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The title is totally misleading, what he is showing is exactly the work of engineers, that is, defining a set of targets and constraints for a problem and using
by Loic 14y ago
The title is totally misleading, what he is showing is exactly the work of engineers, that is, defining a set of targets and constraints for a problem and using the right tool to find the best solution. In fact, you have engineers involved at each step in the provided solution, to define the problem, to select the right algorithm, to run the simulation/optimisation and to critically assess the quality of the answer.
- stiff 14y agoAgreed. Unfortunately it seems to be a common misunderstanding of optimization and things like machine learning, that you somehow have this set of almost universal black boxes that can apply to any domain without much thought. When you gain some practical experience it becomes clear that good results come from knowing the domain very well.
- jordn 14y agoYou're completely right, it does require a deep knowledge of things like finite element analysis and the whole thing collapses in a heap if you don't carefully apply constraints and penalisation rules. But on the other hand, a title should try to convey some of the excitement of the technology. We had a lecture from the Additive Manufacturing group from Nottingham University a few months ago and they've built some metallic aerospace parts that look surprisingly similar to the structures of bone networks in nature using this technique. I think I'll be trying to do something similar and make some design and 3D print some parts, compare them against the traditional manufacturing routes and see how the marketplace reacts to them. If anyone here has an knowledge in this area or seen anything cool using it it'd really be great to hear form them.