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2 deep dives tagged Operations Research — real systems, real numbers, no hand-waving.

The Solvers Refuse to Die: Classical Optimization vs the Learned Upstarts

June 6, 2026 · 11 min read

An honest scoreboard of classical optimization solvers versus learning-to-optimize, and the hybrid pattern where ML proposes and exact methods verify.

  • optimization
  • operations-research
  • machine-learning

The 1947 Algorithm That Routes Every Package You've Ever Received

April 28, 2026 · 10 min read

How linear programming and Dantzig's simplex method work, why they still schedule airlines and route packages, with Python code and interior point methods.

  • algorithms
  • linear-programming
  • simplex-method

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