We Engineers Know Some Humor

Caveat Lector: You need some background in operations research/optimization to understand this nerdy humor!

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Earlier my friend "A" (Master in Industrial Engineering), my friend wrote about party at one of the professor's house:

And I'm also looking forward to have some optimally roasted Chicken barbeque from Professor!!!

For those of you, who don't know concept of optimality, optimal solution means the best solution that can exist for any given problem under certain condition. None other solution can be better than this, although other alternative optimal solutions may exist. In chicken Bar-b-q, terms, it means that this individual is expecting very best of the chicken bar-b-q.

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To which "R" (PhD student in Operations Research/Optimization) replied:

Since I am part of the roasting process,I can only guarantee sub-optimal chicken bbq as my patience while roasting it will disappear in about 30 minutes.
Note: Chicken can be slow cooked to infinity if the increase in temperature in unit time is infintesimal.

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Then I could not stop from disproving "R" theory about not doing bar-b-q work and not providing us great bar-b-q, here is my response:

Have you thought about any greedy hueristics, at times they provide optimal solution for chicken roasting process.

I am not sure about your note (Chicken can be slow cooked to infinity if the increase in temperature in unit time is infintesimal.), because as time t tends to infinity, you should have no chicken left on the barbeque. I can provide a counter example for your note: as time t tends to infinity, each human is reduced to zero, without loss of generality, we can apply same to chicken, chicken being living creature.
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Some background for those of you who are challenged on sense of humor, greedy hueristics are try-and-hit methods with which do not guarantee optimality. Greedy hueristics in this sentence also means eating greedly whatever chicken has been cooked. Proof in second para about how chicken can not be cooked for infinite amount of time without getting vanished (because of heat/elements) is evident.