The phrase "akin to the problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when drawing a comparison or similarity between something and a specific problem being discussed.
Example: "The challenges we face in this project are akin to the problem we encountered last year with resource allocation."
Alternatives: "similar to the issue" or "comparable to the challenge".
(In that regard, it is akin to the problem that confronted designers of the space shuttle decades ago).
To complicate the big data analytics problem (which is akin to the problem of finding a needle in the haystack), the data quickly becomes out of date due to a rapidly and dynamically changing environment (and thus our problem becomes more difficult: the needle in the haystack has to be found in real-time).
Conceptually, this is akin to the problem of ancestral sequence reconstruction for DNA substitution models (Pupko et al., 2000), but in the context of methylation, we also have observed data on internal nodes of the tree.
On the contrary, a concern is that, owing to their opportunistic nature, many phase I or II studies would only be registered if they identify a significant finding, resulting in a biased set of registered phase I and II studies, akin to the problem of publication bias.
Leibniz expends a great deal of effort attempting to solve the holiness problem, but he also takes up something akin to the atheistic problem.
This setting was more akin to the hypothetical physiochemical problem described by Burbery and Wang (2010).
Although for simple single-physics problems such an approach might be feasible; such an approach for a multi-physics analysis would be akin to the many body problem (which often involves additional nonlinear response associated with coupling, etc)., which would quickly become computationally intractable and unpredictable.
One of the biggest issues intelligence agencies face is akin to the "big data" problem so often talked about in tech: They need to find a way to effectively analyze and act upon the huge stores of data at their fingertips.
In about two years, retailers will face a deadline that promises technological challenges akin to the Year 2000 computer problem.
In a little more than two years, retailers in the United States and Canada will face a deadline that promises technological challenges akin to the Year 2000 computer problem.
By default, Unix counts time in seconds from midnight GMT on January 1 , 1970 using a 32-bit signed integer, which means it cannot count more than 2,147,483,647 seconds past that time, thus creating what is known as the "Year 2038 Problem", akin to the Millennium Bug.
