brian724080
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This one should be new to this thread:
I went to a robotics fair, and there's a team of undergrad students with a professor with a cube-solving robot. I asked the professor if the robot solved it optimally, and he said yes. So I said that it should solve it in 20 moves, but he said "25 moves just to be safe" *facepalm*. At this point I decided that they just wanted to do something that they feel nobody really understands just to get into the robotics fair. After that, I asked to see the program that solves the cube, and turns out it was Cube Explorer, so I've basically confirmed that none of them knows anything about cubes. Next, I started educating him about cube theory and that the "Gods Number" in HTM is 20, and all the students in the back had funny expressions on their faces.
As a side note, the robot was pretty cool, but extremely inefficient. It literally had two arms that held the cube in the air, instead of a platform that most cube solves have.
I went to a robotics fair, and there's a team of undergrad students with a professor with a cube-solving robot. I asked the professor if the robot solved it optimally, and he said yes. So I said that it should solve it in 20 moves, but he said "25 moves just to be safe" *facepalm*. At this point I decided that they just wanted to do something that they feel nobody really understands just to get into the robotics fair. After that, I asked to see the program that solves the cube, and turns out it was Cube Explorer, so I've basically confirmed that none of them knows anything about cubes. Next, I started educating him about cube theory and that the "Gods Number" in HTM is 20, and all the students in the back had funny expressions on their faces.
As a side note, the robot was pretty cool, but extremely inefficient. It literally had two arms that held the cube in the air, instead of a platform that most cube solves have.