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Jacqui Brown asked me what would have happened if, in 1990, the UAW had gone on strike against the auto companies.
What if, she wondered, the unions had gone on strike, not over wages or work rules but because the car companies weren’t being innovative enough? What if they had walked out not over a contract dispute but because the industry refused to challenge the status quo and reinvent itself?
To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is:
- Composable
- Shareable
- Degrabable
- Learnable
- Semantic
- Grammatical
- Efficiently expressive
- Suggestive
- Intentional
- Legible
I can’t quite tell whether I’m trying to force together two concepts (notation and user interface) which are fundamentally different, or whether there is something fruitful in seeing them as aspects of the same thing.
Collecting My Thoughts About Notation and User Interfaces
interconnected.org
The most important notation that summarizes a queue:
• ρ: utilization ratio = λ / μ
Examples:
• ρ = 1 means the arrival rate is equal to the service rate; the queue is staying the same size.
• ρ > 1 means the arrival rate is greater than the service rate; the queue is getting larger.
• ρ < 1 means the arrival rate is less than the service rate; the queue is getting smaller.
Queueing Theory
joelparkerhenderson
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