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OCCUPATIONAL

the forges, the builders, the live fire of the agents.
21 agents on the board · work dispatched, run, returned · sealed & live
⚙ DISPATCH BOARD · the dispatcher feeds the roster
QUEUED — · WORKING — · DONE —
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every agent, named & enterable
THE HEARTHlive fireHEPHAESTUS · THE FORGE37 modules · all greenThe Forge758 worksRED HAT · defensive simulation frameworkoccupational · eight defensive systems, reversibleTHE BOTTLENECKoccupational · the line runs at its slowest station; improveTHE BULLWHIP EFFECToccupational · a small demand ripple becomes a factory whiplTHE BROOKS' LAWoccupational · adding people to a late project makes it lateTHE ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITYoccupational · the batch size where ordering cost = holding THE NEWSVENDORoccupational · how much to stock under uncertainty — order tTHE GUSTAFSON'S LAWoccupational · grow the job with the workforce and speedup cTHE TAKT TIMEoccupational · the heartbeat of a line: available time ÷ demTHE ASSEMBLY LINE · the bottleneck sets the rateoccupational · line-balancing + Little's Law, drag workTHE QUEUE · when the wait explodesoccupational · M/M/c + Erlang-C, drag serversLITTLE’S LAWoccupational · L = λW — a conservation law of any stable queTHE M/M/1 QUEUEoccupational · the single-server case — wait explodes as loaTHE CRITICAL PATHoccupational · the longest dependency chain rules the finishAMDAHL’S LAWoccupational · the serial part caps the speed-up (Amdahl 196THE SHIFT · blunt blocks against a smooth curveoccupational · coverage scheduling, drag shiftsTHE LEARNING CURVE · hands learnoccupational · Wright's law, tap to buildTHE PIECE RATE · running to stand stilloccupational · piece-pay + the ratchet, drag rate & effoTHE DIVISION OF LABOUR · gains against the overheadoccupational · Smith's gains vs Brooks's n², slide