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by jacques_chester 2286 days ago
The Beer Distribution Game is one of the touchstone examples for introductions to Systems Dynamics, a field pioneered at MIT with direct roots in control theory. PID controllers are not news in that part of the world.

A major insight of the field is that lags due to accumulation create wildly unexpected behaviours in systems that humans try to control. Many automated systems struggle too.