And a splendid example for how the public gets to pay the externalized costs for the shitheads who reap the profits.

> And in fact, the release notes have also been updated: the problem went from a “Resolved Issue” to a “Known Issue”.

So they finally admit that they are unable to solve a ridiculously trivial problem of their own making. This is a farce. Apple has managed to lose the last remnants of respect and good will on my part. And I cannot trust a platform that is so blatantly mismanaged.

This made a noticeable woosh sound as it went right over my head. How the hell does a polynomial "wiggle"?

But the Chebyshev polynomials, especially in their recursive definition, are a stroke of genius.

> How the hell does a polynomial "wiggle"?

I believe they’re defining “wiggle” as just the slope/rate of change/derivative

Exactly.

Wiggling feels more like a second-derivative thing to me but that's discussed too - Chebyshev polynomials max out the second derivative as well as the first.

> It could find patterns, but it could not understand meaning.

Try to explain that to an AI believer. No chance in hell. The religion brooks no doubt.

It has been pointed out in another HN comment thread, but ... surveillors gonna surveil, that's how they make money and accumulate power.

If you're going to ruin the climate and prices for all kinds of stuff, the least you can do is bring your own nuclear power plant.

But they can't get it right. Siri seems just the most conspicuous indicator that Apple has unlearned to do software. Everything is going to shit there.

You could say that AI has become the new religion. Plus the concomitant opiate for the masses.

And now many companies do have the idea of hosting proprietary code on a shitty, buggy, closed-source platform they have no control over. Indeed a shifted mindset. Maybe it wasn't shitty, buggy and closed-source enough before.

> lots of humans can be at least coerced into doing something extremely unethical.

Experience shows coercion is not necessary most of the time, the siren call of money is all it takes.