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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: smart people doing stupid things
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:58:39 +1000
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On 18/05/2024 4:51 am, John Larkin wrote:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Peima-Uw7w
> 
> See graph at 9:50 in.
> 
> I see this a lot, engineers wanting to do complex stuff because it's
> amusing to them, when simple common-sense things would work and be
> done.

What you don't see, because you exemplify it all too frequently, is 
smart people doing uninformed things.

If you don't know about a particular approach, you are very likely to 
end up stuck with a more complicated solution because it exploits 
techniques you do know about.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney