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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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Jamie, “The Jovial Cynic”

A throwback to my favorite place in the world, , Germany, in 2013.

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Fahim Farook

A few days ago, I switched over to using the Microsoft Edge browser since it had a few nifty features that I really liked — like the sidebar tools, the ability to “sleep” unused tabs, the Bing search integration with chat (I was testing it out) and so on …

I was happy with things till yesterday when I started noticing subtle issues:

1. Text copied from Edge and pasted into an edit box in macOS behaved strangely. This was rather weird because I’d try to delete (rather than backspace) using the “fn” key and it would go in the opposite direction for some text. Perhaps some leftover invisible encoding?

2. Sometimes you couldn’t click on elements around the edge of the browser window. This one was again weird because the issue would go away if you restarted the browser but over time would re-appear.

I finally had enough of it and switched back to Firefox today 😛

But …. After so many years of using Google as my default search engine, I switched to Bing since I like the Bing results better and I do want to keep testing the Bing Chat feature …

#Browser #Edge #Microsoft #Firefox #Search
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Fahim Farook

"Interactive Cartoonization with Controllable Perceptual Factors. (arXiv:2212.09555v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A model capable of converting input images to cartoons where you have the ability to control the texture and color of the final image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09555

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jferg@flyovercountry.social

justin ferguson

Edited 2 years ago

Well, if anyone knows of a full remote role for a Sr. Full Stack Engineer with significant AppSec experience, hit me up. Got laid off today. Sigh.

Resume is at https://jferg.dev/.

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Matthew Martin

One of my team members is now on the job market. He's looking for a job doing Web Accessibility work (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/skipkeats/?original_referer=

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http://www.medias-in-res.net/portfolio/index.php

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Michał Górny gentoo

Edited 2 years ago
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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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Alex Ball

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

I’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])" — 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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Fahim Farook

"A Prompt Log Analysis of Text-to-Image Generation Systems. (arXiv:2303.04587v1 [cs.HC])" — 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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"Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition. (arXiv:2303.04291v1 [eess.IV])" — 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])" — 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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Janik

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

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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 it’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 Ashton Farook

Sea Turtle

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

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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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 – 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. 🤣 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. 😂 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. It’s all about learning something, right? Right? I mean, that’s why I do these tutorials. Right? 🤣 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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Fahim Farook

"Neural Style Transfer for Vector Graphics. (arXiv:2303.03405v1 [cs.CV])" — 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])" — Using diffusion models to create visual layouts as part of graphics design.

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

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Jerome G

I had a peaceful trip and was able to spend a good amount of time with some of the birds. Here’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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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 🤞🏻

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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