wheelinsupial

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by wheelinsupial 3mo ago
> Foreman had to keep a quota. I have worked on production lines and I’ve worked in the manufacturing and quality engineering side of things. I know a lot of companies do have that old school production at all cost approach, but the bett
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by wheelinsupial 8mo ago
In my observation, there are a lot of unaccounted for and unintended issues that can arise from this. Where I live, we are going through a lot of this right now (98+% of population growth is from immigration). Immigrants have more kids than
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by wheelinsupial 8mo ago
It's going to come across very naive and dumb, but I believe we can and people just aren't aware of or they simply aren't implementing the basics. Harvard Business Review and probably hundreds of other online content provider
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by wheelinsupial 9mo ago
> software engineers' body of knowledge can change 52 times in a year I understand I’m replying against the spirit of your point, but the IEEE has actually published one and it seems to get updated very slowly. https://ww
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by wheelinsupial 9mo ago
Depending on what you're looking for in industrial engineering, there are a lot of blogs on lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. INFORMS, may be paywalled, also publishes a lot of pretty interesting articles on applicat
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by wheelinsupial 1y ago
The list of exam fellows can be found online [1]. Probably their research or any personal blogs would be the closest you can find. [1] https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/people
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
Which proof assistant did you use?
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
In case you’re not aware, there is a podcast by Jessica Livingston and Carolyn Levy called “The Social Radars” that interviews founders.
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
I’m not sure if it’s similar to what you’re talking about, but there is something called “TRIZ” that’s a collection of “things” we were introduced to in a mechanical design class I took. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
Do you mind elaborating on the definition of "cross functional team" here? It seems either non-standard or something that may differ by industry. Where I've worked, a cross functional team is one made up of functional experts
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I 100% agree with definitions, theorems, counterexamples, and proof techniques being incredibly important. Those are the "warm ups" or "scales" or things that need to be repeatedly dri
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
For what little it’s worth, the thing that finally made it click for me was a series of comments on HN that were discussing musical scales. I don’t have any musical training, but I related it back to the practice and warm up sessions we ha
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
When I was doing an associate's in engineering, our calculus and differential equations courses were like this. We'd learn some math, do some problems by hand, then we'd have a lab component where we were introduced to either
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
> having a course based on this as a credential. I'm assuming you mean a single course? If so, this material would not be a standalone course. It would be baked into the entire bachelor's degree program. Some of the topics woul
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
This was posted as a comment on a thread about a new Google tool for LP [0]. It was in response to someone asking for resources on learning linear programming for business applications. It looks like the examples have been solved using Exce
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
> Have you considered calling it Rapids development? A variation of this exists with one more word thrown in for good measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
> Doing so misses any state you can't hit via small iterations (you'll find a local minimum rather than global). When I worked in manufacturing, we distinguished between “continuous improvement,” which were these smaller improv
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
They do not cite it, but searching that sentence on Google brings up a few articles mentioning a “20-year study by The Williams Group involving 3200 families, show that 70% of families lose their wealth in the second generation and 90% lose
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
It sounds like if you have production issues, there is a priority to put out an actual fix immediately.
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
What was the time to implementation for the real solutions? Was there any cost considerations associated with prioritizing the implementation or even limiting the scope of the solution?
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
I’m neither of the previous posters, so I may be off… For simplicity, I’m going to assume each variable in the model is independent of every other variable. We can interpret the coefficients in linear models. This relationship holds for the
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
If you don’t mind sharing, I’m curious what your first degree was in and what you think you got out of studying that subject?
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System are absolutely about manufacturing. It's rooted in industrial engineering and operations research. It is about addressing root causes and truly solving issues. What we see in the lean
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
I had a math instructor in my small, unknown technical school for my mechanical engineering program. He took a huge amount of initiative to work with the profs in the engineering department to make our assignments into word problems showing
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
Within project management, there are predictive, adaptive, and hybrid approaches to structuring a project. Predictive is waterfall, adaptive is agile, and hybrid is a mix. Yes, everything has cost, timeline, and quality requirements, but th
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
There is the Franz Edelman award from INFORMS [1] that used to publish accessible articles about how OR techniques are being used in industry. The MIT LGO program has some theses published online that show how OR techniques are applied at s
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
As far as I know, there are only a handful of places in Vancouver where you can have alcohol in public. https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/alcohol-consumpt... So, the answer is: no. People smoking meth today d
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by wheelinsupial 2y ago
In case you aren't aware, you can select a few builds and quickly compare the stats using: https://mk8dxbuilder.com/ Another thing is the coins. Collecting them gives you a speed boost for each coin you collect.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
What do you mean by mind map? What's the objective of this exercise? You may have better luck by searching for code to UML diagram generator. There are probably too many UML diagrams, but there are some ways to generate diagrams from t
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Are you referring to an actual interview with Boris Johnson or are you referring to the debate with Mary Beard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k448JqQyj8

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