The dark side of an operations researcher. Or how operations research can be a funny subject. Wanna join me?.
…why my system gets too fast!!! NO VISITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s take a look to an interesting application of "queueing theory" explaining the basic model and its use on calculating the slope of tardiness for a website (is yours crashing?).
Enjoy it!
nPlenty of sorrow for failling to my word. I should’ve written this post yesterday, but “all my troubles seem so far away” that I slept on Sunday.
Brazilian queue, let’s see. The good thing there is they respect pregnants and senior citizens. I’m not saying they don’t do in Great Britain, though, just saying here in Brazil they give way!. The British queue I most remember is that one for checking in (everywhere): one queue leading to several desks, so no one felt angry when your queue tends to be the slowest one (usually mine!).
We queue here and there, our life is a queue, a long one, from birth to death. However, there’s this amazing set of tools, smartly named “queuing theory”, that helps us to manage our life, our supermarkets, banks, airports, supply chains, and so on. Thanks again OR!.
Fancy a Poisson distribution?.
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Loads of people will tell you there’s no such a Brazilian Queue, someone would say it’s a crowd!. I think after almost one year in this country I should be able to give an educated answer (actually a factual one since I’ve been suffering it a lot, really!). The real meaning of “Brazilian Queue” is “there’s no such one, but everyone knows when their turn is, but but but, beware because if you don’t realise I will take yours!. Then we step into the British Queue…, I’ll better tell you any other time, now it’s tea time.
PS I swear, I’ll carry on tomorrow.
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