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#models

michabbb
6 hours ago

#AI proxy: fostering a more open ecosystem

The Braintrust AI proxy offers a unified way to access the world's leading AI #models through a single #API, including models from #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #LLaMa 2, #Mistral, and more. The benefits of using the proxy include:

Code Simplification: Use a consistent API across different AI providers.
Cost Reduction: The proxy automatically caches results, reusing them when possible.
and more....

https://www.braintrustdata.com/blog/ai-proxy

Die Geburt ihrer gemeinsamen Tochter ist erst wenige Wochen her. Doch nun gehen Fußballstar Neymar und seine bisherige Freundin Bruna Biancardi getrennte Wege. Das gibt das Model einseitig bekannt.#Unterhaltung #Neymar #Promi-Paare #Fußball #Models
Kurz nachdem sie Eltern wurden: Model gibt Trennung von Neymar bekannt
Damon Young
22 hours ago

Just finished: the MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki, piloted by the one and only Char Aznable.

The colours and design are fantastic, though something about the gold plastic didn't take as well to cutting as the usual grey.

A sexy robot for a sexy man.

#gundam #gunpla #ModelBuilder #anime #charAznable #japanimation #japan #models

A wide colour photo of a small toy robot, gold and blue. It's holding out a yellow energy sword. In the background: grass and tree foliage.
Athenenoctua
2 days ago

#EYABig

Coupe géologique sous la place Bellecour à #Lyon pour le croisement des lignes A et D du #métro.
A l'arrière de cette maquette de la Société d'Economie Mixte du Métropolitain de l'Agglomération Lyonnaise (SEMALY), on aperçoit celles des rames du métro des lignes A et D (MPL75 et MPL85).

Ces maquettes sont exposées #ArchivesDeLyon dans l'exposition Comm(e) une ville.

#archives #models #metro #exposition #exhibition #geologie

@exploreyourarchive @archivistodon
@histodon

Une maquette sous une cloche en plexiglas, posée sur un socle gris : elle présente en coupe des couches géologiques (granite, alluvions, arène) sous les caissons des lignes de métro qui se croisent. 
Au-dessus en surface, des arbres et des bâtiments. 
A l'arrière, 2 maquettes de rames de métro orange, également sous plexiglas.
Seit sie vor zwei Jahren die Folgen einer verpatzten Schönheitsbehandlung bei ihr öffentlich gemacht hat, nehmen viele am tragischen Schicksal von Linda Evangelista teil. Schließlich kämpft sie auch noch gegen den Krebs.#Unterhaltung #Models #PlastischeChirurgie
"Möchte keinen mehr atmen hören": Linda Evangelista will mit niemand mehr schlafen

Wind-Panne bei "Masked Singer": Feuerlöscher gibt sich zu erkennen

Die nächste Maske fällt: Model Eva Padberg gibt sich bei "The Masked Singer" zu erkennen. Sie ist es, die im Feuerlöscher-Kostüm steckt. Eine Panne mit den Windmaschinen sorgt unterdessen für viel Wirbel.#Unterhaltung #TV #Models
Feuerlöscher und Kiwi: Panne bei "Masked Singer" - Promi versehentlich enttarnt

Die nächste Maske fällt: Model Eva Padberg gibt sich bei "The Masked Singer" zu erkennen. Sie ist es, die im Feuerlöscher-Kostüm steckt. Eine Panne mit den Windmaschinen sorgt unterdessen für viel Wirbel.#Unterhaltung #TV #Models
Wind-Panne bei "Masked Singer": Feuerlöscher gibt sich zu erkennen
Knowledge Zone
4 days ago

Even without #Brains, #Jellyfish learn from their mistakes : Pop Sci

When It Comes to #AI #Models, Bigger Isn’t Always Better : Sci Am

Two #Fascinating Properties of the #Fibonacci #Sequence : Medium

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Der Rock-Sänger und das ehemalige Model sollen sich 1989 in einer New Yorker Diskothek kennengelernt haben. Daraufhin soll Axl Rose Sheila Kennedy mit auf sein Hotelzimmer genommen haben. Kennedy wirft ihm vor, sie dort vergewaltigt zu haben.#Newsteam #Vergewaltigung #NewYorkCity #Models #Rose #Axl #texttospeech #AxlRose #SheilaKennedy #AxlRoseSheilaKennedy #GunsNRoses #Musik
Axl Rose: Frau verklagt Guns N‘ Roses-Frontmann – Vorwurf der Vergewaltigung

#StableDiffusion is amazing! Searching for #models, combining them, working on the prompt and enjoying the results makes so much fun. Definitely a tool to keep!

