mkaic

> People who enjoy a van Gogh - or any other work - primarily do so because it has particular qualities they appreciate (no, being human-made isn't an intrinsically appreciable quality; secondarily because many humans instinctively like to possess unique - or "shiny" - things)

Speak for yourself. You could show me the exact same artistic image, same exact pixels, but if I know it was made by a human, it will instantly be worth more to me and capture more of my interest. Conversely, having the knowledge that the pixels were created by a machine would make me instantly lose interest in the image.

I think "being human-made" very much is an intrinsically appreciable quality, but you have to include the production of the art as part of the art itself for that to be the case. And I and many other people explicitly do include the production of the art as part of the art itself. Not everyone shares this perspective, but many do.

I chose to use the first line of the video description as the submission rather than the actual YouTube video title, as I found the video title vague and uninformative.

I'm excited to see a new thing in the Zero-Order Optimization (ZOO) world. I see most ZOO methods not as a "replacement for backprop" the way they are often marketed, but as a technique that can potentially work well in regimes where backprop is fundamentally weak. One of my favorite papers [0] in recent memory, for instance, is about using central-difference random gradient estimation (CD-RGE) to train large RNNs without using backprop-through-time. They also show it works decently for hard-to-optimize differentiable-neural-computers. Since reading that paper, I've had a lot of fun trying to apply this technique to settings I would describe as "a traditional differentiable neural network being applied in a non-traditional environment where you can't just call loss.backward and hope for the best". I am excited to try Dust out on my personal project now :)

I got a popup in my Codex just now saying "Try out 6.1 Sol!" and so I clicked the button to try it, and intriguingly, it set my model selector to "GPT-6 Astra Light" which makes me think 6.1 Sol may be in some way just a lighter/distilled version of Astra? defo interesting, not sure if I should read too much into it though. I see no option for directly selecting 6.1 Sol in my Codex Desktop UI.

Just cancelled mine after reading this comment, I only really cared about the bigger file uploads and the HD screen-sharing anyways and I can live without those.

Now that I think of it, I bet I could host a decent instance of some open-source alternative in a public cloud for around the same cost as what I paid for Nitro ($100 a year)...

I suppose both of us watched the same Youtube video by Metta Beshay (i think that is his name?)

perhaps I shouldn't share my workaround, but I've found that Mullvad's Norway nodes consistently get past Reddit's IP-blocking :)

Heavy and chronic usage of cannabis is associated with some of these things. I think "plenty of evidence that marijuana can cause {effects}" is somewhat overstating the consensus on the topic.

Like many things in life, cannabis can be enjoyed responsibly or irresponsibly. Irresponsible use is inadvisable and can absolutely ruin your life and the lives of others around you. I see no issue with responsible use, though. All things in moderation. Alcohol, social media, and caffeine all come to mind as examples of other drugs that can be largely safe and enjoyable if used responsibly, but which become dangerous/harmful when moderation is abandoned.

Signed,

a responsible/occasional cannabis user :)

"It's... a regional dialect."

"What region?"

"Er, upstate New York."

"Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase '100M' to mean '100 thousand'"

"Oh, no, not in Utica. It's an Albany expression."

IIIII HHHAAAAAVE THE POWERRRRR