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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess ๐Ÿ™‚ 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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mgorny@fosstodon.org

Michaล‚ Gรณrny gentoo

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Trying to live on charity doesn't work yet, so I'm afraid I have to start looking for work.

I'm looking for a part-time job or one-offs, up to 20 hours a week (eye problems), fully remote, ideally text-only comms.

My primary expertise is , so effectively a little of everything and very little of anything specific. Preferably ; I also did enough C++ to avoid it.

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polarweasel@hachyderm.io

Alex Ball

Looking for my next role as a manager or lead technical writer.

Iโ€™m in British Columbia, Canada. Remote roles only.

Check me out on LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/polarweasel/) and GitHub (https://github.com/polarweasel/)

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Fahim Farook

"Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models. (arXiv:2303.04671v1 [cs.CV])" โ€” An amalgamation of ChatGPT and image generation models such as Stable Diffusion to allow providing ChatGPT with not just text input but also images and to be able to provide visual questions or image editing instructions to ChatGPT.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04671
No repo exists on GitHub matching the one linked in the paper.

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Overview of Visual ChatGPT. Theโ€ฆ
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Fahim Farook

"A Prompt Log Analysis of Text-to-Image Generation Systems. (arXiv:2303.04587v1 [cs.HC])" โ€” Analyzing prompts used with diffusion models to get an idea of the informational needs of the users and to get an idea as to how to improve text-to-image generation systems.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04587

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Fahim Farook

"Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition. (arXiv:2303.04291v1 [eess.IV])" โ€” Recognizing text in images taken under low-light conditions while preserving high-frequency details in the image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04291

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Fahim Farook

"EscherNet 101. (arXiv:2303.04208v1 [cs.CV])" โ€” Teaching an artificial neural network symmetry groups and their relations as found in M. C. Escher drawings and other similar artwork.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04208

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(A) Three drawings by M.C. Eschโ€ฆ
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janik_frenzel@sfba.social

Janik

It's everyone's favorite day: ! This week: Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park, California

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Jgbird@mas.to

Jerome G

This one was really special. Flickers spend a lot of time on the ground eating ants, and bird people spend a lot of time looking up. As soon as you see it itโ€™s already on its way somewhere else. But this time I was so lucky. I never flushed the bird; just turned back around and thanked the island for its gift.

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Laurie

Laurie Ashton Farook

Sea Turtle

2023-02-13 day 241 of doing art every day for a year (mostly โ€“ I took sick days off).ย 

I followed a Tatyworks tutorial. I went rogue in spots, which is becoming increasingly common. It was fun!

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/sea-turtle/

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MarkKiverPhotography@mastodon.art

Mark Kiver Photography

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The Columbia River separates Oregon and Washington States. There are many beautiful views of this area from both sides of the river.This Image is taken looking east with the Vista house in the Distance.

"Columbia River Gorge Vista"
https://1-mark-kiver.pixels.com/featured/columbia-river-gorge-vista-mark-kiver.html

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Laurie Ashton Farook

2023-02-11/12 day 239/240 of doing art every day for a year (mostly โ€“ I took sick days off).

This was a bit weird, but also strangely fun!

I followed another Tatyworks tutorial. And by follow, I mean sort of but not entirely. ๐Ÿคฃ I went rogue at one point, then reined it in at the end.

I used a photo I took of my dearly beloved, @Fahim, of course. And at one point, gave him entirely too many moustache curls. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I fixed it, though. The curls were a bit much.

Halfway through, I quit. I hated it at that point. Then a day later, I figured, nope, gotta finish it. Itโ€™s all about learning something, right? Right? I mean, thatโ€™s why I do these tutorials. Right? ๐Ÿคฃ So I finished it. And here is the most lovely result.

For a link to a timelapse and the tutorial, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/retro-fahim/

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A retro four colour posterized โ€ฆ
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Fahim Farook

"Neural Style Transfer for Vector Graphics. (arXiv:2303.03405v1 [cs.CV])" โ€” Transferring style from an input style image to an source vector image to create a target vector image that adheres to the style of the input style image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03405

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Fahim Farook

"DLT: Conditioned layout generation with Joint Discrete-Continuous Diffusion Layout Transformer. (arXiv:2303.03755v1 [cs.CV])" โ€” Using diffusion models to create visual layouts as part of graphics design.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03755

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Jgbird@mas.to

Jerome G

I had a peaceful trip and was able to spend a good amount of time with some of the birds. Hereโ€™s the Santa Cruz Island superstar: the Island scrub-jay. Also three separate people recognized me from my Twitter photo account!

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josh@josh.tel

Robin Riley (fka Josh)

I got laid off yesterday. We'll be ok, but it still sucks. Tough time to be on the market.

I'm giving myself space this week, but applied to a role yesterday ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿป

Looking for roles in open source as a senior IC, management in a larger org, or nonprofit leadership. I'm most known for partnerships, community building, nonprofit operations, and program management, and I hold my own in compliance and media relations. boost_requested

Resume etc: https://joshsimmons.com

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annejefferson@mastodon.online

Anne Jefferson

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Hello! I have just discovered the delightful hashtag. Here's a and at Barnes Camp on the road up to Smugglers Notch, . Mt. Mansfield, the state's highest peak is to the left. August 2022.

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Fahim Farook

"Extended Agriculture-Vision: An Extension of a Large Aerial Image Dataset for Agricultural Pattern Analysis. (arXiv:2303.02460v1 [cs.CV])" โ€” What it says in the title, an improved dataset for agricultural pattern analysis.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02460

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Fahim Farook

"Diffusion Models Generate Images Like Painters: an Analytical Theory of Outline First, Details Later. (arXiv:2303.02490v1 [cs.CV])" โ€” An exploration of the the theory that diffusion models generate images like painters creating a painting: that it involves first committing to an outline, and then adding in finer details.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02490

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Fahim Farook

"All are Worth Words: A ViT Backbone for Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2209.12152v3 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" โ€” A simple and general ViT-based architecture for image generation with diffusion models which is capable of unconditional and class-conditional image generation, as well as text-to-image generation tasks.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12152

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Text-to-image generation on MS-โ€ฆ
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mentallyalex@lor.sh

Alex

Imposter Syndrome is very real. I don't know about you guys, but I basically spend a large portion of my time thinking about it.

I think we as a society spend too much time considering and focusing on our transactions. "Am I enough?" "Do I deserve this nice thing?" "Someone liked my toot - will they figure out I don't have everything together?"

It's interesting when you think about it because if I were to ask you if you have those thoughts - most people would agree. "Sure, that happens sometimes" or "Of course, everyone feels like that sometimes..." right?

If we can agree that everyone feels like that, can we then begin to challenge if people have TIME to be that concerned about you? They are busy worried about their own problem and figuring out if you think THEY are enough.

You are enough. You might stumble, you might need to learn more. But that's okay. That's life. We're all out here doing our best. Some of us seem to be doing better or worse than you - but trust me, that is just the public facade.

Be kinder to yourself. You deserve it.

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