Narrator: The article does not in fact cover locating the beep.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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Um
The system worked as intended. It gave me the position of the beep to within about 40cm, then I dug through that specific pile of boxes and found an ancient carbon monoxide detector that desperately wanted its batteries replaced.
Yes, it does? The author is writing a program to locate the beep and the program shows him where it is coming from?
I wonder how long it would have taken to just unpack all the damn boxes
As I've grown older, the most interesting lesson I've learned is how incredibly lazy most people are.
As a kid, I thought adults had things figured out. As an adult, I thought other adults had things figured out. As it turns out, almost all adults not only don't have things figured out, but have no interest in figuring things out and the majority don't even realize they made that decision a long time ago.
This guy is evidently hoarding boxes of old crap in his house and somehow came to the conclusion that the best way to address the increasing nuisance is by writing a blog post about it.
Part two will narrate his conversation with Claude regarding an insect infestation.
(Say what you will about AI: The ability for someone to build such a tool for a specific problem is awesome)
I’m fine with ai as long as it’s not trying to pass as human
"So, did we pack a smoke detector in there somewhere?"