Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus...
by bluGill on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:33PM
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Only if the budget was reasonable in the first place. All too often they "budget" far more money than is possible and then celebrate the cuts.
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Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus...
by oddlyaromatic on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:30PM
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This is two different things, not helped by the multiple meanings of the word budget. If the organization makes the budget (i.e. a spending plan) without confirming the funds (or knowing them through, say, a long term understanding), and don't get what they seek, of course that's not somebody else "cutting" their budget. That's just a budget you made up not being agreed to.
But this is more about having an expectation of funding at a certain level from whatever source, and knowing that that will be your "budget" (now meaning a spending _limit_), then having that amount come down. You now have a smaller limit.