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It's a great example because of a totally stupid name, a really important concept isn't being adequately explained or understood. Meaningless garbage like "Bla

It's a great example because of a totally stupid name, a really important concept isn't being adequately explained or understood. Meaningless garbage like "Black Swan" is spouted all the time and sets people back, just because it's a cool name with a cool story Yet Wicked problems are our most important issues at Micro and Macro levels, you will have this problem, but people can't tackle them properly because we haven't abstracted the framework in a cool way. I also think the definition needs to be tightened. But I honestly think no one wants to work in a meta field called 'Wicked problems' I wonder if in other languages this is tackled better?

Forge36 7y ago
I swore these were called "hard problems" based on the rough definition: it's a problem whose solution only becomes obvious after a failed attempt at finding the solution. This fits nicely with the PDF text post also currently on the front page. The best solution for exporting the output text is simply to OCR what is visually seen as an image even though the text is present in the data (because white text on a white background wouldn't be wanted by most users) Therin: The solution also changes based on use case!
- aaron695 7y ago
  > it's a problem whose solution only becomes obvious after a failed attempt I think if the solution ever become obvious it's not a wicked problem. You can solve them sometimes, but they involve large amounts of waste and time. And you never know how to have done them better. That's my understanding. My starting solution to the PDF is to give the user both OCR and text and let them chose. I don't think it's Wicked, but I do think no one is solving it properly along clearly viable lines. I also think there is a clear solution to force companies to convert PDF's to text properly. So even at a higher level I don't think it's Wicked, just the culture is not correct.
invalidOrTaken 7y ago
>But I honestly think no one wants to work in a meta field called 'Wicked problems' I would love to work on this, but one of the things that makes wicked problems wicked is that their solutions are often incredibly unpopular. "Ill news is an ill guest, Gandalf Stormcrow."

Forge36 7y ago

I swore these were called "hard problems" based on the rough definition: it's a problem whose solution only becomes obvious after a failed attempt at finding the solution. This fits nicely with the PDF text post also currently on the front page. The best solution for exporting the output text is simply to OCR what is visually seen as an image even though the text is present in the data (because white text on a white background wouldn't be wanted by most users) Therin: The solution also changes based on use case!

aaron695 7y ago
> it's a problem whose solution only becomes obvious after a failed attempt I think if the solution ever become obvious it's not a wicked problem. You can solve them sometimes, but they involve large amounts of waste and time. And you never know how to have done them better. That's my understanding. My starting solution to the PDF is to give the user both OCR and text and let them chose. I don't think it's Wicked, but I do think no one is solving it properly along clearly viable lines. I also think there is a clear solution to force companies to convert PDF's to text properly. So even at a higher level I don't think it's Wicked, just the culture is not correct.

invalidOrTaken 7y ago

>But I honestly think no one wants to work in a meta field called 'Wicked problems' I would love to work on this, but one of the things that makes wicked problems wicked is that their solutions are often incredibly unpopular. "Ill news is an ill guest, Gandalf Stormcrow."