Know The Situation People often learn equations and quickly forget the simplifications or assumptions made to make them nice and easy to understand. But that leads you down some treacherous paths.

RTO = 5 RTT V. Firoiu and M. Borden, “A study of active queue management for congestion control,” Proceeding of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, vol. 3, pp. 1435-1444, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Mar. 2000.

The European Commission has adopted proposals for radical simplifications to the EU’s trailblazing environmental regulations. The commissioners argue that this is a pragmatic response to changing ...