Fairly unrelated but... before starting it, my washing machine estimates it will take say 1:16, or 2:45 or whatever depending on the cycle I choose. I push the button and the cycle starts.
And while it's running it will just change the estimate. Sometimes it just jumps down -sometimes up- say 10 or 15 minutes. It just fills with water, turns a couple of times, pauses, and pof! 20 minutes less. Then at the end when it's almost done it will just add a few minutes. It's about to end 0:01, it empties, turns a bit... pof! 0:03. It then turns a bit more and maybe half a minute later decides that 3 minutes was too much; it's done 0:00 Beep beep.
The thing that amuses me is that those few minutes at the end are always added at the last minute and they are always too much. Like it kind of panics at the end "wait, not done, not done yet!" and then again "oh, yes, yes, I'm done, just fine".
It turns out the question "how long will it take for a unknown mix of fibers in an unknown configuration to release most of the water I knowingly put in" is difficult to answer. We'll have AGI before accurate washing machine estimates it seems.
And while it's running it will just change the estimate. Sometimes it just jumps down -sometimes up- say 10 or 15 minutes. It just fills with water, turns a couple of times, pauses, and pof! 20 minutes less. Then at the end when it's almost done it will just add a few minutes. It's about to end 0:01, it empties, turns a bit... pof! 0:03. It then turns a bit more and maybe half a minute later decides that 3 minutes was too much; it's done 0:00 Beep beep.
The thing that amuses me is that those few minutes at the end are always added at the last minute and they are always too much. Like it kind of panics at the end "wait, not done, not done yet!" and then again "oh, yes, yes, I'm done, just fine".