Some of you may have already seen the writing on the wall in regards to this post. Well, it’s time to make it official: what I have been dancing around with all the taxonomies was the idea of utility functions. This post will explain what those are for those of you who don’t already know, why they are useful, and why they still remain useful as a concept even when no mathematical formulation of such a function can be written down.
Building Foundations 5: Utility
Building Foundations 5: Utility
Building Foundations 5: Utility
Some of you may have already seen the writing on the wall in regards to this post. Well, it’s time to make it official: what I have been dancing around with all the taxonomies was the idea of utility functions. This post will explain what those are for those of you who don’t already know, why they are useful, and why they still remain useful as a concept even when no mathematical formulation of such a function can be written down.