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Funny thing is that as we spoke internally about this project (20% time side project), there was a lot of discussion about whether to pick a real problem (vacci
by TuringNYC 5y ago
Funny thing is that as we spoke internally about this project (20% time side project), there was a lot of discussion about whether to pick a real problem (vaccine delivery) or a totally fun one (minimize Ubers for a city-wide pub crawl).
The resolution was -- even if the objective was just to learn - we should focus on an important problem rather than a fictional/meaningless one.
That said, youre right, I think good formulation and assumptions would be critical here. This is the type of feedback I really want - hope to do a slew of commits on Friday.
- skybrian 5y agoAnother possibility would be to lightly fictionalize it, so it’s obviously based on COVID supply issues (and that adds interest) but you don’t need to try too hard to be realistic and you can make stuff up wherever necessary. This would be similar to what people do for games where playability is more important than realism, but you want an interesting theme.