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I wouldn't be surprised if the urban legend had been inspired by Feynman's famous anecdote of the mouse maze-running experiment [0] (recently discussed here, th

by inasio 3y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if the urban legend had been inspired by Feynman's famous anecdote of the mouse maze-running experiment [0] (recently discussed here, the link is also by the author of this post) [0] https://gwern.net/maze https://gwern.net/maze (edit: the earliest refs for the tank story predate Feynman's, so this would be wrong)

jimmySixDOF 3y ago
The Author and that site are ironically the polar opposite of any ai generated text output of NNs. These stories are the art of long form essays thoughtfully ideated and crafted over years. Amazing guy and finding something like this is the reason HN is awesome.