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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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angusm@mastodon.social

Angus McIntyre

I've fallen behind on my posts, so here's Thursday's marsh critter for you you. This is a greater yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca). Probably. The greater yellowlegs actually looks remarkably like the lesser yellowlegs, but the lesser yellowlegs is more closely related to the willet. Try to keep up here.

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Kris

Edited 2 years ago

Enchanted
By Jennifer Lommers

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Laurie

Laurie Ashton Farook

Dark Sky

2023-02-20/21 day 248/249 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I followed a Joel Create tutorial. It’s a bit different from the usual, which is its charm.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/dark-sky/

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #DigitalArt #WomensArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
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Laurie Ashton Farook

Psychoticat

2023-02-18/19 day 246/247 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I loosely followed a Tatyworks tutorial. Emphasis on loosely.

Her tutorial is for a bear. I did one of a cat.

So my quick sketching skills need work and my cat looks a little bit crazy. And yes, I see the things that could be improved, alas. And yes, that is a blep.

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

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Fahim Farook

"Inversion-Based Style Transfer with Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2211.13203v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Accurately transfer the style attributes such as semantics, material, object shape, brushstrokes and colors of an input image to the target image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13203
Code: https://github.com/zyxelsa/InST

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Fahim Farook

"Scaling up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2303.05511v1 [cs.CV])" — Adapting the GAN architecture for generating images via text prompts to work with large datasets, offering faster generation times and higher resolutions.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05511

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Fahim Farook

"Mark My Words: Dangers of Watermarked Images in ImageNet. (arXiv:2303.05498v1 [cs.LG])" — A look at the potential risks of watermarked images present in
ImageNet and their impact on popular Deep Neural Networks (DNN) trained on this dataset.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05498

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Fahim Farook

"3DGen: Triplane Latent Diffusion for Textured Mesh Generation. (arXiv:2303.05371v1 [cs.CV])" — Generating 3D meshes using diffusion models.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05371

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Fahim Farook

"BaDLAD: A Large Multi-Domain Bengali Document Layout Analysis Dataset. (arXiv:2303.05325v1 [cs.CV])" — A dataset to help with Bengali document layout analysis, containing 33,695 human annotated document samples from six domains.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05325
Code: https://github.com/anon-user-for-web/badlad

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"Detecting Images Generated by Diffusers. (arXiv:2303.05275v1 [cs.CV])" — Detecting if given images were generated by diffusion models or not. Appears to be limited to detecting images only if images generated by a particular diffusion model were in the training set.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05275

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"O2RNet: Occluder-Occludee Relational Network for Robust Apple Detection in Clustered Orchard Environments. (arXiv:2303.04884v1 [cs.CV])" — Using deep learning to detect apples in orchards for harvesting.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04884

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Windmill

2023-02-16/17 day 244/245 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 
I followed a Tatyworks tutorial. In this tutorial, Tatiana demonstrated the use of the vanishing point guidelines. (I think. This is why I shouldn’t wait a month to do a write up. Sheesh.) I messed it up and didn’t quite follow the instructions properly, so I should do this again (but using another subject, of course.)
And this demonstrates what I like about her tutorials – I learn how to use the bits and bobs of the app.

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

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Indian Ocean Sunset

2023-02-14/15 day 242/243 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

This is a very basic painting that’s basically me playing with oil brushes and seeing how it would go.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/indian-ocean-sunset/

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #DigitalArt #WomensArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
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jawlrc@mastodon.art

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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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

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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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