Posts by WurliMonkhaven 7 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2023
New "Microsoft Copilot™ for Microsoft Copilot™"™.
Struggling to find uses for Microsoft Copilot™?
Need some way to shoehorn AI usage into your next budget meeting?
Just want to watch two robots fight?
With "Microsoft Copilot™ for Microsoft Copilot™"™, you can now use Copilot™ to suggest ways you can use Copilot™.
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Going by recent management behaviour, it seems like there must be a huge demand for this kind of functionality.
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik
Interesting fact, in 2010, over a quarter of all healthcare services on Earth were managed by the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is the single largest (non-government) provider of healthcare on planet Earth. According to Wikipedia, this includes roughly 13,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, most of these in developing countries.
It ain't all bad :)
Oddly, as someone who is absolute trash at maths, I found my own Mandlebrot implementation (ASCII in a .NET CLI) pretty easy. Ya just gotta remember the song!
"Just take a point called Z in the complex plane,
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C,
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C,
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C,
And so on,
If the series of Z's should always stay,
Close to Z and never trend away,
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set!"
The maths is honestly super easy to implement. Don't let the mathsy words trip you out. Complex plane for a programmer usually just means "X/Y plane", for example.
This is absolutely legit. One of my biggest frustrations these days as a fairly young coder is that there aren't actually many opportunities for an engineer to really... do any engineering.
Oh sure, there's problems that need fixing. Stuff that needs doing. But it's all just bodgework and CRUD. I feel like I'm underperforming all the time because I'm *bored* all the time. The actual exciting work is so rare compared to "we need you to put data in the database".
We don't write using languages any more. We write using APIs.
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