Hamish The PolarBear
1 week ago

Streaming resumes tonight! Tonight and tomorrow I will be painting the miniatures from the game Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps.

watch.thepolarbear.co.uk

#TableTop #Miniatures #AnotherGloriousDayInTheCorps #Painting #Models #Owncast #Aliens

Berlintuesday_Studio
2 weeks ago
wargame models. a set of five female gunslingers. All carry guns. Four are wearing dresses of chech, muted brown, green and blue.
wargame model. Female gunslinger. She wears a mid-brown hat, soft green shirt and a tan and muted-red check dress. She carries a six-shooter gun.
wargame model. Female gunslinger. She wears a light-tan hat, red undershirt, mid-brown waistcoat, blue trousers and knee-high black boots. She has a holstered gun on one hip and holds a shotgun.
JMLR
2 weeks ago

'Augmented Transfer Regression Learning with Semi-non-parametric Nuisance Models', by Molei Liu, Yi Zhang, Katherine P. Liao, Tianxi Cai.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-0700.html

#regression #nonparametric #models

Iulia Feroli
2 weeks ago

Building on this, it can be really easy to import a thrid party #NLP model from #huggingface and run stuff like #sentimentanalysis or #embeddings for #semanticsearch.

#elasticsearch #python #models #ML

Gabriel Dusil
2 weeks ago
JMLR
2 weeks ago

'Universal Approximation Property of Invertible Neural Networks', by Isao Ishikawa, Takeshi Teshima, Koichi Tojo, Kenta Oono, Masahiro Ikeda, Masashi Sugiyama.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-0384.html

#diffeomorphisms #models #generative

Legally Abs :sheher:
2 weeks ago

Starting on some necromunda with my partners and friends. I of course immediately gravitated to 'actually just a chaos cult' so here's all my traitor guard models, still WIP. Once my new pin vise arrives I'll finish my demagouge and maybe do individual pics

#necromunda #warhammer #warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity #models #chaos #wip

A bunch of warhammer 40k traitor guard models. Unpainted, but mostly assembled. One is missing an arm
Leni Klum ist bereits seit vier Jahren mit ihrem Freund Aris Rachevsky zusammen. Zum Jahrestag teilt sie jetzt gleich mehrere Fotos auf ihrem Instagram-Account. Zudem richtet sich das Model mit einer Liebeserklärung an ihren Partner.#Unterhaltung #HeidiKlum #Promi-Paare #Models #Liebesleben
Zum vierten Jahrestag: Leni Klum gibt Einblicke in ihr Liebesleben
Bearmine
2 weeks ago

Spent the weekend putting the Voyager together. It’s made to take a lighting kit but I don’t feel like dealing with that hassle, so the plan is to just prime and paint the whole thing.

#Models #Miniatures #StarTrek #Voyager

JMLR
3 weeks ago

'Sparse Markov Models for High-dimensional Inference', by Guilherme Ost, Daniel Y. Takahashi.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-0266.html

#markov #sparse #models

Supermodel Naomi Campbell weiß auch noch mit 53 Jahren, wie man den perfekten Stich landet. Für eine neue Kampagne von Designer Alexander Wang posiert sie nahezu hüllenlos - wären da nicht diese vielen kleinen Details, die den Fotos eine mysteriöse A…#Unterhaltung #Models #Mode
Nackt, Nieten, Naomi: Campbell sticht sie alle aus
Gabriel Dusil
1 month ago

Model: Monika Panáková
Occupation: Mother and Entrepreneur
Backdrop: Fürstenberg Gardens
City, Country: Prague, Czechia
Post: 4/6

#Nude #Nudes #Lingerie #Naked #Photography #Playboy #Beautiful #Sexy #Canon #SexyWomen #Women #Model #Models #Gorgeous

http://gabrieldusil.com/2023/11/01/photoshoot-151-prague-monika-panakova/

Gabriel Dusil
1 month ago

Model: Angelica
Nationality: Ukrainian
Occupation: Professional Model
City: Dubai, UAE
Location: Dubai International Financial Center
Post: 4/6

#Nude #Nudes #Lingerie #Naked #Photography #Playboy #Beautiful #Sexy #Canon #SexyWomen #Women #Model #Models

http://gabrieldusil.com/2023/10/31/photoshoot-150-dubai-angelica/

Said Faz :mastodon:
1 month ago

Leider konnte ich gestern mein neues Model 3 nicht in Empfang nehmen... der Scheibenwischerknopf am Lenkrad war defekt 😏 die Reparatur des Lenkrads wird wohl eine Woche dauern 🙄.

bin überhaupt nicht traurig...in der Zwischenzeit habe ich ein Model S PLAID bekommen 😬😬😬😬

#tesla #models #plaid #eauto

Model S Plaid
Berlintuesday_Studio
1 month ago

Some recently-finished stuff - Frostgrave Barbarians, Saint Patrick and a Spec-Ops agent.

