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