[cecilpl2]

> "I have to document this project but no matter how much I want to just do it, I nevertheless continually find myself on imgur or Facebook or Hacker News or some random other website reading up about how switched-reluctance motors or Monte Carlo tree search or whatever works."

This is why I learned more about grain bins and low-head dams this week than I did the tool I was supposed to be building.

[throwasquirrel]

Ooh did you know grain bins are super dangerous and there's a startup building a grain-bin-leveling robot so that farmers don't have to risk death in their grain bins?

Yeah that wasn't what I was meant to be doing either.

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/technology/robot-replace...