#wargames #tabletopgaming #paintingwargames #berlintuesday #painted #cyberpunk #cpmodels #lucideye #northstar #models #miniatures #fantasy

wargame model. A barbarian, balb with a bushy black beard. He wears a mostly blue top and ox-blood red trousers, He carries a small crossbow.
wargame model. A barbarian. He wears a horned hat with off-white fur around the edges. He has a brown fur cloak around his neck, a green long-shirt, a little bit of a red loincloth can be seen. Brown fur-topped boots. He holds a large curved axe.
wargame model. Saint Patrick. A bearded wizard-like figure in mid-blue and brown robes and green cloak, holds one arm out. In his other hand, he holds a wood staff pointed to the ground. At his feet are a number of intertwined writing snakes in different colours.
wargame model. A sci-fi or cyberpunk special operations agent. She stands read with a snubbed-blaster gun in one hand. She wears a full-body suit of light grey-blue, and gradient purple face visor and a brown torso vest that has a diagonal double yellow stripe to it.
Knowledge Zone
1 month ago

This Tiny #Parasitic #Wasp Can Drill Through #Plastic : NY Times

How do #Climate #Models work? : Misc

When #Burnout Is a Sign You Should Leave Your #Job : HBR

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Ed Rogers
1 month ago

It's a hobby horse of mine, but I think the biggest marginal advantage for training #models in #ML right now is improving the quality of training data.

BERT showed us that, with clever training targets (MLM + NSP), we can use totally unlabeled data for self-supervised learning. So the entire internet can be your training set! Sounds perfect for massive, data-hungry #transformers

But scraping blindly has been limiting model performance.

(3/5)

Gustav Markkula
1 month ago

More modelling cross-fertilisation please!

Models of human cognition and behaviour in the applied sciences often lack a foundation in theory from cognitive science. Conversely, much fundamental human modelling research is not being applied in the real world. Connecting the two perspectives can bring great value on both ends.

I am therefore very happy to be joining the editorial board of Computational Brain & Behavior - already a great journal for rigorous cognitive modelling - specifically to advocate for increased fundamental-applied connections.

Do you think your modelling research is of interest from both fundamental and applied perspectives? Consider sending it to CB&B! And don't hesitate to reach out with any questions.

https://www.springer.com/journal/42113

#cognition #behaviour #models #science #appliedscience

JW prince of CPH
1 month ago

Minibricks does such utterly amazing projects & this is one of the insanerer 🤯 https://youtu.be/O97eKTbEwX4

#maker #miniatures #3Dprinting #painting #models #resin #diorama @3dprinting

#Gays are #thirsting over #NFL #star #NickBosa in #KimK’s new #underwear #ad, but let’s not forget his #homophobic #past.

The gays are thirsting over the trio of athletes starring in the first male ad campaign for Kim Kardashian’s shapewear clothing line, Skims.

There’s just one problem. One of the #models has a very #problematic #Socialmedia #past!

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Advertising #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia

https://www.queerty.com/gays-are-thirsting-over-nfl-star-nick-bosa-in-kim-ks-new-underwear-ad-but-lets-not-forget-his-homophobic-past-20231023

Stamets™ (Dying)
1 month ago

Well. That's the past couple hours gone by and a couple new models to add to the collection. I bought the foam models of the Bird of Prey and the Enterprise before Bella got sick and nearly bankrupted me. Same with the small TOS Enterprise and the Borg cube.

#StarTrek #Shipyard #Models #BirdOfPrey #Enterprise #Discovery #Borg

Tim Ford
1 month ago

My latest paint job! This anime waifu is by Limbo Division 209 from New Zealand. I bought it from Volks in Akihabara, which has international pieces from Ukraine, Italy, Spain and more.

I dislike when GW or Malifaux, etc. put women in boob plate or heels, but when a mini leans into sexy, I am fine with it. What can I say. I like titty too. I'M NOT MADE OF STONE.

also this might be my best paint job to date. Especially proud of my freehand painted skull emblem.

