At this point, “The Last of Us” is the TV show I anticipate the most. Maybe that’s not saying much, but still … 😛

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 “Uncharted” games and “The Lost Legacy” too as fast as we could … and loved the story of “Uncharted 4” to bits.

But I didn’t know if we’d like “The 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

Ugh, looks as if there’s a bug in my Mastonaut fork and instead of replying to multiple posts, I’ve been editing one post of mine … I hate bugs like that .. Now I don’t even know where to begin unraveling the mess I’ve created for myself 😕

I don’t have much of a network on here, but hi, hello, I’m an experienced front-end web developer and web accessibility specialist located in the US and I am looking for remote work!

I’ve extensively used React, am familiar with Vue and a handful of other front-end frameworks, and can learn just about any front-end stack. My happy place is building things that make the web easier for users.

i think it's an upside-down #borb day, what do you think?

Golden-crowned Kinglet

#birds #borbs

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.

I'm looking for a remote #TechManager job. I'm based in São Paulo/Brazil, and had titles such as #SoftwareArchitect ("software design dynamics facilitator" as I liked to describe it) at a Brazilian Fintech, #TechLeader 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 #Python, and I'm interested in #DDD, #hexagonalArchitecture and #Sociotechnical systems.

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!"

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

Pls Boost🙏🖖

#SonequaMartinGreen #DSC #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek #BlackMastodon #RepresentationMatters #BlackWomen #StrongWomen #WomenInSTEM

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

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 “this is YOUR fault for not seeing my full POTENTIAL, daaaaad!”

Forrest Rabbit as Gaia, Mother Earth
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

A forest in a terrarium
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Cubist Robots
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

Kitchen Monsters love dirty dishes
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

This particular #StableDiffusion prompt based on Terry Pratchett novel titles was in the works for a few days — 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 😛

#AIArt #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI #DiscWorld
Stable Diffusion prompt: "Winte…
Stable Diffusion prompt: "Winte…
Stable Diffusion prompt: "Winte…
Stable Diffusion prompt: "Winte…

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.
#GungHayFatChoy #LunarNewYear #ChineseNewYear

At this point, “The Last of Us” is the TV show I anticipate the most. Maybe that’s not saying much, but still … 😛

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 “Uncharted” games and “The Lost Legacy” too as fast as we could … and loved the story of “Uncharted 4” to bits.

But I didn’t know if we’d like “The 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

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

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 😛

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

"Model Complexity-Accuracy Trade-off for a Convolutional Neural Network. (arXiv:1705.03338v1 [cs.CV] CROSS LISTED)" — 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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"MemeTector: Enforcing deep focus for meme detection. (arXiv:2205.13268v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — 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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Example image meme vs. a regula…

"Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models from Multimodal Time Series Data. (arXiv:2204.10419v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED)" — 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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