#theory of constraints

[procurement-insights]

Why Technology is Necessary but not Sufficient and how to make it sufficient by Dr. Eli Goldratt

What are the three-steps to Generative AI success in procurement?

“Within the TOC are three main principles: convergence, consistency, and respect. Convergence: This principle suggests that a complex system is actually simpler to manage because tweaking, adjusting, or correcting just one aspect will impact and change the whole system for the better.” Simplilearn, Jul 23, 2024 STEP 1 – WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO STEP 2 – ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING…

[mikey-hunter]

Why Age of Calamity Did That (And Why Age of Imprisonment Will Too)

So when Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out, there was a very vocal contingent of fans who were upset about a particular twist in its narrative.

Age of Imprisonment was just announced, with a hauntingly similar setup, and I'm seeing a number of fans talking as if the same twist won't happen this time, or at least saying they hope it doesn't. I just wanted to lay out the reason why it happened the first time, and why it almost certainly will again.

I'm going to be dropping unmarked spoilers for all three previous games in this trilogy that's soon to become a quadrilogy, by the way. I imagine most of the people speculating about Age of Imprisonment will already know them, but just to cover my bases, you can stop reading now if you're behind.

So, let's start at Age of Calamity's announcement.

We were told it would be "A story 100 Years before The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," and told it would depict the battles against the Calamity not previously shown. Fans immediately started joking about already knowing how it ended, that this was a game that would end with most of the cast dying.

Then the demo came out. A Guardian the size of an ostrich egg woke up at the same time as Zelda awakening her powers, traveled back in time, and activated the Sheikah Towers early. Also, Link was a regular soldier and not the Hero who had been wielding the Master Sword since he was a pre-teen.

Surprisingly, a large portion of the fandom either failed or refused to see the twist coming at that point.

But the twist came all the same: in the full game, the time traveling egg guardian enables the four successors to the Champions from BotW to save them, Zelda awakens her powers before Link is killed, they band together to slay Calamity Ganon, and a happy ending is enjoyed by all. Including the Yiga Clan, who defected because reasons.

Some fans were very upset about this. They were promised a prequel, and seemed to think it would be a good idea. But the reason it wasn't is fairly obvious if you think about it.

For one thing: Warriors games are about the fanservice power fantasy. Playing as beloved characters and mowing down hundreds of cannon fodder enemies as easily as one mows a lawn.

For another: one of the playable characters in the original Hyrule Warriors on Wii U was Agitha from Twilight Princess. She was included purely because one of the developers was a fan of hers and argued for her inclusion. Koei-Tecmo's Hyrule Warriors team includes people who are big enough Zelda fans to have favorite minor NPCs.

Now, consider for a moment what a "canon" ending to Age of Calamity would have looked like. The Champions are dead. Link is dead. Zelda awakened her powers a moment too late, so she's going to go hold down Calamity Ganon while the Sheikah trio carry Link's body to the Shrine of Resurrection. They don't know how long it will take to work, or if it will even work at all, so the three of them agree to live separately and wait for him, so that even if the Yiga Clan finds and overcomes them, at least the other two will live on to pass Zelda's message on to Link.

In other words, you just paid full retail price for a beat'em up where all your favorite characters die, and have a completely separate game to go play for the story's actual resolution.

Maybe you, personally, actually wanted that, but would a casual Zelda fan who just got the game for Christmas have wanted it? Would a Dynasty Warriors fan trying the game out as a gateway to the Zelda series have been okay with being told they now have to buy another game in a completely different genre to get their closure?

To be frank, no. Age of Calamity didn't lead in to Breath of the Wild because that would have made for a bad product. Instead of watching the Champions die, we got to see them live, be happy, and interact with their successors. If you want to imagine the full details of their deaths and be sad about it, that's what fanfiction is for.

And now we have Age of Imprisonment on the way.

Tears of the Kingdom, much like Breath of the Wild, has a sequence of flashbacks to a distant past, that ends on a downer note of "Welp, we're boned, but all we can do is wait for Link to come sort it out."

Just like Age of Calamity, Age of Imprisonment purports to be a full depiction of these events...

But the events of the Dragon Tears are in even more dire need of an intervention from the present than the Memories were, entirely because of the cast.