#miniatures
#painting
#models

A hand-painted miniature by Limbo Division 209 - she is a big tittied, big booty gunslinger with cyberpunk arms, short shorts, a huge rifle on her back, a pistol in hand and a cowboy hat and man with no name style poncho. this view is from the front.
A hand-painted miniature by Limbo Division 209 - she is a big tittied, big booty gunslinger with cyberpunk arms, short shorts, a huge rifle on her back, a pistol in hand and a cowboy hat and man with no name style poncho. this view is from the back.
An unpainted, assembled miniature by Limbo Division 209 - she is a big tittied, big booty gunslinger with cyberpunk arms, short shorts, a huge rifle on her back, a pistol in hand and a cowboy hat and man with no name style poncho. this view is from the front.
Artwork for a miniature by Limbo Division 209 - she is a big tittied, big booty gunslinger with cyberpunk arms, short shorts, a huge rifle on her back, a pistol in hand and a cowboy hat and man with no name style poncho. this view is from the front.
beSpacific
1 month ago

How #WashingtonPost uncovered #sources that make #AIchatbots sound so smart. To start, we pursued access to #Google’s #ColossalCleanedCrawledCorpus or #C4 dataset that encapsulates the vast web sources #training #artificialintelligence #models. C4 is a dataset created by applying a set of filters to a single snapshot of #CommonCrawl. Allen Institute extracted all 15.7M domains, shared them w us. Navigating such a vast dataset, however, presented its own set of challenges. https://www.storybench.org/how-the-washington-post-uncovered-the-sources-that-make-ai-chatbots-sound-so-smart/

clint verdonschot
1 month ago

excellent. down to the keywords, pure excellence.

#theory #nuance #models #fuck

First page of the paper "Fuck Nuance" (Healy 2017):

Abstract:
Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Although often demanded and superficially attractive, nuance inhibits the abstraction on which good theory depends. | describe three “nuance traps” common in sociology and show why they should be avoided on grounds of principle, aesthetics, and strategy. The argument is made without prejudice to the substantive heterogeneity of the discipline.

Keywords:
theory, nuance, models, fuck

Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Sociologists typically use nuance as a term of praise. Almost without exception, when nuance is mentioned it is because someone is asking for more of it. I argue that, for the problems facing sociology at present, demanding ‘more nuance typically obstructs the development of theory that is intellectually interesting, empirically generative, or practically successful...

@Dr_Muesli

Ouch !

That is complex.
Blender can also be used to #convert #models

Michael Piotrowski
2 months ago

Today in History and Theory of #DigitalHumanities, @fabianmoss is talking about #corpora and #models!

Fabian Moss standing next to a blackboard, giving a talk.
damian entwistle
2 months ago

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Wallace and Gromit exhibition at M Shed, Bristol.

#WallaceAndGromit #CurseOfTheWereRabbit #MShed #bristol #exhibition #models #StopAnimation

a scene set form the Wallace and Gromit movie. In the basement, a weird contraption of Wallce's invention. Wallace in chair, excited, and Gromit looking bemused.
Colin Purrington
2 months ago

Good news: #iNaturalist upgraded last night to include "Geomodel," so now you'll see "Expected Nearby" instead of "Seen Nearby." All the changes are detailed on its blog, but I especially enjoyed reading the section titled, "Future direction: Surfacing unusual observations." Now there's a way to automatically bin observations that deserve scrutiny for range expansion and misidentification. Awesome work. #nature #identification #CitizenScience #biology #photography #biogeography #software #maps #models
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/84677-introducing-the-inaturalist-geomodel

@thisnorthernboy makes sense as otherwise they'd undermine the original licensor (in this case you) since unlike a physical media (i.e. DVD) the license isn't tied to a copy-protected physical object...

And yes I do think that in the modern ahe of #IndieDevs and #spechalization that makes total sense - just like any other #artist doing #models, #textures or even #mapping...

Because current technology stacks do require #spechalists and a lot of people do spechalize in said arts...

WXFanatic
2 months ago

As eyes are focused on Nova Scotia and Bermuda in the Atlantic, long range ECMWF models are indicating a potential ramping up of severe weather later next week.

The images attached show a trough sweeping through the plains by Friday or Saturday of next week (September 22nd or 23rd). (Alt text omitted)

Exact timing is to be determined, of course.

Given the right conditions, this can lead to the development of severe thunderstorms and will need to be monitored.

