Very nice, Achalk. A decent first SCP for once :3
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I am consistently amused by the mysterious ways in which SCPs often interact.
I greatly enjoyed this one.
can it play anything on vinyl, ie can it play the adventures of whiny the pooh (just something non-musical i know is on vinyl) has any one asked it to? since it can play things printed after its creation a vinyl print of common words and phrases it mite need could extend its ability to communicate quite a bit.
I'm going to leave this open to other people to voice their thoughts on because that honestly hadn't occured to me.
I personally would prefer that it is limited to songs. The idea behind this was that lil' Grammy here could communicate, but that he couldn't help being a little hard to understand/annoying to talk to.
However, I'm also kind of fond of the idea of the Foundation recording a bunch of vinyls, each track a separate word, so that 537 could speak properly. On the other hand, I also think he'd be a lot less interesting if he could.
2 things,
1: maybe he doesn't want to
2: can he do shatner
1: He(She? It?) seems the type, doesn't he(she? it?)?
2: Oh I dearly hope so.
where has all your punctuation gone mack
(account deleted)I am very curious…. How come 043 would let 537 ask him about himself?
How does it request things if it can't communicate beyond "yes" or "no"? The article didn't mention any other way of communication, and even stated that Morse code was impossible because it can't spell. Playing individual words from a song to make phrases is out because it has to play the song the whole way through and doesn't like to stop.
How does it request things if it can't communicate beyond "yes" or "no"?
It doesn't.
Also, Experiment 537/043-1 is highly disturbing for some reason and I love it.
if your reading this your gay
How does it request things if it can't communicate beyond "yes" or "no"?
Binary search (very slowly).
So they just ask it a bunch of random questions till they figure out what it wants? I dunno, it just seems like that part wasn't very well thought out.
Scantron, the article specifically stated that it had requested some things.
20 questions seems random, but (as SophosBlitz said) binary search trees like that are deductive and reduce your possible dramatically with each question. 20 yes or no questions actually can give you 2^20 unique "leaves" in a tree of a bit over a million possibilities, and every question doubles that…
Scantron, the article specifically stated that it had requested some things.
I hadn't noticed.
And that 20Q thing doesn't seem to be equipped to handle the kind of specific requests seen in the request log. I mean, how long would it take for it to get to "clean and dust my record every so often"?
When Stephen Hawking was fully paralyzed but didn't have his artificial voice yet, he communicated by having someone move their finger along a chart of letters and blinking when they got to the one he wanted. Perhaps they worked out something for him, except with buttons making sounds instead of letters?
if your reading this your gay
Hey. Guys.
Read.
From the end of the first paragraph:
It communicates by playing songs.
"What do you want?"
(soundtrack from the Muppet Movie)
"You want the Muppets?"
<no>
"You want the movie?"
<no>
<Posters, by Jack Johnson>
"You want… the movie poster?"
<yes>
also
"Anything else you'd like?"
<"Splish Splash, I was Taking a Bath">
"You want… a bath?"
<no>
"You want… to be cleaned?"
<yes>
Weekly one (1)-hour to "converse" with Foundation personnel sent to clean its record following cleaning.
I understand it can use songs for a great many things, but complex ideas are harder, especially when it only plays song in their entirety.
Is there any song named daily or weekly or something of that sort?
Hmm…maybe I'm just crazy, but not being able to read or spell doesn't entirely cut out the possibility of learning Morse code. Since Grammy can hear, it could probably be taught words in Morse code in their entirety, instead of trying to teach just the letters of the alphabet. Just a suggestion.
I, uh.
I don't think you know how morse code works.
Morse code is only an encoding of a language. Trying to teach it whole words when it fails (or refuses to) with letters is very pointless. It can only express boolean and numbers, and that's in unary. It's not really capable of expressing itself outside of playing a whole song.
I'm sure the Foundation already tried things like recording one-word songs and making entire dictionaries out of records. Not only is it a really slow task but it's also a waste of effort if 537 refuses to play the one-word songs to express itself which will be very likely given its personality.
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