> Teasing apart, it always amazes me how slow the diffusion of innovation is across different fields. I had been dabbling with electronics for a while, so I ha

> Teasing apart, it always amazes me how slow the diffusion of innovation is across different fields. I had been dabbling with electronics for a while, so I had heard of PID controllers (as black boxes). Never really thought of them outside of that. The first time it clicked for me that this could have applications in other fields was when playing a game. Stationeers, to be precise. Sure, the PID controller that a user is created was controlling a device in the game, but the actual code was implemented in 'assembly' and very simple to understand. That led me to think that I could use that in place of our simpler autoscalers at work. I have not implemented a solution, but that's how the gears started to turn. Reading this thread, apparently the field has advanced far past PID controllers. Now it's yet another rabbit hole to go through...