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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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Rachel Courtland

Edited 2 years ago

New call for pitches from MIT Technology Review, for our upcoming issue on . We're looking for *big* swings: narrative features, investigations, essential profiles, and sharp essays at the general intersection of accessibility and technology.

Pitch deadline: Feb 3
Our rates range from $1-2/word.

This is the first time I've posted a pitch call to @Mastodon, so let me know if there are hashtags I should add or groups I should cc.

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harshad@sharma.io

Harshad Sharma

It's raining on and off; little chance to indulge in gardening today.

Got a few photos and now back indoors just as rain picked up. It's more than a drizzle now - the plants seem delighted to be spared from cycles of frost and baking sun.

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MicheleV_AK@sfba.social

MicheleV_AK

The dock at Douglas Island with a backdrop of snowy mountains in Juneau,
πŸ“Έ by Viliame Kaulotu

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Mahury@lor.sh

Mahury

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Vandacorp@mastodon.au

Vandacorp

Edited 2 years ago

Rainbow lorikeet in a Grevillea - Peaches and Cream

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LizStokoe@mastodon.social

Elizabeth Stokoe

down the tracks at Barrow-upon-Soar Station

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Carlbovis@mastodonapp.uk

Carl Bovis

Incoming Robin. 😊🐦

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R101@aus.social

Nick Raschke

Corella looking back at me when I snapped it. People whine about them, but I reckon they’re great.

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frobozz@lor.sh

Frobozz

Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly.

Sitting on a Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica).

I was just minding my own business photographing flowers when this butterfly landed on the Lobelia near me. She stayed for a few minutes and was on her way.

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Albatrossity@lor.sh

Albatrossity

Bird of the Day - Merlin, Kansas 2023
Looking for snowbirds

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Daniel Swartz

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KaSaPo@photog.social

KaSaPo

January Joy - Day 24
"Canola Field in Bloom"

The snow is gone again, but it's still very cold outside. Waiting for Spring to arrive. Somewhen last Spring I saw this beautiful canola field during a bike tour on the Mulderadweg (Mulde Bike Path) in Germany and of course had to take pictures.

https://kathrin-poersch.pixels.com/featured/canola-field-in-bloom-kathrin-poersch.html

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Rabbit as Persephone queen of the Underworld
Midjourney 4 AI Art

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π•Ώπ–—π–Žπ–‹π–‘π–Žπ–“π–Œπ•Ώπ–—π–Šπ–Šβ“

Playing around with emoji ss Midjourney prompts
This one is 🌳🐍
Midjourney 4 AI Art

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Fahim Farook

Yesterday's #StableDiffusion prompt was: "Making Money".

Not any of the resulting images had anything to do with the #DiscWorld novel, and some didn't even seem to fit the concept of the title, but hey, that's how it goes, right? πŸ˜›

#AIArt #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI
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SmallTownGirl

#MountainMonday #photography #BanffNationalPark #LakeMinnewanka #mountains
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Fahim Farook

And that concludes today's reading of the papers with 15 papers in the cs.CV category and 3 others from additional categories on arXiv.org posted ...

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

"The Infinite Index: Information Retrieval on Generative Text-To-Image Models. (arXiv:2212.07476v2 [cs.IR] UPDATED)" β€” A reframing of prompt engineering for generative models as interactive text-based retrieval on a novel kind of "infinite index".

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07476

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Look at Adjacent Frames: Video Anomaly Detection without Offline Training. (arXiv:2207.13798v5 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" β€” A solution to detect anomalous events in videos without the need to train a model offline, based on a randomly-initialized multilayer perceptron that is optimized online to reconstruct video frames, pixel-by-pixel, from their frequency information.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13798

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Synthesis of Compositional Animations from Textual Descriptions. (arXiv:2103.14675v6 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" β€” A technique for generating compositional actions, which handles complex input sentences and outputs a 3D pose sequence depicting the actions in the input sentence.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14675
Code: https://github.com/anindita127/complextext2animation

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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