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📈 #14 OR in Action: 5 Ways to Build Solutions to Your Problem and the IPO of 🥕Instacart
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📈 #14 OR in Action: 5 Ways to Build Solutions to Your Problem and the IPO of 🥕Instacart

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Borja Menéndez
Nov 12, 2023
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In front of my house, there is a building under construction.

They are building it anew.

I have been documenting the process with photos for months. I may seem like a retiree, I know, but I find the pace they maintain fascinating, and above all, the efficiency of the workers.

The day they hand over the apartments, they will surely throw a party. Just like when a company goes public.

All of this sums up well what I want to tell you today in Feasible:

  • How to build solutions to your optimization problem

  • The IPO of Instacart

Let's go for it!

🏗️ 5 Ways to Build a Solution for Your Optimization Problem

The other day, I talked to you about how I would manually solve the VRP problem, and the first step was to build a solution. You don't need to remember it because I'll leave it here:

📈 #12 From Pizzerias to Paramedics: How VRP is Transforming Modern Logistics

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The important part was the beginning of the second section:

Start with an initial solution. For example, I would assign each customer to a random vehicle.

Okay, how do we build that initial solution? There are several methods, and today I'll show you the 5 that are possibly the most commonly used:

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