omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

@ArchiteuthisFlux I made the two terrible mistakes of buying the original in 2024, and then being unemployed. I'm sure I'll eventually cave for the shiny new thing though...

(And no I'm not in any serious way saying buying the original was a mistake, god I hate jumper wires for what should be a relatively simple test circuit being thrown together, which is most of my breadboard use)

omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

@ArchiteuthisFlux also, that's not how you navigate, at all.

It looks more like a sailboat tacking, and failing to pay attention to the massive lighthouse in their direction of travel

omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

@sortius @ArchiteuthisFlux not to be nitpicky but: don't boats steer port/ starboard, not left/right?

I have no way to make this seem at all relevant but now that this post has broken containment, you should get a Jumperless V5

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@patrascan @ArchiteuthisFlux technically, yes. Depends on how much nautical training you've had

It's probably just because my family's in the fishing industry that I know the secrets of the sea: for instance, boats go on the water and lighthouses go on land, and they should generally not be in the same place at the same time.

@ArchiteuthisFlux I guess my rice cooker claims that it's capable of fuzzy logic.

It is a simple expert system that says "how long cooking?" "is it hot?" "ok done"

I'm sure the first thermostats were billed as intelligent automata freeing you from the labor of opening the flue manually.

@ArchiteuthisFlux

So intelligence is just convergent series?

If I keep facepalming that hard I'm gonna look like a French bulldog that ran at a relativistic speed into a bulletproof glass door.

Hoomans, please stop with the stupidity. We already know Einstein was right, we don't need more data points.

Thank you – management.

@johnnythan @ArchiteuthisFlux They're not, that's the really sad thing. This isn't at all how neural networks in living things find their ways towards goals. You can simulate that *accurately* in about 10 lines of BASIC or FORTRAN. I've done it.

This is multi level misunderstanding: of the exercise, of the goal, AND of how to achieve it.

@bipolaron @ArchiteuthisFlux tf is a flue?

@MxVerda @ArchiteuthisFlux oh, the thing that controls how open the chimney is. maybe it's a colloquialism, sorry.

to describe the device that I may have the wrong name for, you limit the amount of new air that the stove gets, limiting the burn rate of the fire, which is how you control how hot your stove heated house gets.

I've only seen it on wood burning stoves.

@ArchiteuthisFlux I must know! Are ship cats still a thing?

@bipolaron @ArchiteuthisFlux No worries - it sounds like a technical term, but I honestly forgot about chimneys for a second (need caffeine)

@bipolaron @ArchiteuthisFlux No worries - it sounds like a technical term, but I honestly forgot about chimneys for a second (need caffeine)