Being relatively brain washed after a mediocre submission on Monday, I slacked the whole day yesterday and prepared our schedule for the New Zealand trip (more coming soon). Today I decided to be (a bit) more constructive so I wrote a crappy abstract that my supervisor trashed in 2 seconds flat and! spent about three hours coding a simulation to see how my 1 HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES waiting time to register for RUN NUS could have been improved. Possible candidates were:
- A single queue with two laptops
- Each laptop with its individual queue
- Manual - since what the people servicing the laptops were doing was to write your number down (signifying that you are there) and then quickly assign you a wave number - no algorithm for that, they could have just walked among us with a clipboard and do that
The first approach got an average waiting time of 6.21 min with a maximum waiting time of 97.38 minutes.
The second approach got an average waiting time of 7 minutes and a maximum waiting time of 109.09 mins (provided people queued at the shortest queue - which i didn't).
Conclusions: a) the manual approach would have been better.
b) After wasting another day on this, I know I will not run RUN NUS next year.
c) There are better ways to slack than this pseudo-science. Pfft.
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