A professor used the following example to explain the difference between efficient and effective:
“How will a chess game end if the desired result is the best both for black and white?”
Well, you have to structure all possible games in a tree ….
Every computer scientist knows the algorithm.
I was inspired by this scenario and described how you could (in theory) eradicate malaria and all other infectious deseases carried by mosquitoes and other flies with an absolutely effective but totally inefficient method quite quickly:
Each person who was beaten has to kill the carrier beast immediately after the bite.
The human mind, however, never sleeps. Consequently, I managed to come up with an improvement even for this enormous insight:
Each person who is going to be beaten has to kill the carrier beast before the bite.
Now if there is any university that would like to award me the honorary doctorial title because if my stroke of genius, then I must disappoint them: I will gladly accept the prize money, but I would like to donate the doctorial title to someone more needy.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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