#Weather #WX #Models #ECMWF

Alan Kotok
2 months ago

I.T. systems company Fujitsu Ltd. is providing artificial intelligence model generation and fairness assessment software as open-source projects hosted by the Linux Foundation.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45211

#News #Press #Science #Business #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Models #Algorithm #OpenSource #Software #Collaboration #Bias #Fairness #Engineering #ComputerScience #Linux #Japan #Europe

Andy Warburton ❌❌❌
2 months ago

I think I might have gone a little overboard with the grunge 😂 #starwars #gonk #models #3dprinting #3dprinted #scifi

A very grungy gonk
Your Autistic Life
3 months ago

On the topic of people looking like models...

I don't look like a model myself. I look more like some sort of unholy union of Wilford Brimley (RIP), Santa Claus, and... I don't know... a bearded guy younger, and a bit slimmer than the both of them. (I still got a gut, though.)

So when someone who looks like a model likes me, I go "dafuq???" I'll also say that none of my partners looked like models, yet they were absolutely ravishing to me.

Generally, I prefer people who don't look like models. I'm quite fine with imperfections, wrinkles, scars, guts, etc.

#dating #models

Karthik Srinivasan
3 months ago

A somewhat contrived question. I want to know if we can generalize or extend the idea of model complexity used in machine learning, statistical learning theory, and deep nets. Alternately, what are its limits? (Indirectly, I want to tease apart what either “model” or “complexity” means in this worldview. They do not seem to be “models” that one uses in science typically nor their measure of complexity seem to line up with any scientific model).

In ML, we typically use, “the number of free parameters” as proxy for model complexity, i.e., weights and biases etc., then penalize for over-parameterization with some information criteria (AIC, BIC etc., etc.,), or regularize (with dropout etc.,) to arrive at bias-variance tradeoff curves. Then there is the double descent (Belkin et al.,) for deep-nets that seems to buck the trend of standard ML (kernel) methods.

My question: if we are to turn this approach to scientific models, how can we evaluate their complexity in the same machine learning framework (yes, I know this sounds bizarre)?

For example, take any simple physics model, as explanatory as it is, it is also predictive. If I were to treat it as a purely predictive model, and try to plot the bias-variance curve, what would constitute its complexity (x-axis), and where/when does its error start going up (y-axis, so the model breaks)? If we can’t do this ML-ification of a simple physics model, why not?

Corollary: Take some nonlinear dynamical system that is the model of some physical phenomenon, how do you define its model complexity? (Are the three parameters of a Lorentz attractor the model complexity of the system in ML parlance?)

#MachineLearning #Science #Models #ModelComplexity #BiasVariance

Ding Dang Trevor Flowers
3 months ago

Ok, friends. Five tiny TRS-80 Model III models are in the shop!
🎉
This is a bit of a trial to see if anyone digs this sort of work. If not, it's entirely possible that these will be the only five I make so... perhaps a limited series?
😸
If you have questions then feel free to ask them in the thread or via DM. If you have retro PC nerd friends then feel free to send them my way.

#retrocomputing #trs80 #models #miniatures #salesDontYaKnow
https://store.transmutable.com/l/tiny-model-3

A 1:6 scale model of a PC from the 80s
A 1:6 scale model of a PC from the 80s
A 1:6 scale model of a PC from the 80s
Giulio
3 months ago

#Language #models. For example, in #NLP, when #training recurrent #neural #networks, it is useful to constraint the transition #matrix to be #unitary. The unitary matrix keeps the #gradient #norm unchanged, and the network is able to learn long-range dependencies. Unitary matrices form a #smooth #Riemannian #manifold, and Riemannian #optimization can be easily applied to them.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.02819

The Spaceshipper 🚀
3 months ago

La Femme du cosmonaute (The Astronaut's Wife, 1998): Models by Bill Pearson.
#scifi #french #models #miniatures

GPT4All: Collection of code and data to make LLMs accessible to programmers
https://gpt4all.io/index.html
#programmign #chatgpt #models #code #llm #ai #+

Retro Librarian
4 months ago

Game Shows this morning?
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GSN School of Hand Gestures promo 1997
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#GameShows #Sleightofhand #models #GameshowNewtwork #PriceIsright #VannaWhite #TPIR #Tvshows #Television

Alex Kidman
4 months ago

A little travel/tourism writing (and video!) from me as I check out the frankly spectacular Kaiyodo Hobby Land in Kadoma, Osaka.

