A diet for engineers
April 14th, 2003
| Would you ever compare a diet with a negative-feedback system? John Walker, founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD, thinks overweight problems can be easily faced by studying their transfer function and solving them as traditional engineering systems. He does even provide a bunch of computer tools that will help you track your weight loss on a daily basis from an engineering point of view.
My favorite quote: There is a difference between eating a varied diet and chowing down on a cup of lard and sugar once a day. Programmers know this instinctively: they balance their daily menu among the four major food groups: caffeine, sugar, grease, and salt. It’s very worrying that I feel identified with all these… |
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