I think that’s a great summary.

As a native English speaker, it was understandable but feels rather foreign because you never hear parts of computers referred to that way these days.

I think you’re right, it means something like “if we don’t refuse to accept this”.

That is rather awkward isn’t it.

I really liked that whole block quote though.

The “GSM chirp”. I never got to hear it much because my family happened to use CDMA phones in that era, but I do remember hearing it a few times. I know it was well known.

I haven’t thought about that in a long time.

I really loved that quote in the article. It’s such an excellent description of the “computer voodoo“ users come up with to explain what is, to them, unexplainable about computers.

You’re right though, we’re basically there with AI/ML aren’t we. I mean I guess we know why it does the things it does in general, but the specific “reasoning“ on any single question is pretty much unanswerable.

Or make a little JNI class.

That doesn't work for preserving to child threads, unfortunately. Which is something people expect.

They are. Once you make a graph, you can do something like tap on one of the values in the equation and do a gesture to change the value and the graph will update live.

I don’t know if I’m explaining it well. It was shown in the original demo of math notes during WWDC.

It is true that in the WWDC24 keynote, Jenny Chen demoed a graph that could be changed by dragging a slider of one of the variables [0], but as you can see in demo in the article, graphs are dead – they do not respond to changing variables. Or maybe I am just doing something wrong...

[0]: https://youtu.be/RXeOiIDNNek?t=2900

That works in 18.1. Tap the number you want to change in the equation and you get a slider. Change the number and the graph changes.

You are right, graphs are alive in 18.1. I fixed the article. Thank you.

Looks like the graph is rendering a different expression than the one you are modifying. If you tap to select the graph element view there’s a graph config button you can tap to select which expressions are actually active for that view.

Problem was that iPadOS 18.0 did not support alive graphs.

I just tested your example and is working fine on two different ipads on iPadOS 18.2 Beta 1 and 2.

You are right, graphs are alive since 18.1. I fixed the article. Thank you.

What’s wrong with this UI? It seems basically perfect. You write math equations and it gives you the answer.

I was replying to a comment with exactly what's wrong. A sibling comment to mine has a way to turn it off, but that's the wrong way to approach the feature. Instead, the user should be given more control, as the grandparent requested.

You can turn it off on a per note basis in the three dot menu.

there is no way to default it to off, which I have seen some people request.

I don’t know, it seems unnecessary to me.

Why do I need a second copy on top of the one I just wrote?

I don’t think misinterpretation would happy nearly enough for it to be more useful than intrusive.

I like having confidence that the intermediate representation is correct before moving forward. Especially since OCR usually makes mistakes on handwriting. It's not a redundant copy, it's reassurance.

Yes, the handwriting recognition system needs to communicate results as soon as possible to instill trust in the user. I need to be able to spot and fix misinterpretations as quickly as possible, otherwise errors accumulate real fast.

If it were an option you could contextually disable it via Apple Pencil it would be cool.

I remember seeing recent numbers that something like 80% of PlayStation 5s sold included the disc drive.

The problem is we don’t know how many people use that more than once, or only for watching Blu-ray or something.

Sony must know the numbers and think this is a tenable decision. There’s probably also some reluctance to raise the price even more by including the drive.