The sun just manages to break through the clouds as steam rises from the river on a very cold morning in Yellowstone National Park. See more here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/early-morning-river-scene-yellowstone-national-park-ii-joan-carroll.html
#yellowstone #nationalpark #winter #river #snowy #landscape #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #giftideas #SpringIntoArt @joancarroll

New #introduction for new instance!

I'm Tonya Marie, a mid-50s trans woman originally from Texas but now safely ensconced in Seattle. I'm a semi-retired #math teacher and occasional coder, but my passion is being a housewife for my loving wife.

When I'm not #cooking, #baking, or keeping house, I love #boardgames and both computer and tabletop #RPGs (particularly #pathfinder).

I post livetoots of various cooking and baking endeavors under the hashtag #WhatIsTonyaMarieCooking.

Colourful Sunset in Azores countryside green valley.

More on site: https://marco-sales.pixels.com/featured/colourful-sunset-in-azores-countryside-green-valley-marco-sales.html 🕊️ @marco5ales

#photography #sunset #nature #sunsetphotography #landscape #azores #artprints #prints #photoart #art #artMatters #mastoart #mastodonart #wallart #GiftIdeas #GiftThemArt #marco5ales #aYearForArt

Red Flowers In Emroidery

2023-02-09/10 day 237/238 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

This was a Tatyworks tutorial using brushes that mimic embroidery stitches. The brushes and background image are provided by her at no cost at the link for her tutorial.

This was fun and definitely something a bit different than the usual.

Years ago, and by years, I mean decades, when I was a wee child, my grandmother taught me embroidery. I learned the basics and enjoyed it, but didn’t really take it any further. My other grandmother taught me crocheting, and I knitted, too, and have many friends who are prolific knitters and crocheters. About twenty years later, I took up cross stitch for a brief time period. I have friends who are avid cross stitchers and can do brilliant stuff. Embroidery and other fibre arts are no longer possible for me with my vision problems along with arthritis and unstable dislocating fingers. But this, using an iPad and Procreate, I can do. And this project took me back to some fond memories of my grandmothers.

For more info, follow this link:
https://lmashton.com/red-flowers-in-emroidery/

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #DigitalArt #WomensArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
Red flowers with trees in the b…

Flowerfall

2023-02-07/08 day 235/236 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

Yes, I'm catching up on my backlog of posting.

No tutorial for this one. This is more playing with oil brushes.  

For more info, follow this link:
https://lmashton.com/flowerfall/

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Yellow, orange, and red flowers…

Love Heart

As opposed to a hate heart or something? Yeah, I dunno.

2023-02-02 day 230 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I did this one on a whim. Valentine’s Day was coming when I did this so it seemed like something to do. And it was fun! I am, of course, a month late posting this.

For more info, follow this link:
https://lmashton.com/love-heart/

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Digital art in mostly pinks and…

It’s a difficult week at Thoughtworks. Some of my colleagues are now looking for new opportunities.

If you’ve worked with us before you know what we’re capable of.
And if you haven’t yet, well, my colleagues are the brightest, most talented people I've had the privilege to work with.

If you have open roles for developers, BAs, XDs, product people, or any shaped technologist especially in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, or remote - please share them with me so I can pass them along to affected coworkers. #FediJobs #FediHire

It took 3 whole hours of wandering around the blazing hot saltpans just south of Bangkok, but I’ve finally clapped eyes on one of the most endangered shorebirds in the world: the SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER!! 🥄🥄🥄

We are looking for 11 new PhD students in a wide range of fields! #signals #XAI #XR #bias #ML #SSL #NLP #FG #HCC Share with grads looking for a PhD: Join us in Denmark 👇 https://www.aicentre.dk/phd-openings

My friend and colleague Stefan Heinrich is hiring PhD students interested in language structure, and music and speech processing. If you want to do a PhD in a great environment in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 check out the vacancies http://stefanheinrich.net/jobs/ #PhdChat #ComputerScience #ComputationalLinguistics

After a conversation with somebody on here about Mastodon clients and filtering, I cleaned up my JavaScript Mastodon client code and put it up here:

https://github.com/FahimF/FediJS

It’s pure JavaScript — no libraries, no dependencies … except for FontAwesome and BootStrap. And my original aim was to keep the code simple and uncomplicated.

It doesn’t do much at the moment except to allow you to connect to a Fedi server and to fetch posts (and maybe favourites and bookmarks? I forget …)

I was fixing an issue in my variation of Tusker today (where going several levels deep into a conversation would cause a crash) and I realized just how far I’d have to go to get the JavaScript client to that level. It probably would be easier in some respects and having the code as JavaScript would mean that it would run on so many different platforms, but do I have the fortitude to work on yet another client?

I’m not sure … But I do feel the itch to actually finish the JS Client … I guess we’ll see …

In 1423, London mayor Dick Whittington established a 128-seater toilet that hung over the River Thames.

Japanese Landscape

2023-01-31 to 02-01 day 228/229 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

For more info, see the blog post at https://lmashton.com/japanese-landscape/

#ArtMatters #Procreate #DigitalArt #WomensArt
Digital artwork. In the foregro…

"Consistency Models. (arXiv:2303.01469v1 [cs.LG])" — A new family of generative models that achieve high sample quality without adversarial training that supports fast one-step generation by design.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01469

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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Samples generated by EDM (top),…

"3D generation on ImageNet. (arXiv:2303.01416v1 [cs.CV])" — A more detailed/accurate method to generate 3D images based on 2D input images.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01416

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Selected samples from EG3D (Cha…

"Zero-Shot Text-to-Parameter Translation for Game Character Auto-Creation. (arXiv:2303.01311v1 [cs.CV])" — Generating random game characters simply based on text input instead of customizing a pre-created character's visual attributes.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01311

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Game characters created by the …

"Combining Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet: Heading towards Evolution or Degradation?. (arXiv:2303.01255v1 [cs.CV])" — Would the quality of generative AI tools be affected if the input images are generated by AI tools themselves? An initial (simulated) experiment to explore this question.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01255

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Two sets of sample images — the…

"X&Fuse: Fusing Visual Information in Text-to-Image Generation. (arXiv:2303.01000v1 [cs.CV])" — Multiple ways to condition images prior to text-to-image generation to achieve better output results.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01000

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X&Fuse conditions the model on …

"Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers. (arXiv:2212.09748v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Creating diffusion models that use transformers instead UNets.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09748
Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/DiT

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Diffusion models with transform…

A few photos from autumn. Thanks for all the kind comments about the winter photos. 😌