Gil -
Good perspective. Optimizing the system in place isn't always anywhere
near the ideal solution.
I also want to add that my work with the DoD a few years back
underscored the risks of even hinting at balancing human lives or harm
against expense is a very sticky-wicket. We were building a
multi-variate optimization tool because all of the existing
methodologies and tools involved "putting a value on human life" which
might have worked for the Generals and the Executive Branch of the
moment but on average people don't like making those tradeoffs (openly?).
I find the topic a bit creepy myself, so it is hard to consider engaging
in this project (both the fact of child abuse of all kinds and the
misuse/abuse of the stigma of that offense that occasionally gets
leveled against innocent people), but I do think a multivariate
optimization approach would be very important, allowing the bean
counters and the bean counters alone to do the soul-sucking work of
deciding how much a life is work. Others can simply balance the many
factors against eachother according to their own relative values and
work with more complex valuations than simple linear combinations.
- Steve
Hmm-
Ok so here's a semi-philisphical question:
Crime stinks- but aren't there better ways to adress these issues
than the system we have developed?
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com
<mailto:t...@jtjohnson.com>> wrote:
Looking for a creative programming project?
-tom johnson
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