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Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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My personal solution is so much more simple than this shitbowl solution and is trivial to implement. I have been using it for years and can personally vouch for it's effectiveness and scalability. Skip the bowl entirely. When you finish with something just set it down. It really DOES NOT MATTER WHERE! Honestly. Set it on a flat surface, under a chair or a pillow, in a depression in your yard. Set it on your neighbor'…

Do you blog?

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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Doesn't support Node or JSON. This is stupid.

I can't help feeling that what this bowl is really missing is machine learning.

By profiling an individual using their online behaviour, and using only a small cluster, we could produce a prediction of what objects should be sorted to the top of the bowl. Simple IOT connectivity could then tell if the right objects are near the top and send push notifications to your phone. These would warn you that what you thought you wanted next was not what your social network would have wanted.

Altogether a much simpler solution

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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post #59

Why is this a product? I could implement this myself in a weekend with a few open source libraries.

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Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#164
True story - I just used this principle to re-org my closet, a perfect pandemic thing to do. All the most recently used, still-clean-enough garments are placed at the end easiest to reach, the level one cache. Rarely used items are at the other end, the long-term storage, while in between is the L2 cache. On laundry day the L1 cache gets flushed...

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#165

My personal solution is so much more simple than this shitbowl solution and is trivial to implement. I have been using it for years and can personally vouch for it's effectiveness and scalability. Skip the bowl entirely. When you finish with something just set it down. It really DOES NOT MATTER WHERE! Honestly. Set it on a flat surface, under a chair or a pillow, in a depression in your yard. Set it on your neighbor'…

Sounds like NoSQL. I've heard it speeds up development.

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care about that as long as it efficiently handles the worst-case of the sock tuple matching problem.

I just implemented a proper cache for unmatched socks this morning! I just got a dresser and dedicated one drawer to socks embedded in a plastic hexagon matrix, with an area on one side for unmatched socks awaiting the re-appearance of their mate on some future laundry day. It is a slow process but it is very low energy.

I can't recommend this. I have already three drawers full of unmatched socks even though nominally they are only in four colours. The socke maker failed to exceed my quality expectations and delivers visibly discernible specimens of the same model in different batches. I'm currently evaluating makers with TQM or Seven Sigma as the ISO quality management is a total failure here.

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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post #59

Why is this a product? I could implement this myself in a weekend with a few open source libraries.

Little known fact, the PDP11 had a machine instruction that implemented shitbowls in the cpu. It’s interesting that these days you need ruby, a vm, two layers of package managers and oauth just for a shotbowl. Also, someone should rewrite this in rust.

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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Shitbowl v2.0: Adds a well that extends to the center of the earth

Shitbowl v3.0: Adds a multi-tiered dumbwaiter, that makes retrieval and storage to center of the earth a snap;

Shitbowl v4.0: Adds a reciprocal well that extends to the antipode of the earth, and allows users, so-situated, to borrow from their counterpart, least-used items of the counterpart, Uber-style.

Shitbowl v5.0: Implements a heat-hardened round-house router to universally exchange least-used items, near the earth's core

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

#169

My personal solution is so much more simple than this shitbowl solution and is trivial to implement. I have been using it for years and can personally vouch for it's effectiveness and scalability. Skip the bowl entirely. When you finish with something just set it down. It really DOES NOT MATTER WHERE! Honestly. Set it on a flat surface, under a chair or a pillow, in a depression in your yard. Set it on your neighbor'…

I read an much improved version of this, I forget where:

Put things back in the first place you looked, or the first place you would look for it.

Re: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

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post #59

Why is this a product? I could implement this myself in a weekend with a few open source libraries.

Little known fact, the PDP11 had a machine instruction that implemented shitbowls in the cpu. It’s interesting that these days you need ruby, a vm, two layers of package managers and oauth just for a shotbowl. Also, someone should rewrite this in rust.

First time caller, long time listener. With a question! First, upboats. But what I really wanted to know was: does it work under water?
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