. I am still looking for new opportunities. My current role ends March 31.

https://resume.funkatron.com

If you can look at my resume & share it with someone you think might be interested. I sure would appreciate it.

I am happy to talk about lots of 100% remote possibilities, not just dev roles.

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