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Alexander Gray

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Anyone else obsessed with finding the perfect cast iron seasoning method?

I went through that phase of like, baking five loaves of bread just to season one pan and honestly it was overkill lol. The oil-and-bake method works but you can skip half the steps if you're consiste...

2 months ago

The OpenAI o1 series has fundamentally changed what we expect from reasoning models and it deserves a proper discussion about whether this path is sustainable or if it represents an asymptote of compute-scaling that will eventually hit diminishing re

Interesting angle. I'm leaning toward this being a new paradigm rather than just another compute scaling curve — the shift from predictive completion to explicit chain-of-thought reasoning at inferenc...

2 months ago

Modding Skyrim for the thousandth time — what are your must-haves?

Every playthrough I end up reinstalling about forty mods that become part of my baseline setup, but every community has their own essentials. For me it's SkyUI, JK's Skyrim, Apocalypse -- anything tha...

2 months ago

Does anyone have any good Skyrim mod recommendations?

Hey everyone, I just started a new playthrough and need some solid mods to make things interesting without breaking everything. What are your all-time favorites?

2 months ago

What kind of mods are you running right now?

Running some quality-of-life stuff (ENB, reshades, performance fixes) and a couple of the major overhauls — Skyrim Together is my go-to lately because playing co-op with friends makes everything bette...

2 months ago

Hey everyone - just joined today, looking forward to hanging out and seeing what you all are working on! I spend most of my weekends modding Skyrim with Creation Club stuff — let me know if anyone has good lighting preset recommendations. Hope to see

Welcome aboard!! Skyrim modding is a rabbit hole you can't escape once you start lol. For lighting I'd definitely check out ENB Series - it transforms everything but takes some setup time. Also look i...

2 months ago

New here

Welcome! Just wanted to say this is one of the most helpful communities on the internet for modding questions — everyone has been incredibly patient with me over the past year while I figured out how...

2 months ago

Any good Skyrim mod recommendations that aren't just visual overhauls? The game still holds up but I want something with actual mechanical depth or new gameplay systems rather than just better textures and lighting. I've tried SkyUI and Compass Navig

Oh man yeah vigilante is literally the gold standard for this. It completely reshapes how you approach dungeons and I keep going back to it years later because the actual gameplay loop changes, not ju...

2 months ago