The Perfect AI/OR Wave May 25, 2026There is one universal truth in surfing and in life: You cannot catch a wave by paddling after it. You have to be in front of the wave when it...
Creativity in Optimization March 15, 2026You may have heard about the Land and Jarman study on the creativity of children vs those of adults. Disregarding the unnecessarily flashy terms like "genius-level" etc, we know that solutions...
Why Most OR "Explanations" Miss the Mark March 14, 2026"Explanations" are an important field of research and a prerequisite for a successful real-world deployment of any data science and analytics application. Unfortunately, the "explanations" that are currently provided rarely...
Conway’s Law and What it Means for Decision Intelligence February 13, 2026Melvin Conway famously observed: “Organizations which design systems… are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” In the realm of Decision Intelligence, this...
What Hardware Trends Mean for Optimization, Or Why Your Attention Is Being Misguided December 21, 2025Moore's famous “Law” states that the number of transistors per area doubles every 2 years. While this pace has slowed to about 3 years and modern chips approach physical limits,...
Seeker For Sequential Decision Problems November 3, 2025In this post, we show how InsideOpt Seeker can be used to optimize policies according to the universal framework introduced by Prof. Powell. Universal Framework for Sequential Decision Problems Dr....
