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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess 🙂 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 ...

Lived in: 🇱🇰🇸🇦🇺🇸🇳🇿🇸🇬🇲🇾🇦🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹🇶🇦🇨🇦

Are you a Sr. iOS Developer? Do you like working on exciting new things that have a huge impact to the company?

My team at Thumbtack is looking for a Sr. iOS Developer to help us revolutionize homeownership by guiding you through proactive maintenance, unexpected issues, and ambitious renovations!

Reach out if you’d like to learn more!

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There's still time to apply for the MA in Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.

For best consideration, apply by March 1st at: https://www.calstate.edu/apply

I'm happy to answer questions about the program: https://www.csusm.edu/ltwr/facstaff/fac_profiles.html

Please boost, it would be much appreciated!

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The Electronic Literature Organization is looking for new Fellows! Come collaborate with us

https://eliterature.org/2023/02/elo-fellowship-call-for-applications/

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“Gender trolling” of women, esp political opponents and journalists, is becoming an increasingly common feature of rightwing movements. It is a deliberate strategy to silence women and “keep them in their place”.

The design of digital platforms is responsible for the hellscape experienced by women online. Harmful narratives are boosted & amplified via algorithms that make such content sticky & viral, through systems built to maximize attention & widespread distribution.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/17/gender-trolling-women-rights-money-digital-platforms-social-media-hate-politics

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NoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈

Is it too late for ‘Thick Trunk Thursday’?

I took a walk today, made .3 of a mile at a slow creep and found this wonderful tree by the dog park so of course I had to photograph it.

It is a truly magnificent tree!

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This pastoral idyl was snapped with no filter by my rubbish cheap phone in the middle of Knightsbridge, London. To me that feels like a miracle. But then spring is always a miracle.

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Dusk over Lake Superior

I got a little carried away with the alt tag/image description. That's the meat of the post. There are like a million characters to use there. Mastodon should allow x4 the characters in toots. That'd be cool. Call it a Super Toot or a Massive Toot. Everyone gets one a day. Anyway, I digress.

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Apologies for the non-art posting as I'm job hunting. Unsure if this will work since I mostly see tech-job postings, but shooting my shot. Boosts appreciated

Philippine-based person looking for work in landscape architecture, urban planning, transport planning, or anything where my skills are applicable in related jobs. Would consider work in climate change also.

Skills in technical writing, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp, Lumion, GIS, illustration

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Hello! I'm Jeff, a software architect near L.A.

From 1994-96 I ran a dialup with >1,000 users sharing 8 lines (oof). By the end it provided MINIX shell accounts + Internet email via FIDO. I've been online ever since.

I've been building Cerb.ai (formerly Cerberus Helpdesk) in + full-time for nearly 21 years. 1000s of teams use it for high-volume shared webmail + workflow automation.

I'm also interested in

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Fahim Farook

Yesterday's Pratchett novel title was: "The Shepherd's Crown"

And that's the last of the #DiscWorld titles 😞 Sure there are a few others left like "Nation", "Dodger", and the "Bromeliad" stuff (not to mention "Johnny") but those don't really count as much here. I was reluctant to do this one since it feels (almost) like reading the last DiscWorld novel (and I haven't read anything much since then ...)

But time moves on and I guess we must too?

#AIArt #StableDiffusion #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI
Prompt: “The Shepherd's Crown”.…
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Fahim Farook

That’s it for papers today — 9 papers boosted from the cs.CV category on arXiv.org out of a total of 93 papers.

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

"Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation. (arXiv:2206.07771v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Synthesis of multiple types of content such as dance-to-music or text-to-image using a new diffusion mechanism, at fewer steps.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07771
Code: https://github.com/l-yezhu/cdcd

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners. (arXiv:2206.07699v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A unified model based on training a model to write and paint concurrently.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07699

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"Towards Reliable Image Outpainting: Learning Structure-Aware Multimodal Fusion with Depth Guidance. (arXiv:2204.05543v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Reliable outpainting using depth-guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05543

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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A comparison of image outpainti…
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Fahim Farook

"Text-driven Visual Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Prior. (arXiv:2302.08510v1 [cs.CV])" — Using diffusion models as the generic driver for diverse image generation tasks such as text-to3D, image editing, and StyleGAN adaptation.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08510

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Applications of the proposed la…
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i boosted this site earlier but i think it deserves more explanation. this is a search engine for images that shows you the copyright status for the image right there front and center and you can filter for them. for instance i grabbed this copyright 0 image of an echidna from there. and it even generated a citation for me: "Echidna on the move" by CazzJj is marked with CC0 1.0. i think this is a really easy way for getting a reference image while ensuring the person who took the image consents to its use! https://openverse.org/

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Fahim Farook

"3D-aware Conditional Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.08509v1 [cs.CV])" — Using a 2 input such as a segmentation or edge map to generate photo-realistic images from different perspectives/viewpoints.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08509
Code: https://github.com/dunbar12138/pix2pix3D

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Fahim Farook

"T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2302.08453v1 [cs.CV])" — Controlling text-to-image diffusion models in a more granular fashion by using special adapters to provide extra guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08453
Code: https://github.com/TencentARC/T2I-Adapter

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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