Puzzle: New Year's Resolution Optimization January 3, 2026Your manager had a great idea: 100 hours and $3,000 for every employee to get some well-deserved and always-welcome self-development and improvement projects done in 2026. Alas, the benefits of...
Puzzle: The Midnight Countdown December 26, 2025You are the pyrotechnics manager for DS City's New Year's Eve celebration. You have a limited budget to purchase exactly 12 premium firework display components. The audience satisfaction from each...
Puzzle: Santas Fachkräftemangel December 19, 2025Santa Claus needs help. While the demand for presents is at an all-time high - 2 billion children - he is struggling with Fachkräftemangel (lack of skilled labor), especially a...
Puzzle: The Big City Christmas Tree Countdown December 18, 2025Attention, Revenue Mavericks in DS City! The clock is ticking in the concrete jungle, and we have 10,000 precious, pine-scented assets to sell before Christmas! This isn't just about maximizing...
Puzzle: Exponentials December 10, 2025Members of a field named "mathematical optimization" ought to be able to solve this in a flash. About 6.578 is the maximum. This is achieved when y = log(5)/log(2) =...
Puzzle: Textbook Optimization December 1, 2025Let us go back to everyone's comfort zone and do some straight math this week. No probabilities, just a deterministic problem with three variables. This cannot possibly be hard. Can...