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· 2026-10-04T13:09:59+00:00Recently learned that Schmidhuber’s Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, covering compression progress and intrinsic motivation and their relationship to beauty, curiosity, art, science, music, and jokes, was published in a Japanese scientific journal in 2009.
AI visual note: The image shows the first page of Jürgen Schmidhuber's paper "Simple Algorithmic Theory of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes," published in 計測自動制御学会 (the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan) in January 2009, Volume 48, Issue 1, page 21. The Japanese subtitle translates to "Aesthetic sense and humor are closely related to data compression," supporting the post's description of the work's focus on compression progress and intrinsic motivation as they relate to creativity and humor.
· 2026-10-04T21:51:12.187000+00:00Ganymede is a moon, but is literally wider than Mercury
· 2026-10-04T20:52:10+00:00Raining in the La Plata reservoir basin this afternoon. We'll see if there's a rise in the water level in the next few hours. LMR embalsespr.com
· 2026-10-04T21:01:42+00:00A new paper just dropped that flips the script on supervised finetuning (SFT) for LLMs. Instead of tweaking loss functions, they use an MCMC algorithm—projection sampling—to turn expert data into on-policy-like traces. The result? Plain SFT jumps from 34% to 66% accuracy on
· 2026-10-04T21:25:17+00:00The internal structure of celestial bodies split in two by artificial intelligence. A mesmerizing glimpse into the invisible face of the universe.
· 2026-10-04T21:48:46.649000+00:00[OC]What other humans lived with us?
· 2026-10-04T19:57:16+00:00“you should stream Nasa”
· 2026-10-02T11:55:48.498000+00:00Claude-shaped science: a correct calculation still needs a worthwhile question Suggested
· 2026-10-04T21:50:41+00:00There's evidence that this (doing finding you hate) actually stimulates/grows the aMCC portion of your brain too. So there are some neurological benefits that compound for goal completion