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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 ...

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Fahim Farook

"Diffusion Posterior Sampling for General Noisy Inverse Problems. (arXiv:2209.14687v3 [stat.ML] UPDATED)" — Extending diffusion solvers to efficiently handle general noisy (non)linear inverse problems via approximation of the posterior sampling.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14687
Code: https://github.com/dps2022/diffusion-posterior-sampling

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Fahim Farook

"Subspace Diffusion Generative Models. (arXiv:2205.01490v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED)" — Restricting diffusion via projections onto subspaces to reduce computational time and cost without affecting the overall quality of the generated image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01490
Code: https://github.com/bjing2016/subspace-diffusion

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Fahim Farook

"Large Scale Visual Food Recognition. (arXiv:2103.16107v3 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A food dataset with 2,000 categories and over 1 million images that can be used for food recognition.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16107
Code: https://github.com/Liuyuxinict/prenet/

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Fahim Farook

"Directed Diffusion: Direct Control of Object Placement through Attention Guidance. (arXiv:2302.13153v1 [cs.CV])" — Controlling object placement in diffusion models by way of attention guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13153

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Fahim Farook

A total of 98 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 35 new, 63 updated.

Gentlepeople, start your engines 🙂

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

Call me contrary, but when I see people saying “I want to work at <Apple/Google/Microsoft>”, I ask, “Why?”

Somebody at work told me recently that Apple would want to hire me because I did/knew something only like 10 people in the world could do and 7 of them worked at Apple. So I was like, “If 7 of them are at Apple, why would Apple want to hire me?”

Plus, I don’t want to work at Apple 😛

I’ve been at Apple as a visitor and seen what the culture is like, and I really don’t want to work at that kind of place. Plus, I really like working from home and based on what I saw (and what I’ve read since the pandemic) Apple really does not seem to like people working from home. Based on what I saw, that tallies.

So why would I work for a company which has diametrically opposed viewpoints to mine? Just because it says “something” about me? Or because I think they might pay me a lot better and money fixes everything?

I do think that if I did that, it would say something about me, but not the same “something” that others are thinking of. Personally, I’d think that I put other people’s opinion of what I am over my own comfort. And I don’t want to do that …

#Work #Companies #Opinions
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Fahim Farook

Boosted 3 papers in the cs.CV category (and one outside) out of a total of 49 new and updated papers on arXiv.org today.

On to other things now …

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Fahim Farook

"In What Languages are Generative Language Models the Most Formal? Analyzing Formality Distribution across Languages" — Measuring the formality of the generated text for different languages using multilingual generative language models.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12299

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Fahim Farook

"ISS: Image as Stepping Stone for Text-Guided 3D Shape Generation. (arXiv:2209.04145v6 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Using 2D images as a stepping stone for creating 3D shapes and eliminating the need for paired text-shape data.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04145
Code: https://github.com/liuzhengzhe/ISS-Image-as-Stepping-Stone-for-Text-Guided-3D-Shape-Generation

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Fahim Farook

"Modulating Pretrained Diffusion Models for Multimodal Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.12764v1 [cs.CV])" — Multimodal Conditioning Modules (MCM) for enabling conditional image synthesis using pretrained diffusion models so that you can generate images using not just a text prompt, but additional input such as a segmentation map or a sketch.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12764

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Fahim Farook

"Surface Recognition for e-Scooter Using Smartphone IMU Sensor. (arXiv:2302.12720v1 [eess.SP])" — Detecting whether an e-scooter is on a paved road or a sidewalk using the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors on a smartphone.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12720

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Fahim Farook

We (the wife and I) like playing console games — we especially like co-op games that we can both play at once. But we hate split-screen co-op since we get confused as to who is on which part of the screen 😛

So we are kind of limited on the games we can play. Because of that, when we have nothing else to play, we do try single-player games …

Yesterday was one such day where we tried a bunch of single-player games on PS5 to see if we can find something that we liked.

First up was, “Outriders” — the graphics looked great, it was a science-fiction storyline and so we thought we might like it. Unfortunately, it’s a mostly “shooting” game. You have to keep shooting people to advance and we don’t like that kind of game much …

Sure, we don’t mind if there’s some combat, but we prefer a storyline, puzzles, exploration, that kind of thing …

So, we tried “ReadySet Heroes” next. This one was co-op, but split screen. Given that we didn’t have a lot of choices, we decided to give it a try. But unfortunately, it was just dungeon crawling. No story, nothing of interest unless you just like mindlessly bashing things. Next!

