Re: smart people doing stupid things

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.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney