Puzzle: Demigods of Optimization June 3, 2026Traditional scheduling assumes knowledge of how long tasks take. In the reality of hospitals, we may at best have a good guess how long a surgery will take. Can you...
Puzzle: ER May 29, 2026Sometimes clients come to you with classical optimization problems. Today is such a day. The city of Chicago has asked you to find optimal locations for their 80 ambulances. Classical...
Puzzle: Pipelining May 25, 2026Petrodactyl is the DS oil company. Their supply chain is hitting a bottleneck when they have 450,000 kL of (200,000 kL) Petrol, (150,000 kL) Diesel, and (100,000 kL) Kerosene that...
Puzzle: Classical Production Planning with a Twist May 20, 2026Gluglug is the big biofuel company in DS City. They want to optimize their production. You have known how to do that since your very first linear programming class. Or...
Puzzle: The Cognitive Load Balancer May 13, 2026We are planning the course schedule for a class of students and we have one day that is particularly straining. In mods 1 to 6, we have to teach mathematics,...
Puzzle: Repeated Stochastic Bets April 14, 2026One way to make money with money is to sell insurance to people who want to protect their existing investments. On average, you win, but there is a chance you...
