So kind of like a personalised learning assistant? I realise it’s different but this inverted instruct approach puts me in mind of Doctorow’s reverse centaur!

Don’t you find that the links you get are hallucinated though? Even if they’re not now you can imagine this collapsing into slop echoes…

I’ve tended to ask for examples to help me bootstrap new projects. A bit like getting customised docs. I certainly haven’t had enough success with generated code to think about automatically adopting it.

This is interesting and sounds like how I’ve been using it - basically like customised stack overflow answers.

Would you mind elaborating a little on your approach? Are you saying you provide it with guidance and links or are you asking it for those?

Get a Steuerberater. IIUC they charge based upon your revenue and it’s certainly easier than doing it yourself. They’ll generally deal with all the bureaucracy.

Don’t use platforms like ODesk/ Fivvver to find work as you’ll be competing on price for commodified work. You’ll have more interesting and better paid work if you have a hand in developing the role with your clients.

You need to do some sales and marketing work - e.g. create a portfolio and go to events to meet people in the industries you’re interested in. Finding work is largely luck but you don’t invest the time then you’ve got no chance.

The fees will really depend on experience and the value you’re adding. Check out e.g. Glassdoor for equivalent employed roles to get a ballpark. Estimate 200 days per being available at full utilisation.

I quite like this one of the baby pulling the pensioners up hill.

Submerge them in brine for a few weeks. This creates an environment favouring lactic acid bacteria which will create pickling acid from the veggies that prevents mould.

You need to keep them submerged which you can do by putting a freezer bag full of brine on top.

It’ll release CO2 so if you don’t have airlocks you’ll need to seal the jars only loosely or burb them occasionally.

Haha yeah it’s great. It’s fast, portable, and has keyboard shortcuts from this century!

I have to say when I saw this headline I was bracing myself for AI “features”…

Reinforcement learning involves a reward signal (e.g. a score in a game) which I don’t think is present here.

Diffusion models, as you’ve also mentioned, seem a better metaphor. These try to generate a structured image (e.g. matching a prompt) from noise. Perhaps your visual cortex is just trying to make sense of random sensory input while your eyes are closed.

It’s also interesting to think about dreaming in terms of the more general set of representation learning techniques. As I understand it you’re trying to process the day’s experiences and reflect on past memories - sifting through and deciding what to retain and what to forget - essentially mental filing.

You may be interested in Deep dream. This is a program that runs an e.g. convolutional neural network in reverse. Instead of adjusting it’s belief about whether an image should be classified as a dog or not it adjusts a given input image so that it looks more and more like a dog. The results are pretty psychedelic!

This reminds me of the book “Only you can save mankind” by Terry Pratchett. The aliens surrender once they realise the player is apparently immortal!

The yellow Lupulin powder is hidden inside the cones. You can only really see it when you peel the layers back.

You picked them with bare hands?! I wear gloves as the little hairs on the leaves and bines scratch my skin to shreds.

It might just be that they dried up in the hot weather. If so they’ll uncurl now it’s rained.

You might also want to check for ants breeding black fly on the underside. They suck the moisture from the leaves causing them to curl over. You can usually just scrape them off with a wet finger.