Strategy patterns and code-centralised feature management ftw :)

My takeaway for other people like me from this is "computer is correct" because the proof shows that we can't define arccosh using a single proof across the entire complex plane (specifically imaginary, including infinity).

The representation of this means we have both complex functions that are defined as having coverage of infinity, and arccosh, that a proof exists in only one direction at a time during evaluation.

This distinction is a quirk in mathematics but means that the equation won't be simplified because although it looks like it can, the underlying proof is "one sided" (-ve or +ve) which means the variables are fundamentally not the same at evaluation time unless 2 approaches to the range definition are combined.

The QED is that this distinction won't be shown in the result's representation, leading to the confusion that it should have been simplified.

That's kind of irrelevant, this technology is meant to be safer and held to a higher standard.

Comparing to a human is not a valid excuse...

Also, I've not stated LGBT, this has nothing to do with it, it's weird you'd even mention it.

This is exactly what is happening with sycophantic LLMs, to a greater extent, but now it's affecting other generations, not just Gen-Z.

Perhaps it's time to rollback this behaviour in the human population too, and no I'm not talking reinstating discipline and old Boomer/Gen-X practices, I'm meaning that we need to allow more failure and criticism without comfort and positive reinforcement.

I can only see mostly negatives

- Winning means taking away the ability for fans to spread viral / subliminal advertising for WB via the art they create.

- Anybody who uses Midjourney commercially to create DC characters etc will be sued, BAU, this might be worth more...

- Midjourney might actually be useful for creatives at WB (mockups etc), so shutting it down not in that interest.

- Negative publicity from people who use Midjourney.

The positives

- WB gets a boatload of short term money from Midjourney if they win.

- They exercise enforcement of copyright preventing their characters becoming a public good (yeah this one's flaky, but as I said, I couldn't think of positives).

Until I read this article I didn't properly understand Fourier transforms (I didn't know how image compression bitmaps were derived), now it's opened a whole new world - toying with my own compression and anything that can be continuous represented as it's constituent parts.

I can use it for colour quantisation too possibly to determine main and averaged RGB constituents with respect to hue, allowing colour reduction akin to dithering, spreading the error over the wave instead and removing the less frequent elements.

It may not work but it'll be fun trying and learning!

Afterstep looks too much like Stardock's Window Blinds from around 2000 (see the weird glass effect, font etc), but Etolie seems to nail the aesthetic for me.

I hope this comes back, I'd love to use it on an old netbook I have for accessing my servers remotely.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/amazon-cuts-several-hundred-...

Of course not being able to monetise Alexa has always been a problem, but these and the article's issues are all to do with poor planning and top tier business direction.

Some slogans used to say "to buy and keep".

- Why would you buy it and not keep it? The word "Keep" is clearly used to manipulate you into thinking it's the same as owning.

- Keeping something you buy (not rent) implies ownership as long as you want, not what they want, so this goes against its definition too.

The idea we don't is tabloid journalism, it's simply because the output is (usually) randomised - taken to mean, by those who lack the technical chops, that programmers "don't know how it works" because the output is indeterministic.

This is not withstanding we absolutely can repeat the output by using not randomisation (temperature 0).