Glenn Seaborg’s team at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in California discovered over 10 chemical elements. He was said to be the only person whose address could be written only with the names of ‘their’ elements: Seaborgium, Lawrencium, Berkelium, Californium, Americium.

Paid a visit to Betty's Neck in Lakeville today.

Right as I got there, this Northern Harrier was hunting the field near the Peach Barn, and spent a good 10 minutes flying around looking (and finding) prey. My autofocus was struggling a bit to keep up with him, but I got a few good shots.

#birds #wildlife #birdphotography #nature #wildmassachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #bettysneck #lakeville #massachusetts #massachusettswildlife

In 1943, the Allies had a plan to inject female sex hormones into Hitler’s food so that he’d grow breasts and his moustache would fall out.

Phantom of the Opurra

#SilentSunday

Storytelling www.londondreamtime.com/calendar

I walked a path through the snow. I was followed.

#alpacas. #Vermont

There is a waste-clearance company in Brighton called ‘Lord of the Bins’ with the slogan ‘One ring to remove it all’.

So … DOSBox …

On Friday, once work was done, I kind of started thinking about “SimLife”.

I’d posted about it a week or two ago and I thought it might be fun to try it out again and see if it was as bad as I remembered.

I went and installed DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) but discovered that Boxer (http://boxerapp.com/) no longer worked for my version of macOS since it has not been updated in ages — shows how long it’s been since I tried DOSBox I guess 😛

That sent me down all sorts of byways and alleyways trying out various alternatives to Boxer and even setting up MS-DOS 6.22 on a VM but I eventually came back to DOSBox since it was the easiest/simplest way to get going.

I tried out “SimLife” again and was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually kind of liked the game. I probably hadn’t tried out the tutorial back in the day and probably just tried clicking around and it’s the kind of game where you really need to know the mechanics. So I might try playing it again over the next few weeks …

But that opening graphic, so gorgeous even for that time period — just so lovely 🙂

#Games #DOS #Memories #Sim #History
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Anyone have good leads on Mid-Senior level iOS roles?

A good friend and former coworker is looking for a new job. They've been working with SwiftUI a lot lately, but really interested in doing anything with iOS. I can share more detail and a shining reference on request!

Does anybody remember the classic “Star Trek” game from the 70’s? Or was that way before anybody’s time? 😛

I was playing around with DOSBox (more on that in a separate post) and was reminded of the game suddenly.

I recall playing a version on DOS back in 1990 (or 91) which had color graphics and more graphical controls than “Trek73” or “Super Trek”. The closest one I can find now is “EGA Trek” (see first screenshot) but I’m fairly certain that that wasn’t the one I played because the Main Viewer area in “EGA Trek” cycles through different graphics and I don’t remember that.

Also the game I played had long range and short range scanners which used up energy and that doesn’t seem to be a feature of “EGA Trek”.

Now that I’ve remembered the game, I really want to play that exact version again 😛

I’ve played “EGA Trek”, “VTrek” (second screenshot) and gone through a bunch of newer variations that people created on GitHub. But none of them have the same feel as the game I remember. If anybody knows of the game I’m talking of, please let me know?

I think part of the trouble is that back then they were all called “Star Trek” and that was it. So many variations by so many people.

In fact, I thought the one I liked might have been created in Turbo Pascal (for no reason I could think of) and almost went down another rabbit hole setting up Turbo Pascal just to re-create the game for DOS 😛

Then I realized that if I were to re-create it that I might as well do it in Swift or Flutter so that I can have it avaialbe on more platforms. Will I do it? I don’t know … I guess it depends on how badly I want to play the version I remember again 🙂

#Games #StarTrek #DOS #Memories #History
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#introduction

Hi, I'm Justin. I am a software engineer living in #SanFrancisco's #innerrichmond. I'm married, have two kids, and enjoy spending time with them.

Right now, I am working on personal projects and would like to work someday in #MachineLearning or #VirtualReality #VR. I wish both were more open like the web was in the early 00's.

To keep fit I mostly enjoy #Cycling around #sfbay

I enjoy #3dprinting, #gaming, #SciFi and #GeekCulture #Goth #Cyberpunk.

I've fallen behind on my #MarshMadness 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.

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #photos #photography

Enchanted
By Jennifer Lommers

#trees #mastoart #painting #flowers

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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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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