#Japan #Gaming #Anime #Models #Tourism #Godzilla

https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2023/08/kaiyodo-hobby-land-a-love-letter-to-everything-from-anime-to-video-games.html

Atlas Obscura
4 months ago
For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying its dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder.
The Bizarre True Story of Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum
Berlintuesday_Studio
4 months ago

Couple of #blackscorpionminis Gunslingers from a set I recently finished. Really need to get used to posting here more often.
#wargames #oldwest #tabletopgaming #berlintuesday #painted #models #miniatures

Wargame miniature. A female old west gunslinger, wearing long tan coat, brown hat and jeans. Holding two guns to the sky.
Wargame miniature. A female old west gunslinger, wearing long tan coat, brown hat and jeans. Holding two guns to the sky.
Wargame miniature. A female old west gunslinger, wearing long black coat, black hat and jeans. Holding one gun to the sky.
Wargame miniature. A female old west gunslinger, wearing long black coat, black hat and jeans. Holding one gun to the sky.

#Financial #models on #climate #risk ‘implausible’, say actuaries.

Some models were likely to have “limited use as they do not adequately communicate the level of risk we are likely to face if we fail to decarbonise quickly enough,” the paper released on Tuesday said. 

It also found that significant factors were sometimes missing from models.

For example, an assessment of global gross domestic product loss in a so-called “hothouse” world of 3C higher temperatures by a group of 114 central banks and financial supervisors, known as the Network for Greening the Financial System, did not include “impacts related to #extreme #weather, #sea-#level #rise or wider societal impacts from #migration or #conflict”.

As a result of such overly “benign” models, large financial institutions had reported that they would suffer minimal economic impacts if the world warmed by significantly more than 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels, it said.

https://www.ft.com/content/a5027391-41a4-4e21-a72d-f8189d6a7b71

In #California, lawmakers are expected to vote in coming months on a bill that would require big companies doing business in the state to #report the full #scope of their #emissions

Danny Boling 🌈 ☮️
4 months ago

"...the models and the racy musical performances over the weekend raised questions from #LGBTQ+ advocates about what criteria #DefenseSecretary #LloydAustin is using to stop some performances associated with the #gay community while allowing other #provocative acts."

Hypocrisy at its finest. Why are military guys and conservatives always such big snowflakes?

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/07/17/base-air-show-featuring-scantily-clad-models-raises-questions-about-justification-drag-show-ban.html
Base #AirShow Featuring Scantily Clad #Models Raises Questions About Justification for #Drag Show #Ban

#IAmDB

Nadiah Kristensen
5 months ago

Today we’re learning more about #sloppy #models with Matthew Adams from #UQ. We’re just about to get #Bayesian with it

Matthew standing in front of his slides
Soh Kam Yung
5 months ago

"The Avicii Arena in Stockholm is more than just the world’s largest spherical building. It is also the center of the world’s largest scale model of our solar system. The Sweden Solar System stretches north beyond the Arctic Circle, all the way to Kiruna, the country’s fledgling spaceport."

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/sweden-solar-system/

#Models #SolarSystem #Sweden

Poisoning the well: „#Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. At a high level, Glaze works by understanding the #AI #models that are training on human #art, and using machine learning algorithms, computing a set of minimal changes to artworks, such that it appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style.“ https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html

elbast
5 months ago

@web
Für diejenigen, welche die Antwort wissen wollen, ohne auf derstandard.at #getrackt zu werden:
Weil von #Tesla / #TeslaCars zukünftig keine #Rechtslenker der Serien #ModelS und #ModelX produziert werden und man mit der langen Zange an die Automaten auf der Beifahrerseite kommt.
#fucktracking #DerStandardAT

Damon Young
5 months ago

Yesterday’s fun with our eldest: building Darilbalde from “The Witch from Mercury”

A fantastic-looking Gundam a few nice details: e.g. stickers under transparent plastic, a two-tone spear, and feet that can become grappling hooks.

#gundam #gunpla #anime #theWitchFromMercury #model #models #japan

A colour photograph of a plastic humanoid model. The model is burgundy with white detailing, and is standing on and in front of pale tan cardboard.
A close-up colour photograph of a plastic humanoid model. The model is burgundy with white detailing, and is standing on and in front of pale tan cardboard.
Emery Brooks ✒️📚
5 months ago

Revised #introduction time since my first one was a good example of what meh would look like if it were a lump in the pond.

I enjoy #writing, #reading, building #models, being a bit weird, & sending good will.

As it says in my bio, I am indeed mattressed, so that's neat.

