Some mushrooms, moss and lichen from the nearby Beaver forest. BeaverCam only had taken 9 photos so it is staying. #mosstodon #fungi

The images show two separate iterations of the same app — the first is a SwiftUI app for doing #StableDiffusion image generation using #CoreML. That took several weeks of work to create and it never really worked right — I could only do single selection of images, couldn’t drag and drop more than one image, and it took a fair amount of time to implement even trivial stuff.

The second is the same app implemented using AppKit. It took essentially one day (yesterday). Multiselection was built-in, drag and drop (for multiple items) was a couple of lines of code, and I implemented a bunch of other things I wanted to do fairly easily.

On top of that, the app feels faster, lighter, and more responsive than the SwiftUI version for the exact same task, using the exact same models.

SwiftUI has a long way to go still, if it will even ever get there …

#Coding #macOS #Swift #SwiftUIvsAppKit
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Another D&D session podcast released - traveling through Wildspace.

Our podcasts have shifted to more "cinematic" replays with lots of background music and sound effects.

Hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZmwWu4LX5QmQyVuSLIoYZ

#dnd #podcast #spelljammer

Sportscaster: I hope you're all ready for Super Bowl Sunday.

Me: No, but I am ready for Superb Owl Sunday haha

Owl: We get one single holiday and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.

I only go to Legoland for the discount plastic surgery.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

This is a fascinating article on the increasing use of #subtitles, by Claudia Forsberg for ABC #Ballarat - the way that sound is designed for movies intended for cinema means that it doesn't play back optimally on mobile devices or streaming services - and this is one factor driving the adoption of #ClosedCaptioning or #Subtitles.

But, these #Subtitles are often inaccurate or mis-transcribed. They use #ASR technology - and this is another case for having good #voice #data #voicedata

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-12/subtitles-popular-among-general-population-change-tv-film/101956758

"When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women. That's the main conclusion of a new study that compiled information about 20,860 pictures drawn by students age 5 to 18 over 5 decades."

https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-scientist-look-children-are-drawing-women-more-ever #science @psychology @sociology

Genius.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Opera is going to use #ChatGPT to shorten articles — so that people have to read less and think even less —, Microsoft is building ChatGPT into their Office tools — again, less thinking —, we already have ChatGPT in search engines ..

So this is how the world ends — everybody growing stupider because we are too lazy to think for ourselves, and not with a bang?

I guess SkyNet did arrive but not in the way we thought … 😛

#TheAIRevolution #MisinformationEngine
Engadget article — Opera is add…

#silentsunday

So many columnar and prismatic minerals.

#TucsonGemAndMineralShow2023

My rosemary is blooming beautifully! #gardening

axo.dev is finally hiring rust devs again -- one or two people to help me with cargo-dist (and other tools we're spinning up related to it I GUESS): https://www.axo.dev/jobs/rust-engineer

For those of us outside the Dole/Chiquita hegemony, bananas can have a variety of tastes — sweet, sour, bland and all the other stuff in between 😛 So when you say “water bugs taste like banana”, which banana are we talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
Chefs who cook with insects rep…

I just migrated to a new instance, which is a good occasion for a formal #introduction.

So, hi! I'm wrapping up my PhD in #sociology; I use digital and #computationalsocialscience methods to study experiences of community for #LGBTQ / #queer people and places.

I've done lots of work with #Rstats / #tidyverse, and I'm getting better with #Python, especially for #nlproc and text-as-data methods as they relate to applied social science questions.

Can't promise to be super active on here while I'm dissertating and interviewing for jobs, but I might share some snippets of my in-progress stuff.

Any young data scientists with R skills based in Africa available for hire?

Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Moz, Namibia, Angola, SA etc

Hit me up!

#rstats community pls retoot as I have more or less zero followers

Code with swearing is better code.

Jan Strehmel: We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. We hypothesise that the use of...
https://jwz.org/b/yj95

I work for the Center for Integrated Cognition at IQMRI. We're a nonprofit that performs basic academic AI research. We also maintain and develop the #FOSS cognitive architecture, Soar, that we use in our research.

We have a remote work part time software engineer #job available. If you are interested, the listing is here:
https://integratedcognition.ai/news/software-engineering-opportunity/

Restriction: you have to be a US citizen residing in the US.

I enjoy working here and I like the people I work with, or I wouldn't have bothered posting this.

#FediHire #jobs #GetFediHired #fossjobs

Do you periodically burn out?

I've just learned something while researching that could benefit you...

I was reading the work of autistic researcher Dora Raymaker.

She explained that the functioning of an autistic person running up to burnout can look like a "seneca cliff".

A seneca cliff is a model of a system which shows that growth or functioning is pretty good (even seeming to increase) and then, when decline comes, functioning falls off the cliff...at a rate much faster than growth.

It occurred to me that lots of people say to me "I was fine until I wasn't" or "I felt like I was actually ramping up or doing much more until I burnt out".

With this in mind, if it's hard for you to know when a burnout is coming (we can't always tell when we're in it), then you could reflect on whether or not you've been ramping up or putting in extra effort...this might indicate that a crash could be coming.

If this is helpful, pass the information on to your #autistic, #ADHD or #AuDHD friends and family.

Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who have liked, boosted and commented on my images, and to all the new followers I have. It's rather humbling. 😊

Today's shot comes from a magical day in the Scottish #Highlands, a few years ago, when I was photographing red squirrels.

These charming characters are incredibly agile and can jump great distances between trees.

Here I managed to capture one as it appears to be flying down my lens.

#redsquirrel #scotland #wildlife #fun