Hey all! This is a re-introduction. I've moved my hosting to a managed provider, but it means I broke all my follows.

I'm a #HighSchool #Teacher in #Saskatoon #Saskatchewan #Canada. I'm interested in #Photography, #Writing, #Politics and #Technology.

I participate in #NaNoWriMo every year, and sometimes #52Frames photography challenges.

Prior to my current position, I taught in Prince Albert for 19 years.

#educator #skpoli #school #edtech #SaskEdChat

After just a week (I think? I forget now ...) of having this Akkoma sever up, I moved it to a new server today. It all went rather smoothly (except for me forgetting about opening up the firewall and so waiting overnight thinking that the DNS had not propagated 😛)

The new instance seems to be working smoothly and since it has more RAM, I'm hoping to combine my two previous VPS servers into one. Guess we'll see how well that goes ...

Outside Christmas Tree

2022-12-20 day 200 of doing art every day for a year. Woohooooo! 200 days!

(We're going to completely ignore the lack of any obvious power supply for those Christmas tree lights.)

This is another James Julier tutorial. His tutorials are reliably good and well worth doing if you want to get a handle on this type of digital art.

Also, this is the end of the Christmas themed pieces for 2022, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief.

#Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

https://youtu.be/tSCH-0WCiss
A pine tree decorated with Chri…

Christmas Baubles
2022-12-19 day 199 of doing art every day (mostly) for a year.

This is a James Julier tutorial. This tutorial, like all his others, is well done and easy to follow.

#Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

https://youtu.be/PRW_mcPWSxs
A Christmas bauble saying "Merr…

Neon Christmas Tree

2022-12-18 day 198 of doing art every day for a year.

#Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

Today's tutorial is for a neon sign of a Christmas tree in front of a brick wall. The tutorial was good, as usual. And, as usual, I went a bit off-script. Can't quite seem to help myself sometimes.


https://youtu.be/k-g0Xsc-bqc
A digital artwork of a neon sig…

Easter Cutout
2022-12-17 day 197 of doing art every day for a year.

So yes, I am fully aware this is completely out of season. Alas and alack. I wanted to do a cutout, and this seemed like a good tutorial to follow. And it was.

#Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

https://youtu.be/u_Zu5pQ2ZxI
Paper cutout digital artwork of…

Christmas Cutout
2022-12-16 day 196 of doing art every day for a year.

I got behind on posting updates, then I got sick - again - so now I'm really behind on posting. I'll get caught up as quickly as I can.

Meanwhile, here's a now-out-of-season Christmas tree that was rather timely at the time.

As for technique, I followed the tutorial a bit, then went totally rogue. 🤣

#Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

https://youtu.be/H4TBQsnUsDM
Paper cutout digital art of a C…

Drosera is the genus of the sundew plants, and also their name in French and Italian. From the Greek δρόσος, drósos, dew. In Latin books about herbs, the plant was called Ros solis, Dew of the Sun.

Photo taken last summer solstice, for those who now miss sunlight.

#macro #photography #nature #gardening #alttext #alttxt

With the Sun peaking from the far away point of the South Pole and sprinkling some rays on the mountains of the North, let me take to a breathtaking nature view! 🧡

4.5" x 8" oil on board

This was the view on a beautiful morning along the waterfront. It was so peaceful and the pink and purple clouds reflected in the water really caught my eye.

#TheCottageCreative #PugetSound #oilpainting #landscape #landscapePainting #art #artistsonmastodon #artists #ArtMatters #Morning

A late #mosstodon for #PhotoMonday.

#FotoMontag #photography #fotografie

Rainforest vibes from Ontario. These LBMs could be Mycena sp., but we didn't attempt a more rigorous identification.

#MushroomMonday #mushtodon #mosstodon #sporespondence

Great Egrets fighting for fishing rights. Great Egrets have very strict rules about fishing too close to each other, as that might scare the fish away.

This was another surreal evening after the sun went down. Loved the way the light reflected off the clouds and created the beautiful, glassy reflections on the bay waters. Calling this Blue Persuasion. See more HERE: https://hhphotography.pixels.com/featured/blue-persuasion-hh-photography-of-florida.html

#clouds #cloudscape #seascape #photography #bluehour #blue #sunset #fediverse #mastophotography #art #artists #ArtMatters #AYearForArt

sunrise on SF bay #seaducking #sunrise

The white narcissus is the good luck flower for one's career and ambitions. #2023AYearForArt #AYearForArt #nacissus #Gardening #Flowers #GoodLuck
#Art #Artist #IrisRichardsonArtist #ArtCollector #ArtMatters
#mastoart#FreeShipping #GiftIdeas#FediArt #FediGiftShop https://www.pictorem.com/541378/White%20Daffodils%20%20Bunch%20on%20White.html

Port Orchard City Hall, from the marina.

Port Orchard is a small town (Pop. 12k) located on the Kitsap Peninsula WSW across the Puget Sound from Seattle.

#PortOrchard #PugetSound #WashingtonState

Waterfalls are always intriguing and I just rediscovered this old image I took back in 2011 of Elakala Falls in Blackwater State Park in West Virginia. You can see it here: https://www.pictorem.com/685824/Elakala%20Falls%20in%20West%20Virginia.html #AYearForArt #AlmostHeaven #WestVirginia #waterfalls

This #CuratorPrompts #CuratorPrompts133 photo reference was too good to pass up. Thanks almighty maston.art curator! #watercolor #InkDrawing #TraditionalArt #MastoArt

I was going to keep this account free of #MachineLearning stuff, but I keep finding that I find Mastodon's 500 character limit a bit ... umm ... limiting 😛

I already posted this over on the other account as two separate posts but I feel that it would work better as a single post. So here goes ...

I know this certainly is not representative of all scenarios, but the time of coding AI’s isn’t here just yet would be my guess based on a single interaction I had today with a coding "AI" 😛 (I put "AI" in quotes intentionally, there is no "intelligence" involved here ...)

I asked a new coding helper (that I learnt about and installed today) to write me some code to convert from WordPress to another system and it gives me something which say, “Use these two classes which do the grunt work and you’re set” (See screenshot for exact interaction).

So I ask it to give me the code for one of those grunt classes … It spins for a while and fails. So yeah, not quite there in terms of replacing coders yet, maybe?

Of course, I should add the disclaimer that if you did search for the file mentioned in the code (wordpress-importer.php) you will find it in a GitHub repo. It is certainly possible that that code would work if you knew to find the file/library, add it to your project, and get it to all work correctly.

But at the moment, it looks as if what you really get when you use these systems is "glimpses of code" that the system has seen before more so than an intelligent and cohesive answer ...

Of course, as somebody said, "it's hard to make a foolproof system since fools are so ingenious" ... but still, if you call it an "AI", it should be able to do a bit more than give you a partial answer, right?

#MachineLearning #AI #Coding
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