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There's a guy (insta: trailswithzach) that did successfully make ice cream like this

This is an excellent write up thank you for sharing! Yea, our concurrency API needs an upgrade - coincidentally this is going to be a theme of the next sprint or two so I hope I can report some improvements back soon.

One of the goals of Prefect's SDK is to be minimally invasive from a code-standpoint (in the simplest case you only need two lines to convert a script to a `flow`). Our deployment model also makes infrastructure job config a first-class citizen so you might have a good time trying it out. (disclosure: work at Prefect)

It's great that people are interested in art and interpretation, but this piece reads like someone trying to come up with a naive critical theory of art in a vacuum, completely independently from the centuries of theory that have already been developed. And to claim that Dada and James Joyce had no lasting influence is comical.

I couldn't agree more; I love what you said in your other reply: "AI art punishes the viewer who looks closer"

This article has an implicit premise that the ultimate judge of art is “do I/people like it” but I think art is more about the possibilities of interpretation - for example, the classics/“good art” lend themselves to many reinterpretations, both by different people and by the same person over time. When humans create art "manually" all of their decisions - both conscious and unconscious - feed into this process. Interpreting AI art is more of a data exploration journey than an exploration of meaning.

D'oh! I drafted this up in Notion; just fixed, thank you for letting me know!

If you end up spending any time on this and finding anything interesting I'd love to know! My email address is in my profile, feel free to hit me up anytime; also happy to share any of my original notes, I'm pretty sure I have them TeXed up somewhere accessible.

Your algorithm looks surprisingly similar to "Affinity Propagation" which uses message passing techniques to (approximately) optimize the binary integer programming problem. Message passing algorithms have always fascinated me as they seem to be related to deep structure in the original linear programming problem.

For example, there are results for other binary problems that show a relationship between fixed points of message passing and optimal dual points to the relaxed linear programming problem (see below for an example with maximum weighted independent sets).

Back in the day I spent a long time trying to directly relate the affinity propagation messages to a coordinate-descent type of algorithm on the dual for k-medoids but despite the similarity in structure I could never make it work.

I'm curious if you're familiar with this class of algorithms and how they compare (both practically and theoretically) to the work you've presented here? Thanks for sharing!

References: - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1136800 - https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5091

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