The last one we tried was “Omno” and here we hit the Goldilocks zone … almost 😛 It was single-player, but it wasn’t frantic shooting/button mashing. It had a gentle, explore-at-your-pace kind of gameplay and lots of puzzles. Sure, we had to pass the controller back and forth between us but we still enjoyed it way more than any of the others and that’s the one we stuck with for the rest of the day 🙂

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Fahim Farook

A total of 49 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org today — 34 new, 15 updated.

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One of the best consequences of my switch to has been exposure to people with hobbies and interests different from mine. By following other instances or particular hashtags I get to learn about and learn from people and communities I would otherwise not have encountered.

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Fahim Farook

When I was young I loved reading accounts of travel in far off, oft forgotten places. Things like Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels with a Donkey”.

I loved learning about now gone places, the feel of the dust on the road, the texture of the food they ate, or just how a tuft of grass felt between your fingers. Anything that gave me a feel for a place that I’d never been to …

Later, when I was still young, I read “Destiny’s Road” by Larry Niven, which to me personally is one of the greatest #ScienceFiction novels ever because of the imagery and the feelings it evoked. It was like reading one of those travel novels, but for an alien planet. Niven gave me details about the flora and fauna of the planet that still paints vivid pictures in my mind 25+ years later …

So why am I talking about this now?

Well, today I heard about hedge apples from @at and @Fawn and that took me down a rabbit hole of reading to discover more about hedge apples. For some reason, reading the Wikipedia entry about hedge apples reminded me of “Destiny’s Raod” and led me down a twisted lane of memory pathways 🙂

A long, long time ago, I read this book by Yakov Perelman called “Fun with Mathematics” (I think?) The USSR put out a lot of books back then (mostly Progress Publishers) and there were a lot of interesting science and maths books from them. This book (or possibly something similar, the details are hazy in my mind since this was 40 years or so ago) talked about a greatest tall tale competition.

One guy comes in and tells a tale of Baron Manchausen (or maybe it was the baron himself) about some feat where he does something which sounds patently impossible. Then another guy comes in an tells a rather prosaic sounding story about an ordinary day where some perfectly ordinary sounding things happen with regards to fruit on a bush, birds singing etc.

The judges say that what the Baron talked about (possibly a journey to the moon) was possible but what the other guy talked about was impossible because that particular fruit did not grow in that season and those birds were not found in that area etc. They were trying to make you realize that perfectly ordinary things could be impossible and that things that sounded impossible could actually be fact.

So why am I dragging that hazy memory out, kicking and screming?

Because reading about the hedge apple made me wonder if you could perhaps combine all of these things, perfectly normal bits of information from our ordinary world, into a science fiction tale of travel in a far off planet with just a few changes in detail. Create a story like “Destiny’s Road” where strange plants and wondrous creatures are revealed and they are all based on things that we find right here on earth but don’t really know about, or do know about, but don’t really think are that strange to others from another part of the world?

This has got the gears in my brain turning extra hard … 😛

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%27s_Road

#Writing #Stories #Memories #Books
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Fahim Farook

Talking of organising your home timeline, or filtering, I’ve always treated the home timeline as my main source of info. I always read it, and I always read all of it. Which is why I needed filtering in the first place.

Now this might be fairly obvious to others, but I had a complete blindspot as to the fact that I could not look at the home timeline at all. I could simply create lists for all the people I follow, disregard the home timeline and simply look at the lists only. This would have removed a lot of the pain points I had around filtering …

But that’s not what I did.

And there was a reason for why I did things my way. My personal Fedi client has a notification feature which notifies me when the home timeline has posts. It adds a badge with a count to the app icon. Otherwise, I forget to look at posts at alll and might go through the whole day without reading what is going on in the Fediverse.

Sure, this is another *me* problem 😛 But for my personal reading style, just using lists and ignoring the home timeline would not have worked very well. But I guess if you do not have the specific need that I do, you could simply split up all the people you follow into lists and then disregard the home timeline?

#FediClient #Filtering #Organizing
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As is usual with most (any?) simple system, as time goes on, it becomes ever more complicated by accumulating new features 😛

The filtering of the home timeline on my custom Fedi-client started out that way. It was simply a matter of filtering out people who were members of my lists so that my home timeline would be less cluttered.

But then I started following high-volume hashtags. So I decided to add hashtag filtering.

But today I noticed that this also removed low-volume hashtags such as #MachineLearning that I did want to see in my home timeline …

So what do I do to fix that?

This is where the system starts getting complicated 😛 I’m thinking of adding a selective feature which lets me specify which hashtags should be filtered. Sounds simple enough, right? And at it’s core, it is …

But to implement this, I’d have to implement a new UI to show all followed hashtags and add a new property to the hashtag data to indicate that it should be filtered, or not.

I don’t know if I’ll implement this or not. I feel like taking the weekend off from coding. But on the other hand, the urge to code might be so great that I do it anyway. I guess we’ll see …

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