{"id":8569,"date":"2008-05-25T04:08:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T08:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2008-05-25T04:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T08:11:37","slug":"the-analytical-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"THE ANALYTICAL TRIANGLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analytical chemists have long used a tool called the triangle for explaining to customers the facts of life.  On the corners of the triangle are written the words Accurate, Cheap, and Fast.  The customer with a request is told that they can only choose two.  They can have have a cheap and fast test, but it won&#8217;t be accurate.  Or they can have accuracy at a low cost, but it will take some time to develop and to signal average.<\/p>\n<p>NASA has their own version of the triangle, that they call Faster, Better, Cheaper.  But they try to deliver all three.  Predictably, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/businesstechnology\/business\/spear_report_000313.html\">it hasn&#8217;t worked out so well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later today they&#8217;ll have the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap080525.html\">latest installment<\/a> of Faster, Better, Cheaper.  I hope they beat the odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analytical chemists have long used a tool called the triangle for explaining to customers the facts of life. On the corners of the triangle are written the words Accurate, Cheap, and Fast. The customer with a request is told that they can only choose two. They can have have a cheap and fast test, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}