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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.