Indeed, KL-divergence can be seen as the difference between the average number of bits required to arithmetically encode a sample from a given distribution, using symbol probabilities from both the original distribution and an approximating distribution.
I just hit the "transparent lock screen" bug in iOS 26 where TouchID is disabled but it's impossible to see the numbers on the lock screen, so I had to reboot my phone to unlock it. Hooray! Also, my 5-year-old iPhone has never felt laggy or glitchy before this forced upgrade, now it stutters all the time. Guess this is a great way to force me to upgrade to a new phone!
Right there alongside blurring the clock / signal strength / battery to unreadability while the rest of the screen is fine. Locking and unlocking, all manner of things, don’t work, need to reboot.
That's Apple's whole financial plan actually. Force you to upgrade and add an apple services subscription. It's their only growth area too, so expect them to push hard. Very hard.
To the extent that any of this was ever true, it hasn’t been true for at least a decade. After the WiredTiger acquisition they really got their engineering shit together. You can argue it was several years too late but it did happen.
I got heavily burned pre-wiredtiger and swore to never use it again. Started a new job which uses it and it’s been… Painless, stable and fast with excellent support and good libraries. They did turn it around for sure.
If Lou Gerstner had put any energy into growing RJR Nabisco's tobacco business, I could see your point. But during that 1989-1993 timespan, RJR Nabisco's leaders at the time (Gerstner plus private equity guys) were focused on wringing cash out of the shrinking tobacco division. Most of their growth strategies involved the Nabisco half, which actually accounted for about 60% of revenue.
There's still nothing heroic about that chapter of Gerstner's career. But if you're seeing public good in having tobacco companies fade from sight, there are bits of Gerstner's stewardship at RJR Nabisco that unwittingly worked out okay.
No regular user interacts directly with a JavaScript engine, not in the sense that they interact with a text editor, a video editor, an audio editor, a CAD application, a medical imaging application etc. etc. etc.
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