Re:South Kensington station's escalator replacement project
by adwww on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @07:13AM
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Yeah I've previously worked on some constraint programming tasks and it was fun but mind-boggling.
Re:South Kensington station's escalator replacement project
by noneeeed on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @08:36AM
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It was one of my favourite course at uni, I'd love to get back into doing something like that at some point.
Scheduling/timetabling is a wickedly hard problem, especially in a system like a railway, it's the sort of thing people get Maths and CS PhDs in. The contstraints that you have to solve are complex and interconnected and are part of a bigger network, and you are also trying to please a lot of people with very different (often contradictory) needs.