Welcome to Engineered, where I take an inconsequential problem and do my very best to overthink the hell out of it using some combination of math, Excel, and coding. Today's topic: golf, or more specifically, is your favorite club (the driver) hurting you more than helping you? I don't play a lot of golf these…
The terms "negative feedback" and "positive feedback" are used frequently in colloquial language, and like many other things in colloquial language, they are often used incorrectly. Put simply, a system that utilizes a feedback loop has the output of the system is tied to the input in some way. Whether you know it or not,…
This post could probably apply to a lot of colleges, but I thought I'd give a shout out to my alma mater. There is a lot of angst these days from people my age, many of whom are coming to the harsh realization that getting a college degree doesn't automatically give you a fast-paced high-paying…
Well, it's the week of Thanksgiving, also known as "hate week" for fans of college football rivalries. The Saturday after Thanksgiving is usually the time for scheduling in-state rivalries in the great sport of NCAA Football, and one of those rivalries involves my Alma Mater, Georgia Tech. For those who are unfamiliar, the rivalry between…
Several years ago, a guy named Mike Rowe started a show called "Dirty Jobs." The show acts as a sort of homage to workers in the skilled trades and seeks to show that there are a bunch of weird jobs out there, many of them pretty gross, and some of them surprisingly profitable. When he…