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Re: Team 548 Einstein Statement
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Originally Posted by Astrokid248
You wouldn't necessarily have to know the cause of the issue to happen upon the exploit. With the growing number of applications that can control any number of robots with a smartphone, it's really not surprising that between week 4 and Einstein someone whipped out a phone and thought, "What if I connect in during a match?"
It's the "1000 monkeys with 1000 typewriters" postulate at work, and I think it would be wise of FIRST to challenge all teams to try and find these exploits and notify FIRST as they appear. Crowd-source the troubleshooting of these systems, and allow teams to have active feedback throughout the season. It would solve a lot of problems. And I agree with the idea that FIRST should have some kind of pre-written response to let teams know that emails are at least going through.
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That's a great idea in theory. In practice, however, FIRST would be completely overwhelmed with nonsense results from uncontrolled situations that bear little or no relevance to a competition field setup.
Simply put: the problem with the "1,000 monkeys with 1,000 typewriters" postulate in reality is filtering out the 99%+ gibberish content they've created.
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Theory is a nice place, I'd like to go there one day, I hear everything works there.
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot, common sense is trying to not be an idiot, wisdom is knowing that you will still be an idiot.
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