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Living in a developing country teaches you a number of lessons, the first of these is that out there, complex gadgets do not last. Mobile phones will fall from the top of a building if you have them on a construction site, or hit the water if you coach children to swim. Our country is a hard place, and we the people are hardy. The red dust flow thick through our veins. Complicated solutions often need to be treated with a certain amount of care, and the more complicated something is, the more there is that can go wrong, and the harder it is to fix outside of the lab environment. Clean, simple solutions are easy to teach, has the minimum things that can go wrong and can usually be fixed with a brick and some wire.
Simple solutions are not caught up in a cobweb of variables, each having to be tweaked in order to adapt some minute part of the application. When studying neural networks in the fields of artificial intelligence and learning you find a phenomena called over fitting. Over fitting happens when you have such a large amount of nodes that you are able to perfectly replicate and respond to the test set, a problem arises when a different data set is used, as the network has to many factors influencing it. This problem is solved by deleting nodes, until you reach a point where deleting any more leaves you outside the accepted scope for error. Simpler systems are much more robust and can adapt to changes better. So to make something work in my real world environment it has to be simple, robust and adaptable.
People are an ever changing constant, any solution that will work on the long term need to be like the people and not just for the people.
Living in a developing country teaches you a number of lessons, the first of these is that out there, complex gadgets do not last. Mobile phones will fall from the top of a building if you have them on a construction site, or hit the water if you coach children to swim. Our country is a hard place, and we the people are hardy. The red dust flow thick through our veins. Complicated solutions often need to be treated with a certain amount of care, and the more complicated something is, the more there is that can go wrong, and the harder it is to fix outside of the lab environment. Clean, simple solutions are easy to teach, has the minimum things that can go wrong and can usually be fixed with a brick and some wire.
Simple solutions are not caught up in a cobweb of variables, each having to be tweaked in order to adapt some minute part of the application. When studying neural networks in the fields of artificial intelligence and learning you find a phenomena called over fitting. Over fitting happens when you have such a large amount of nodes that you are able to perfectly replicate and respond to the test set, a problem arises when a different data set is used, as the network has to many factors influencing it. This problem is solved by deleting nodes, until you reach a point where deleting any more leaves you outside the accepted scope for error. Simpler systems are much more robust and can adapt to changes better. So to make something work in my real world environment it has to be simple, robust and adaptable.
People are an ever changing constant, any solution that will work on the long term need to be like the people and not just for the people.
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Comment by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on April 13, 2010 at 8:49am
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Really well put and very true. As my mother used to say when we wanted to her to buy us the latest gadget, "Just more things to go wrong."
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