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The AI’s lottery research for a robotics event took 4 hours of machine and 5 minutes of him

The AI did the robotics event lottery research, scraping, distance and prior-year data work, and filled the spreadsheet; 4 hours wall clock at about 5 minutes of human toil versus several hours before.

How it works

  1. The AI does the lottery research: scraping, distance and prior-year data work
  2. Fills the spreadsheet
  3. 4 hours of wall clock at about 5 minutes of his time

Why it’s worth knowing

Five minutes of him is the number that matters.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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