WaveFunctionCollapse VS MakeMeAdmin

Thank you! And yes, I agree. I was looking at uh https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse and wondering if that were applicable here :)

Have a good day!

Intuitively, it measures the difference between two probability distributions. It's not symmetric, so it's not quite that, but in my opinion, it's good intuition.

As motivation, say you're an internet provider, providing internet service to a business. You naturally want to save money, so you perhaps want to compress packets before they go over the wire. Let's say the business you're providing service to also compresses their data, but they've made a mistake and do it inefficiently.

Let's say the business has, incorrectly, determined the probability distribution for their data to be $q(x)$. That is, they assign probability of seeing symbol $x$ to be $q(x)$. Let's say you've determined the "true" distribution to be $p(x)$. The entropy, or number of bits, they expect to transmit per packet/symbol will be $-\sum p(x) lg(q(x))$. Meaning, they'll compress their stream under the assumption that the distribution is $q(x)$ but the actually probability of seeing a packet, $x$, is $p(x)$, which is why the term $p(x) lg(q(x))$ shows up.

The number of bits you're transmitting is just $-\sum p(x) lg(p(x))$. Now we ask, how many bits, per packet, is the savings of your method over the businesses? This is $-\sum p(x) lg(q(x)/p(x))$, which is exactly the Kullback-Leibler divergence (maybe up to a sign difference).

In other words, given a "guess" at a distribution and the "true" distribution, how bad is it between them? This is the Kullback-Leibler distribution and why it shows up (I believe) in machine learning and fitness functions.

As a more concrete example, I just ran across a paper talking [0] about using WFC [1] to asses how well it, and other algorithms, do when trying to create generative "super mario brothers" like levels. Take a 2x2 or 3x3 grid, make a library of tiles, use that to generate a random level, then use the K-L divergence to determine how well your generative algorithm has done compared to the observed distribution from an example image.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.05077.pdf

[1] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

Reminds me of wave function collapse - a programmatic way to generate mazes.

I am using WFC to generate the terrain, with pretty much a copy-paste implementation of the original WFC implemented into Unity.

If you still want to go the WFC route, the original WFC repository is a great place to start. There's also a (relatively barebones looking) Godot plugin you could take a look at.

wave function collapse studies - this is done with the https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse algorithm after I saw https://github.com/CodingTrain/Wave-Function-Collapse mention it. done in P5! IG https://www.instagram.com/ronivonu/

There’s an interesting approach similar to this called [Wave Function Collapse](https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse) (no relation to wfc in physics idea besides inspiration). It can infer the probabilistic constraints from one input example, and it seems to generalize quite well. Here’s a [little demo](https://oskarstalberg.com/game/wave/wave.html)

If they must have it, then make me admin is good for allowing temp admin rights. Although, admittedly, it's permanent in the sense of allowing it whenever - https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin

The college I work at uses this https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin for as needed elevation.

Make available an on demand access to admin such as MakeMeAdmin ( https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin ) which logs all uses and times out after 15 minutes.

MakeMeAdmin's wiki contains a document on [User Account Control (UAC) settings](https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin/wiki/UAC-Settings) and, towards the bottom, you'll see `EnableLUA` which this app designates enabling the setting as a requirement. For what it's worth, I build our Windows 10/11 Golden Images for my employer (~12,500 devices) and each image I build is required to pass a pen-test. Having `EnableLUA` instantly disqualifies the image and fails the pen-test. I'm not sure exactly what it does but I'd hesitate to enable this setting globally throughout my organization.

Hey guys, I apologize because it's probably a dumb question but im new in the sysadmin world (started the apprenticeship earlier this year) and was tasked by my boss to implement an app called Make Me Admin (https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin) into our Azure and write a powershell script that, when executed, would install it and also change the setting of the app to grant the user admin rights for 60 minutes instead of the default 10 minutes.

We use a “make me temp admin” script that elevates their accounts to admin for a set amount of time depending on the dept. https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin