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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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thats cool

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We did all sorts of neat shit like that.

Want to know if it's possible to empty your new high rise apartments in the event of a fire? Call us and we'll get you certified before the design is finalized. All we need are your blueprints and you need to have a willingness to change your designs to suit.

These days, much of that sort of stuff is built into the fancy plugins that the architects use. That stuff is all based on math that I wrote, albeit much improved since with the greater tech and ease of calculations.

I did some pretty fun projects. We started doing that sort of stuff after I took a contract from a European city where we modeled cars, people, and bicycles - but mostly people and bicycles. We weren't sure that the math would work (the math was seldom the same between projects, but it had similarities between all projects) but it worked just fine.

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So your business was basically solving the traveling sales man problem

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Among many other things, yes.

It was more about finding the hidden understanding in complex situations.

Even the font used on highway signs matters, as does the amount of reflective paint that exists in lane markings after a year's worth of wear.

It's about solutions, not just the traveling salesman.

We wrote the software used by an international delivery company so that they'd be more efficient. Watch the UPS truck carefully. When was the last time you saw UPS make a left turn?