Learning Machine

Interactions

Click a leaf on the belt to swap its red tag: the machine is taught a wrong answer and is misled a little
Drag the step-size lever: too far up and the cones overshoot and the boundary thrashes; too far down and learning crawls
Click a hidden unit to unhook or hook its threads; with one unit left the boundary stays a straight line
Click the chart to add three leaves at that length and width; click a stamp below the chart to choose their species
Turn the reset crank to randomise every cone and start learning again
Idle: a programme of lessons runs by itself: learning, a step too large, a step too small, one unit, twelve leaves learnt by heart, new leaves