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You know the 80/20 problem? The last 20% percent of the work require 80% of the effort? Well, with self-driving cars it's the reverse. Most start ups spend the
by KKKKkkkk1 9y ago
You know the 80/20 problem? The last 20% percent of the work require 80% of the effort? Well, with self-driving cars it's the reverse. Most start ups spend the first year getting a team of car hackers to hook up a bunch of ROS machines in the trunk to the car's controls and rigging up a bunch of sensors. And then once they're done, they have this one task left, writing the actual algorithms. And they realize that the best they can do is a car that makes laps around their parking lot (see above article), and even that takes them another year.
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- afeezaziz 9y agoAfter so many startups keep reinventing the wheel, I am sure there must a template to make the wheel... Is there any tutorials on the 80% of the initial effort?
- weaksauce 9y agoThe 80/20 thing is not that... It's 80% of the outcomes are from 20% of the causes. Originally seen from 20% of the population holds 80% of the land in Italy. In software you could say 80% of the bug reports come from 20% of the bugs.
- sanjams 9y agoThere is no “right” application of the 80/20 rule. It has many applications for many contexts
- weaksauce 9y agoThere certainly is a right way to apply it. No where does that rule say the last 20 percent of reward takes 80 percent of the effort. That's grossly mischaracterizing the rule.
- EpicEng 9y ago> no where https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&ei=CMQ-WvHKBIfMjwOA8LqYCg&q=software+80%2F20+rule&oq=software+80%2F20+rule&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3..0j0i22i30k1l4.3332.4311.0.4804.6.6.0.0.0.0.261.1082.0j1j4.5.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..1.5.1080....214.KYE1Z9Pkcfs https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&ei=C...
- weaksauce 9y agoFrom the first link: > 80% of effects come from 20% of causes and 80% of results come from 20% of effort. that's precisely what I am saying and exactly the opposite of what the gp said. the actual principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
- lurr 9y ago> Well, with self-driving cars it's the reverse It's not, and that's why we won't see actually practical self driving cars for a while yet.
- IshKebab 9y agoI don't think you meant the reverse. I presume you meant it is even more extreme. The "nearly there" edge cases - the last 1% is 99% of the work.
- qbrass 9y agoThe 80/20 rule is just recursive. On the bright side, that makes the last 1% closer to 98% of the work instead of 99%.