Taking this reveal trailer at face value, we can expect eight characters: Zelda, Sonia, Rauru, Mineru, and the four Ancient Sages. By the end of the Dragon Tears as we saw them in Tears of the Kingdom...

Sonia is assassinated

Rauru gives his life to seal Ganon under the castle

Mineru succumbs to her injuries and begins haunting Zelda's tablet

Zelda essentially commits fantasy suicide, because as far as anyone in the narrative is aware, becoming a dragon destroys your sense of self and is irreversible.

The Sages live, but with how little TotK gave them to work with, AoI is going to have to characterize them from scratch.

That's a hard sell to anyone looking to buy a fun video game full of Zelda characters, and that's not the only problem with this roster: it's also small.

Not counting certain characters having multiple weapons, the original Hyrule Warriors launched with a roster of 13, and then three of the bosses were made playable in a patch.

Age of Calamity launched with 18.

If we're sticking entirely to the founding era with this game, we're following up a game that set sales records for the Warriors series with a piddly little roster that tells you at the end to go play a different game, with the surviving half of the roster being the faceless nobodies. Who's actually going to buy that beyond the LoZ die-hards who pitched a fit because not every returning NPC in Tears of the Kingdom greeted Link with a "Hey, I remember you!"?

It's quite clear, to me, that Age of Imprisonment is going to have another time travel twist, this time bringing in the modern Sages, as well as Link, probably Purah, and perhaps some others. (Paya? Tauro? Robbie? Josha? Kohga, for some reason? All possible, but Purah's the only supporting cast pick I'm confident in.)

If nothing else, the fact that Nintendo announced amiibo of the TotK Sages the same day as Age of Imprisonment seems more than coincidental.

[oxymoronictransfem]

It's really disappointing honestly how many people are coming here who could have had the potential to engage with me in a constructive way but were lied to and believed that lie uncritically.

You claim that I'm not a trans woman but here you are harassing me, smearing my name with lies over things I have never done, referring to me in ways I've said countless times make me uncomfortable. By my birth assignment.

If you really think I'm so different, why are you treating me the same?

You can't claim to be for the liberation of anyone if your activism includes determining that a person isn't human anymore because of who they are.

Utilizing the same mechanisms that hurt you, projecting those onto me, it doesn't do anything for you or any of us. If anything, it shows that if you were in the position of the oppressor you wouldn't have the self awareness to realize what you were doing. How can you only be compassionate suffering under the circumstances of your own marginalization?

I would never do this to you.

[greenouillee]

I think a lot of my frustration with modern theoretical physics (especially string theory) can be summarised as, if we're handwaving the physical constraints, and we're handwaving the lack of experimental results, and we're handwaving the maths, then who's flying the damn plane???

[linguisticillustrations]

Optimality Theory diagram (tableau) for foot/syllable metathesis in Naijá (also known as Nigerian Pidgin) used for the "unconventional negative" (UNC.NEG) form of nouns.

Examples of this and related processes (taken from an author's post on Mastodon):

Tone metathesis in documented varieties of Naijá [fádà] ��father” [fàdá] “rev. father” [màmá] “mother” [mámà] “trendy old lady” (other meanings are possible)

Truncation in the Wafi variety [bâ:g] “bag” [â:g] “inferior bag” [stô:v] “stove” [tô:v] “cheap stove”

Syllable metathesis in the Wafi variety [pòló] “polo shirt” [lòpó] “inferior polo shirt” [àʃáwó] “sex worker” [àwóʃá] “cheap sex worker” [láptɔ̂:p] “laptop” [tóplâ:p] “cheap laptop”

From the article:

Akinbo, Samuel Kayode and Ekiugbo, Philip Oghenesuowho. 2024. "Iconicity as the motivation for morphophonological metathesis and truncation in Nigerian Pidgin" Open Linguistics 10(1): https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0013

[blueblend]

I personally dig Zelda having a way to showcase creativity and resourcfulness, with the use of the Trirod.

People have already gone into the history of Zeldas and their abilitiesn including fighting prowess, for the most part... but it's actually much more feasible for a woman in this "era," loosely based on history as it is, to know little actual combat skills, and have a far greater abilities in areas that place more emphasis on mental prowess.

