"Consistent Diffusion Models: Mitigating Sampling Drift by Learning to be Consistent. (arXiv:2302.09057v1 [cs.LG])" — A possible solution to fix the sampling iterations drifting away from the training distribution when generating images using diffusion models.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09057
Code: https://github.com/giannisdaras/cdm

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"LayoutDiffuse: Adapting Foundational Diffusion Models for Layout-to-Image Generation. (arXiv:2302.08908v1 [cs.CV])" — A method for generating images based on a semantic layout which describes the positioning of the various component elements in the final image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08908

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"Paint it Black: Generating paintings from text descriptions. (arXiv:2302.08808v1 [cs.CV])" — Explores generating paintings based on text input.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08808

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Talking about “Sim” games has brought up a lot of old memories 🙂

@mairhart reminded me about “SimTower” — I still remember the cover that a British gaming mag ran for it, but I don’t remember the name of the magazine 😛 It was a rather interesting entrant in the “Sim” series and got you to do a lot of the city management stuff on a more smaller (but not quite microscopic vs. Macroscopic) level.

Then there was “SimAnt” which I think was all about managing an ant colony? I know I played it but I remember very little about it now …

“SimLife” was what I was really excited about back then because I thought I could create new electronic life, run my own planet, etc. But in reality, if I remember now (30 years later) it was rather boring 😛

But there’s also all the “Civilization” spin-offs. I knew I was forgetting something, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember “Alpha Centauri” till I looked it up 🙂 I still don’t remember much.

And speaking of forgotten games, apparently there was also “Sid Meier's Starships” — despite being one of the newest in the series, I remember nothing about this either. I don’t know if I knew of it and forgot or if I’d just lost all interest in “Civ” games by then and simply didn’t care. But I think I’ll try to find a copy and play it just to see how it goes …

#Gaming #Civ #Sim #Reminiscences

"Fine-grained Cross-modal Fusion based Refinement for Text-to-Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.08706v1 [cs.CV])" — Another text-to-image generation approach where, instead of generating the final image from a noisy image, you generate an initial low-resolution image based on the input text and then use a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) during the second stage to generate the final output.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08706
Code: https://github.com/haoranhfut/FF-GAN

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"Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing -- Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media. (arXiv:2302.08575v1 [cs.CL])" — An open access book about Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and how to build and improve them.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08575

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A total of 94 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 55 new, 39 updated.

I just want to work on my list filtering code for my Fedi client, but I guess I’ll have to go through papers first? 😛

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So … good news, bad news situation with yesterday’s experiment with putting some of the more high-volume people I follow on to lists and unfollowing them 😛

My hometimeline was so much leaner and cleaner today. There were very few replies and I just got posts that I was actually interested in and was through my home timeline in record time since I had like one third the normal volume of posts.

On the other hand, the list had not moved at all since I created it yesterday, except for one post 😀

Now if I’d stopped to think about this before I came up with my “brilliant” plan, I would have realized this — given the philosophy behind Mastodon/Fediverse, I don’t think anybody really wants you following people without the followee knowing/approving the action. So, creating lists the way Twitter allowed you to would not make much sense from a privacy standpoint.

Unfortunately, that makes lists a rather useless feature in the Fediverse since, as far as I know, there is no server-side filtering of posts from lists from your main timeline. If you just scroll through and read a bit and don’t care about duplicates, this is fine. But if you obsessively go through every post till you are caught up, like I do, then this becomes annoying pretty fast 😛

So my plan at the moment is to implement client-side filtering. When posts are fetched from the server for the home timeline, see if any of the fetched posts are authored by, replies to, or boosts by people on any of my lists. If they are, filter out those posts since they will be displayed on the lists.

I’m not sure how CPU intensive this will be and how smooth the experience will be. But I’m going to try and find out …

#Lists #Following #FediStuff #FediClients

Just a cottage by the water. Sometimes simple scenes are best. #aiart #midjourney

Some years ago the news that a new “Civilization” game was in development would have excited me to no end 🙂 I used to love “SimCity” and “Civilization” to no end and I think back in the day, I played every “Sim” game that I could get my had on … “SimEarth”, “SimLife”, “SimFarm”, “SimTown”, “SimCopter” … I think I played all of them … or at least got them and tried them …

But, I didn’t play “Civilization VI” and the new game brings me no excitement. I think I just can’t get excited by that kind of gameplay any longer. Sure, compared to the original “Civilization”, the graphics have come a long way and it looks gorgeous, but I just don’t have the time/energy for the game play.

Now if they come up with a new version of “Civilization: Beyond Earth” with a good storyline (not just the building and exploration), I might be up for that 🙂

#Games #Civilization
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In China there is a legend that if a carp is strong enough to swim upstream against strong currents, it can become a dragon.
#SwampSunday #ukiyoe #folklore #JapaneseArt @folklore
🎨'Carp' from an untitled series known as 'Large Fish' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1842.

I had an amazingly successful #tidepool hunt yesterday. I saw five different species of #nudibranch.

#ocean #photography #NaturePhotography

The stunning Ceratina cobaltina, a small carpenter bee. Texas.

#NativeBees #Ceratina #Shiny #Nature #Insects #Photography

On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.

#stars #art
#sky #astro #Astronomy
#naturalscience #meteors

Mountain Hare.

I've not had the pleasure of spending a day in the company of mountain hares for a few years now, but today made up for it.

Wonderful weather, soft light, great clients and magical subjects. #bliss

Canon R7, RF100-500mm, 500mm, f/7.1, 1/1600th, ISO 800

#wildlife #mountainhare #hare #nature #ScottishHighlands #animal #photography

Word of the Day: MUBBLEFUBBLES (19th century, slang) — bad mood, low spirits.

when you're cute af but you still demand respect

Hmm … “Diablo IV” beta is starting on March 24th. So the question now is, do we pre-order to get access to the beta or do we wait till the game is released in June?

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We (my wife and I) enjoyed playing Diablo III a lot. In fact, it’s probably the only game we’ve played again after we completed it 😛 We like playing the co-op mode in the game since it’s one of the few where you don’t have split-screen co-op (which confuses us since we always forget which screen is which) and where you don’t have to have a second console to play multiplayer.

We first played Diablo III way back in (probably) 2012 or 2013. So it’s good to get into a new game, but we don’t know yet whether the same multiplayer co-op mode will be there. I sure hope so, but maybe it’s time to do some research?

#DiabloIV #Gaming #PS5 #Multiplayer

There are so many interesting people here on Mastodon that my timeline is overflowing 😛 And my obsessive/compulsive nature won’t let me continue with anything till I’ve completed going through my home timeline in the morning …

Things are exacerbated by the fact that Akkoma will show you all replies by somebody you follow — not just replies to conversations you started with them. So it just piles up ...

So, I think I’m going to clean up my home timeline by moving some people who I really like following but who have massive output to a list and then unfollowing them. That way, my hometimeline will remain manageable and I can dip into the list whenever I have the time and still be able to see content from others that I really would have liked to have followed …

Seeems reasonable? I don’t know… Guess I’ll see how it goes 🙂

#Fediverse #Timelines #ManagingTime