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A comment on Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (2010) [pdf].

Re:Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic... by airay on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:27PM (#14343361)
Sanjoy is rad. This should be a must-read for engineering school.
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Re:Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic... by SimbaOnSteroids on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:30PM (#14345293)
At my local Boeing plant the engineers write WAG (wild a-- guess) on something when they're spitballing and don't want to do the math, I wonder how frequently a WAG can be made more precise if this were more widely read.
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