> Sure, it’ll produce endless broken nonsense, but as long as someone is checking, it’s fine

Well you've just described an EKF on a noisy sensor.

I do not think anybody is going to get that reference. https://xkcd.com/2501/

	▲	moffkalast 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ha yes, I tend to hang around the robotics crowd a bit too much. I mean the average person surely knows at least what a Jacobian is, right? Right? /s