Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/26/optimizing-a-peanut-butter-and.html
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Forgive my non-mathematically-computed approach, but…why not get the fewest gaps by slicing the banana lengthwise? If they are thin enough, you can even overlap the slices.
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Exactly what I do.
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Yeah, but what about unexpected brown mushy banana bits you gotta cut around?
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{Puts banana in bowl, mushes it with fork, spreads banana mush on bread, covers with peanut buttered half}
So you’re saying I’ve been missing out on doing complex mathematical analysis while making my sandwich.
{finishes sandwich}
Huh.
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I know that there’s a lot of people out there that like them, but … bleah
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Shout-out to the Cutco 1721 “Trimmer” knife in the picture. Man I dig that knife.
I sold exactly one set of Cutco knives in college, but my demo set is still getting used over 2 decades later.
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Another entry in the list “all the things AI has ruined”.
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There is a banana deficiency at one end of that sandwich.
Solve it by replacing banana with Marmite.
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That was actually covered in the original:
So there you have it, you are questioning if the author is a sociopath.
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So, this guy is basically saying that to get the optimal banana sandwich you have to let an AI just look at it!
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I’m with you, but some people (weirdos) prefer hard bananas that really don’t mush that well. There’s no accounting for taste.
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All we need is for the boffins to engineer bananas to have a uniform bread-slice-shaped cross section when sliced. Problem solved.
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Is there a parameter to change so slices start from the “monkey end” of the banana?
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Biggest problem here is that the sandwich is missing FLUFF!!!
It is a PB+B+F!
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No. What it’s missing is a little Iceburg lettuce.
Don’t freak, try it, you may be surprised. My favourite sandwich when I was a kid.
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Came here for this, not disappointed.
…And just look at it!
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