Monthly Archives: March 2019

Modeling and Solving Scheduling Problems with CP Optimizer

Posted on March 22, 2019 by

The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) is a classical problem among the myriad scheduling problems studied both in academia and in industry. Philippe Laborie, a principal scientist at IBM, describes how it can easily be modeled and efficiently solved using … Continue reading →

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Remembering Egon Balas

Posted on March 20, 2019 by

Egon Balas, a pioneer in integer and disjunctive programming, died on March 18, 2019. He was 96. His life included two imprisonments for joining the communist party to oppose the Nazis during World War II. He later became one of … Continue reading →

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Google Announced a new Speech Recognizer

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

Google has announced the rollout of an end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer based on the latest machine learning capabilities. “Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer is initially being launched to all Pixel phones in American English only. Given the … Continue reading →

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Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

Apparently, two-thirds of the ‘anti-virus’ apps on Google Play are frauds. The report, published by Austrian antivirus testing outfit AV-Comparatives, analyzed 250 Android antivirus apps available on the official Google Play Store. The report’s results are tragicomical –with antivirus apps detecting … Continue reading →

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ML: A Step-by-Step Disaster Prevention Guide

Posted on March 16, 2019 by

Diving into Machine Learning (ML) without knowing what you’re trying to achieve is a recipe for disaster. This disaster prevention guide describes 13 steps to follow.

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Modeling (Punk) Decisions: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Posted on March 16, 2019 by

Fernando Donati Jorge from FICO published this article to show how to explain basic Decision Modeling concepts to your friends at a party by converting a famous song to a decision model:

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Moving Drools toward a polyglot world

Posted on March 15, 2019 by

Mario Fusco, the project lead of highly popular Red Hat open source BRMS Drools, describes “how they are changing Drools to make it part of the cloud and serverless revolution”. “Our main goal was to make the core of the … Continue reading →

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