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📈 Vibe-coding AI agents to solve optimization problems, from academic to industrial settings, suboptimal solutions are sometimes the best
Local Optimum: short, imperfect-yet-useful ideas - Edition #25
18 hrs ago
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Borja Menéndez
📈 #92 Operations Research 2.0: an open letter
Why usability beats elegance, how DecisionOps closes the gap, and a pragmatic curriculum for Master’s programs.
Oct 13
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Borja Menéndez
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📈 Comparing OR to ML, OR in the age of ML, should we rebrand the field?
Local Optimum: short, imperfect-yet-useful ideas - Edition #24
Oct 9
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Borja Menéndez
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📈 #91 Two surveys, one clear story: Operations Research is becoming essential
A look into the future: Stack Overflow and Gurobi reveal where OR is heading
Oct 6
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Borja Menéndez
September 2025
📈 From XOpt to GenAI: big ideas in optimization
Search space: your dose of OR discoveries
Sep 27
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Borja Menéndez
📈 Predicting runtimes, others on this, the true driver of solver speed
Local Optimum: short, imperfect-yet-useful ideas - Edition #23
Sep 25
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Borja Menéndez
📈 #90 Stop perfecting algorithms, start owning your data
How taking control of your inputs can save your optimization project
Sep 23
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Borja Menéndez
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📈 The programming language of OR, which one are you using, OR-Tools wins again
Local Optimum: short, imperfect-yet-useful ideas - Edition #22
Sep 18
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Borja Menéndez
📈 #89 Trust is the true objective function
Models succeed when people believe in them, not when they’re mathematically perfect.
Sep 15
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Borja Menéndez
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📈 September is the month to learn e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g
Search space: your dose of OR discoveries
Sep 13
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Borja Menéndez
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📈 Good OR vibes, a CVRP challenge, VRP transforming logistics
Local Optimum: short, imperfect-yet-useful ideas - Edition #21
Sep 11
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Borja Menéndez
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📈 #88 The market speaks: Product OR Engineers are real
Waymo's $250k job posting proves that optimization is moving from back-office to product-embedded roles
Sep 8
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Borja Menéndez
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