Lego Sudoku Solver
September 8, 2009 4:53 PM Subscribe
New York City reportedly pays millions of dollars per year for teachers to sit in the "rubber room" and solve Sudoku puzzles. They could save a lot of that money with Lego. Presenting the Lego Mindstorm Sudoku Solver. (Via)
This post was deleted for the following reason: we've kind of done the rubber room already -- mathowie
Here's the inevitable YouTube showing it operating.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 4:55 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 4:55 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
From the August 25, 2009 issue of The New Yorker: The Rubber Room by Steven Brill.
posted by ericb at 5:03 PM on September 8, 2009
posted by ericb at 5:03 PM on September 8, 2009
Rubber Room featured on This American Life episode 350. It is worth listening to.
posted by cgk at 5:05 PM on September 8, 2009
posted by cgk at 5:05 PM on September 8, 2009
Oh, the "rubber room" is a thing of such incredible, impossible, evil beauty. It is sublime.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:07 PM on September 8, 2009
posted by R. Mutt at 5:07 PM on September 8, 2009
This post isn't really about the Rubber Room -- that's just the jokey setup. I think.
posted by brain_drain at 5:07 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by brain_drain at 5:07 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
Yes, I agree. But compared to the invention of the rubber room, the "Lego Sudoku Solver" is weak tea.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:11 PM on September 8, 2009
posted by R. Mutt at 5:11 PM on September 8, 2009
The Lego angle is new, but the Rubber Room has been posted at least a half-dozen times already.
Maybe replacing this with a "Lego Mindstorms Do The Darndest Things (including sudoku)" post would be better.
posted by paisley henosis at 5:31 PM on September 8, 2009
Maybe replacing this with a "Lego Mindstorms Do The Darndest Things (including sudoku)" post would be better.
posted by paisley henosis at 5:31 PM on September 8, 2009
That's why I prefer the cryptic mindmessers of Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon to Sudoku. If a robot can be programmed to solve it, 'nuff said.
posted by Mike D at 5:38 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Mike D at 5:38 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
Have you seen the price of Lego these days? Savings? I think not.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 5:41 PM on September 8, 2009
posted by Hardcore Poser at 5:41 PM on September 8, 2009
"schools have documented that they are incompetent or ineffective."
Man, what I would have given to get some of my teachers there.
Hey New York, can we trade? Two of our incompetents for 1 of your ineffectives!
posted by niles at 5:51 PM on September 8, 2009
Man, what I would have given to get some of my teachers there.
Hey New York, can we trade? Two of our incompetents for 1 of your ineffectives!
posted by niles at 5:51 PM on September 8, 2009
Teacher's unions care more about teachers than education, story at eleven.
posted by caddis at 6:26 PM on September 8, 2009
posted by caddis at 6:26 PM on September 8, 2009
Hey, WTF? I can't find Porter Wagoner anywhere in this post!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:40 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:40 PM on September 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
Teacher's unions care more about teachers than education
Well, that's their job, isn't it?
posted by Jimbob at 6:42 PM on September 8, 2009
Well, that's their job, isn't it?
posted by Jimbob at 6:42 PM on September 8, 2009
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