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How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christian
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In the summer of 1997,
NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft landed on the surface of Mars,
and began transmitting incredible, iconic images back to Earth.
But several days in, something went terribly wrong.
The transmissions stopped.
Pathfinder was, in effect, procrastinating:
keeping itself fully occupied but failing to do its most important work.
What was going on?
There was a bug, it turned out, in its scheduler.
Every operating system has something called the scheduler
that tells the CPU how long to work on each task before switching,
and what to switch to.
Done right, computers move so fluidly between their various responsibilities,
they give the illusion of doing everything simultaneously.
But we all know what happens when things go wrong.
This should give us, if nothing else, some measure of consolation.
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