For years I've used a scanner as a cheap way to document mods to PCB's (printed circuit boards, not Polychlorinated Biphenyls). Even the tiny labels that sometimes appear on 0603 resistors are readable, and it documents what's there, rather than what I _think_ is there.
However: some scanners have better depth of field than others. The ones which sweep a mirror under the document, rather than sweeping the sensors themselves, seem to have better depth of field.
The real genius behind this approach is: First, the trainer needs no food, so can spend an infinite length of time training the rat; second, it preserves the rat's natural instincts so it could actually be more useful than a robot.
A seeing-eye dog won't cross the street when a car is coming, even though the owner wants to go forward. A rat is unlikely to kill itself no matter now much you train it.
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For years I've used a scanner as a cheap way to
document mods to PCB's (printed circuit boards, not
Polychlorinated Biphenyls). Even the tiny labels
that sometimes appear on 0603 resistors are
readable, and it documents what's there, rather
than what I _think_ is there.
However: some scanners have better depth of field
than others. The ones which sweep a mirror under
the document, rather than sweeping the sensors
themselves, seem to have better depth of field.
The real genius behind this approach is: First, the trainer needs no food, so can spend an infinite length of time training the rat; second, it preserves the rat's natural instincts so it could actually be more useful than a robot.
;-)
A seeing-eye dog won't cross the street when a car is coming, even though the owner wants to go forward. A rat is unlikely to kill itself no matter now much you train it.
...or is it?