I'll follow anyone interested in being friends as long as the account isn't a vessel of hate speech and general negativity. Life is already hard enough without having to deal with that.

Happy to meet you, let's be friends.

Adam S. Smith
5 months ago

New on the Animal Toy Blog. Penguins of the World (Colorata): https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/penguins-of-the-world-colorata/

"...this Colorata set is a great way to get 12 well-made species of penguins in one purchase!"

#AnimalToyBlog #animals #animal #penguins #penguin #bird #toys #models

A display of 14 penguin toys representing an array of species.
Steve Easterbrook
5 months ago

My book now has a cover! "Computing the Climate: How we know what we know about climate change".
Pre-order your copy here: https://www.cambridge.org/9781107589926
#Climate #ClimateChange #Models

Book cover for the book "Computing the Climate: How we know what we know about climate change" by Steve M. Easterbrook. The image on the cover is a sculpture of the globe, in a metallic material, with the surface as a network of lines like street maps.

@ratgrrl @jeffjarvis This is exactly what #large #language #models do: they are solely trained to emulate convincing form, with no concern about the content

#syntax , not #semantics

The Spaceshipper 🚀
6 months ago

The Empire Strikes Back was released 43 years ago today. A perfect day to highlight a Tauntaun.

Illustration of the stop-motion set by Nilo Rodis-Jamero.
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Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett and Mike Pangrazio on the same Hoth miniature set.

#starwars #scifi #stopmotion #miniatures #models #ESB #ILM

Alan Kotok
6 months ago

$60M Challenge Seeks Biomarkers, Models to Counter Aging Stress

A new #challenge #competition seeks #biomarkers, #models, and clinical tests of the factors behind responses to #stress conditions in human #aging that can stave off #frailty or death.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44806

#News #Science #NotForProfit #Health #Longevity #Resilience #Disease #Falls #ClinicalTrials #Proposals #Deadline #Timetable

Older cyclist on a bicycle path

📷 I made this 35-picture grid for a postcard in SF in 2000. It was DIY PR, trying to get someone's attention who might give me a job, buy prints—something. I was skint and about to lose my rent-controlled flat.

The images were made in SF and Marin between 1990 and 2000. All models are amateurs.

The images are shown full frame. No cropping.

#models #photography #PortfolioDay #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #BlackAndWhite #photo #Photography #monotone #SanFrancisco #FediversalPictures

a 7 x 5 grid with white background of 35 pictures.
Adam Lein
7 months ago

#Introductions I’ve started learning lots about #FOSS and #Linux a few years ago and I love it even as an ex #Microsoft #MVP.
My day job is in #Web #Design, #GraphicDesign, and #EnvironmentalDesign, while I also do some work in #UXDesign, as well as part-time #TechJournalism at #Pocketnow.
Another part-time job is #Photography where I often shoot #Fashion shows, #CommercialModels, #Models, #Events, and #Weddings.

Stephen
7 months ago

The May issue of Vogue has five disabled cover stars. Editor, Edward Enniful, who is himself disabled, has said that working on the issue was one of the proudest moments of his career.

#GoodNews #Disability #Representation #Magazine #Fashion #Models #Diversity #Accessibility

https://www.vogue.co.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65336437

brunorobert
8 months ago

@shanselman the more power you already have, the more#AI can increase that power.

it’s similar to the industrial revolution. If you have the money to own factories (train Large #ML #models ), you can reduce _your_ costs and increase _your_ profits.

Since money is a 0-sum system, someone (or many people) are losing out… At least with our current social system.

Ruben Verweij
10 months ago

I'm #newhere, time for an #introduction
💼 I'm a #researcher #AirQuality at the 🇳🇱 Nat. Inst. for #PublicHealth and the #Environment (RIVM). I work on #models like #OPS & #EMEP
🎓 I studied #Physics and wrote a PhD thesis on #colloids in the #SoftMatter group of Daniela Kraft in Leiden
🌳 I like #permaculture and grow #organic food in my #garden, I dream of having my own #FoodForest one day
💡 My hobbies include #reading #jazz #guitar #science #programming #drawing #photography #cloudspotting

Andrew Wilcox 🛖
11 months ago

The Hidden Shed - "From the outside it looks like one of the net drying sheds in Hastings, black lap board and two windows. Very low-key, and you can hardly see it from the house." Workshop/Studio - Oxfordshire #shedoftheyear owned by Nick Alderson https://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?shareshed=8076 #Ark #models #tiki

Reality 2.0 Podcast
11 months ago

In case you missed it, here’s that Google research paper @eze_lanza mentioned in our most recent episode: “Attention is All You Need” https://research.google/pubs/pub46201/ #ai #models #transformer #chatgpt

A month ago I became #NewOnMastodon, still learning, but liking it more and more here.

