Matt Gitzendanner

Amazing day kayaking the Suwanee River today at Big Shoals (yes, this is big for rapids in Florida 😂)!

The trick with Ginnie is to not go on weekends/holidays when it is a VERY different scene 🤣

DDN Lustre

Well ... I'm partial to what we have 😜 Many are probably transferable to any SLURM cluster: docs.rc.ufl.edu/training/HiP...

Kayaking on the Silver River near Ocala Florida.

Woodturning award I won! This was my last year of being in the novice category...😂

Tabling for UFIT Research Computing.

Guess I should dust this account off and start posting...
Some pics to reintroduce myself here. I work at UFIT Research Computing, where I manage the training team, developing HPC & AI training. I love to #kayak and started #woodturning a couple of years ago.

Had an incredible afternoon touring the piper aircraft factory! UCF MAE alum Jonathan Hilton walked us through the entire production process from sheet metal to certified aircraft!

Mushroom and moss at Paynes Prairie

Wet trail while hiking

Beautiful day in #GNV! Family hike at Paynes Prairie St Pk. Trail got so wet we just walked in the water 😅

The scenery at Haw Creek Preserve State Park

It actually did stop raining, and we had a great day paddling at Haw Creek Preserve State Park--one of the few @FLStateParks without road access. Certainly in the flood plain today! #kayaking

Here’s why we fear a dystopian future for Florida’s universities | Column It’s time for all of us to say, “Enough.” No more Newspeak. No more lies. No more censorship. No more indoctrination.

Hardly a surprise that DeSantis allies would react to our AAUP report by shouting "hoax" and "sensational press"—after all, as Afshan Jafar, Emily Houh, Hank Reichman, and I write in today's Tampa Bay Times, a frequent word our interviewees used to describe Florida's current reality is "Orwellian":

Texas Supreme Court Abortion Case is About Power, Not Law Only power and control--not law or logic--can explain the Texas Supreme Court's decision in Kate Cox's abortion case.

The Texas Supreme Court claimed that Kate Cox's doctor didn't say her pregnancy fit the medical exception to its abortion ban and the trial court used a standard other than "reasonable medical judgment"

So imagine my surprise when turned out none of that was true
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I'm never going back to writing code w/o AI...

Me: here's a fairly complicated thing I am trying to put into words...can you code it for me?

AI coder: "That sounds like a very complex task."...but here's the code to do it & sample data to test!
🤯

*Way* easier than searching!

AI-generated image of milking a walnut.

I think this is what it looks like on the farm...

You must be one of the scientists 'paid by the commercial “forestry” industry' they warn about in their post.

Was that warning in their original (deleted) post? Or was it added when they re-posted their "save the suffering trees" nonsense?

A hollow form bowl/vase turned from a log.

A hollow form bowl/vase turned from a log.

A hollow form bowl/vase turned from a log. It has some neat inclusions that I managed to expose without them totally blowing out!

My first attempt at a hollow form turned out nicely. #Woodturning It has some neat inclusions that I managed to expose without them totally blowing out!

Freshly purchased Florida annual state park pass!

Your Thanksgiving reminder that Florida state park passes are currently 50% off 🔥

But Fuyu does need a #botany lesson 😅: "What kind of trees are in the photo?":
The photo features tall trees, specifically pine trees.

And here's a Fuyu 8B response to "Describe this photo":
The image is a breathtaking view of a forest at sunset. The sun is shining through the trees, creating a beautiful orange glow. The trees are reflected in the water, creating a tranquil atmosphere.

Stable Diffusion XL prompt: A National Geographic style photo of a bald cypress swamp. Sunrise lighting. 4k wide format.

In today's Frontiers of AI NVIDIA's Kaleb Smith introduced us to the new NVIDIA AI Foundation Models site where you can play with lots of SOTA models: catalog.ngc.nvidia.com?filters=&ord...

The best part? It's FREE!!

Have fun playing! Here's my SDXL cypress swamp

Image Manipulation in Research Articles - Enago Academy With the advancement in technology, there has been a steep rise in the number of cases involving unacceptable image manipulation in scientific images.

Image Manipulation in Research Articles - Enago Academy
"If the data does not match the author’s conclusion, the author may edit the accompanying image or images to match the claims."
www.enago.com/academy/imag...

Such a calm and beautiful place today! 🤩

Kayaking down Johnson Cr with views of palm trees and spartina

Beautiful day on the FL gulf coast at Johnson Cr. #kayaking #optoutside

TT botany + herbarium faculty position at South Dakota State University. This is a great spot and department!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37554573...

My first turned Christmas tree.

Getting in the mood! 🎄🌲 #woodturning

More info on my course

AI initiative incentivises creation of UF AI courses - The Independent Florida Alligator The UF registrar has over 200 courses in its database denoted as AI courses, said David Reed, the associate provost for strategic initiatives and inaugural director for the Artificial Intelligence Aca...

For the #UF crowd here, the Alligator had a nice piece on the many #AIatUF courses in the Spring, including mine, AI in Biology (BSC4982/6895)! www.alligator.org/article/2023...

#OTD in 2015, Maarten Christenhusz and I published our paper on the tropical phenomenon of litter-trapping plants. What are litter-trapping plants? They're plants that trap leaf #litter in their crowns or in special “root baskets.” #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪A thread. 1/6 doi.org/10.1111/boj....

A shallow bowl I turned

Turned a shallow bowl from a piece I trimmed off a log while prepping bowl blanks. The colors are wild! It'll likely crack since it's so wet and includes the pith, but a fun project.

There is one here like that. The worst part is then they tell you about it, they insist it's "sorgrum".

Climbing aster proving some fall color

Starting the day on the Waccasassa River

Large cypress tree on the Waccasassa River.

Beautiful fall day #kayaking on the Waccasassa and Wekiva Rivers!