📈 #41 Latest news in Operations Research

Including research from Meta, Google, an international conference, challenges and a new Python solver!

Yes, I know, I’m guilty.

4 weekends in a row without any post.

And for a very good reason: I became father for the first time on 30th May, and I’ve been pretty busy learning how to manage my new life.

But I didn’t stop paying attention to the Operations Research community, so here I am with all the things that I did read for the past few weeks:

• A new promising alternative to Adam, the go-to optimizer in Deep Learning.

• Google optimizing shipping routes with 13% reduction in fuel usage and costs.

• A conference in a place where I spent 3 months of my life that united some of the top worldwide researchers around heuristics.

• A hackathon from Shell, and $100 million in funds for power grid optimization lead by Bezos Earth Fund.

• Aaaaand… The long awaited Python version of Timefold, one of the best open-source heuristics solvers.

Let’s go for it! 🪂