As an #EarthSystem scientist I am fascinated about the #CarbonCycle, especially in the #ocean and how we quantify it with Earth System #models in past, present, and future climates.

#ClimateChange is essentially a #CO2 problem. It is virtually impossible to be a #ClimateScientist without becoming deeply concerned about #ClimateEmergency.

Watch this space and follow #ilyinaScience for updates.

che chou :breadified:
1 year ago

am i addicted to imaginary dioramas and non-existent figurines doing nonsensical repairs to exotic machines?

why yes, yes i am. 😬

here's a collection of images:

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMbI0nvKfS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#MastoArt #DigitalArt #Scifi #Dioramas #Models #MidJourney

model diorama of two mechanics repairing a sci-fi vehicle.
The Spaceshipper 🚀
1 year ago

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): Making the drydock scene
#startrek #models #miniatures #scifi #VFX

J. Steven York
1 year ago

#Introduction: Published #writer since 1978. Mostly #fiction these days, lots of it short, though new novels coming. #Mystery #Crime #SciFi #Fantasy #CrossGenre I'm a #maker, #models, #rockets, dioramas. Collector of #toys, #ActionFigures, #Americana. Love #Robots and #Rockets. Speak openly about my #anxiety issues. Neurodivergent. Like my #Democracy intact and advocate for #lgbtq rights, women, people of color. Married to #cozymystery writer #ChristyFifield, AKA #ChristinaFYork. #books #ebooks

Drupad
1 year ago

#Introduction to #Mastodon community on new instance!

I'm an #academic interested in #metabolomics #chemometrics and #diseases. My group focuses on decoding #smell of #diseases and #scent in general. We work with #clinicians across the globe to build predictive #models. We are based in #Manchester, #UK.

If you are interested in #scientific #research, #academia, #coffee or #cricket, come say hi! Also, if you have any #tips and #tricks to find cool stuff on here, please #educate me!

Justin Wilkins
1 year ago

Wikipedia defines #Pharmacometrics (#PMx) as a field of study of the methodology and application of #models for disease and pharmacological measurement. It applies mathematical models of #biology, #pharmacology, #disease, and #physiology to describe and quantify interactions between #xenobiotics (drugs) and patients (human and non-human), including both beneficial and adverse effects.

Adam
1 year ago

#Introductions I’ve started learning lots about #FOSS and #Linux a few years ago and I love it even as an ex #Microsoft #MVP.
My day job is in #Web #Design, #GraphicDesign, and #EnvironmentalDesign, while I also do some work in #UXDesign, as well as part-time #TechJournalism at #Pocketnow.
Another part-time job is #Photography where I often shoot #Fashion shows, #CommercialModels, #Models, #Events, and #Weddings.

Howard Salis
1 year ago

Hello! My #SynBio & #MetabolicEng lab at #PennState focuses on rationally engineering microbial organisms (#bacteria, #yeast, #algae) using predictive #models & #design algorithms. Our models predict transcription rates, translation rates, mRNA decay rates, & more. Our #algorithms #design genetic systems from high-level specs, including removing cryptic/undesired elements. We've engineered explosive-sensing bacteria, multi-enzyme pathways, cross-species genetic circuits, & more. #introduction

Rob Moss
1 year ago

A brief #introduction: I'm a #computational biologist working in #epidemiology.

I use #publichealth #data and #mathematical #models to #forecast and mitigate the impact of #infectious #disease #epidemics, publishing #opensource software and promoting #openscience and #reproducibleresearch as I go. I consider myself an #RSE.

Based in #Melbourne, #Australia. I play #icehockey and #boardgames. Very much a #dog person.

Nadiah Kristensen
1 year ago

My #introduction keywords: #academic #evolution #cooperation #ecology

I'm a #postdoc specialising in evolutionary and ecological modelling at #NUS #Singapore currently working on #theoretical #models for the evolution of cooperation, in collaboration with Hisashi Ohtsuki, at #SOKENDAI, #Japan.

Previous work: estimating undetected #extinctions, #qualitativemodelling, migratory #phenology, #foodweb #modelling, local #adaptation, #carryover effects, #dispersal.

My blog https://nadiah.org/