Especially those in a position of power, in particular, to be charismatic, cunning, and walk a tight rope of keeping face, while also playing mental chess with every interaction.

That said - Our Zelda? The holder of the power of Wisdom? Employing the use of it and the skills she's cultivated from within her political standing, to go forth and save the hero?

🤌🏼✨️

Anyway, it'd be really abnormal and unwise to allow the princess to go gallivanting off, ever, period. The fact that there's the risk of danger, death, and attempt to save a man, babyboy he may be? Unchaperoned?!?!

Forget risk of physical harm or death, the SOCIAL damage this all would do.

... So, my bet is on Zelda sneaking out because she was forbidden from assisting.

🪙

[tower-of-hana]

linguist 1: We need names for constraints that restrict codas and onsets

linguist 2: What about NoCoda and NoOnset?

linguist 1: Okay now we need constraints that restrict complex codas and onsets.

linguist 2: What about NoComplexOnset, NoComplexCoda, and NoComplex for when you need both?

linguist 1: Sure we're almost done, we just need constraints that restrict epenthesis and deletion.

linguist 2: What about Max and Dep?

linguist 1: What the fuck

linguist 2: we should use emojis to represent things in our very serious theory

[olliepurples]

mdarc chapter 4 spoilers (tw negative)

i'm a couple of doors into the mystery labyrinth, and it's getting a little annoying having shinigami and yuma go "but how could this have happened? who could have done this?" when i literally knew it was yakou as soon as the game told me that the poison had a delay. this is so silly like "how could anyone have got past this, they would have died in thirty minutes!" ok! narrow your suspect pool to people who die in the next thirty minutes then! damn!!!

[xoxohomicidal-cougarxoxo]

Reading up on Harley Sawyer because I am very unwell about him.

I was going to finish the dolphin, but I got school.

I also badly need to finish that cat art.

[procurement-insights]

Transforming The Theory Of Constraints To The Agent-Based Development And Implementation Model For Today's AI

Procurement, Theory of Constraints, Agentic AI, and the Agent-Based Model - What's The Connection?

Holly S Glennon, your comment reminded me of the following Procurement Insights post from this past fall – https://bit.ly/3BgUVyy The numbers and case studies suggest that unless we adopt a human-led agent-based development and implementation model, the generational failure rates of previous technology breakthroughs will continue or even increase in the AI era and beyond. To create some…

[heel-samizayn]

Wrestling's goal is to illicit an emotional response and keep you invested, so this is a consequence of that, I get that, but there's no need for people to actually pit one wrestler(or their fans) against each other due to kayfabe/creative. Rivalries were built in collaboration with one other. While people are blowing a gasket online, they're probably hugging it out in the back, laughing like, "Did you hear the response to that!" and congratulating each other on their performances.

[quatregats]

Finally having some thoughts that make Ali make sense and I need to eat him actually

[cannimumsable]

The pattern is that people straight up do not read™. or they read a 3-5 tweet summary of what happened and treat it as if they did. or because shonen expectations based on "the classics" is bullshit and significantly rotted people's brains when deciding wether an ending is good or not.

Which could be nothing right

yeahhh. i will forever regret reading the last chapter through leaks because it was a dreadful experience, and watching everyone ever shit on it for like a week after genuinely made me want to just get off the internet forever or something because i felt like an idiot for liking the ending (all this is my fault for getting too invested in both tumblr and mha etc etc).

All the "it's rushed" and pacing complaints barely matter to me at this point because you just cannot feel the pacing of something correctly when you're reading it exclusively through leaks. you can't absorb info like that. And don't get me started on the number of complaints and criticisms I've seen of the last chapter that are just provably bullshit (I saw someone say Izuku didn't get a statue lmao. yes he did, you just read the fucking leaks and watched twitter drama unfold instead of reading the actual chapter i fear).

[clonewarsahsoka]

I'm slowly becoming interested in computer science >.<

[prokopetz]

The thing about the philosophy of mathematics is that there's no articulable position so absurd that some influential mathematician hasn't genuinely held to it. You 100% cannot troll these people; you could walk up to a mathematician and say "I'm a radical finitist, I reject the existence of all numbers larger than 1", and not only would that turn out to be a real thing, some maniac has worked out how to construct set theory under its constraints.