Puzzles

This year's Edelman Winners were US Cycling. Using optimization in sports has become a staple for teams that want to win. Today, we look at a not-so-serious race that happens...

In these weeks, a lot of supply planners are grappling with the uncertainty of potential tariffs. The fundamental question: Should we stock up before prices go up? Without the right...

In this puzzle, you are not asked to solve a concrete optimization problem, but to provide an estimate. Easy? The quadratic assignment problem is a classical facility location problem. We...

In honor of Joe Halpern's 70ies Birthday, a year ago Vincent Conitzer posted this puzzle. Can you solve it? We provide a solution for Game 1. Let us denote the...

In todays puzzle, we solve a simple non-linear optimization problem with only five variables. Can you do it? In this post, Lee Chan Lye posed this question. One possible answer...

In Conway's game of life, we place lifelings on a board of squares. These lifelings survive, procreate, and die according to very specific rules: Our client bought a piece of...