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Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus... by abakker on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:39PM (#14992357)
Ah, the mythical budget vector.
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Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus... by Govindae on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:19PM (#14992729)
Oh hey budget space must have an L1 norm. That's neat.
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Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus... by abakker on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:59PM (#14994217)
Pretty soon, we'll see the new consulting offering from McKinsey: Vector-based Budgeting. Very useful helping to mathematically quantify your various business unit's planning cycles in infinite dimensional space. You thought ZBB was cool, VBB is even cooler.
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