- TIL: The Ten Thousand Bowls of Oatmeal Problem ➶
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Today I learned about the 10000 bowls of oatmeal problem, via a helpful clarifying comment on a thread on Hacker News:
Every bowl of oatmeal is unique, Compton explains, but that does not make them interesting or valuable. Designers use this to understand that procedural generation alone does not guarantee variety or interest, and that systems must be carefully designed to use generative methods as an expressive tool, rather than a solution in and of itself.
This led me to this post, and now I need to make my way out of yet another interesting internet wormhole and get to the stream.
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